Referendum....Terms of Brexit

[GoodOlBoy]

Dave Hedgehog said:

Access to free movement of people with concessions - will not happen, its not a bolt on to the trade zone its part of the core principal, i.e. a zone where goods, companies and people can move freely about at will, its an all or nothing deal

Edited by Dave Hedgehog on Wednesday 29th June 09:16

Your right of course but freedom of movement and freedom of employment could easily be separated, modified or excluded. I would doubt that many countries would like to make it difficult for British holidaymakers to travel to EU destinations for example.

Is it reasonable for the EU to insist that any European country outside the EU be made to accept EU regulation of it's labour market and accept a large percentage of EU laws and directives in order to enter a trade agreement ?

The inflexible EU stance on trade with it's smaller European neighbours is more about forcing the Federalist agenda on them and making it difficult for them to remain outside the EU than any noble cause in my opinion.

I assume the trade deal between the EU and Canada doesn't include EU regulation of the Canadian Labour market, nor Canada having to accept a large percentage of EU laws and directives. Why should it be different for any other country outside the EU ?

[craig7l]

FredClogs said:

jjlynn27 said:

Dave Hedgehog said:

Return of UK border positioning - wont happen if we go into single market, would be disastrous for Ireland

Can someone, brushstrokes, explain this part. Google failed me.

I think the concern is that we currently "effectively" have our main UK border controls in Calais, we pay for it but it makes sense for us to have them there, this would end.

We also have a land border to the EU and that is in Northern Ireland, the people there want that border to be transparent and open but it would also present an effective open border to EU citizens (or anyone else who found themselves in Ireland) who want to enter the UK, if that were the case, the implication as that people would make there way from the EU to Ireland and then the Irish would have to stop them or deal with them if they failed to enter the UK.

At least I think that is what he's alluding to.

Pretty much so.....
In short land lock England/Scotland and Wales in accordance with any concessions to movemeant of people with relaxed border to NI.
Win win