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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Yeah, yeah. The article assumes that a 'no deal' Brexit warrants stockpiles of medicines and border checks. Two straight forward solutions to avoid that.
1. Agree with the EU that pending a trade deal, there will be no change to our existing trading arrangements.
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"Agree with the EU" is not no deal.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
2. Apply the Article 24 GATT protection period.
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Similarly, Article 24 requires an agreed plan from both parties. Agreed plan is not a no deal.
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Originally Posted by Damien
We could call it the transition period.
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So, we would be a vassal state then and the EU could keep us there indefinitely?
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Originally Posted by Angua
The article is from todays FT. I cannot see any journalist sitting on such information for a couple of months, just to break it now.
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Not the newspaper, but maybe the leaker could have held it back to the FT until today.