Posted on 10/18/2019 12:49:05 AM PDT by Cronos
Customs
The whole of the UK will leave the EU customs union. This means the UK will be able to strike trade deals with other countries in the future.
There will be a legal customs border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland (which stays in the EU). But in practice the customs border will be between Great Britain and the island of Ireland, with goods being checked at "points of entry" in Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland's say
Because Northern Ireland will be set apart from the rest of the UK when it comes to customs and other EU rules, the deal gives its Assembly a vote on these provisions.
Some things have not changed:
Much of Mrs May's original Brexit deal will remain as part of the overall agreement. Some of the key areas are:
Transition
The transition - a period of time during which all of the current rules stay the same allowing the UK and the EU to negotiate their future relationship - is due to last until the end of December 2020.
The UK will need to abide by EU rules and pay into the EU budget, but will lose membership of its institutions.
The transition can be extended, but only for a period of one or two years.
Both the UK and EU must agree to any extension.
Citizens' rights
UK citizens in the EU, and EU citizens in the UK, will retain their residency and social security rights after Brexit.
Money
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) estimates that the bill is now around £33bn (down from £39bn).
The OBR expects that most of the money - around three-quarters of the total - would be paid by 2022,
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“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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