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At least one UK businessman is attaching a condition to his continued support of the ruling Conservative Party:
A major Tory donor has threatened to stop funding the party if Theresa May plans to remove the UK from the "critical" single market after Brexit. Sir Andrew Cook, who has given more than £1.2m to the party, told BBC Radio 4 that ending single market access was "chronic and dangerous" to the economy. The engineering firm chairman said at least one of his factories was almost "entirely dependent" on access to it.
Sir Andrew backed the Remain campaign in the EU referendum. "There are barriers to entry without the single market, there are tariffs," said Sir Andrew, who chairs William Cook, his family's firm which makes components for the rail, energy and defence industries. "One of my factories has 200 people employed making engineering parts that go to France, Germany and Italy," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
Also at Reuters. Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has offered to take a Scottish independence referendum off the table in exchange for a "soft Brexit" involving access to the single market.
The BBC reports that while the EU's presence in London is likely to shrink, organizations like the European Banking Authority (EBA) might stick around if the UK remains in the single market.
Finally, have you applied for your Irish passport yet?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 09 2017, @03:43AM
Germany just said no to Bavaria http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/749748/Germany-Bavaria-no-independence-referendum-Bayxit [express.co.uk] . And what Germany says, EU applies to everyone. So no splitting. Only crushing.
For more info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_separatist_movements_in_Europe [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 09 2017, @02:01PM
That is one crazy guy, supported by a party that in local elections in the last decades managed at best 2%, but usually stays fairly solid below 1%.
And I wouldn't be surprised if only a small minority of even that 1% even supported independence.
The wikipedia list is really bad, it just throws everything into one pot, from the 1% crazies that often even they people living there never heard about over the ones that have massive support to those that actually have active or semi-active wars of independence currently ongoing.
Of the parties listed there for Germany, the one in Schleswig is the only one that can reasonably be taken seriously, but that party primarily represents minorities and the wikipedia page of that party doesn't say anything about any attempts at independence. According to their web-page their primary topic for the election is education! As far as I can tell, Wikipedia is just plain wrong to list them as an independence movement, they have no such intentions going by their election platform.