Cronus wrote:
In your imagination?
I'm sure you can google a couple of examples, but as far as I - and pretty much everyone with any modicum of intelligence - have always known, leaving the EU means leaving the single market - for the simple fact the feckin idiotic ideal of freedom of movement has been judged a failure by the British Electorate not only in the EU Referendum, but also the General Election. Why would anyone expect to reject one part of the single market and benefit from the rest?
For clarity, it also means leaving the customs union (or the protectionist customs barrier as it should be known).
No-one ever said it would be easy. We should never have ended up in the grip of the EU in the first place. Extracting yourself from a protectionist cartel is never easy, but it is necessary.
Ideally, we can agree a sort of single market/customs union 'lite' - without the stupid ideals but many of the benefits, even if they come at some minimum tariff, and I imagine that's what the aim is.
Your conclusions regarding the general election being yet another vote for leaving the EU is certainly interesting.
That must be why there has been so much talk of a softer Brexit, compared to May's previous "hard Brexit" stance.
How did you reach your conclusion ?
THe numbers of people that realise that we have probably voted (in the EU Membership referendum) to being a little worse off, seems to be growing and the "leave" lobbyists pretend that we knew this all along.
Sadly, all the campaigning tole the "masses" that we would be better off and blatantly lied about our position outside the EU, some even referred to the remain side as "snowflakes" but it seems that maybe they were right.
Also, the leave brigade sighted the EU as crumbling and yet France, with Macron at the helm have become more pro Europe and other nations still want to join the club, so, perhaps there is still life in the institution.
Of course there is plenty that is wrong with the EU, just as there is with EVERY political system on the planet but, it's still laughable that we see our future dealing with nations that are geographically further away then the EU, which is less convenient for all but, I guess time will tell who was right.
It's interesting that we now want a "staged" exit, to try and avoid a further economic shock and that we are softening our stance.
The turkeys certainly voted for Christmas.
