Steven Toy
Accuphase newbie
Unfortunately there are another 25 pages missing from May's deal in Bojo's version. They are the regulatory alignment pages on employment law, consumer and environmental protections.
What is left is Canada minus minus which is barely better than no deal (apart from giving us another couple of years of normality during transition).
The UK won't get the same deal as Canada because we are too close not to be able to undermine the integrity of the single market with potentially lower standards in food safety, environmental standards and workers' rights.
Brexiteer economic thinking, for whatever reason, completely ignores the proximity argument regarding trade between nations despite the fact that it is backed up by data of trade flows between countries close to each other and those further away.
Rightly so, the EU won't allow us to undercut them as we are on their doorstep.
This leads me to an obvious question:
If the point of lowering standards is to give you a competitive advantage but that advantage is more than offset by tariffs, what is the point?
Is it purely out of gratuitous spite on the part of the Ultra Elites towards ordinary folk?
Do they really hate us that much?
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