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Originally Posted by jfman
How do you know this? Davis was very much someone who believed in Leave. Did he just go to Brussels and become soft? Or was the reality of Brexit too much for him?
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He had to resign, Raab had to resign. Because the negotiating stance is coming from No.10 and no where else.
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https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...n#post35971309
While Old Boy isn't advocating this as a course of action, it's definitely out there as an idea we can just walk away from the £39bn and it's somehow tied to the deal. Ignoring that is ignoring reality.
So what do we use as our leverage in these discussions, if not the £39bn.
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Ha.....£39bn is peanuts. We’re talking our future trade relationship with the EU, that is what is up for negotiation
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The EU, taken as a whole is the UK’s largest trading partner. In 2017, UK exports to the EU were £274 billion (44% of all UK exports). UK imports from the EU were £341 billion (53% of all UK imports).
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https://researchbriefings.parliament...mmary/CBP-7851
£341 billion a year, is what we buy from the EU. £39bn is all but a 10th of that.
The EU (and it’s members that rely on this trade) will not stand by and see pissed in the wind.