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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Of course it's not worse than remaining. It paves the way to a trade deal with the EU, negotiations for which have not yet begun.
JRM simply held the view that it was better to negotiate from scratch, from outside the EU.
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Of course it is worse than remaining (from his point of view).
We enter negotiations with the EU working from a starting point where if they do literally nothing we remain in the backstop arrangements. No trade deals with anyone else.
To achieve the latter we’d need to make huge concessions to the EU.
I on the other hand think the deal is good, mainly because it’s close enough to remaining for my taste.