Originally posted by San Bernardhinault
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Regulatory alignment for worker’s rights and the environment. Useful considering Johnson’s plans.
this hasn’t been explicitly mentioned, but I’m pretty sure we’re out of most regulatory agencies after Brexit, like medicines and EURATOM, and I think Labour would seek to remain members. Probably also stuff like Erasmus. Again, that’s stuff you can scribble in.
”Close single market relationship”. What does this mean? Who knows. It might be some fudge around FOM like the Swiss option that Ian Dunt has written about where jobs get posted locally (but for anybody there, regardless of citizenship) before going out across the EEA. But Labour aren’t as wedded to migration as May was (no one is, even Johnson) and they aren’t going to take the piss like Davis and Johnson have. I expect they will negotiate in a more collegial style and probably get a few things to take home and dress the windows in exchange for basically signing up to the four freedoms of the single market.
Does it beat Remaining? Of course not, but I really do not feel the devil-May-care (autocorrect but I’m not changing that) attitude of not being concerned about this. There’s every chance Leave wins again and I would prefer not to declare economic war on the EU, nor sign up to a deal that leaves gaping holes for the things Tories want versus what Labour wants.
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