Five years on: stuck. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog on how the latest news (the 'wobble', PEM, AI, regulatory capacity, Trump etc.) shows there's still no post-Brexit strategy & perhaps none is possible - but UK is still not ready to admit it: https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/01/five-years-on-stuck.html
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While we largely agree on regulatory standards with the EU, do you think the ongoing focus of successive governments on Freeports could pose a challenge to joining a customs union?
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Issues to address:
- Coherence, and communications
- Minimise non value add activities
- Produce more products and services that other countries want
- Strengthen bilateral science/research
It looked ok.
They must be mighty glad in Brussels, that subsequent British governments did this all by themselves.
a) Labour needs to win a second term
b) Tories move further right and/or merge with Reform
c) change of editors at certain media outlets.
Seems like only b) might be on the cards though.
If Labour string Brexit out for another four years the last thing we need is another 5 years of it, and that's what Labour will offer.
A second win based around closer EU links would massively pull the rug out from under the Leave critics and media scaremongers.
Not good enough.
Aside from whether a referendum should be overturned, is there a scenario where Lab could've been more pro-EU and won? Possibly. Would it have made it harder to win? Definitely.
Gravity pulls us relentlessly back towards Brussels.
Westminster is the man tied to the chariot in the old Stoic metaphor.
He can run in any direction but it won't actually make a difference.