The E U S S R Just Don't Get It Do They?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51650961
The party's over we are prepared to walk away, stop trying to intimidate us, it never has nor never will work.

[Jackdaw33]

Jim's enduring love affair with the EU is indeed touching.

[jim360]

I do love touching people.

[naomi24]

And now (or was it always?) unrequited, Jackdaw. How sad.

[cassa333]

So proximity means we should be uncompetitive and tied to another’s laws etc does it?

That’s a new one on me. And one that should be stuffed in the end of a cannon and shot out into the sea at Folkestone.

[naomi24]

//And one that should be stuffed in the end of a cannon//

I can think of somewhere more appropriate to stuff it ....

[Jackdaw33]

Naomi, that's not very ladylike!!!

[jim360]

// So proximity means we should be uncompetitive and tied to another’s laws etc does it?//

That's not even close to what I was saying, but never mind.

[naomi24]

Haaaaaaaaa! Jackdaw, my apologies. Exasperation occasionally afflicts even the best of us .. what what! ;o)

[albaqwerty]

Surely if a country wants to sell goods to another country, then the exporter must comply with the required standards of that country irrespective of distance?

[Canary42]

I thought Boris's oven-ready Brexit was done by 31st January.

Don't tell me he's been telling porkies again.

[albaqwerty]

Canary, it's been cooked but the EU are now picking over the bones to see what is good for making soup and what is going to land-fill.

[naomi24]

Ask someone to put the cover over your cage, Canary. You need to sleep.

[Togo]

I don't know whether you have read the document grandly entitled “The Future Relationship with the EU – The UK’s Approach to Negotiations”. I would not be surprised......it has been deliberately ignored by the main stream sources and hardly reported at all apart from the pro Britain sites that do exist if you look for them and don't use google as your search source. Two very interesting paragraphs hidden a way in it. I have c&ped them both and put up a link to the document. Do you think that it is all being set up for Mrs Merkhel to mediate when she takes on the premiership role in the "it's my turn now" dance?

“Timing and pace of the negotiations

The Government will not extend the transition period provided for in the Withdrawal Agreement. This leaves a limited, but sufficient, time for the UK and the EU to reach agreement. The UK is committed to working in a speedy and determined fashion to do so, with an appropriate number of negotiating rounds between now and the June high-level meeting foreseen in the Political Declaration. The Government would hope that, by that point, the broad outline of an agreement would be clear and be capable of being rapidly finalised by September. If that does not seem to be the case at the June meeting, the Government will need to decide whether the UK’s attention should move away from negotiations and focus solely on continuing domestic preparations to exit the transition period in an orderly fashion. In so doing, it will be necessary to take into account in particular whether good progress has been possible on the least controversial areas of the negotiations, and whether the various autonomous processes on both sides are proceeding on a technical basis according to agreed deadlines.”

“Chapter 32: Managing the Agreement

The Agreement should include provisions for governance arrangements that are appropriate to a relationship of sovereign equals, drawn from existing Free Trade Agreements, such as those the EU has with Japan and Canada. These should be based on a Joint Committee to support the smooth functioning of the Agreement, and provide mechanisms for dialogue, and, if necessary, dispute resolution. The arrangements will reflect the regulatory and judicial autonomy of the UK and accordingly there will be no role for the Court of Justice of the European Union in the dispute resolution mechanism. This is consistent with previous Free Trade Agreements concluded by the EU.”

Note that very important statement of intent. ""there will be no role for the Court of Justice of the European Union in the dispute resolution mechanism."" GOOD.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/868874/The_Future_Relationship_with_the_EU.pdf

[Togo]

Worth a read through. :))

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