The Brexit Mobius strip

In Brexitlalaland, we go round and round, repeating the same old lies, coming up with the already proven solutions to problems of our own making that Johnson and Frost then blame on the EU.

Chris Grey is one of the best writers on Brexit there is, and he ponder this too.

THe UK refuses to compromise, and instead calls oEU to, mainly because of lack of preparation or the acceptance of the consequences of the very Brexit they both decided upon and negotiated.

The main problem is Brexiteers failure to understand that there is a difference between a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and a (the) Single Market. Agreeing to the former does not give the benefits of the latter.

There is no FTA avaible that would be better than being a member of the SM.

Period.

Being a member of the SM means accepting the rules and standards across borders, no divergance and the four freedoms. If you can't accept those, then there is no membership.

The UK rejected the SM and demanded to be treated as a third country, but in obtaining that, now bitches about what being a third country means. The UK has left, but wants to be treated as if it was still a a member.

We are now at the stage where the negotiations weren't done right,a nd reopening them would fix the issues seen with Brexit, and that the border in the Irish Sea can be fixed with technology.

Chris Grey writes:

"The vain imagination is that if they go once more around the Mobius strip they will end up at the promised land. They won’t, of course, but the process of trying will create yet more instability and yet more deterioration of the UK’s reputation. That will not deter Frost, though, because built in to the ‘hardball’ theory is that you have to live through some ‘turbulence’ in order to achieve victory. Gudgin, meanwhile, recognizes that this might ultimately end in a trade war, but is not concerned as “the imbalance in trade” is to the UK’s advantage. In other words, they are now round to that part of the loop where ‘the EU need us more than we need them’ and, by implication, all the stuff about German car makers."

Round and round we go.

In lieu of actual policies, the Government only has conflict and concocted wars, either over sausages or cultural issues. With the EU or with the other non-Brexity half of the population. Rather than uniting the country, the us and them pushes us further and futher apart.

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