Posted: Oct 11, 2018 11:37 am
GrahamH wrote:Teague wrote:GrahamH wrote:Barnier is saying a deal could be agreed by next Wednesday, but nothing seems to have changed. It's the same irreconcilable red lines that don't fit together. May can't agree to stay in the Customs Union and all other options are no-go.
I see no mention of no hard border out of the CU there.
What have I missed?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ys-barnier
From that article;The prime minister’s plan for a common rulebook on goods and a customs arrangement that meant the UK could avoid border checks, while allowing the country to sign its own bespoke trade deals, would give British companies “a huge competitive edge” and be “counter to our very foundations”, Barnier said.
Yes, let's have a UK with 17% corporation tax alongside loopholes and we'll raise taxes on the people to cover those costs then we can keep our financial power, trade with the rest of europe but offer the best taxation for corporations and the British people can pay for it all.
But that's not new, it's Checkers, which can't be what Barnier has in mind when he says a deal could be cone next week.
Didn't you read the article?
I'm pulling out the idiot deal the May wants to try and do that Barnier will refuse because it's as stupid as I just pointed out, above. I was making a sarcastic prediction I suppose - it wasn't that serious though part of me thinks it might actually be more accurate than I think it is.
So that's out the window and what's in is a deal where we're in the CU and can't make a deal with the US or China.
A really good deal would be the following btw
We decide who comes into the country
we have the power of veto in the UE
We have access to the biggest market in the world.
We have frictionless borders for travel
We make our own laws
That's the deal we already have btw.