- Mon Dec 22, 2025 8:56 pm
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Then, the immigration poison was injected, and I reluctantly agree that it won't be drawn, any time soon, putting the tin-lid on the desperately needed demographic change that is desperately required.
Even words like "regulatory alignment" will not float; that sounds like EU-speak and hoity-toity attempts to hoodwink the Stella-swilling masses.
Nonetheless, that damage-limitation can be positioned as "cooperation", "agreement", and "partnership". And, unless the EU explicitly rages that it's the full bhuna or nothing (they won't), the UK has little option other than to follow that path.
Is it a customs union by osmosis? Of course, it is, but where else is growth and a route out of the current economic stasis going to come from?
Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Mon Dec 22, 2025 11:56 am The public is nowhere near ready to accept Freedom of Movement again. "Control" won the Referendum, and it's not something a government can easily give up.The public was entirely relaxed about it in 2005. Even the S*n published an edition in Polish to welcome the new arrivals, and the mood remained positive for another half decade or more.
Then, the immigration poison was injected, and I reluctantly agree that it won't be drawn, any time soon, putting the tin-lid on the desperately needed demographic change that is desperately required.
Even words like "regulatory alignment" will not float; that sounds like EU-speak and hoity-toity attempts to hoodwink the Stella-swilling masses.
Nonetheless, that damage-limitation can be positioned as "cooperation", "agreement", and "partnership". And, unless the EU explicitly rages that it's the full bhuna or nothing (they won't), the UK has little option other than to follow that path.
Is it a customs union by osmosis? Of course, it is, but where else is growth and a route out of the current economic stasis going to come from?
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