Re: Brexit talks end 1 day early??
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Hello Takahashi,
there are three voices in me and so three different opinions:
1. a very selfish personal opinion: I don't eat animals therefore I would accept 1000K job losses because I find it more important to regrow the worldwide fish population (and fish contains too much plastics anyway).
2. a less selfish but still personal opinion: 1000k job losses are way too much and have to be reduced.
3. a non selfish but personal opinion: this cannot be judged isolated from surrounding facts. Of course job losses are bad but if avoiding those means to make an unacceptable compromise, e. g. giving the UK free CU + SM access, then I think the EU has to swollow that pill and accept the job losses.
Best regards from Germany
Thank you. You say the EU will have to swallow the pill and accept job losses but will the Spanish orange grower, the German motor worker or the Dutch fisherman be willing to accept that compromise so easily. I don't think so and it may very well have consequences for European politicians the next time elections are held. Afterall, why would a person whose job has just disappeared vote for a politician who he blames for being out of work? Would you?
I know it will be similar here but there is a subtle difference in the event of no deal. Those who blame our politicians for letting "no deal" happen will be countered by those who will say our Government have delivered on the referendum result and they were prepared to do a deal with the EU but they were too intransigent and wanted to make it so hard for the UK that no other country will vote to leave.
So the two negotiationg teams have, obviously,* different goals and different electorates to please but I think our team has the easier task. Also, the EU are really scared about having an economic competitor on their doorstep. The only way for them to maybe influence this is by striking a deal - no deal will mean the leash is off and they will be powerless to do anything about it. That's the nightmare the EU want to avoid at all costs.