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Osboro said:
Given the hassle, if you where the EU, would you have us back?
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No.

The deal they have struck gives them what they wanted on goods, ties us in to the Level Playing Field they wanted, while giving us nothing on services. If we want to diverge they can impose, at a stroke, many of the consequences No Deal would have had, including tariff's. They also managed to get things like fishing tied up in one deal instead of the piecemeal approach we wanted. In short, they have taken back control.

What needs to shake out now is the Financial Services. The EU will be and already have been aggressively pursuing as much business as it can. They are up against a behemoth in London, but the Euro is a huge currency and the EU the worlds biggest (or probably now we have left 2nd biggest) market. Sometimes legislative decisions/mistakes have significant long term repercussions. Wall Street used to be the leading financial centre in the world, but a combination of domestic US regulatory tightening decisions (some post the great crash, some in the Kennedy administration) and UK (big bang) regulatory loosening decisions, led to London becoming the greatest once more. History and location also played a part with London, but hey, Amsterdam and Paris used to be the worlds financial centres, but as both countries lost their global status that changed.

Domestically there are things we can look at anyway. Brexit isn't only downsides, so we might as well tackle what we can, especially on farming. It's not a bad thing to re-balance the economy somewhat, though it is obviously not as optimum a way for us to structure as a whole compared to how we did things when there were far less Trade Barriers as we had as a full EU member.
 
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We need to spend a few years alone in our sh1tty bedsit and moping into our beer before we are union material once more.
 
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