Right now, still, two **** years after the Brexit vote, most people, I'd say 90% still think the Single Market is just "Free trade plus Free Movement".
Why? Because that makes it so much easier for politicians to sell Brexit.
Free trade is something that's relatively easy to achieve both with the EU and the rest of the world and another.
Free Movement is something that's been painted a bad so they think nobody will miss it.
Free trade is something that's relatively easy to achieve both with the EU and the rest of the world and another.
Free Movement is something that's been painted a bad so they think nobody will miss it.
Cameron was guilty of it too. "Just tell people their economy will go into meltdown without the Single Market. They don't need to know what it is."
He, like most of the politicians now, reckoned people are a lot easier to manipulate if you don't give them too much information.
He, like most of the politicians now, reckoned people are a lot easier to manipulate if you don't give them too much information.
Nobody ever explains what Free Movement of Goods actually means.
With Free Movement of Services, if your service requires qualification, how do you get your qualification recognised in another country, without mutual recognition of qualifications? Again, that's part of the Single Market.
That's why we have such a deadlock in the Brexit negotiations.
The government knows we need to get the advantages of the Single Market to avoid economic disaster. But they haven't told the public what those advantages are, hence the "just get on with it".
The government knows we need to get the advantages of the Single Market to avoid economic disaster. But they haven't told the public what those advantages are, hence the "just get on with it".
