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Dec 24, 2020 15:50:10 GMT
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Post by Someone in a tree on Dec 24, 2020 15:50:10 GMT
The proof of the 'oven ready' pudding is in the tasting - a deal agreed but I suspect it will takes decades before we know if its a tragedy, damp squib or a triumph*
I just hope now the country can start to heal and move forward.
*Triumph Herald
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Dec 24, 2020 16:42:22 GMT
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Post by Jan on Dec 24, 2020 16:42:22 GMT
Comical to see people on both sides commenting on the deal without having seen what’s in it, just trotting out their standard default biased views.
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Dec 24, 2020 17:08:36 GMT
Post by NeilVHughes on Dec 24, 2020 17:08:36 GMT
The only thing the deal gives us is tariff free movement of goods and is all that it could be once we chose to leave the Single Market and Customs Union and benefits the EU more than the U.K.
EU will transition to trade within the Single Market to remove the administratively heavy imports from the U.K. whilst for the foreseeable future we will have to continue to import from the EU due to proximity which will always be quickest which is always the business priority as any increase in lead time is equivalent to an increase in inventory and therefore ‘dead money’
Anything else of which fishing is the prime example is just lipstick on a pig.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Dec 24, 2020 17:27:59 GMT
Comical to see people on both sides commenting on the deal without having seen what’s in it, just trotting out their standard default biased views. I thought that when I read Laura Keunsberg's piece on the BBC |
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Dec 24, 2020 18:30:27 GMT
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Post by vdcni on Dec 24, 2020 18:30:27 GMT
Well the EU have released a pretty good summary of what the deal entails and how it differs from membership so it's not entirely unknowable.
Most comment I have seen has been that it is better than no deal and worse than EU membership but we knew that was always going to be the end result so it's completely possible to comment on that basis.
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Dec 24, 2020 19:47:18 GMT
Post by Phantom of London on Dec 24, 2020 19:47:18 GMT
I don’t know why the EU agreed to such an absurd deal. They should’ve dug their heals in.
It gives the green light to other European nations to leave the union now.
We now have to learn to live outside the union and hope a different government can align ourselves and heal wounds with Europe.
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Post by londonpostie on Dec 24, 2020 19:52:46 GMT
So at least two vaccines and a trade deal.
Get through this gruesome lockdown, get eveyone who needs it jabbed, and it might feel like a corner is in sight ...
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