Adrian's words, obviously, not the words of Monnet, who published an article in the UK, France, Germany, and the US, that said it was necessary to explain to the public and the governments.
The original proposal for a Common Market specifically states that the creation would help free trade in a world where the American Smoot–Hawley policy had driven tariffs up around the world.
When the European project comes along, we don't want to be a part of it because how it affects our relationship to the Commonwealth and the Sterling area.
@PKBook22@heywoodbill@tconnellyRTE We want to be part of a political union, but when it comes to a Common Market, that means a Common Currency and a Customs Union, that's a double whammy.
We want a free trade area that maintains our Commonwealth ties.
@PKBook22@heywoodbill@tconnellyRTE When negotiations for that fail, we feel forced to join the Common Market to solve our economic problems.
Just as people have moved on and want to talk about the pain our industries are suffering, the prospects the people have lost, and the way our country has been damaged, Brexiteers like Jacob can only argue amongst themselves and repeat their lies of 2016.
The irony being they voted to live in the past, and now they are permanently stuck in 2016, when we were in the EU.
When someone tell you we need to wait 40 years to see the benefit, ask them what specific milestones are required and when will each of them be achieved.
All that democracy of having less votes, and FPTP in a two party system with all those safe seats. Along with a parliamentary system that creates laws further away from the people than in the EU system...
This seems like a good day for it to happen. The only reason the Johnson administration is still in existence is that we don't get long enough to focus on one story before another story occurs and the news cycle moves on.
I have opinions about this rebuttal of @DavidGauke claiming he: "simply looks at the timeline of what has happened post-Brexit and ignores the broader context of trade policy"