Please join in and sign.....a-s-a-p!!........thanks......
-
-
Good idea! -
Signed but. no disrespect, but if what the French barn operator is right about only a few hours left to decide...Comment
-
I think it highly likely that if the probable 'no deal' is delivered, the EU will leave the door ajar.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostComment
-
I'm just at the endpoint of try anything and everything...genuninely worried about costs and supplies.........but I still think BJ wants to grandstand a last minute deal (which the tory press will then triumphalise...)....
As Bryn implies, such a deal could be done next year, but of course from a far weaker position, probably under much greater pressure from the electorate here...Comment
-
Signed - hoping against hope?My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)Comment
-
Nothing to lose by signing - but no more hopeful of anything positive coming from it than I was with the numerous petitions (also signed) set up in March 2019...Comment
-
I wonder just how much weaker it would be than now? Once we're out, we don't have to remain on WTO terms - we can negotiate, theoretically, an FTA. Of some sortOriginally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
But it would be back to square one in terms of the time it would take.
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
-
The "remaining" hurdles seem specious to me. Fishing - that doesn't cut it - and should be covered by international agreements on the EEZs anyway. As for the "level playing field" that's also complete nonsense. Of course any country should seek to gain an advantage - that's what modern economics is about anyway. It doesn't really matter as long as there's a quid pro quo in different sectors.
I don't want to revisit Brexit, though I have been told by a friend that after January I will no longer have the right to go to EU countries for more than 180 days a year. Most of us don't, nor want to, but the selfish views of those who think we can do better without reasonable access to some of the good things possible by EU membership - because they don't need them themselves - just astound me.Comment
-
-
Well as I've suggested before, a little bit of non-literal face-saving could involve the EU side putting it to the British side that, if they (the British) allow the French and other EU-based fishing industries to fish sustainably alongside their British confrères in British waters, the EU will, with nod and wink, accept such an agreement as founded on British-exercised control.Originally posted by Dave2002 View PostComment
-
Precisely.
Comment
-
And as Dave2002 rightly points out, the only then outstanding obstacle to a deal is the "level playing field".Originally posted by DracoM View PostPrecisely.Comment
-
I think at the end of the Cod Wars Iceland issued fixed-term licences to allow British ships to fish in Icelandic waters, so I presume they were able to regulate how many licences were issued and prevent overfishing which was also a problem then.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
And I'm sure the EU could rely on the Brits to keep to their undertakings if they regulated the licences, and not unilaterally change the rules ….It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
-
Indeed, why ever not? Only pigheadedness on either side can stand in the way.Originally posted by french frank View PostComment
Comment