Thread: Election 2019 - Week 4
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Old 30-11-2019, 19:36   #58
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Re: Election 2019 - Week 4
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth View Post
Wasn't that David Davies' pitch at the Referendum? It won't be easy. By playing that card, the EU will want to tie us in to maintaining their standards. We have to look at how Canada was engineered and learn from that.
Yes, well David Davies had his strategy ruined by Theresa May, didn't he? We did actually get a withdrawal agreement agreed within the two-year period, and Boris Johnson managed to renegotiate the parts of it which were causing problems for us within three short months. The EU hasn't held anything up, that was Parliament's fault.

Provided that we get a strong Conservative majority at the next election, I have no doubt that we can do a trade deal with the EU within the year.

Other countries will take longer, but not too long. Many of the useful provisions that we are currently getting through the EU can just be cut and pasted into draft new agreements with the countries concerned and then adjusted as necessary. The negotiations can then be based on that as a UK proposal.

I don't think a Conservative government under BJ would be so weak-kneed as to accept being drawn into any tie-up with EU rules beyond what is strictly necessary for our new trading arrangements. Any attempt by the EU to have us accept standardised employment laws, for example, will be rejected out of hand.

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Originally Posted by Mr K View Post
The Canada deal took 7 years to negotiate, Bozza's promise that Brexit will be 'oven ready' sorted next month or even by the end of next year is another of his lies. Or maybe he's genuinely thick.
Except that we don't have to bring our standards into line as Canada did. A year is perfectly do-able.

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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
That statement is completely speculative.

Equally as we are 2 trillion in debt with the Tories and the coalition in power for 27 of the last 40 years, despite the windfalls of privatisation, I think it’s demonstrably laughable that the Conservatives aren’t reckless with the economy. That’s without even getting onto Brexit, which by any measure going will weaken the economy.
It is unquestionable that our standards already meet EU standards. What are you on?

As far as your second paragraph is concerned, that is untrue and your point has already been answered.
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