Government likely to be defeated on the Customs union amendment

[darmstadt]

The UK holds all the cards:



Except, not that anyone cares, but the EU's entire budget, Europol, CAP, all staff, regional development funds in 28 countries, everything, is limited to 1% of EU GDP by law.

The entire EU budget is not even 1/7th the size of the UK government's national budget.

The UK contributes less than 1% of it's national budget to European projects.

No one, other than shrill tabloid weirdos on one island off the coast of Europe, thinks the 0.1% of EU GDP that the UK contributes towards the EU is irreplaceable and makes the EU "Bankrupt".

[AtW]

If the UK goes into a customs agreement they probably will continue to fund them.

The UK will become like Switzerland where politicians spend most of their time copying and pasting EU laws into their own.

Good, that will require 90% less politicians

[BlasterBates]

Jacob Rees-Mogg describes May's Customs Union plan as cretinous

Nice comment in the Independent today:

There must always be room in political life for the wilfully eccentric Jacob Rees-Mogg. But that room needs to be heavily padded.

Prominent Brexiteer threatens to remove his wig in the event the UK staying in the Customs Union

excellent