Rockape wrote:It’s all speculation! I don’t know why anyone thinks a ‘leave’ campaigner would have achieved a better deal. When May put her Chequers plan forward she was dismissed out of hand and had to demand respect from the eu. It just would have been an impasse at an earlier stage rather than at the stage we are at now.
God knows how this will eventually work out, but it just seems to get worse every day with no light at the end of the tunnel!
That's not right at all because its not the same premise.
May went to get a Soft Brexit with Chequers, a Leave plan isn't asking for Soft Brexit, we would be arranging a Free trade deal with the EU completely outside of their jurisdiction, it would be a 50/50 agreement not one side dictating to the other.
They put tariffs on our goods, fine we put tariffs on theirs yet we buy huge amounts from them, not so much in reverse, we are the customer so we hold the keys in that situation.
No, the trade deal isn't the issue, its the regulations we uphold, Irish border, customs checks across the UK where as currently there isn't any and what effect that has on businesses, Gibraltar's relationship with the EU when they're out as well, things that would need solutions that Leave either doesn't have or hasn't said yet.
Putting them on the spot would be the only way to get this info out of them and either expose them or see if they have something worth a fk, the fact that they haven't been given an opportunity lets them off the hook essentially as they don't have to offer anything realistic only soundbites.