Thread: Brexit: Article 50 Has Been Triggered !
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Old 16-08-2017, 08:22   #2636
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Re: Brexit: Article 50 Has Been Triggered !
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
I mentioned yesterday that the Government would belatedly be publishing its negotiation position on key aspects of Brexit this week. The first has emerged and it's bad news for those who failed to grasp the severe economic downside of a so-called clean break.

https://www.ft.com/content/b58ca3b6-...e-15b2513cb3ff
This is simply to allow more time to put in place appropriate customs controls. We will still have left the customs union because this prevents us from doing trade deals with the rest of the world.

To describe this as a 'severe economic downslide' is way off the mark. It is merely a device to smooth the transition. As long as we leave the customs union and common market in 2019, and we are no longer ruled by the European Courts, the transitional arrangements that are agreed change nothing in terms of our leaving the EU.

The vast majority of global growth in the next couple of decades will come from outside the EU, so where you get the idea that this bureaucratic monstrosity called the EU is worth belonging to I really cannot imagine. Fear of change, maybe?
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