There are so many negative impacts of Brexit, so many bad wrinkles, I am continually astonished that a country voted to do this to themselves.
> But one aspect seems to have eluded many observers … if new trade agreements conflict with those standards, the EU can unilaterally suspend its free trade on those goods and services.
I don’t know Mr *Bob Hancké, Associate Professor of Political Economy at the London School of Economics*, I’m pretty sure everyone who wasn’t a brexiteer was pointing this out. Especially as getting blue in the face explaining why borders exist.
From a pure practical point of view, 27 countries of Europe aren’t going to hammer out standards and then redo the same discussion all over again in some permanent EU-UK forum.
All of this ignores the fact that UK standards have always been higher than EU standards.
With it’s special privileges the UK had the best of both worlds in the EU. It is only logical that it should have the worst of both worlds outside the EU.
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There are so many negative impacts of Brexit, so many bad wrinkles, I am continually astonished that a country voted to do this to themselves.
> But one aspect seems to have eluded many observers … if new trade agreements conflict with those standards, the EU can unilaterally suspend its free trade on those goods and services.
I don’t know Mr *Bob Hancké, Associate Professor of Political Economy at the London School of Economics*, I’m pretty sure everyone who wasn’t a brexiteer was pointing this out. Especially as getting blue in the face explaining why borders exist.
From a pure practical point of view, 27 countries of Europe aren’t going to hammer out standards and then redo the same discussion all over again in some permanent EU-UK forum.
All of this ignores the fact that UK standards have always been higher than EU standards.
With it’s special privileges the UK had the best of both worlds in the EU. It is only logical that it should have the worst of both worlds outside the EU.