Terryhall
Active member
The only way we could have secured better terms from the EU would have been if we were more prepared to compromise.
Membership of the customs union, continuing to allow free movement of workers (perhaps including the stricter controls that all other EU member states have adopted, but which the UK has used its veto to avoid applying), all of these options were open to the UK but playing to the ERG meant all were abandoned on day one removing any and all negotiating room for either side.
To those who say this would stop the UK negotiating its own trade deals, it hasn't stopped Switzerland from doing so.
Membership of the customs union, continuing to allow free movement of workers (perhaps including the stricter controls that all other EU member states have adopted, but which the UK has used its veto to avoid applying), all of these options were open to the UK but playing to the ERG meant all were abandoned on day one removing any and all negotiating room for either side.
To those who say this would stop the UK negotiating its own trade deals, it hasn't stopped Switzerland from doing so.