comelately
Wild Horses
Today's mandate for the trade talks with the US is pretty weird:
1) The deal's benefits have been analysed in a way they are refusing to do for the EU trade talks
2) They are explicitly willing to accept some things in this deal that they say are red lines for the EU trade talks (e.g. dispute settlement)
3) It is quite clear that any deal with the US will require 'trading away sovereignty' to some extent (USMC does have LPF to some degree)
4) The benefits of the deal are pretty negligible, so negligible as to be hardly worth doing tbh.
It really seems like the argument for Brexit is being undone in plain sight. Of course, that probably doesn't matter anymore except that it may somewhat force Brexiteers into a place where they kind of have to admit that they're just more comfortable being under US hegemony than EU hegemony. Infact, that seems to be all it would really achieve. Channeling Orwell again, Brexiteers are Outer Party members running the Ministry of Truth it seems.
1) The deal's benefits have been analysed in a way they are refusing to do for the EU trade talks
2) They are explicitly willing to accept some things in this deal that they say are red lines for the EU trade talks (e.g. dispute settlement)
3) It is quite clear that any deal with the US will require 'trading away sovereignty' to some extent (USMC does have LPF to some degree)
4) The benefits of the deal are pretty negligible, so negligible as to be hardly worth doing tbh.
It really seems like the argument for Brexit is being undone in plain sight. Of course, that probably doesn't matter anymore except that it may somewhat force Brexiteers into a place where they kind of have to admit that they're just more comfortable being under US hegemony than EU hegemony. Infact, that seems to be all it would really achieve. Channeling Orwell again, Brexiteers are Outer Party members running the Ministry of Truth it seems.