burneside
You can laugh as much as you like, but if the legal positon stated by the House of Lords EU Financial Affairs Sub-Committee is correct, then that is what it is. You seem to be having difficulty getting your head around the fact that if we leave without a deal then at 11 pm on March 29 next year we become independent of the EU. Some people like to call it "hard Brexit", I just call it Brexit.
If we leave with no deal being agreed, after March 29th our relationship with the EU will the same as with any other non-EU country, furthermore we will not be obliged to pay them a penny: (The) House of Lords EU Financial Affairs Sub-Committee said in a report published today that “under international law the UK will not be legally obliged to contribute to the EU budget if an agreement is ...
In order to secure the deal, did Japan and Canada agree to pay the EU billions of Euros and allow free movement of people from EU countries?
Quoting an out-of-date doom-ridden article, written by someone who used to work at the European Commission, does your cause no good at all. It sounds like he comes from the Olly Robbins school of negotiating.
Breaking from Sky News: The European Commission has proposed that trucks from the UK will be "temporarily allowed" to carry goods into the EU until the end of 2019 under a 'no-deal' Brexit provided that the UK offers equivalent rights to the EU https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/1075360562933088256 You can stop the stockpiling, Lynne, by the end of 2019 another "temporary" fix ...
It would seem that some people just don't like democracy.
There's an awful lot of "could" and "may" in those predictions.
Of course the UK is a global trader, and if we ever get unshackled from the EU we will be an even bigger and better global trader, able to strike trade deals with whomever we please. It's interesting to note that the EU has recently signed a free trade agreement with Japan which will come into force sometime next year, but the Japanese will not be paying billions into Brussels, accepting free ...
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I was merely pointing out that, as ever, you cannot trust a word the BBC says.