So the only thing standing in the way of your own government fucking everyone over is the EU?tufty wrote:There has been much fantasy about being able to trade freely with the world after a no deal crash out, we'll finally be out from under the iron fist of the EU that's been stifling British industry, etc etc. But that's bollocks. If we wish to sell to the EU post Brexit, with a deal or not, we must *at least* meet EU standards on everything we sell. We will have no say in those standards, it will be comply or no trade. All a deal will do is set the level of tariffs that the EU levy on imports from the UK.
The UK has always been able to set *higher* standards than the lowest minimal standards the EU imposes, so the only possible direction we would be pushing our standards, again, deal or no deal, is down. Not on services and products we want to sell elsewhere, obviously, because nobody is going to want (or even be allowed) to buy our now inferior goods at a higher price, but on the services and products we bring in. And, of course, worker's rights. Slash and burn on the welfare state, goodbye to pensions, minimum wage, holiday entitlements, anything you think you have as a "right" now, it's going.
No deal, of course, simply makes everything much, much, worse,but is desirable because it will make a lot of money for the disaster capitalists who've been pushing Brexit since the beginning. Doesn't really mater to them whether it happens now because we can't get an agreement, or in 2 or 3 years time because we can't work out a deal, but sooner is better.
That's a much bigger problem than Brexit.
