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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
The only real question is whether we can get a bi-lateral agreement with the EU, which you and other remainers on here are convinced is impossible. I don't buy that.
I see no reason why the EU would not co-operate to the extent that it too is concerned about frictionless trade to us.
In the Washington post article that Hugh posted, the revelation is made that a protection period is possible.
'WTO Director-General Roberto Azevedo confirmed that there must be a bilateral agreement between the EU and U.K. in order to claim an implementation period under GATT Article 24. “Once they have an agreement I think Article 24 could give them some time for implementation of that agreement,” he told Bloomberg. “But the first question is the agreement itself.”
However, the defeatist attitude that so many posts on here reveal simply doesn't allow them to see the obvious. I guess they won't believe it until they see it. Only then will they shut up about the impossibility of it all and move on to a new lefty topic to promote despite all reason to the contrary.
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Business is largely against Brexit so you can say that Brexit is more left-wing than right-wing. Indeed, we heard one infamous Brexiter say "F-business".
What you repeatedly fail to recognise is that no-deal means what it says. It doesn't mean a different type of deal or a cake-and-eat-it deal.
If you read the serious business analysis around Brexit, you will understand that the EU doesn't want to undermine the integrity of the single market and needs to demonstrate that it will stand by its smaller members.
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"Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission president, said last week that the 585-page exit treaty “is not a treaty between Theresa May and Juncker, it is a treaty between the UK and the EU. It has to be respected by whoever is the next British prime minister.”
Yielding on that point of principle risked damaging the EU for years to come, one official told the Financial Times, placing at stake the integrity of the single market and decimating trust that the bloc would stick by its smaller members, in this case Ireland.
Ireland is also quick to dismiss suggestions from Tory leadership contenders that the new prime minister will get superior terms from Brussels and an alternative to the backstop.
As Mr Johnson and his rivals insist they can secure new solutions to the border question once they take office, Dublin sees such demands as further proof of the need for an “all weather” backstop to avoid checks on the frontier no matter who is in power.
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https://www.ft.com/content/50a31434-...d-b42f641eca37