What a beautiful passage Aodhán emphasized. Apart from what he points out and the fact that Switzerland still is as connected to the Single Market as before and not frozen out (slow deterioration of access is the word), there's an even bigger problem (thread)
https://twitter.com/MichaelAodhan/status/1399725244789760000
The proposal the author makes is a common market between Switzerland and the UK. But Ay, there's the rub: a single market means a mixture of harmonization and being forced to accept the other's goods whether they comply with your law or not /2
What the author is proposing is thus a mixture of either harmonizing the law with Switzerland or having an institution (court? Commission?) tell the UK "you say it's about safety, but really, that's a bad argument, you have to let their product in". /3
The author hence seems to forget the lesson of Brexit: this is precisely what the UK voted against. You cannot reject the tools that make a single market and still claim you want a single market.
(As @StevePeers and @robert_busch65 and others rightly point out: this was, of course, never on the ballot paper. Leading to a debate about the meaning of Brexit. I go with the interpretation that - politically - won the day, even though it wasn't my interpretation)
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