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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Not wishing to contradict Jon (in other words his assessment is correct), this is the crunch point. Are we to be subject to EU rules, whims and policies or not?
Is the undoing of 45 years of business integration with the EU too important to jeopardise? How tough a time are we in for while we adjust? I side with the sovereignty argument and we should have planned from day 1 of Brexit for a clean break and made plans accordingly.
I blame the mess we are in on Mrs. May because we were effectively screwed when we agreed to their negotiation sequencing. Now Boris, a total buffoon, has to find a way out that doesn’t destroy our economy. Realistically, NI is sacrificeable in these circumstances.
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Can you define what you mean by sacrificing NI. Sacrificing it to the Single Market and accepting a sea border? Or something more drastic?
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Originally Posted by jonbxx
We were discussing this weekend if there was a trade war, what would hurt the UK most? I think from a political point of view, big fat tariffs on cars would do the trick. For my business, it would be data equivalency. Not being able to handle personally identifiable data of EU citizens would shut down most of our customer service/orders department which is based in the UK in a shot. We would need to fly customer service reps out and house them in the EU for order processing. That's nearly 100 people, leaving only a few who would handle UK and non-EEA orders. Yikes!
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Crikey! I can see this being built into companies' risk assessments when considering investing in the UK now, which is not a good thing.
I think whilst the unelected Frost may be a bit of an ideologist, Johnson is elected, and more of a realist and wouldn't want to risk such an outcome. That assumes he is aware of outcomes like this and doesn't choose to call it Project Fear or blame business for not preparing for it.