In tonight’s HoC debate, did *anyone* speak of threat from EU if UK *doesn’t back down*? Not risk of chaos in Kent, but a TRADE WAR with the world’s largest economic bloc / UK’s biggest trading partner?
Ultras going puce over confected idea of blockade in Irish Sea & EU trying to “enslave” UK.
No-one talking about EU going full-on stone-cold third country towards UK.
No-one talking about EU going full-on stone-cold third country towards UK.
Maybe ultras are right - EU’s only powers are over its own members, and UK is immune from economic harm from *checks notes* a single market of 500m people.+
But our Parliament cannot *discuss the risks* that telling EU to shove it’s agreement might lead to a trade war. Because it’s full of people who believe (or daren’t take on the belief) that Great Britain is immune from harm by other nations.
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