Originally Posted by
ragingpup
So if the EU will not discuss the future trade deal, how can you so confidently state that May's deal will give us FoM, freedom from ECJ and ending of contributions?
Haven't we established that the UK and EU have set out a paper identifying some basic agreed principles to work towards? I assume you're referring to that? That does indeed state a shared intention to work towards this but do you really think that we are going to get all of these benefits? You are trying to assure BigLadon and others that May's deal will bring us these benefits. But to swallow this we would have to imagine that:
1. May is a hard, brilliant negotiator
2. The EU are willing to give us these benefits including fishing and agriculture, without huge further concessions on our part.
Sorry to throw a couple more impertinent questions at you, which I know you would never dream of doing to others, but:
1. What do you think that these concessions are likely to be?
2. Why should you advise an electorate to accept a deal that is so vague and open to enormous concessions from us?
3. Do you see May as a hard and brilliant negotiator whom we can trust to extract these benefits in future negotiations without major concessions?
And this is not even factoring in the possibility of being in a non ending Backstop which, whilst being fine for us who like friction-less trade and travel, will no way get the backing of BigLadon et al. Understandably.