[LuLuDrops]

So y'all could get bossed around still, but now with less benefits?...

[skankle]

Originally posted by LuLuDrops

So y'all could get bossed around still, but now with less benefits?...

We'd still get bossed around with certain things but regain control over others- the EFTA site tells me we still have to follow EU policy on:

" ...the four freedoms, i.e. the free movement of goods, services, persons and capital, as well as competition and state aid rules, but also the following horizontal policies: consumer protection, company law, environment, social policy, statistics. In addition, the EEA Agreement provides for cooperation in several flanking policies such as research and technological development, education, training and youth, employment, tourism, culture, civil protection, enterprise, entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized enterprises." Also stuff about equality too (Not sure what the last bit on cooperation means though?)

But we don't have to follow:

"common agriculture and fisheries policies (although the EEA Agreement contains provisions on trade in agricultural and fish products); customs union; common trade policy; common foreign and security policy; justice and home affairs (the EEA EFTA States are however part of the Schengen area); direct and indirect taxation; or economic and monetary union"

So we regain control in a lot of important areas. It's kind of a halfway house between leave and remain, but it's probably not going to make the majority of supporters of either Leave or Remain happy.

[americanshameless]

I'm all for it.

[geo]

Wait would joining the EEA mean we have to join Schengen or would we retain our opt-out? If we'd have to join we can take that option off the table straight away.

I thought it would be a good stepping stone, because we retain access to the EU single market while also being able to negotiate our own trade deals elsewhere. We're probably not going to be able to negotiate enough trade deals in just two years after we trigger Article 50. So it would buy us some time, also to negotiate a deal with the EU that doesn't involve being in the EEA when we're ready.

[Lukey]

Originally posted by Letemtalk

The Daily Mail seems to prefer Theresa?



Tory leadership candidate Andrea Leadsom has been branded a hypocrite after dramatically changing her stance on Brexit

Daily Mail clearly got their cheque cleared from Theresa

[Benjamin]

Guess Schengen membership depends on whether we'd have to apply for EEA membership or if we're purely giving up voting rights and changing nothing else by activating Article 50.

Any option of the UK having access to the single market is gonna come with a requirement for the free movement of people though, since with no free movement there's no single market. We really already had the best of both worlds with our opt outs and veto powers. We'll just have to see if the global trading potential balances out us ****ing over our closest allies and trading partners.

[geo]

Originally posted by Benjamin

Guess Schengen membership depends on whether we'd have to apply for EEA membership or if we're purely giving up voting rights and changing nothing else by activating Article 50.

Any option of the UK having access to the single market is gonna come with a requirement for the free movement of people though, since with no free movement there's no single market. We really already had the best of both worlds with our opt outs and veto powers. We'll just have to see if the global trading potential balances out us ****ing over our closest allies and trading partners.

Having access to the single market is different from being in the single market. That's a key thing some people are forgetting and is driving a lot of the confusion. I don't think any Leaver is saying we can be in the single market, just that we'll be in a strong position to access most of it.

[Benjamin]

Three property funds have stopped trading due to fears of a property crash, the pound has fallen to a new 31 year low and the Bank of England has eased bank regulations to try to encourage flow of credit. First time property funds have stopped trading since the financial crash.

Definitely not out of the woods yet.

[Cas]

This is getting messier by the day. Your main Leave representers does not want to deal the outcome of the vote. No one does actually.

[Cas]

Is the figure of £10 billion being lost due to Brexit real?