{"id":54719,"date":"2020-12-28T13:18:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T13:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=54719"},"modified":"2020-12-28T23:05:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T23:05:46","slug":"objectively-the-brexit-agreement-is-an-awful-deal-that-were-going-to-long-regret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/12\/28\/objectively-the-brexit-agreement-is-an-awful-deal-that-were-going-to-long-regret\/","title":{"rendered":"Objectively the Brexit agreement is an awful deal that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to long regret"},"content":{"rendered":"

I posted this not long ago as a Twitter thread<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

The more I read it the more I am perplexed by the Brexit deal.<\/p>\n

It is an OK deal for trade in goods. Except for a mountain of very expensive and burdensome red tape, that is. And red tape and burdens on business are the thing the Tories always supposedly hated.<\/p>\n

And the priority on the trade in goods also makes no sense for a service economy, which we are since the Tories abandoned manufacturing.<\/p>\n

Plus, the deal leaves financial services, that are supposedly our greatest success story, and the biggest suppliers of funds to the Tories, in limbo.<\/p>\n

The professions, barring lawyers, are meanwhile stuffed without mutual recognition. Many career paths will fall apart as a result of that. And the professions have been the backbone of Tory support for generations.<\/p>\n

Most people have lost freedom of movement and have won in exchange riskier, and more expensive, holidays as a result.<\/p>\n

Practically, we won nothing on migration.<\/p>\n

We certainly did not seem to win on fish.<\/p>\n

Students lost Erasmus.<\/p>\n

And Universities will lose out on research funding.<\/p>\n

We lost sovereignty in Northern Ireland. The UK is now in the extraordinary position of having an internal border and part of its territory within a trading bloc and the rest not.<\/p>\n

Scotland has been alienated, I suspect forever.<\/p>\n

International relations are weaker.<\/p>\n

And what did we win for all this? Freedom from the European Court of Justice? Was there anything else?<\/p>\n

Oh yes, there are going to be freeports, which are something we had within EU rules until 2012 and gave up because they provided no obvious benefits then.<\/p>\n

And just in case anyone wants to know what a freeport is it\u2019s a place where goods can move without tariffs and excise duties at its international border, which is something we\u2019re just giving up in the rest of the UK.<\/p>\n

Why then is this a good deal?<\/p>\n

Why is anyone backing it?<\/p>\n

And why is Labour voting for it?<\/p>\n

I wish I knew. But I don\u2019t, because objectively it\u2019s an awful deal that we\u2019re going to long regret. And from that fact (for fact it is) it\u2019s going to be hard to move on.<\/p>\n

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I posted this not long ago as a Twitter thread: The more I read it the more I am perplexed by the Brexit deal. It
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