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If you voted for BrexiDid you think it was a state of pure and perfect national independence, or did you think that given how connected the UK is to the EU, economically, diplomatically, regarding security, it might be a bit misleading and a compromise?
Is Brexit an absolute state of putative grace, or a place on a spectrum, somewhere between Switzerland and Norway, which are semi-independent, and North Korea, which is totally independent?
Because your answer will help you determine whether or not you think Boris Johnson is being reasonable in rejecting the EU stipulation that the UK It should not weaken its environmental, labor and state aid standards (among other things) in exchange for not paying any tariffs or being subject to quantitative restrictions when trading with the world’s largest market.
In essence, the EU wants its companies to be able to sue in British courts if the UK weakens its adherence to those standards in a way that gives UK companies an unfair competitive advantage.
Boris johnson says it’s outrageous.
And, mind you, he is outraged despite the fact that the EU is not doing what many Brexiters feared, and what it started out doing, which was to insist on a role for the European Court of Justice in settling such disputes. .
Johnson’s view is that even if it does not intend to weaken the UK environment and labor standards, or to unfairly subsidize exporters, no ‘independent sovereign’ country can have the ability to pass circumscribed laws or rules by an outside power, even if that power is only asking the UK to do what it would choose to do of its own free will.
A senior Tory sees him as the equivalent of Life of Brian’s Stan, a member of the Judean Popular Front, who insisted that the sect should pass a motion recognizing their right to have babies, although there were obvious practical reasons why it would not. . have one (it was a man).
While members of the Ultra Brexiter European Research Group see Johnson, at least for now, as the guardian and protector of the true flame of Brexit.
To be clear, any Brexit deal Boris Johnson was able to work out with the EU would go through the Commons, because Labor will definitely not vote against.
Unlike the ERG and apparently Johnson himself, Labor is terrified of the economic, social and geopolitical consequences of exiting the EU acrimoniously without a deal.
But Johnson has apparently decided that no post-Brexit free trade deal is worth it if it isn’t backed by the majority of conservative members of the European Research Group, perhaps because without his toppling Theresa May and her backing, he wouldn’t. . be at work today.
What I don’t know is if he understands the great importance of staying in that position.
Because if you continue to pressure the EU to reach an agreement that will win universal applause from the European Research Group MPs, the UK leaving the transition a second after midnight December 31 without a deal.
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