Excellent article, t&e - not by a journalist but by a professor of European Constitutional and Economic Law, in other words someone who understands the issues, rather than some ideology-driven Telegraph journalist.
This paragraph echoes what those of us here who get it have been saying all along. And the Outies still can't tell us how we'll even get to this.
Nor are Brexit negotiations themselves guaranteed to end well. They threaten to be long and difficult. The UK cannot possibly emerge from them in a situation equivalent to or better than membership. At best, it will end up like Norway, with access to the Single European Market retained, but Britain’s influence destroyed, a shocking, if economically survivable outcome for a state previously one of the EU’s three most influential regarding single market laws.
Ambo, I'm pleased your son isn't suffering yet, and (depending on where he lives) there may be enough of the cash-in-the-bank pensioners who voted for this disaster to keep him going for a while. But don't use him to convince yourself everything's fine. Do you really think we can maintain our position in the world on painting and decorating? The money to pay for services like that has to come from the wider - and ultimately the international - economy. And, as the Irish Times article points out, it's likely to take us ten years to negotiate our way back to somewhere well short of where we are today. Of course we'll have Albania, Belarus and New Zealand to trade with till then.
Please show me which bit of the Outie pie is anywhere below the stratosphere.
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