What's your proposal for the Irish Border conundrum, then?
Is it the one Theresa's already agreed to as "backstop?"
What's your proposal for the Irish Border conundrum, then?
Is it the one Theresa's already agreed to as "backstop?"
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Or a 'people vote' and we stay in.......
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How does Switzerland do it? A mate works for Google in Zurich, along with people from all over the world. Switzerland seems to manage quite well, so why don't we follow their way?
Or is that simply not an option?
edit.. an early discussion about this. .
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politi...iss-model-suit-a-post-brexit-britain/42128110
Or is that simply not an option?
edit.. an early discussion about this. .
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politi...iss-model-suit-a-post-brexit-britain/42128110
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“It’s true that we would be free on our own to negotiate trade deals, but that would be a bad idea because if we’re on our own, we’re going to be less likely to get a good deal than if we’re negotiating as part of a bloc with 500 million people and the largest economy in the world,” Dixon said.
“Take China. The Swiss deal with China was a very unbalanced deal that involved the Swiss opening their market to Chinese goods pretty much immediately and the Chinese only opening their market to Swiss products gradually, phased over many years.”
Which highlights the point that FTA are negotiated on the basis of which side has more influence which is why TM was in Africa trying to drum up trade. African continent combined has a GDP less than that of France.
You would have to balance a not so good deal v an EU deal that acts in the interest of the EU and requires a £10B membership fee....theres no free lunch
Also the EU is a mature market not an expanding market.
We are now in a digital world where the worlds largest companies are Amazon, Apple, Netflix etc. No issue with larger distances for trading 'information'
...against the value of remaining in the EU and getting all the benefits of membership
The people of Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland. Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia would be shocked to hear you think they are forever trapped in post-Soviet poverty and lack of development. Or perhaps they would just laugh at you.
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The US is a mature market and not an expanding market.
Are you saying the rate of growth is too low? Yet Brexiteers are trumpeting a USA FTA as a potential benefit.Look at the number of FTA the EU has signed recently - there is negotiation power in a collective agreement.
Not sure what point you are trying to make re "trading information". Are you saying that FTA are not important as services transcend physical barriers? Or location is not important? Can you clarify.
And the UK is an aged/contracting economy even compared to the EU...
What sway do you think we will have in world trade agreements?
The difference is that the Irish are not the same as the Swiss, a division between North and South Ireland would take us back to the " Bad Old Days"
No, three nationalities and languages all getting along.
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