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Originally Posted by pip08456
"Merkel appealed to German firms to show a united front with EU governments"
That's what's known as political posturing, only to be expected before negotiations of any kind. Same as May has done.
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Difference of course being Merkel received their support, and it was volunteered before she'd even openly spoken to them, while May's and Rudd's comments...
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have gone down like a cup of cold sick with business, wonks and free marketeers:
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http://order-order.com/2016/10/05/bu...n-mays-speech/
In yet more evidence the government doesn't know arse from elbow and seems to think it can say whatever it wants in one setting and something completely different, and considerably more sane, in another:
https://www.ft.com/content/cc84f9ee-...7-e7ada1d123b1
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Ministers are looking to negotiate a transitional trade deal with the EU — including possibly paying a single market access fee to Brussels — to avoid a “cliff-edge” for exporters and the City of London after Brexit in 2019.
A smooth transition over several years after Brexit is a key demand for the City and for countries such as Japan, which fear there could be disruption in trade while Britain and the EU hammer out a new free-trade agreement.
One senior banker said people in the sector were “shooting themselves in the head” on Tuesday after Bloomberg cited a senior figure in Theresa May’s administration saying her team had privately dismissed an interim deal with the EU.
But the claim was strongly denied by Mrs May’s allies. Several ministers told the Financial Times that a transitional trade deal was likely to be a key part of Brexit negotiations that begin next year.
“We are working to deliver the best possible exit from the European Union and it is completely wrong to suggest we have ruled in or out transitional arrangements,” a government spokesman said.
“Just this week we announced that European laws and regulations would be transferred to British law upon our exit from the European Union, in order to provide certainty for businesses that operate in the UK.”
One option being considered is that Britain might continue to pay into EU coffers as an entry fee to the single market during the interim period, pending agreement and ratification of a new trade deal.
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Note, claiming direct quotes and no use of quotations to provide ambiguity.
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Originally Posted by Anypermitedroute
Why wait till post brexit, they can do it today, pre brexit , no ifs, no buts, no excuse
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Indeed! All those Bulgarians working in kebab shops, all those Poles picking fruit all year round. Get the lot of them gone.