Re: Remainers March in London
Originally Posted by
AnnieS
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it doesn't matter what people voted. Because when people voted they did not consider the Irish border problem. (someone tell me I'm wrong - please!) I don't know of anyone who saw that as a major stumbling block.
The Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, has previously indicated that he would like to
see the UK adopting a similar model to that of Norway. In a speech at Bloomberg in September
2016, Mr Corbyn stated that his party were:
Looking very closely at the Norwegian model […] not using their model, it’s learning
the lessons from Norway. Maybe we can learn a lot from Norway.49
Mark Stanford, a Teaching Fellow at King’s College London, has argued that the Norway model
was the UK’s “best hope for maintaining a United Kingdom”, with continued free movement of
people ensuring that the Common Travel Area (CTA) could continue to exist without border
checkpoints.(in the Telegraph june 2016)
The CTA is an open borders travel zone between Ireland and the United
Kingdom—including the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man—and has been in operation since
the 1920s.51 Mr Stanford also warned that now that the UK has voted to leave the EU, the Government had the “chance to articulate a new vision for Britain’s role in the world”,
however, “the EEA must be central to this vision”