Exclusive: Former chief Brexit negotiator says staying out of euro and Schengen area would be ‘perfectly possible’

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    18 days ago

    If (or when) Britain rejoins, it will not be like voting for a new government for a change, but out of having exhausted all options and realising that the alternative is far grimmer, that outside of the EU, it would be a hollowed-out plaything of Trumpist oligarchs/Middle Eastern petrostates/the CCP/the neo-Putinist klept. As such, they would be willing to concede on Schengen and the Euro. As such, the EU preemptively folding on those and letting les rosbifs keep their much-cherished pound and Eurostar security queues would be a tremendous own goal.

    Surely keeping the iconic 568ml pint and driving on the left should be enough British exceptionalism to point out that the UK isn’t being homogenised into a suburb of Belgium or whatever the gammon are chronically irate about?