“UK would leave without a deal rather than be bullied into a one-sided agreement”

Tuesday, October 2nd 2018 - 08:35 UTC

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Dominic Raab, the British minister responsible for Brexit has told the EU to “get real” and reach a deal with the UK, and said EU chiefs had disrespected Theresa May with “jibes” at a recent summit. Raab underlined that the UK would leave without a deal rather than be “bullied” into signing a “one-sided” arrangement. Read full article

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Don Alberto
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who likened the EU to a Soviet-era prison, must be suffering from rabies, same as Brexit minister Dominic Raab, who told the EU to “get real” and reach a deal with the UK, and said EU chiefs had disrespected Theresa May, as the latter's name indicates.

May continues with her “Chequers” plan, although the last two years the remaining 27 EU countries has underscored that No Free Market without a free movement of workers, which is a fundamental principle of the Treaty enshrined in Article 45.

The UK should leave without a solution to the North Ireland/Eire border and negociate free trade treaties with eg. Zimbabwe and Zambia.
Oct 02nd, 2018 - 04:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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chronic
EU is the dead man walking.
Oct 05th, 2018 - 02:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Conqueror
@Don Alberto. Funny comment. I always fiind it amusing when some rabid europhile rabbits about the “fundamental principle” of free movement of people. Started with “workers” and then extended to “citizens”. Amusing for a couple of reasons. Didn't appear until 2004. The “experiment” began in 1958. So “fundamental” that it took 46 years to get around to it. And the other amusing reasonn is that it supposedly applies to “citizens”. And yet citizenship is the status of a person recognized under the custom or law as being a legal member of a sovereign state or belonging to a nation. And yet the eu is neither a sovereign state nor a nation.

It's a joke. Which is one of the many reasons that we're Leaving. I, personally, am much in favour of standing well back to watch the eu choke on its own hubris.
Oct 05th, 2018 - 05:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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DemonTree
@Conqueror
Please could you check your facts before you write, it's tiresome always having to correct your misconceptions.

Freedom of movement for workers is so fundamental that it was included in the original Treaty of Rome that created the EEC in 1957. It was extended to families of workers when the EU was created in 1992.

2004 is significant because that is when the new EU members from the former Soviet block gained free movement rights, and the number of immigrants increased dramatically as a result, but no laws changed on that date.

And citizenship is no mystery; free movement applies to citizens of EU and EEA member countries, which are all sovereign states.

It's a pity that people didn't bother to inform themselves of such easily available facts before voting on this important decision.
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