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3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - David Lidington: My fr... · 8 replies · +1 points

Gauke is not a conservative. Nor is Lidington.

They are both LibDems using the camouflage of the conservative party.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - There's no good reason... · 0 replies · +1 points

Agree 100% Hay.

Every decision Theresa Philby made was wrong-headed. She had simply appalling judgment.

Her whole career was one of avoiding tough decisions and covering her own back.

In fact I don't believe she is even a conservative, but is more at home with the LibDems.

The ultimate snake in climbing the greasy pole.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The prospect seems rem... · 0 replies · +1 points

'Faulty modelling'

Now where have I heard THAT before ???

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The prospect seems rem... · 0 replies · +1 points

'National Government On Its Way?'

That really is the most ridiculous thing I have read.

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The Prime Minister's t... · 0 replies · +1 points

Brexit is simple and always has been.

What nobody expected was to have a duplicitous PM who finally exposed herself as a determined deliverer of BRINO at Chequers. Indeed the jig was up when she overruled Davis and permitted the negotiations to be sequential before they even began.

As soon as she was PM the first thing she SHOULD have done was prepare for WTO arrangements. These would have been in place by now. As it is, the most negative forecast is for SIX months of hassles at Dover and other ports. Big Deal. That is totally manageable.

WTO was an OK solution. A negotiated agreement as FTA like Canada +++ was even better. But rejected by May and Robbins as it saw us genuinely leaving the EU.

Leaving the EU was never going to be complicated but it just involved a lot of hard work.

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Our survey. More than ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I agree Kentish Man and also with Auntie Eadie.

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Amber Rudd & Andrew Pe... · 0 replies · +1 points

Yes, to diverge from EU rules and regulations so that the 90% of UK business which is conducted OUTSIDE the EU can become competitive. We don't expect to export to the EU when the rules and regulations don't match, of course not. But for 90% of business which is done outside the EU this is a yoke around our neck.

Companies which trade with the EU AND outside the EU can elect which regulations they manufacture under so that they comply with EU regulations for the EU but not for markets outside the EU. At the moment we cannot diverge despite the fact that different regulations exist OUTSIDE the EU.

The trade deal between the EU and Korea - the most complicated until Canada - took three years to negotiate.

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Amber Rudd & Andrew Pe... · 0 replies · +1 points

This is what was contained in David Davis' White Paper, a form of regulatory alignment or 'Mutual Recognition' of standards.

However this effort was stillborn because quite incredibly, the Minister for DexEU had it snatched away from him and was sidelined by the PM and the job handed over to Robbins who took a month (I think?) to come up with the Chequers plan (which is not Brexit, but BRINO).

What you arrive at then is effectively remaining in the EU and under the ECJ, so, yes, I suppsose it's another form of EEA.

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Amber Rudd & Andrew Pe... · 0 replies · +1 points

Totally agree !

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Amber Rudd & Andrew Pe... · 0 replies · +1 points

Agreement in Pharma nuclear equipment and electronics - already exists between UK and EU.

Noted on freezing the regime, I tend to agree.

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