Reply to post: Re: "if Europe agrees to a Brexit transition period"

Brexit: Digital border possible for Irish backstop woes, UK MPs told

Muscleguy

Re: "if Europe agrees to a Brexit transition period"

It wasn't the transition so much as the fact that she needed to get the WA agreement passed first. There can be no transition without the WA you see.

The WA is not going away. When after the hard Brexit it dawns on Boris that we need access to the EU standards agencies to sell anything or move anything the EU will say 'come talk' and when he goes they will say 'First there's the WA to agree'.

If we want a trade agreement with the EU (and we will most certainly will) the first item on the agenda will be, you guessed it, the WA. It is not going away and a Hard Brexit will not avoid it unless we want to become a hermit kingdom trading with Man and the Channel Islands and begging the Irish for some smuggling.

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