Rishi Sunak’s government reportedly ‘considering Swiss-style relationship with EU’

I thought that Brexit was the most ridiculous thing we've decided upon as a nation and that most of it was based on people believing what turns out were politicians' slogans not facts. Now that we're seeing the economy respond in the way it was predicted to, we're seeing an end to the "we're better out than in, even with no deal" bullshit that the government was peddling at the time. The current government is still the same party that was voted in years ago BTW, no matter how many musical chairs they play over who's PM, Chancellor, Home Secretary etc etc. Bunch of nutters.

The barriers are those imposed by the EU, not Britain, and we cannot simply remove them.

The EU works as a single bloc with ease of movement across borders within itself, but not externally. It also has a policy called au communitaire, or similar, by which once a country becomes a "members" it is regarded as that permanently, with its own economic and legal systems subordinate to the EU.

This is one of the two main reasons it played so rough over the UK leaving, which it chose to do albeit by a very narrow majority.

Its other reason, and one reason Britons who voted to leave did so, is the loss of income. For the UK was one of four nett contributors to the EU - God knows where its money goes because it will not allow proper financial scrutiny and acts very harshly against auditors who try to investigate - along with Germany, France and Italy.

Now, it's all very well saying a nation can leave (if allowed by Brussels) but if it wishes to continue trading with the bloc it still has to follow many of the literally tens of thousands of regulations the Commission invents and the European "Parliament" nods through. A parliament in name only, although of elected politicians.

How many tens? No-one really knows but some estimates put it as high as ten, i.e,. 10 000 rules. The majority apply to specific trades and services which is why most of us know little or nothing of them. To be fair some are EU interpretations of genuinely world-wide agreements and laws by bodies like MARPOL, the UN and ISO. Others may though be at the behest of large commercial interests.


At the height of the debate some pro-EU politicians cried they wanted Britain to be at the "epicentre" of the EU. Oh the irony: they really meant "centre" but I fear their wish has unwittingly come about by the real definition of a geological term they just did not understand!

Rishi has the potential to be a truly great PM !!!!! The British are so lucky to have him!!!

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My oh my do you have a troll! 😅

I don't believe bottle of excellent Amarone will be enough and quite possibly make it worse. 😞

It’s outrageous that he’s reversing Brexit. He’s violating the will of the people, and their vote, making a unilateral decision, like a dictator. It has to be illegal, especially for an unelected politician to reverse a vote of the majority. He is committing treason against the people in my opinion.

Rejoining the single market would fix a lot of the issues we currently have, difficulty for smes to export, lack of workforce etc

However free movement won't be accepted by the majority racist UK populous.

Maybe in a decade or two but not for a while. And the Tory party will fracture again if that is in the manifesto the right wing won't accept it.

The independent had it wrong.Rishi Sunak has said it is not true.The video of this is on YouTube and here it is.
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Doesnt matter peoples opinions on the EU. Britain voted to leave and in a democracy surely that should be facilitated as the "will of the people"?

Im all for getting out of the EU. Any devolution of power is a good thing imo.

Also, i think "democracy" is an illusion and brexit is just another example.

Let's face it, brexit is a disaster

It would certainly be a positive step forward. However I am not confident that the EU woukd automatically support such an application, especially while the Northern Ireland protocol remains unsolved.

No way.We voted leave,NOT keep one foot in the door,kow towing to the damn EU,a.k.a the 4th Reich.
Its w should have gone for total break,no deal,no "swiss style relationship".
This will do even MORE damage to the stupid tories.

Well,if we had another vote we'd rejoin the EU...
Sounds like a good idea.

Why is this posted in Naturism and if Nudism? I was very confused when all the Suggested posts were about that!

As a British person,it actually sickens me,that we have a large number of people living here who would hand over our way of life to foreign rule.
Over the last 1000 years,Britain has remained unconquered since 1066.
Many have tried to subsume us,Napoleon,Hitler,the Kaiser,many others,yet we have resisted all attempts.Now we have British people who want to be "European".Im all for good relations and trade,but NO interference.

In UK Brexit was very divisive,and on both sides there are very strong opposing feelings.
I voted to leave,and leave won the vote.
If however there was a desire to rejoin within the country,and another vote was held,i would respect the vote,if rejoin was the result.
But what we will not sit still for,is the UK Govt leading us by the nose,through the back door back into the EU,without a vote..Nice try Hunt the *unt.

Its basically like being in the union

The brexit your having when you're not having a brexit ....

Not much chance the EU would accept that type of deal with the UK. Even if it did, the UK Government wouldn't accept the conditions Switzerland has such as joining the Schengen zone. Even if the EU were to accept the UK rejoining, which is unlikely, the UK would never get the type of advantageous deal it had before.

I see it this way.
Respect democracy,regardless of your views.The vote was to leave.
No stay in,or keep a foot in the door.
You cannot hold a plebiscite,like Brexit,then a few years on,decide ,oh well ,maybe it was a mistake,without a similar vote.

Jeremy Hunt-Rishi Sunak.
At least Hunt came out as a remainer,Sunak sat on the fence until he sensed which way the wind was blowing.

It's a good idea to try but I doubt the EU will agree to it.

The health minister denied it this morning so I guess we'll have to see if it transpires.