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Old 16-11-2018, 07:38   #3175
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Re: Brexit
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Originally Posted by nomadking View Post
This agreement is not a proposed deal in any sense of the word. It is not a case of "agree to this" and everything is done and dusted. Any possible deal has yet to be specified.
Well, the deal has been negotiated over two years and this is as close as we can get to an agreement. It's the only deal in town, so we need to accept it or reject it. No other options are available.

If the opposition parties all vote against the deal, then we will leave without a deal.

That is a fact, and if the opposition does vote the agreement down, the electorate will never forgive them when they see the short term disruption after March next year, which they will come to realise could be avoided. At that point, Theresa May will be hailed as the only politician who appeared to know what she was doing.

Very few like the deal because it doesn't do everything we want. We could have taken a harder line, as David Davis was doing, but his stance was not working and the EU were not budging. He might have been right, the EU might have had to give way in the end, but TM determined that we could not risk the consequences of getting too close to the wire.

My main concern with this agreement, which is only about our 21 month transition, by the way, is the issue of the customs union. I and many others will want to be assured that there is no way we will be tied into this forever because this will mean we cannot do our own trade deals.
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