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Old 30-04-2018, 01:03   #2589
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Re: Brexit discussion
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY View Post
My God, Andrew, you sound as if you need a good strong dose of anti-depressants. Gloom, gloom and even more gloom.

Has it escaped you that the EU exports rather more to us than we do to the EU?

We will get a tariff free trade deal and the border issues will be settled. We can debate the detail to the nth degree, but it is up to the two sides to come up with the best solution for both. We will just have to wait and see what that will be, but a solution to this will be found. This is not the impossible challenge you make it out to be.
As jonbxx has tried to explain, it's not the tariffs that matter on goods but the non-tariff barriers. Theresa May's red lines point to us only accepting a Canada-style goods deal. A deal with services would require EU oversight, a red line. You may recall that Barnier kicked this little fantasy of yours into touch recently.
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He said the idea that the EU would be worse off if Britain’s financial sector did not have full market access was “not what we hear from market participants, and it is not the analysis that we have made ourselves”.
Mr Barnier also made clear that the EU would never accept British prime minister Theresa May’s plan for a special access regime based around a broad commitment to adopt financial rules that have the same effect as those in the EU.
https://www.ft.com/content/ad96d948-...8-cae73aab7ccb

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Originally Posted by RizzyKing View Post
Oh don't even bother with the whole "talking down hard working civil servants" crap given you've spent so long talking the whole country down i understand now why you favour the EU your both full of it.
I've never talked my country down but when I see automatic acceptance of a report from German civil servants and automatic rejection of one from British civil servants, if that's not talking the country down then I'm afraid I need a new dictionary!
I don't favour the EU, I just feel we're better off inside it helping shape it than outside. It has its flaws as I'm sure you acknowledge Brexit has too.
The fact is that the EU holds most of the cards and we failed to sort out our position before invoking Article 50 which weakened our negotiating position still further. That's not me favouring one side or the other, that's common negotiating sense.
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