A LEAKED paper has hinted that all that No 10 will get, despite its continuing sense of absolute of entitlement to demand what it wants, is a Canada-style deal.
David Davis has already “warned” the EU not to put politics above prosperity in his continued bluster. He wants “a new framework”.
It is sad to watch him twist and turn in his semantics. It has not occurred to him that by activating Article 50 the UK has given up all benefits it had from within; we must accept the consequences which the EU will impose.
He cannot accept that his party was the spearhead for the referendum to settle its own internal political contradictions and it has backfired. Party politics before prosperity indeed.
The EU will not set up a “new framework” just to get No 10 out of a mess. The UK had a bespoke framework as a member. It had a veto, now its only veto is to walk away.
Why should the EU rejig itself to re-accommodate a former, at times petulant and condescending member?
Mr Davis accepts that his party and the Brexiters in Labour want to leave the single market and customs union. Out is out.
The final word in this Brexit debacle will always lie with the EU and the 27. The people of Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain. They will draw their own conclusions. Better together?
John Edgar,
4 Merrygreen Place, Stewarton.
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