Originally posted by Tubby Isaacs
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There is an inordinate number of Brexiters and politicians who seem to be convinced that the UK will still get plenty of opt-outs, exemptions, special concessions, rebates, freebies, Touquet border treaty type of favours and what-have-yous, just like they do now as the EU has bent over backwards since Margaret "I want my money back" Thatcher to accommodate the UK’s many "special needs".
Talked to a manager working in the hospitality & catering business in the Lake District last year (a huge employer of EU nationals, about 40% of the Lakes’ workforce in that sector) and he was adamant that the UK would be able to secure some sort of special deal in that particular industry, "The EU will have to be flexible" he kept saying. That was over a year ago, he may not still feel the same along with many Brexiters (the Brexit mood’s not terribly upbeat) but obviously many brexiting politicians are still banging the delusional drums of British exceptionalism.
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