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Venn diagrams for out times: Brexit
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U Know that’s actually an EUler diagram?
“Out times” may be a typo in the title but it is actually quite appropriate…
Probably we’ll need to split “UK” into “Scotland” and “rUK” in a couple of years!
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Howard
It was a typo
And then it wasn’t….
I think more correctly former UK or fUK for short. It leave it to others to work out variations on this er…. theme.
I suspect the rupture may not be as complete as the Brexiteers might like
Some nice stuff from Mike Galsworthy about Red tape:
Michael Gove has been discussing ‘regulations’ to slash after Brexit. His top choices? The Clinical Trials Directive (CTD) and the Habitats Directive. There are some serious problems with his star examples… they’re not regulations, the CTD won’t exist shortly, our industries & societies will resist, the standards were often written by Brits – and when 28 countries all agree on rules, it’s usually because it’s quite smart. Reinventing the wheel in the UK to just copy the EU is just bureaucratic waste.
https://www.facebook.com/scientistsforeu/videos/1012865678815441/
Oh, for Pete’s sake, we have had SSSIs since 1949 (I know, SPAs are not quite the same, but even so). What next, abolish the National Parks?
He wants to a separate UK agency to approve medicines for the UK? In parallel to the EMA? You’ll have to persuade drug manufacturers to bother going to the time and trouble. Most will, but not as quickly: 450m potential customers in the EU versus 60m in the UK, so the cost/benefit analysis will encourage them to seek EU approval first. Unless of course the idea it to have lower standards here. What could possibly go wrong.
Still too close for some.
To provide context you could have depicted the circles to scale – as regards size of each economy!
The initial EU response and position is pretty much what I expected
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/29/first-eu-response-to-article-50-takes-tough-line-on-transitional-deal
Tax gets a specific mention
“It adds that any future agreement between the EU and the UK is conditional on May’s government continuing to adhere to “the standards provided by the union’s legislation and polices, in among others the fields of environment, climate change, the fight against tax evasion and avoidance, fair competition, trade and social policy”.
Noted
Yanis Varousakis has a piece here
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/29/opinions/eu-cant-survive-with-business-as-usual-yanis-opinion/index.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=cnni_headlines
Where he points out that the 60th anniversary Rome Declaration says the EU will “act together, at different paces and intensity where necessary, while moving in the same direction, as we have done in the past.”
Which as he also indicates is what the UK has always wanted!
I wonder if perhaps chinks are beginning to appear that might, in the years that follow, allow the UK to remain.
There is also an article by Anthony Barnett founder of ‘Open Democracy’ on “Brexit is an old people’s home.”
Of course it points out that the young are overwhelmingly in favour of remaining. I haven’t given the link because I think the title is absolutely key but is nonetheless the only bit worth remembering!
‘Brexit is an old people’s home’ is not a bad slogan for future use….
So are you predicting no overlap at all? No trade at all? No movement of people at all? Seems a little unlikely.
It was symbolic, not literal
For many of us you could draw the diagram with a 48% overlap…
Good piece by Gillian Tett in the FT decoding the EU response to May’s Article 50 letter. In summary, several of May’s points have already been rejected out of hand, and the EU’s response makes the UK letter seem pretty amateurish
As I write this Im listening to Boris Johnson on the radio talking about a visit to Germany. The man continues to be wholly deluded
With regard to the last, true