There are countries, including Switzerland and
Iceland, trading freely with the European Union without having to accept EU
laws, but they DO have to accept free movement of people.
[I don’t know why the UK fails to understand that
labour is a moveable commodity. Great Britain had no difficulty in grasping the principle when buying captive African people and selling them as slaves.]
Now the proposed message from the UK to
prospective new partners overseas sounds like, “We
intend to make big profits selling goods and services to you, but your people
can’t come and live and work here.”
Hmmmm.
Anti-EU activist Mr. Farage has resigned from his
political party UKIP and slipped away into the fog before Leave voters realise
he sold them a pup.
Leanne Wood, leader of Plaid Cymru, has envisaged a redesigned UK with Wales, England, Ireland, and Scotland as independent entities. Sounds good to me.
Meanwhile the rush to become less British is on.
A friend has a Liverpool-French wife who is
trying to get French nationality for the whole family so the two sons could
keep their EU passports. The Irish Embassy is rushed off its feet with
applications for Irish citizenship (the Republic is not leaving the EU no
matter what the UK does).
One or two Welsh businesses are rumoured to be considering Ireland
a possible place for relocation. Some businesses in the North of England, with an
eye on the future, are said to be wondering whether to move to Scotland.
Nobody knows what to do for the best. The fog has descended.
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Illustration: Fog on the A55 at Pantasaph (Daily Post, 2015).
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Illustration: Fog on the A55 at Pantasaph (Daily Post, 2015).
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