Posted on 10/18/2019 12:49:05 AM PDT by Cronos
“If the EU had stuck with being simply a common market with interior open travel and work and common tariffs, there would never have been a push for Brexit.”
But the EU and its predecessor the EC was NEVER simply a common market - in 1957 the Treaty of Rome that set up the EEC specifically talked about in it’s opening paragraph about a “ever closer union”
it was emphatically a political union.
in the 1950s there was a European purely trade union - the EFTA to which the UK and Scandinavian countries belonged, but that lagged economically behind the EEC so the UK tried THRICE to get into the EEC.
The UK was turned down twice when it tried to leave a trade-only union to go to a political “ever closer union”
It was accepted on the third time in 1973 and had a referendum in 1975 to which 67% voted to be in the EEC.
The EEC is modeled to some extent on the Swiss system where in the Swiss system the central government is very weak and the cantons are strong.
The centralized states in europe are the UK and France.
So it’s the manufacturing, specifically automotive sector that is hit?
hmm... interesting — and yes France has that perennial double-digit unemployment. Perhaps a chance to get employees to move here.
Thanks
Most of the withdrawal agreement signed by Theresa May has been allowed to stand without amendment. There hasn’t even been any further negotiation over most of it. The resumed negotiations since Johnson took office have neem restricted, almost entirely, to the Northern Ireland issues. The rest of it - the larger part, in fact - remains to all intents and purposes unchanged.
There is/will be complainers/purists that won’t like this deal.
The problem is that if not this deal there is/would be complainers/purists that wouldn’t like some other deal.
To all the complainers/purists it must be explained (just as we had to do 200 years ago to form the union), that there is no perfect deal, and the best deal we are able to get is better than no deal.
My fear of do deal at all would be new elections in Britain, and a new government and a new referendum on Brexit which, due to the public sentiment over the poor performance in getting to a Brexit deal, would mean a rejection of Brexit.
Johnson got them some deal. Now the U.K. has a chance to just make the best of that deal that they can, and move on.
For one thing Britain will be free to negotiate its own trade deals with others. For another. Britain regains it judicial sovereignty after a short transition period. The rest of the U.K. other than NI will not have to abide by EU standards.
Under the May deal, the UK would have been free to negotiate its own trade deals post Brexit.
The same for the judicial sovereignty - that’s the same in the May and Boris deals.
the only difference is that the customs union is only for NI, not for rUK
Seems like Boris knew what he was doing after all...
Yes. He eliminated DUP as a blocker by putting the backstop only over northern Ireland, and keeping the rest of Theresa May’s deal, he has potentially won.
More reading material; not a clue what the real truth is, if there is one https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3787380/posts
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