• The UK can’t do that without ripping up its international treaty obligations.

    Of course, we could renege on these, but it’s not a great way to start our new existence- international pariah.

    Also, the US is unlikely (as in, they’ve said they won’t) sign a trade deal with us if we fuck the Irish, which your course of action would do.

  • The UK can’t do that without ripping up its international treaty obligations.

    Which would put us exactly where the US wants us to be, and where the US puts almost all of the rest of it's treaty partners - in lopsided bilateral agreements which end up benefiting a select few, mostly on the US side

    Of course, we could renege on these, but it’s not a great way to start our new existence- international pariah.

    Plus ca change.

  • The UK can’t do that without ripping up its international treaty obligations.

    Of course, we could renege on these, but it’s not a great way to start our new existence- international pariah.

    The Irony of arguing about risks of other countries not wanting to trade with us if we break a trade agreement that stops us trading with them in the first place. :)

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