{"id":44025,"date":"2019-01-17T07:03:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T07:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=44025"},"modified":"2019-01-17T07:03:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T07:03:38","slug":"no-wonder-were-in-a-mess-n-the-red-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/01\/17\/no-wonder-were-in-a-mess-n-the-red-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"No wonder we&#8217;re in a mess on the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcred lines\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It's just worth remembering in these febrile days when a lot of claims are being made just what the 2016 referendum\u00a0ballot paper asked:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-44026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-16-at-21.16.13-550x362.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-16-at-21.16.13-550x362.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-16-at-21.16.13-455x300.png 455w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-16-at-21.16.13-600x395.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-16-at-21.16.13.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>Can\u00a0you spot anything on WTO rules?<\/p>\n<p>Or migration?<\/p>\n<p>Or freedom of movement more broadly?<\/p>\n<p>Or customs unions?<\/p>\n<p>Norway?<\/p>\n<p>Canada?<\/p>\n<p>Or authorisation to break other agreements?<\/p>\n<p>No. Neither can I.<\/p>\n<p>And anyone who claims that anything was said on any such issue at the time is simply lying.<\/p>\n<p>And I think we do have a\u00a0 right to point that out.<\/p>\n<p>The vote was to leave the EU.<\/p>\n<p>No one said what that meant.<\/p>\n<p>Or when it would happen.<\/p>\n<p>And what would happen next.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder we're in a mess.<\/p>\n<p>And my point is a simple Ione. The so-called \u2018red lines\u2019 are not based on the referendum result. And they do not respect the \u2018will of the people\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>May is sinoply not telling the truth when she says that they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just worth remembering in these febrile days when a lot of claims are being made just what the 2016 referendum\u00a0ballot paper asked:Can\u00a0you spot anything<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/01\/17\/no-wonder-were-in-a-mess-n-the-red-lines\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}