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Originally Posted by jfman
I’m unsure what you mean by your rhetorical question. However, as a number of people have made clear Brexit is about ideology and not economics. Which is fine, but it doesn’t make it any more rational than extreme Communism.
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Both make the country poorer, less international and more bureaucratic so a fair comparison.
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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
Wasn't the back stop Mrs Mays idea, tbh I've not read it but the little I've managed to learn after filtering out the bs the fanatics peddle, it seems to me that being in it is the cake and eat it situation we were told we couldn't have, no extra payments, no free movement, no new laws and complete unfettered access to and as part of the customs union tariff free for our goods and more importantly services. I must have misunderstood it what with being so bored of the whole thing and a bit of a thicko but I can't believe the EU agreed to this let alone as some would believe came up with it, seems to me it goes against all the principles they claim to hold so dear, plus I bet there's a way out of it to, it was claimed by some that we couldn't get out after golden brown signed us up to Lisbon treaty, when not only could we there was a specific mechanism to enable it
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A sovereign nation cannot be held in a backstop against its will. That's an ERG myth.