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Originally Posted by jfman

You don’t understand now leaving the largest free trade area in the world, in the absence of any trade agreements, on an entirely arbitrary date, would damage the economy?

I’m sorry Old Boy you are a parody of yourself now. You used to be quite engaging to debate with despite our disagreements. However you are now arguing for the sake of arguing.

The whole point of Boris getting a deal and a transition agreement was to avoid an economically damaging cliff edge and allow our Government to develop frameworks to support our sectors that fall under EU guidelines just now such as agriculture and fisheries.

With 6-8 months of the transition effectively lost (which it will be) and global economies in a precarious state only the deliberately obtuse would wilfully claim, for entirely ideological reasons, that none of that had any bearing on whether there should be an extension or not.

That's a good one!