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Old 28-11-2018, 11:49   #3863
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Re: Brexit
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
Indeed, if we had any power in this negotiation we would be using it and any suggestion we shouldn’t try to get the best deal for Britain would be getting laughed out of town.

All trade deals require compromise, so if France has a starting point over fish and we want “frictionless trade” we have to ask ourselves what is most important?

Some of the adjectives getting thrown around are massively disproportionate. It’s cold hard capitalist maths.
Yes, agreed.

We shouldn't forget that the withdrawal agreement is simply the stepping stone that we must take if we want pause to breathe before the trade deal is agreed. Macron may go on about fishing rights, but we have already stood up to him on this by not acceding to his demands in the withdrawal agreement, and will continue to do so.

It's this backstop that's the real problem and the silly thing is that it is not needed. I certainly think we should have insisted that it was made clear in the withdrawal agreement that another way of ditching the backstop would be for us to give, say, three months' notice that we are getting out of that arrangement, with all the consequences (such as no continuance of the withdrawal agreement) that may result. We should not be putting ourselves in a position in which the EU can tell us that we are stuck with it.
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