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Richard Corbett @RCorbettMEP
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THREAD : Brexit - How about this 8-point deal?

1/ Stay in single market, but not have to join the euro
2/ Opt out of Schengen and keep our border controls
3/ Have a veto on security, foreign policy, tax, treaty changes, and any increase in the competence or powers of the EU.
4/ Allow Freedom of Movement for EU citizens, but conditional on them not being benefit tourists or a threat to security.
5/ Take our own decisions on the majority of immigration to the UK: non-EU migrants from Africa, Asia, etc
6/ Have an opt-in/opt-out arrangement for EU agreements in the field of police and judicial cooperation
7/ Stay in the customs union but have an equal say on any trade agreements with third countries
8/ Be represented in all the EU institutions with voting members.

A good enough deal? That’s what we have now!
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THREAD : #Brexit ain't what they promised:

1. It's costing us a fortune - not saving the £350m they promised we’d save and give to the #NHS
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2. We won’t "take back control", we’ll lose it. We used to make Europe’s rules. #Brexit means following them without a say:
richardcorbett.org.uk/losing-control/
3. We were the fastest growing economy in the G7. Now, we’re the slowest - and that’s before we’ve even left.
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Lately I have become a bit obsessed with Britain’s trade deficit and Balance of Payments with the Rest of The World(ROW). Let me explain why, and what’s it got to do with #Brexit.
For me as a UK-expat in Euroland I have seen the value of my pension drop by 20% since the dreaded referendum.
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1/ Theresa May has made 3 fundamentally incompatible #brexit promises regarding Northern Ireland at least one of which she has to break and one of the 3 groups she will have to betray
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3/ the only way to keep the promise of No hard border in Ireland is to stay in single market and customs Union. This will incense the tory #Brexit hardliners as it will result in losing any say on making rules we still have to obey rendering brexit pointless
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Brexit is the backstop; the backstop is #Brexit.

After 3 days in Belfast, talking to all sides, here's what I've learned - on the business and the politics of this deal. And its viability.

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First the business/technical aspects of how a backstop would work.

I talked to business lobby groups, Stephen Kelly from @ManufacturingNI fresh back from talks with Barnier. And bosses of big companies.

The are surprisingly sanguine. /2

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/…
@ManufacturingNI If the backstop emerges as the British want (and that is still an 'if') it would look as follows:

- all-UK in a temporary customs Union
- Northern Ireland only in Single Market for goods, via devolution
- no checks GB-NI
- 'de-dramatised checks on regs NI-GB

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Hi Cabinet – so next week you finally get let into #brexit decision-making. So here is your essential pre-read from @instituteforgov.
@instituteforgov First up, our report on frictionless trade – why its impossible to deliver the “exact same benefits” of the Single market and the Customs Union outside them – and why it matters to businesses with cross-border supply chains. instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/f…
@instituteforgov Second our report on some of the choices on offer for Trade after Brexit. instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/t… Note the EU has been very unenthusiastic on the sort of “managed divergence” the PM hinted at in Florence.
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1. So who do I mean when I refer to the "Brexit Blob"? There's the usual suspects. Redwood, Rees-Mogg, Paterson and the other nonentity backbenchers, and then there;s the Tufton Street sock puppet think tanks and then the ayatollahs of #Brexit.
2. These will be people like Lawson, Ruth Lea, Hartley Brewer, Brendan O'Neill, John Longwoth, Kate Hoey, Gisela Stuart Low Fact Chloe, John Mills and so on and so forth. The ones who aren't lying are stone stupid.
3. These are the people who colluded to ensure that novbody outside the Westminster bubble got a voice in the campaign. That is why The Leave Alliance has struggled to win any exposure. Partly thanks to Hannan's sabotage early on - aided by the Bruges Group.
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The short of the EEA argument is the fact that we have been an EU member for 40 years and nothing less than a fully comprehensive framework for future economic collaboration with our neighbours is a sufficient replacement. It is that simple.

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Had we never been part of the single market an FTA would have been sufficient and more suitable for our needs - but we have the better part of thirty years worth of economic activity working inside EU regulatory frameworks. We need to ensure its survival.
Without having all the mechanisms of recognition and proof of conformity then frictionless trade does not happen and we lose all our preferential participation in the European market. That means a hit for everything from cosmetics through to airline spares.
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