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EU unhappy with UK have cake and eat it proposal
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Originally posted by northernladyuk View PostAbsolutely. No freedom of movement of labour means no EEA type agreement. So CETA it is. Which means a hard border in Ireland. If Ireland is to ratify that, the UK had better get a move on at explaining the new plan.
I don't think that removal of FoM of labour necessarily means a hard border; the border applies to goods (which will mean "regulatory alignment" of tariffs, standards, country of origin, etc - SM+CU in all but name) and people, which means...
FoM of people (regardless of whether for labour or not) means no border, and could be achieved by pushing the "labour" requirement onto businesses by, say, having them check eligibility at the time of employment. No border, but imposing additional requirements on business to check eligibility to work in the UK (including NI).
But what part of this is regulatory, and requires alignment with the EU? For example, if regulatory alignment between the RoI and NI means that RoI nationals can work across the border, then by extension this means that RoI citizens must be able to work in rUK.
And if this applies to RoI nationals, then by extension that means that all EU nationals should be able to work in NI and therefore rUK?
Is this "regulatory"? Or are there some other semantics that they are using that somehow includes FoM of labour between RoI and NI for RoI and NI nationals, but excludes other EU nationals (that are perfectly entitled to live and work in RoI)?
Or, more likely, is May saying one thing to Varadkar / the DUP / Barnier, and another to the Ultras in the Tory party to try to play both along and kick the can further down the road? It's only taken 24 hours for it to start to unravel anyway:
Cabinet Brexit truce threatens to unravel as Leavers 'told concession to EU meaningless'Comment
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Originally posted by BlasterBates View PostIndeed, it will be a Swiss style deal. This was obvious from even before the referendum was called. It's all in Theresa May's Lancaster house speech, confirmed in her speech in Florence and her Commons statement where she explicitly stated the agreement will go further than CETA, much further and it won't be EEA. She has consistently also always avoided any reference to Switzerland, which means she hasn't excluded it.
CETA including services:
Britain should sign a Canada-style trade deal with the European Union after Brexit, David Davis says
Within a year, apparently, even though the Canada deal took 7 years.Comment
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Switzerland has open borders with the rest of the EU, so anyone in the EU can wander over as they wish, it doesn't do them any good because they won't be able to rent any apartment or get a job unless they have paperwork.I'm alright JackComment
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Originally posted by northernladyuk View PostAbsolutely. No freedom of movement of labour means no EEA type agreement. So CETA it is. Which means a hard border in Ireland. If Ireland is to ratify that, the UK had better get a move on at explaining the new plan.Comment
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Originally posted by BlasterBates View PostIndeed, it will be a Swiss style deal. This was obvious from even before the referendum was called. It's all in Theresa May's Lancaster house speech, confirmed in her speech in Florence and her Commons statement where she explicitly stated the agreement will go further than CETA, much further and it won't be EEA. She has consistently also always avoided any reference to Switzerland, which means she hasn't excluded it.
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The cake the UK will get will be a black forest gateau. Can we not have a UK cake?
Or even a Swiss roll.....Comment
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostThe cake the UK will get will be a black forest gateau. Can we not have a UK cake?
Or even a Swiss roll.....Comment
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Originally posted by jamesbrown View PostI’m equal opportunities on cake.Comment
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostNot as equal as MF. He eats it all.Comment
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