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PM Theresa May: UK Must Leave the EU Single Market

posted by takyon on Tuesday January 17 2017, @12:42PM   Printer-friendly

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has given a major speech calling for a clean break from the EU:

Theresa May has said the UK "cannot possibly" remain within the European single market, as staying in it would mean "not leaving the EU at all". But the prime minister promised to push for the "greatest possible" access to the single market following Brexit. In a long-awaited speech, she also announced Parliament would get a vote on the final deal agreed between the UK and the European Union. And Mrs May promised an end to "vast contributions" to the European Union.

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Previously: Brexit: The Focus is on the EU Single Market

 
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  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Tuesday January 17 2017, @11:30PM

    by butthurt (6141) on Tuesday January 17 2017, @11:30PM (#455150) Journal

    Ms. May says "[...] membership of the single market [...] would, to all intents and purposes, mean not leaving the EU at all." By that logic, Liechtenstein, Iceland, Norway, and Switzerland are EU members.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area [wikipedia.org]

    Could this be sour grapes in response to getting the cold shoulder from EU ministers?

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  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Wednesday January 18 2017, @10:13AM

    by isostatic (365) on Wednesday January 18 2017, @10:13AM (#455309) Journal

    No, it's the facist fantasies of a control freak. The EEA means paying a membership fee and accepting freedom of movement, something a monkey of people in the country didn't want on June 24th.

    May knows the only way to reduce immigration is to make the UK a terrible place to be, so that's what she's doing. I remember before the EU enlargement in 2005, there were plenty of Eastern Europeans working illegally in the uk, we didn't stop them then. We don't keep to non eu targets, we won't keep to and eu ones.

    Many people voted to leave to stop "museums" from "invading". The dangers of a plebiscite were known before the referendum, fortunately the overwhelming mandate for "boaty mcBoatface" was ignored. Sadly this referendum wasn't.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 18 2017, @07:56PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 18 2017, @07:56PM (#455657)

      *fascist