Let's be honest here, the mugs following Andrew don't seem to understand, he just wants to make it easier for him to drink cava at his summer home. He doesn't care about you.
Same as Farage doesn't care.
That is exactly the case here.
Some Britons expect better treatment that countries with whom we have very close relationships. For no reason. And for nothing in return.
The truly tone deaf thing about these people is their no contrition. The UK actively tried to undermine and destroy Europe, claiming they would get exceptionalist treatment and others would follow them out the door.
Now they want special rights in Europe.
Not a great look.
Of course, they aren't true rejoiners. They don't love Europe. They don't want to make it work.
They just want cake.
They don't understand us and I fear they never will.
They really are pseudo-pro-European Flashmans.
Foreigners can serve drinks. Not have opinions.
It's almost like Europe and its politics don't exist.
Just a place to play golf and eat shellfish.
FOM is working well right now. Why would be add a state that can't keep to its agreements and wants to ignore ECHR judgments.
The level of cognitive dissonance is remarkable.
Let's not forget, the UK won't protect the rights of its own citizens, not to mention Europeans already there.
Yet we're to imagine it will protect Europeans under FOM without ECJ oversight and European law.
The origins of this thread lie in a discussion around the 2016 ref with a Brexiter. He stated that “all we want is what Liechtenstein has – single market with no free movement – the precedent is there. EU should give it to us”.
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I am dubious that this would have satisfied either him or the Brexiters, who needed to go through Brexit to understand why they shouldn’t want it.
So, Britons elect Cameron on the basis of holding a referendum, then vote for Brexit, the elect May and end SM, then elect Johnson and withdraw from Europe and European citizenship.
Yet apparently it's time to "blame the foreigners".
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Zéro humility, zéro atonement for the mess you've caused.
Just shouting at Europeans to fix it for you to live in Spain with no health insurance and not pay your taxes.
No matter what relationship they ask for to get closer to Europe, Europe will retain its strategic and decision-making autonomy.
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This applies most obviously to the SM. The complexity of agreeing new rules and regulations, the tradeoffs needed, are already too complex without adding the UK.
Firstly, there is no consisderation of the position of 🇳🇴🇪🇺🇮🇸🇱🇮. In short, why would this be good for us? Without that argument, this falls short.
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Why is the first thing that is discussed a UK opt-out, a major opt-out in fact, in this case Schengen? Just accept the package as is and apply for #EEA. Stop with the #ExtrawurstGroßbritannien