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Originally Posted by jonbxx
Where do you stand?
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Originally Posted by Mick
To leave the European Union in its entirety.
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Originally Posted by Mick
Did you miss my post saying the things she outlined, ticked all the right boxes for me...?
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Which one do you actually mean Mick?
In her speech today, Theresa May said she would apply for associate membership of the EU agencies regulating chemicals, medicines and aerospace, agreeing to abide by their rules and paying towards them. She also said that European court rulings "would continue to affect us"
Call me old-fashioned but that ain't leaving "the European Union in its entirety."
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
I think Brexiteers are well aware of the position, Andrew, and do not share your fatalistic views on the subject.
Less trade for us is also less trade for the EU, remember. Common sense will prevail.
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I'll leave it to this reader's comment on the FT who sums it up better than me.
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CETA negotiator
Anyway you slice the "cake", May and her cabinet are effectively proposing to take the UK out of the Single Market and the Customs Union. Which means hard borders for goods, throwing Northern Ireland under the bus, and significantly less fluid access to EU services markets (notably no passporting in financial services). It also sends the EU-UK negotiations into a collision course with MFN provisions in the EU's existing trade deals (if you give X to the UK, you have to give it also to Canada, Japan, etc). It confirms the UK will fall out of the 60+ trade deals the EU has painfully negotiated over the past several decades. Hello, hard Brexit. I thought no one in the UK really wanted that? Besides maybe 63 xenophobic MPs with no grip on economics?
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https://www.ft.com/content/547bf9a4-...a-43db76e69936
I note that one of your many wildly optimistic Brexit predictions has already come unstuck - there will be no passporting for financial services so banks in London will now be signing off on the relocation of some staff over the next few weeks.