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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Look everybody - the question to ask is what is the £39 billion buying?
The Leavers will say it buys bugger all under this agreement; it won't even guarantee a trade deal because of the weasel wording of the Protocol.
The Remainers will say in that case we shouldn't leave.
Given that we're leaving, the Remainers should get real and back No Deal which guarantees us our sovereignty. We are the world's 5th or 6th largest economy and the initial dip will be just a blip.
The EU may well collapse anyway, which the Remainers haven't taken into account.
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£39bn is our legal obligations, and if that’s not accepted as a reason to pay it the alternative is to buy stability.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...domestic-storm
Interesting final paragraph:
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Gove turned down the job of Brexit secretary last week after May rejected his suggestion that the withdrawal agreement be renegotiated to alter the terms of the Irish backstop. Meanwhile, Leadsom is keen for the government to consider a “no deal plus” if parliament votes against the deal. Under that plan, the government would pay the EU £20bn – less than half the planned divorce payment – in exchange for a two-year transition period, during which the UK would prepare for operating on World Trade Organisation terms.
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A Cabniet Minister implying we need two more years to prepare for no deal and it’d be worth £20bn to obtain it.