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Originally Posted by Pierre
You’re late to the party with this particular line of argument.
A so called “Hard Brexit” (although that term didn’t exist at the time) is what was on offer at the referendum.
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Was it though? Few advocates of Brexit at the time were saying we would have no arrangement with the EU. Vote Leave's official site said:
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Europe yes, EU no. We have a new UK-EU Treaty based on free trade and friendly cooperation. There is a European free trade zone from Iceland to the Russian border and we will be part of it. We will take back the power to negotiate our own trade deals.
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To me (Iceland to Russian border) is ETFA. The same people who backed the above campaign are now saying that's a betrayal of Brexit but it was their campaign arguing for it.