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Re: [Updated] The UK’s future relationship with the EU
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Paying due respect to your final sentence, I think your "some" is really "few". I and most people of my ilk that I knew were all for the EEC until some politicians over there decided it was time to move towards federalisation. True, we got a number of useful opt-outs and we would never have had to give up our right to stand away from federalisation. But then we'd have been on the rim and not at the centre, chucking our money in to help develop something we did not want.
Also it is worth pointing out that were members of EFTA from 1960 to 1972 when we joined the EEA. EFTA worked very well, especially at London Airport coming from an EFTA country with expensive stuff!
Just putting a bit of filling to your somewhat sweeping statement.
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Yours is still a silly question. Fishing rights isn't trade nor are the other matters like level playing field that the EU wants to wrap into a fairly simple trade deal (which can include fish imports/exports whatever the fishing rights might be).
Why do I feel you're trying to trap me into something stupid (like your question)?
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Not trying to trap you into anything (or demean you by calling any of your statements "stupid"); we (the U.K.) are going for a heavily bespoke deal, and your suggestion is that this could be made easier if it were a number of individual deals, rather than a encompassing deal.
If this had been done by the EU with any other country, this would strengthen your proposal, as they couldn’t say "it’s not been done before".
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