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Old 07-07-2023, 08:12   #5262
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
Will you be a gentleman and accept you are wrong?
Yes, I will, sorry. We are at cross purposes. When these comments were made Farage and the others were simply saying that there was no reason why Britain could not continue to have free access to the Single Market because all our standards were in line with theirs.

What they were not saying was that we would have to accept free movement and the rest. But unfortunately, that is what the EU insisted on, and we were in no position to press our views home because firstly Theresa May lost her nerve with David Davis as he was holding out, and she stepped in to negotiate her way, and secondly, the hostility and determination of the Remainers, who were even briefing the EU against us.

Farage and co were not lying, they were simply undermined in the end by opposing forces which made it impossible to negotiate effectively. And that, of course was why Johnson said in the end that the deal would be better renegotiated when we were outside of the EU.

As for whether that will be done rather more successfully, I guess it depends on who is in power and in charge of this country at the time.
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