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LEAVE LIES keep returning to keep the Brexit fantasy alive amongst Britons that are too busy or lazy to fact-check what Brexiteers & MPs say in public & the media.

A lie that won't die is using Art24 GATT in the event of no deal.

As things stand its rubbish

#peoplesvote 1/5
The dangerous fallacy that the UK can leave the EU on 29/3 with no deal & carry on trading as normal for up to 10 years must be ķilled off...

...by us.

It is the foundations of Pro-Brexit protagonist's claims that it is safe for the UK to crash out on WTO tariffs.

2/5
Arch-Brexiteers like Dick Tice claim 'people could carry on pretty much as is' for 10 yrs. Trade experts/lawyers dismiss this as 'utter nonsense' - it is!

Tice's use of 'pretty much' here is endemic of the wholesale disingenuity used by Brexiteers since the ref campaign.

3/5
Technically 24 GATT (WTO) does permit interim agreements but both sides must 1st agree on the PROCESS of negotiating a deal - in this case May's Withdrawal Agreement.

2nd both parties must agree an interim deal whilst the negotiations for a future deal are taking place.

4/5
There must be a binding plan within an agreed time-frame to create a future Treaty to use Art24.

If there is no deal the UK simply CANNOT TRADE USING Art24 GATT.

Without a WA the clause can't be used. There must be:

1 A WA
2 A timed plan
3 An interim deal

End of. Period

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