#Politics.co.uk » Feed Politics.co.uk » Comments Feed Politics.co.uk » Never-ending story: Deal unveils next Brexit arguments Comments Feed alternate alternate alternate Search for: ____________________ (BUTTON) Search * Hot Topics * Brexit * Coronavirus * Categories -- * Hot Topics * Coronavirus * Brexit PoliticsUK logo PoliticsUK logo Brexit trade deal Never-ending story: Deal unveils next Brexit arguments Comment -- Tuesday 29 Dec 2020 4:39 pm brexit The deal Boris Johnson brought back from Brussels should be a prized moment of triumph for Brexit’s hardline political leaders. The war is won. No free movement, or single market, or customs union. Britain out of even the most harmless European programmes or regulators, like -- terms of the structure of the agreement, the economic repercussions and the likely political motivations of future governments – point towards reintegration with Europe. The document is a testament to Brexit’s victory. But it contains within it the flaws which will undermine and perhaps even reverse it as a project. -- brushed aside. If it were not the case, parts of manufacturing and most of farming would become unprofitable overnight. Brexit trade deal But elsewhere, the deal is really quite strikingly poor, even by the -- can’t fish in their waters. A colleague wears a Christmas hat as European Union chief negotiator Michel Barnier, center, carries a binder of the Brexit trade deal during a special meeting of Coreper, at the European Council building in Brussels, Friday, Dec. 25, 2020. -- for all. This is what gives the EU its strength. It’s why the UK mostly capitulated. And it’s why the dynamic is likely to remain the same in future. After all, this is the most messianically pro-Brexit government we’re likely to see. If they didn’t take no-deal in the face of EU leverage, how likely is it that a future one will? -- and Westminster. In other words, each new Westminster parliament, or Council president, or European parliament, is going to have their own Brexit, their own appraisal of the relationship. This is a pulsating, living deal. The metaphor of a divorce no longer -- direction of integration. It’s not conspiracy or magic; it’s just that people trade most with places that are close and big. And when they trade, they want less friction. Brexit has done many shocking things, but it cannot negate the objective reality of geography or trade flows. Even in the moment of Brexit’s triumph, it carries the seeds of its own failure. -- A Liberal, is out now. brexit sponsoredVideovideoopinion former ‘Bad Brexit deal made a mockery of parliament’ sponsoredVideovideoopinion former -- sponsoredVideovideoopinion former SNP make Brexit ‘independence’ vow sponsoredVideovideoopinion former A brown cartoon diary with 2016 - ?? on the front Brexit deal: How we got here * About