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@EFTA4UK
Aug 28, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
1/ We are absolutely sick to death of people saying "the 17.4 million people wanted this, the 17.4 million wanted that." We are part of that 17.4 million and we didn't vote for a chaotic no-deal brexit. #brexit
2/ no doubt some brexit voters (a small percentage) wanted no deal, but others were promised a bespoke UK deal or something akin to 🇳🇴 or 🇨🇦. There was no WTO4UK campaign that we recall.
3/ if you discount from the 17.4 million all those who wanted various forms of a deal, there isn't even a majority for a no deal brexit. That isn't to say that the UK shouldn't leave, but that information should inform the type of new relationship we have.
4/ People like Farage and Banks have turned brexit into a totemic prize in a wider culture war, symbolic of ultimate victory. The mythical 'true brexit' (which only they can truly define) is always just around the corner.
5/ Now you have almost the entire Conservative Party repeating (almost verbatim) lines from Farage and the Brexit Party, a party that has NO MPs, no Peers and as soon as any brexit is passed, no MEPs. It's a Paper Tiger! 🐅
6/ Just extend article 50 and ask people what type of brexit they want. Give them four or five choices they have to rank in order of preference. If they don't fill it in properly, the voting slip is invalid. Go back to Brussels with a fresh negotiation mandate. /End

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Jul 27, 2021
@Dominic2306 is talking again. What have we learned? Did he ever have a plan for a successful Brexit? And did it involve staying in, or leaving, the #SingleMarket? THREAD
@Dominic2306’s discussion with @DavidGauke is worth a read. He admits that costs of 🇬🇧 leaving SM were supposed to fall on 🇮🇪. This is foolhardy in itself, but symptomatic of the lack of a wider plan. /1
@Dominic2306 @DavidGauke Staying in SM under #EFTA would of course solve #NI. But did @VoteLeave say to stay in, or to leave, the Single Market? Well, both. But the important promise was that of no adverse changes. /2
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Oct 30, 2020
1/On Tuesday 27 October EFTA Ministers met virtually for their annual EFTA Ministerial meeting and released video messages celebrating 60 years since the establishment of EFTA in 1960
2/The meeting reinforced EFTA’s commitment to open & rules-based multilateral international trade to fuel economic recovery from COVID and ensure stable trading conditions, including supply chain security
3/They they also welcomed the conclusion of work towards revising the model chapter for trade and sustainable development in EFTA FTAs.
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Oct 27, 2020
1/THREAD on EFTA & the EEA Agreement
-EFTA is an intergovernmental not supranational structure; one of the two independent separate jurisdictions implementing the EEA Agreement.
-EEA Agreement is not an EU treaty. It’s a separate body of international law and own legal order.
2/
 -🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮 can (1) accept reject or request amends via the EEA Joint Commitee and/or (2) refuse to place it into their national law without which they are not bound by it.
-In response the EU either makes changes or takes proportionate countermeasures. Usually they make changes
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 -EFTA court “gives regard to” ECJ rulings but not obliged to follow it (except pre-EEA Agreement law, ie before 1992)
-As a member 🇬🇧 would have 1 in 4 of the judges on the EFTA court. Its hearings are in English. ImageImage
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May 7, 2020
1/;It's clear that the UK government have given up even trying for a sensible EU - UK deal. Even though we are now outside the EU, any attempt by opposition MPs to insist on any deal (even a flimsy one) will be shouted down as an attempt to "block Brexit!!!!1!1!"
2/ Ask for an extension to the transition period? "You are trying to block Brexit 1!1!1!1 Fewmin!"
3/ can we stay in the Single Market like Boris said?

"You are trying to block Brexit 1!1!1!1 Fewmin!" 😠
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Feb 17, 2020
WARNING: This year, PM Johnson and his associates at the Telegraph (and useful idiots like the Brexit central crowd, Darren Whines and the ERG) are going to Promote ONE KEY MESSAGE 🗣️📢 you need to keep an eye out for 👀 [THREAD]
2/ The message is this - the 🇪🇺 EU is being unreasonable, cruel, bullying 👿😡, intractable and stubborn. This message will be pumped out through newspaper articles, interviews on TV and radio, blogs and tweets.
3/ why? Simple really. The same people who said that an eu-uk trade deal would be "easy", "simple and quick", that "we hold all the cards" are now running things. The worst thing they want is to be proven wrong, so their only option is to create a narrative of a vindictive 🇪🇺
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Jan 22, 2020
A lot of people are now saying to Soft Brexit supporters like ourselves that it was "obvious" brexit would turn out this way. And that we have been used by a immoral clique of disaster capitalists who want a Hard Brexit. Here is our response:
1/ remember the Government's Brexit leaflets and website? We do.
2/ the HM Government Brexit leaflet praised the merits of the Single Market. Logically then, if the UK voted to leave the EU, it stands to reason that the UK would seek to remain in the single market via the European Economic Area.
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