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Genuinely, I'm curious as to what else they could do?
Commit specifically to one of the options on this slide as a 'starting position':
It's not like anything significantly different from that is going to fly.
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Yep.
Because otherwise they'll end up on that chart somewhere in two years.
Admitting the leave the EU is not a la carte seems impossible to do ATM for Tories and Labour.
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Regardless as to whether something resembling those options is the likely end game, it would be electoral suicide to accept a starting position defined by the EU before substantial negotiations take place.
JWestland
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This seems a broad outline- https://labour.org.uk/press/labour-tables-alternative-plan-close-economic-relationship-eu/
Given they're not the government and haven't been negotiating with the EU for the last 3 years, what can you expect? It's a starting position, not an effective deal. M. Barnier described the proposal as "interesting in tone and substance." Genuinely, I'm curious as to what else they could do?