The big Brexit contamination: the UK, in the past, was a sparse user of state aid by choice - because of a conservative, market-based philosophy. And now (short thread)?
Recently there have been several prominent examples of subsidies. And they were praised as a Brexit benefit - we can subsidies because we have left the EU.
As a matter of law this is all complex. EU state aid law is gone, there's TCA rules and WTO subsidies rules, but that's not what this thread is about.
My point is also not about state aid being good or bad - but suddenly we are not even having this debate any more: where should we subsidize, how should we subsidize or shouldn't we. Instead, it's becoming a debate about Brexit.
It should not be that way. But rather than reducing the number of topics that you cannot really discuss because it becomes a debate about Brexit, it seems we are enlarging them.
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