GreenPartyMollyThe penny is dropping for more and more people: Brexit has made us poorer
We need to immediately take steps to build a closer relationship with the EU
As part of our journey back to full membership
Peter Sturdgess@Molly The first and most obvious step is to join the Single Market and Customs Union, this will give our struggling industries free access to the world's largest single market and it is on our doorstep. It will provide the basis of our revival and give a huge market to our gree industries. No need for a referendum, Leave said we would not damage our place in the Single Market in their campaigning in the run up to the referendum.
Kingston-Surbiton Green Party@PeterSturdgess @Molly it will have to be a step by step approach- because some people, especially politicians, will need convincing
@KBGreenParty @PeterSturdgess That’s why @Euromove has a strategy of ‘step by step to rejoin’. Are you a member?
@PeterSturdgess I agree about the customs Union but I can’t agree about rejoining the single market without rejoining the political institutions. As a democracy, we can’t have other countries’ politicians writing our laws. This was the basic conundrum of Brexit
Craig Grannell@Molly @PeterSturdgess CU does relatively little though. But it would hamper trade deals. SM would be transformative. I’d prefer EU membership, obviously, and any closer alignment is good. But given the choice between ‘Norway’ and ‘Turkey’, there’s no way I’d plump for the latter.
@craiggrannell @PeterSturdgess I guess you haven’t seen the humiliation of being a fax democracy up close like some of my colleagues in Brussels. I wouldn’t want that for the UK
@Molly @PeterSturdgess I want what’s best for people. My Icelandic family doesn’t feel like it’s part of a fax democracy, say. It feels happy with the country’s position. I don’t get a negative feeling from most Norwegians either.
My fear is Labour will bring in some basic alignment, spin that as a victory, say we “can’t go back” if people note it’s only a fraction of what we lost, and strand us in a much worse place economically and culturally.
@Molly @craiggrannell British exporters feel the pain of having no say in the regulations that control trade with their biggest, nearest, largest market. Some just give up. At the moment we have the humiliation of no say and difficult access. Opening negotiations will expose the absurdity of no say. An interim position, a compromise, might be to have access whilst we sort out the machinery of representation.
@Molly Hi Molly, We would have to sort something out. This will not be an easy task, Norway manages it.
Axel Foley@Molly Welcome to our world 🏴
John1000uk@Molly @PeterSturdgess Interesting viewpoint, could that be worse than our current Government spaffing our money down the drain and enacting fascist laws against protestors?
SailyHPY@Molly @PeterSturdgess Is that GP policy? Because the substantial worker reforms and environmental laws seem to have come from the EU.