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Originally Posted by Damien
Well yeah but we're making one of those decisions now, if we stay in the EU. It's not a question of if the UK is sovereign or not, will we will remain a bit of both. It's a question of degrees.
At some point the relationship we'll have will have to be seriously considered. Whenever a drawback to a possible deal is floated it's mentioned that this isn't the type of deal with UK would do. However trade agreements require concessions from either side, as i mentioned before it's not a case of simply two sides agreeing to drop tariffs and moving on. They'll seek to include special provisions, exemptions, regulations and sometimes even laws into them.
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The eventual relationship the UK has with the EU is an interesting topic of debate, but I do wish you and others would stop referencing Norway. It's a complete straw man.
Every non-EU country in the EFTA has its own relationship with the EU, the details of which were a matter of negotiation between the EU and the country concerned. Those negotiations hinged on what each country, and the EU, wanted to get out of it. As I said earlier, in Norway's case the deal was struck with the expectation that the country would soon have to enact all the EU's directives anyway. Only a pesky democratic referendum put paid to that.