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A truly open Britain in an increasingly open world

European Union Comment and Analysis Trade

The media is trumpeting a very scary tune about a 'no deal' Brexit. Perhaps it's the swansong in their dark and gloomy concert. There will be hurdles, but we in Britain, will use our initiative and people are always at our best when we have to use our initiative.

For those who would like to rename 'no deal', the Bruges Group is welcoming suggestions. May be, 'leaving on World Trade Organization terms' or 'our deal' (as opposed to the current EU one on the PM's desk) or 'open trade' or 'Independence Day' or simply 'Brexit at last.' After all, as Robert Oulds points out, 'no deal' is a misnomer as the EU and UK are already signed up to arrangements that facilitate trade.

In January last year, the Bruges Group published the following on how Brexit can be made to work:

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What it will look like: How leaving the EU and the Single Market can be made to work for Britain

Bruges Group
http://www.brugesgroup.com/media-centre/papers/8-papers/1243-what-it-will-look-like-how-leaving-the-eu-and-the-single-market-can-be-made-to-work-for-britain

 Finally, if you would like to sign the petition demanding that we actually leave without a deal, you can find it here:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/229963​ 

 The number of signatories has grown from 154,020 in the afternoon of 16th December to 232,379 at 9 p.m. on 18th.

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Ariane Loening

Ariane Loening

As an undergraduate at Oxford, Ariane Loening was old enough to vote NO in the 1975 EEC referendum.  She gained experience of UN agencies and spent the 1980s in West Bengal working in the voluntary sector at grassroots level, developing a forensic approach to socio-political and economic issues before returning to Scotland in 1993. She values, in particular, knowledge of historical background, believing it to be the best way to understand the present.

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