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#721 User is offline   cherdano 

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Posted 2017-October-12, 12:40

View PostfromageGB, on 2017-October-12, 06:21, said:

No, you have it completely wrong. We like the cultural influence, and we do not mind political influence, but we object, strongly, to political control.

This post would be more convincing under a different user name...
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#722 User is online   Cyberyeti 

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Posted 2017-October-12, 12:46

View Postcherdano, on 2017-October-12, 12:40, said:

This post would be more convincing under a different user name...


Why ? fromage is the definition of culture :)
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Posted 2017-October-13, 16:25

The EU has some problem with the Brexit.

A non member should not have better conditions than a member. The is such a non member: Norway.

Norway is not an EU-Member but it pays as if it was, accepts the EU regulations and allows EU citizens free access to work. For this it is granted access to the free market.
What Norway has given up as a non member is to be part of the EU decision making.

Britain's vote made it clear they don't want to pay , they don't want the EU regulations and they don't want EU citizens to come an work in Britain.
But they want free access to the common market.

There are about 60 Billion € that Britain had agreed on paying for future projects prior to the Brexit vote.
There are EU citizens in Britain and British citizens in other EU countries.

One would have expected that those who wanted the Brexit would have a plan or better a suggestion how to solve those issues.

A pessimistic EU would expect that a hard Brexit means no more money from GB, and lots of people coming home.
So they want that solved first.
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#724 User is offline   shyams 

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Posted 2017-October-14, 00:06

View PosthotShot, on 2017-October-13, 16:25, said:

Britain's vote made it clear they don't want to pay , they don't want the EU regulations and they don't want EU citizens to come an work in Britain.
But they want free access to the common market.

There are about 60 Billion € that Britain had agreed on paying for future projects prior to the Brexit vote.
There are EU citizens in Britain and British citizens in other EU countries.

One would have expected that those who wanted the Brexit would have a plan or better a suggestion how to solve those issues.

A pessimistic EU would expect that a hard Brexit means no more money from GB, and lots of people coming home.
So they want that solved first.


I suspect this might be the common perception of the situation in mainland EU. However, I feel some of it is not true.

A. ...they don't want to pay, they don't want the EU regulations & they don't want EU citizens to come an work in Britain. But they want free access to the common market.
The "don't want to pay" is not Govt policy (at least it wasn't until recently). Originally, the UK Govt seemed willing to pay in a reasonable price; for access to EU markets, and for previously committed EU projects.
The crucial issue is "how much?". The press quoted figures of EUR 120bn-220bn, allegedly "non-negotiable". The UK used to contribute approx EUR 16bn per year and UK institutions / regions got a variety of grants totalling EUR 6bn per year -- so in effect the UK is being asked to finance the next 12-22 years of net contributions as exit costs!

B. There are EU citizens in Britain and British citizens in other EU countries.
Again, not a problem in principle. As per my cursory study of the document on EU negotiating position
The EU wants for all EU citizens in the UK to get:
(a) Full settled rights -- No problem, this makes sense.
(b) To anyone coming over till the day of Brexit (29-Mar-19 or later if exit is delayed) -- Some may object but so far nothing weird about the request.
© And to any EU citizen who may have been resident in the past but no longer resides in the UK; to apply to resettle any time in the future. FYI, the law for non-EU nationals is: If a permanent residence visa holder leaves the country for two whole years, he/she automatically loses all rights given by the PR visa. While the principle behind EU's demand for resettlement is not totally unreasonable, it would have been sensible to permit UK the right to impose some limitations on what qualifies & what doesn't.
d) Also apply to spouses/partners, children and dependants regardless of when they arrive in future -- i.e. akin to saying "my Grandma was an EU citizen who lived in the UK between 2012-2018, so in the year 2030 I (a national of X) automatically have rights to live in the UK" -- Getting weird already.
(e) If there are any disputes, the final arbiter on whether some person can remain or not in the UK will be decided by the European Court of Justice & not the UK courts --- absolutely crazy!! This basically implies that UK courts are too easily influenced or not independent & so cannot be trusted to get the decisions right!
This is nothing short of haughty contempt and disdain of long-established British institutions.


I agree with your statement:
C. One would have expected that those who wanted the Brexit would have a plan or better a suggestion how to solve those issues.
It's evident that the UK is woefully under-prepared entering into these negotiations; and it is obvious to many that M. Barnier is more forceful and impressive in his press briefings.

I do want to add one small point: The strongly anti-EU Mr. Varoufakis once said on British TV "The UK will spend the next two years negotiating their right to negotiate". If I recall he said that EU will create so many hurdles and obstacles in the procedural matters that substantive matters will never come to the forefront of any negotiations.
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Posted 2017-October-14, 02:10

I agree with most of what shyams said above.

I think the UK is happy to pay what they committed to up to 2020, so we don't disrupt this spending round. The issue is things like Ukraine and pensions which go way into the future.

The issue with the ECJ is that there is a feeling that they want to effectively MAKE law rather than just interpret it with some perverse judgments.

Barnier seems unprepared to give an inch, so it's not presently a negociation.
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Posted 2018-November-16, 12:49

The chaos goes on.
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Posted 2018-December-20, 05:56

If this were happening to some other faraway nation, it would be hilarious. Sadly, it is our turn to be the laughing stock.

First the electorate made a mess, then the bureaucrats took over and made their money, now the politicians are creating a great big train-wreck out of the situation.
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Posted 2018-December-20, 06:57

View Postshyams, on 2018-December-20, 05:56, said:

First the electorate made a mess

First David Cameron made a mess by calling a referendum without considering the possibility that he might lose. The electorate are entitled to vote as they see fit.
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Posted 2018-December-20, 09:02

View PostStevenG, on 2018-December-20, 06:57, said:

First David Cameron made a mess by calling a referendum without considering the possibility that he might lose. The electorate are entitled to vote as they see fit.


No he called a referendum he couldn't lose, then ran the worst campaign in history (till Hillary and Theresa said "hold my beer")
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Posted 2018-December-23, 09:10

View PostCyberyeti, on 2018-December-20, 09:02, said:

No he called a referendum he couldn't lose, then ran the worst campaign in history (till Hillary and Theresa said "hold my beer")


Surely the last election was the worst campaign in history. "Vote for me, because I know that Brexit means Brexit." Unfortunately, Brexit to a remainer means "stay in at all costs". I'm beginning to think Corbyn would be a better choice, unless Screaming Lord Sutch reincarnates.
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Posted 2018-December-23, 13:12

View PostfromageGB, on 2018-December-23, 09:10, said:

Surely the last election was the worst campaign in history. "Vote for me, because I know that Brexit means Brexit." Unfortunately, Brexit to a remainer means "stay in at all costs". I'm beginning to think Corbyn would be a better choice, unless Screaming Lord Sutch reincarnates.


If you think Corbyn is the answer, you're asking the wrong question.
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