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Yes. After 18 months work, the best they could come up with was to propose rebranding the single market / CU as 'regulatory alignment'. It's pitiful.
I can't believe that it wasn't their genuine intention not to make this deal on Monday (as opposed to proposing something unworkable which would lead to a hard Brexit) as they showed such ineptitude with TM being slapped by a minor down in public like that.
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Whichever of these three, or anyothers the Civil Service can get pasr swivel-eyed brexit ministers, all amount to much the same problem.
When you are in the EU, each member state has a say in building up the regulation. Once you are 'Out', the regulation is presented to you as a finished non-negotiable whole. And which body ultimately decides if your parallel regulation is equivalent? The ECJ!
TMay and the frothing kippers within the Tories have, by insisting we are already leaving the Single Market & the Customs Union, painted themselves into a corner with no practical way out, except not to leave.