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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
You know people who wanted to remain in the common market? That would be the worst of all worlds and it will be a contradiction in terms. There would be absolutely no benefit to staying in the Common Market and Brexiting, because there would be no benefits for the UK.
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Umm are you forgetting about the lack of tariffs and barriers to the entire SM? I would call that a benefit...
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Brexit means leaving the EU and its institutions and going it alone as we did prior to our joining the common market. That's what people who want to leave voted for, albeit for different reasons.
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The referendum was in and out on membership of the union, that is all. None of those institutions that require you to be a member would be somewhere that we could join but what about all those that do not require you to be a member? Like the medicines agency, for example. All the stuff to do with national security / technology and research etc?
(I mean technically we could still be a part of the CU / SM, too (without full membership) but I don't want to start terrifying you.)
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What's this obsession with cake? Is this connected to the obesity crisis, I wonder?  I don't like the stuff anyway.
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Nah that is just Boris being Boris ; his way of saying that we get cake / get to eat it and then turning to May and explaining that no matter what (deal or no deal) she can't have any cake, either way.
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I am surprised by your attitude, Dave, really. Do you not want what's best for Britain? Continued co-operation with the EU, but not within the EU, frictionless borders and yet the ability to make our own trade deals? Why shouldn't we strive for that?
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How about because it is not realistically likely to ever happen?