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Originally Posted by Gavin78
I think we should simply go for a hard brexit if we are not closer to a deal by March next year. The EU is playing hard ball seeing how long the UK will hold out. No point extending out to have another year or 2 of nothing and paying more wasted money into the EU for a large bill to pay for leaving as well.
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
OB makes an excellent point about the £80 billion and how likely it would be that the agreement he suggests will happen, albeit at the last minute.
Remainers usually avoid this part of the discussion.
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Ummm...because the government has already admitted that the bill will be paid
irregardless of a future trade deal.
We owe it, and we will pay it:
https://news.sky.com/story/brexit-mi...antee-11383067
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A Brexit minister has admitted MPs will be asked to authorise paying up to £39bn to the EU without the guarantee of a future trade deal.
Suella Braverman, a junior minister at the Department for Exiting the EU (DExEU), confessed the UK's so-called divorce bill will be confirmed before there is any legal agreement on the future EU-UK relationship.
There is currently no "conditionality" on the payment of the £39bn bill being linked to a trade deal within the UK's draft withdrawal agreement, she added.
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It is not a quid pro quo (unless everyone takes a Trumpian approach / there really is an art of some deal) and we are not quite yet a banana Republic so unilaterally, we did the correct thing in agreeing to pay what we already are obligated to do.
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Asked for a third time, Mrs Braverman admitted that would be the case.
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Three separate times she was asked this.
Trade deal or no trade deal, we will be paying this bill. As we owe it.