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I've been posting this Brexit options table for a few days now, but without any narrative. As we almost certainly approach indicative votes of some sort or other, what are the key messages MPs should know? 1/ 
Most obvious, as you move away from membership and associated 'costs' such as payments and freedom of movement, you lose certain access rights like decision making, selling services, frictionless trade, but gain access to your own trade deals. You can't have everything 2/
We also learn that any future relationship is not cut and dried. Most notably no off the shelf model can solve the Irish border problem, and the extent of access to / say in EU goods and services markets after Brexit would need to be negotiated 3/
Identifying the unicorns is also easy. They are the UK-wide Free Trade Agreement, Malthouse, interim FTA - not acceptable to the EU. No-deal may or may not be acceptable to the EU but it doesn't matter, no deal is no deal, but... 4/
Actually most no-deal proponents do not see that as a long term solution, we need deals, so that probably isn't a stable outcome in the way proponents often claim. In fact it is arguable that no option is particularly sustainable / comfortable 5/
(at this point I get the remainers saying that is actually the perfect and stable solution, but actually a host of domestic issues follow from that as well. There is no perfect solution, if there was that's what we'd be doing) 6/
Finally, consider the increased polarisation in the debate, brilliantly explored in this thread. So we're tired and want something settled forever, now. Which is not possible.
The PM and Cabinet failed to resolve or explain that, can MPs do better?
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The PM and Cabinet failed to resolve or explain that, can MPs do better?
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PS None of this says what will happen this week, or in the next three weeks. Others have been threading. Something like this perhaps...
