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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Thank you for highlighting the fact that Article 24 is even admitted by the BBC as being possible, which has been denied up until now by many antiBrexiteers.
The key paragraphs are:
It would mean no tariffs or taxes would be imposed on goods crossing borders between the UK and its largest trading partner, the European Union.
The trouble with that argument is that you can only use Article 24 if two parties are willing to make an agreement - in this case, the UK and the EU. Neither can impose it on the other.
That's a bit different from 'impossible' and sounds doable to me, particularly as the EU wants a non-tariff arrangement as much as we do.
The big advantage of this is that we will have a ten year protection period so that we can negotiate a trade deal, which gives us plenty of time to resolve the Irish border question. The £39bn would be paid provided that the EU agreed to such an arrangement.
As far as I can see, this is the only means of exiting the EU that is available to us, given that we have a stubborn rump of Conservative MPs who refuse to vote for the 'no deal' solution and the EU will not re-negotiate the Withdrawal Agreement.
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Do you not understand that
no deal is
not an agreement?
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"The trouble with that argument is that you can only use Article 24 if two parties are willing to make an agreement - in this case, the UK and the EU. Neither can impose it on the other."
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
So many anti-free speech and democracy deniers contributing to this thread. Makes you want to pull your hair out that there are people in this country who would be in favour of thought control and totalitarianism. This is not the country we are, and we don't want such politics here, thanks very much.  |
Read Hugh's post - it's about misconduct in public office. You may be happy to drag us down to the standards of democracy in North Korea and Venezuela. I'm not.