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CBI
Tony Danker, the CBI director general, has joined the many Tory Brexiters who reacted with >alarm to yesterday’s story in saying that the government should not be aiming for a Swiss->style deal. He told the Today programme this morning:
I’m a bit puzzled about the whole Swiss thing. It took them about 40 years to get to the >Swiss arrangement. Currently, we’re not even implementing Boris’s deal. Let’s >implement >Boris’s Brexit deal, that still has some growth in it, by the way, that’s all >come to a freeze, >and let’s forget the discussion about Switzerland for now.
they love it, it's what Boris would have wanted.
sohi-
Well, facepalm or headdesk I am not sure :)
Contrast with Aidhan Donnelly from the NI business consortium: "I don't care if they call it the backstop or the pink fluffy bunny stop, we just want solutions".
Currently, we’re not even implementing Boris’s deal: Tony will love it when all the GB custom checks will come into force...but the growth in hot air being produced might alleviate the energy crisis somewhat if we can put it to good use. Like the biogases produced by rotting waste are something we can use, alas, for hot air we are not yet there ;)
JWestland
I don't know why the CBI didn't protest louder about Brexit once it became clear the "oven ready deal" would suck for UK businesses.
Well perhaps there was a stunned silence followed by the whole room erupting in laughter. That's what NI businesses did when Boris told them "just put those customs forms in the bin".