• Theresa May rules out Commons Brexit vote
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[QUOTE=wraithcat;51216015]The thing is, the deal only happens after the articles are invoked. Prior to that, there's no deal on the table. After the articles are invoked, you can't actually weasel out. There is either a deal exit or a nondeal exit.[/QUOTE] Technically nothing stops us opening separate negotiations with individual countries to secure trade deals independent of the EU negotiations.
[QUOTE=ViralHatred;51216186]Technically nothing stops us opening separate negotiations with individual countries to secure trade deals independent of the EU negotiations.[/QUOTE] IIRC you can't do individual trade deals with EU members, you have to deal with the whole bloc.
[QUOTE=_Axel;51216347]IIRC you can't do individual trade deals with EU members, you have to deal with the whole bloc.[/QUOTE] Remember that many of the rules and regulations of the EU don't apply to us for example; we're exempt from joining the Euro and don't have to- and part of that economic and monetary union that we opted out from actually gives us a looser obligation with EU economic and monetary policies and unlike other EU memberstates we cannot be penalised under EU rules - and this is actually even stated by our own government. Also as the UK has its own special snowflake position we are allowed to compete with other EU members and promote our own overseas business, we're allowed to accept investment from non-eu countries without EU regulation too. All we're really prevented from doing is changing the external tariff that we levy on goods coming into the European Union which is essentially what most trade deals are. There's nothing to stop us striking up deals to come into effect when we cease to be a member of the European Union, and nothing to stop us proposing deals now (that all 28 members of the EU would have to agree to admittedly.)
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