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EFTA 4 UK
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Jeremy Corbyn is playing dangerous games - both by refusing to meet with May to discuss Brexit, and by refusing to promote EEA membership for the UK, instead saying "a close single market relationship" which is unhelpfully vague.
But the opposition aren't much better. The ERG knuckledraggers like germanophobic faux-wideboy Mark Francois are acting like caricatures of themselves. Spitting image puppets brought to life.
How can we as a nation have allowed our Parliament to be filled with so much dross? /End
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Final mini-thread of the weekend. [1] Let's imagine that its 2025. The UK has left the EU, and has a basic FTA with the EU. Jacob Rees Mogg is walking down the street when he meets Constituent #1. This constituent is angry.
2/ "Why are you unhappy my plebeian chum?" asks JRM. The constituent answers that the company he works for has just gone bust, and that they were wiped out by competition from a German firm that makes similar products. He asks why the government can't just block German imports.
3/ JRM answers "well my good man, the fact of the matter is, we have signed a Free Trade agreement with the EU, and as a result we can't simply impose quotas or tariffs on German goods, or they could reciprocate".
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EFTA 4 UK
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1/ Before the referendum, the IEA held a prize to see who could come up with the best brexit plan. The winning entry and others were released as a book:
2/ the background of the competition is outlined:
3/ the winning entry seems to advocate a hybrid of the various models:
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One from the archives - Wetherspoons brexit magazine from summer 2016
Contains analysis by Daniel Hannan MEP
He says we will stay in the "European free trade zone" after brexit.
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