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98.1% of UK exports to the US travel by sea.
99% of UK imports from the US travel by sea.

It takes weeks to get goods across the Atlantic, vs a day or two from the EU. That's why it's impossible to replace many EU sources of products with non-EU ones.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
Now, 2 tonnes carried by ship for 5,000 kilometres (a bit less than the distance between the UK and the US) results in the emission of 150 kg of CO2, compared to 6,605 kg of CO2 for 2 tonnes carried by plane. Air cargo is 44x more polluting than sea cargo.
airportwatch.org.uk/air-freight/ca…
So even *if* we had enough planes (we don't, not by a very very long straw) to replace a meaningful amount of sea freight with the US by air freight, we'd be setting a blowtorch to the planet.

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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡, 🇬🇧 🔜 🇪🇺
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Leave won. Its prize: we left the EU.

But the truth is, we *all* lost. And we can't just "get over it".

Here are 91 examples of what Brexit took from us all... and what we could gain if we joined the EU again.

1. Full unfettered access to the largest trading bloc in the world.
2. Free trade deals with dozens of countries around the world, including Japan, Canada and South Korea.

3. Frictionless borders allowing for just-in-time manufacturing, supporting millions of jobs in the auto industry, aerospace etc.
4. Wide-open border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, with no customs or other checks between NI and the rest of the UK.

5. Active support for the Good Friday Agreement and Irish peace process (NI benefitted from PEACE funding of over 1.5 billion euro between 1995 and 2020)
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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡, 🇬🇧 🔜 🇪🇺
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Boris Johnson [in his press conference]: "I was at a hospital the other day where there were a few coronavirus cases. I shook hands with everybody, you'll be pleased to know. And I'll continue to shake hands with everybody."

Doesn't sound like very sensible advice!
Now, I don't believe there is cause for panic about the coronavirus. Far from it. But it seems to me that one of the easiest of all precautionary measures is to refrain from hand shakes for a few weeks. Bow, nod, pat each other on the back, whatever - so many decent alternatives!
Meanwhile, the UK and EU negotiators agreed not to shake hands because of the coronavirus outbreak...
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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡, 🇬🇧 🔜 🇪🇺
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Here's a wild idea that might make a lot of sense! 💡

Why doesn't our negotiating team at the EU ask for the maximum 2-year transition period extension immediately...

...then say "we'll circle back in 6 months or so on Brexit, but let's lick the coronavirus together first"?
After all, we're talking about a unique "black swan" event that has the potential to hit us worse than the 2008 financial crisis.

Surely only the most extreme radical Brexiters could object to pressing "pause" under such impossible circumstances? Most people would understand.
(This isn't a secret backdoor attempt to thwart Brexit. Unless you've been living under a rock the last few weeks, you'll have noticed we've *already left* the EU. Article 50 no longer applies. There's no way to "remain" no matter how desperately some might wish to.)
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