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I have plagiarised this from a Facebook post but I now understand a little more the many sticking points....
"The main sticking point in the talks is how close the UK should stick to EU economic rules in the future.
The EU is determined to prevent the UK from gaining what it sees as an unfair advantage of having tariff-free access to its markets - not paying taxes on goods being bought and sold - while setting its own standards on products, employment rights and business subsidies."
This is the issue of regulatory alignment. With all other none EU countries, the EU insists on regulatory alignment within those sectors that the none EU state is seeking to trade ie if Canada wishes to sell timber into the EU market, then the Canadian timber industry must comply with the EU single market regulations. That's fair. I have no issue with that.
Yet.... with the UK, the EU is demanding the UK complies with ALL EU regulations in ALL sectors, if it wishes to access the single market in any way. This is just sheer arrogance by this bunch of pompous bureaucrats, which denies British sovereignty. We have no choice but to tell them to take a hike.
The UK should agree to regulatory alignment in those sections of the market it wishes to access and no other. It is for the sovereign people of the UK, her parliament and her courts, to decide what rights and regulations are applied to the UK, NOT EU beaurocrats.
The UK should not agree to regulatory alignment as that stops us from raising our standards and regaining the prestige that the British Standard kite mark had. Our environmental standards, animal welfare, workers rights etc all will be significantly greater than those of the EU, and this country will not allow cheap poor quality EU standard products to contaminate the UK's single market.
Yes we wish to sell bangers to Berlin, but we'll not surrender our national sovereignty for the privilidge. Slap 40% import on our goods, we'll reciprocate and the EU will suffer more as the the people show #BritGrit, shout #****EU, shop local and #BuyBritish on mass in our green industrial revolution. Yes it's a little bit of British bluster. But UK wind is good for the environment whilst the EU's coal driven hot air is not.
This arrogance of the supra-national socialists of the EU must be confronted and defeated, as we've confronted and defeated it every single time for the last 2000 years. Sorry Spain, sorry France, as always, it's you that pays the price for the nationalist dreams of European federalists.
by the rise in sp today. Bought in here at 25p after reading an article recently. Gresham bought 19% of the company yesterday and a director spent 30K on shares today. Company has a long list of clients inc NHS. I think at this level its a strong buy with future dividends.
GLA