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Originally Posted by Pierre
This is all doing my head in. March can't come quick enough.
The deal on the table was stay in the EU or Leave the EU, nothing in between.
It was made quite clear that the a leave vote was a vote to leave the single market.
We leave the single market and then negotiate a new relationship, whatever that may be.
But the starting point was a complete break. If you didn't understand that then that's a failure of your own due diligence. If you voted as a protest vote or some other reason then again your problem.
All this posturing and petulance from the EU is just that, posturing and petulance.
Let's get on with it and get the formal discussions underway.
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I agree with you that the way it works is we leave the EU and the negotiate a deal with it once we have agreed the leaving deal. The talks from March 2019 onwards will include when we leave the EU, rights of British citizens living in the EU and vice versa, the substantial Euro Brexit bill, EU officials’ pensions, borders and the impact the UK leaving has on international treaties.
When it comes to leaving the single market that point is ambiguous as the UK has a separate agreement to be in the EEA. It is possible this point will need to be tested in the Courts. Another aspect is that there were contradictory messages before and after Brexit as to if the intention was to stay/rejoin the Single Market.