This despite the fact that we don't know what they are yet. Have I missed something?
Because it appears that some Brexiters think that Brexit should be easy. The EU created a common market based on a set of rules. We want access to that market but not to have to abide by their rules and not pay them any money and if May can't achieve that she is incompetent.
Honestly, you just couldn't make some of these people up. Brexit was always going to be enormously difficult and painful and we were always certain to be in a worse position in the short term; and if you didn't realize that you probably shouldn't have been allowed to vote.
"We want access to that market but not to have to abide by their rules and not pay them any money"
Isn't that the deal that Canada has with the EU and that the majority of hard Brexiteers want?
In fact, under the Canada +++ proposals put forward by the ERG, David Davis and others, the UK would actually pay money in to the EU, in order to secure superior terms on certain market sectors.
Last edited by Monty92; 11-14-2018 at 02:55 PM.
No, as part of the free trade negotiations Canada would have had to accept that they would abide by certain EU rules; that's the way trade negotiations work. The countries involved agree to behave according to a certain set of rules so that trade is fair and mutually beneficial.
In this case some of the Brexit morons (like Boris) then claim that 'WE HAVE TO ABIDE BY THEIR RULES BUT HAVE NO SAY IN THEM!!!'
Yes, Boris, that's because we left, you idiot. The alternative, of course, it so lose access.