The British public once again are being lied to and led astray by their politicians and treated as fodder. Deprived of accurate information and the facts. Parliament is kept out of the debate so unable to question or rationalise anything.
Let's look at what TM negoatiations are angling for?
We want access to free market and if you give us some assurances of what the future trade deal might look like, we'll see what we can give you?
Reading between the lines this is asking for free access subject to a one off payment. Effectively free access and membership justified by some self valued opinion, we buy more of your goods then we sell to you so its in your - EU's interests to keep us on board.
This is the crux of it.
Well look if you want something like this then just simply take up existing models whether be it the Swiss, Norwegian or just custom union membership?
Well no, coz we are British and we want something a little better, extra and special.
So the EU turns around and says WTF do you want. Be clear!
TM says but I just gave you a wonderful Florence speech and came to your feet to grovel and have a lovely dinner assuring you UK will meet and honour her committments.
So the EU says well you do speak some lovely words but we are not seeing anything on paper to help us negotiate. We can't negotiate on words they have to be proposals on paper.
UK says well we can't do that until you tell us what the trade agreement will look like.
Yep definitely a case of want to eat cake indeed.
As for all the hard core Brexiters, membership fees to a club doesn't make one own the club. So asking for assets back is just bloody minded. Investments in the EU or UK are all agreed and balanced. Hence, no side need compensate anyone.
UK quite entitled to leave without paying a penny. The crunch is does UK want some sort of trade deal and pay membership fees or simply get out and trade on WTO rules.
I'm afraid current government and fecked up debate or lack of in Parliament leads to stalemate and rudderless leadership. So yes UK will leave more by mishap without any control and let business take care of them selves any way shape they can.
That will be the green light for UK business to leave UK and locate in EU borders.
20bn currently offered covers the transition period based on current agreements. So EU should accept that according Brexiters and say here is the free trade deal for you. Some Brexsitters must believe in lala land.
As it stands Norwegian model is about the best offer on the table for UK. Which was also Farage's pov before the blabber mouth got the shock of his life.
I strongly suspect Labour will lean towards such a deal them selves. :whistling
However, Libdems still have the best option to put it to a vote in Parliament or another referendum and this alternative is indeed gaining traction in Westminster.
Wot a pile of utter tosh.
For starters, not everything about Brexit is economic.
The UK is the 5th largest economy, so of course we will demand a suitable deal.
No deal is also fine. It won't take long for the rest of Europe to come with the begging bowl, once they see the hardship it will cause in other European countries.
Then we have the issue of the UK doing very nicely and the rest of the EU exporting their unemployment problem to the UK.
As a direct consequence of this, the other member countries go backwards as their highly skilled desert their homeland in order to profit from the UK economy. Another direct consequence is that the UK cannot keep up with service provision because it cannot plan for ever increasing numbers using those services.
Another direct consequence is the housing stock, which is either unaffordable, or insufficient in number to house all these interlopers, which in turn affected the life chances of the indigenous population.
Another direct consequence is the number of unskilled economic migrants who have kept down the wages of the lower paid for decades. The real trouble started though when this mass pool of cheap labour started to affect the middle classes, skilled workers etc. That is why Brexit happened. The UK reached the tipping point where the majority of people said enough is enough.
And finally, yes we are entitled to our share of the assets. So you just watch what happens when / if a no deal is announced. The next moves will be through the courts to recover the assets. The fact that no one is talking about this presently is because the UK is trying to get the EU to see sense and to afford them the opportunity to continue trade without the need to play hard ball.
If the EU continues with the "hard ball" rhetoric, then don't be surprised if the UK walks away, ups the anti, and puts the boot in. In this scenario, the EU project will be finished for good.
Just a reminder again. Lib Dem revival ain't gonna happen. Last election saw vote share go down not up. There is no stopping Brexit, there is no public support to reverse Brexit, just a pile of obstruction and wishful thinking from those who think they know better than the majority.
