Brussels rejects Boris Johnson 'pipe dream' over single market access

[geek tragedy]

Source: Guardian (UK)

European diplomats have dismissed claims from Boris Johnson that the UK could negotiate access to the EU single market without obeying any of the rules.


“You cannot have your cake and eat it,” said an EU diplomat, echoing a phrase the former mayor of London used during the campaign and which looks set to come back to haunt him.


In a further blow to the leave camp’s credibility, Germany’s leading business group distanced itself from Johnson’s suggestion that German business expected Britain’s free trade with Europe to continue seamlessly.


Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/27/brussels-rejects-boris-johnson-pipe-dream-over-single-market-access

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Think first, then vote.

[BeyondGeography]

1. He'll always have the 350 million quid-per-week magic bus tho

[Surya Gayatri]

2. Boris the Bloviating Boor is about to get his cretinous clock cleaned by a justifiably incensed EU.

His lying ass is grass.

[GeoWilliam750]

9. An interesting perspective

http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/people-are-really-really-hoping-this-theory-about-david-cameron-and-brexit-is-true--bJhqBql0VZ

[pampango]

3. Great news. Boris wants EU-style trade without EU-style labor and environmental

protections.

If the UK's Conservative Party gets its way with that, the right wing rush out of the EU will reach fever pitch.

[geek tragedy]

4. Question is whether the UK will actually invoke Article 50

given the dire consequences.

They probably should have learned from the Grexit standoff that the EU plays hardball.

[joshcryer]

14. Indeed, that was precisely the intent of the neoliberal Leave campaign.

[Darb]

15. Wait, I just read another post about how the "Leave" was not neoliberal,

But just the opposite. Any help?

[joshcryer]

16. I read how the campaign "rejected" it.

Led mostly by conservatives and the far right, who are more associated with neoliberalism.

[Darb]

20. I think it comes down basically to xenophobia and racists and the like, basically

like our repiglickers.

[joshcryer]

22. There was some populist element to it, too.

But it by no means accounted for the vast majority of the votes.

And it was ignorant at best, ignoring what the labor unions were saying.

[Odin2005]

21. There it is! You win the Internet!

[Thinkingabout]

5. We will see in time if this was smart, untruths may return to hurt those who did not

Research their vote.

[appalachiablue]

6. Boris is Bananas, even manic, albeit entertaining at times. Hope he'd never be PM.

A few years ago before the London Olympics Bo Jo was on David Letterman talking about his birth in America which he doesn't remember of course, how he loved riding around with Mike Bloomberg in NY in his large, black SUVS, and more.

When Dave asked Boris if he cut his own hair? Boris was laughing and embarrassed at the same time.

[fasttense]

7. Free trade, free trade, free trade uber all.

Really? The EU is not a free trade haven of corrupt corporate (oxymoron? ) influence? Yeah and Trump hates the KKK.

[pampango]

11. Boris (of Brexit fame) wants free trade with the EU. The EU's response: not without the labor and

environmental protections that apply to trade between EU countries.

Really? The EU is not a free trade haven of corrupt corporate (oxymoron? ) influence.

No. Boris has the "free trade haven" all to himself. He has plans to turn the UK into a "hyper-capitalist island freed from EU regulation", a "neoliberal fantasy island" once it is free of the EU's 'cumbersome' rules on labor and the environment.

[greymattermom]

18. You mean like Kansas?

Boris Brownback?

[riverbendviewgal]

8. Boris has not given up his US citizenship

It takes at least a couple years and costs $2,350. He must apply personally at the US Counsel
It will cost him more than the renunciation fee.

I checked and he still has his US citizenship.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1525544.0

He strikes me as the UK's Trump.

[mainer]

10. Even Trump's hair!

Long lost twin? And Boris was born in New York. Do you suppose...

[roamer65]

13. The EU had better think again with the opening of the new locks at the Panama Canal.

Bigger container ships are now going to be able to transit the locks and make a direct trip to the East Coast of the US and Britain. Frankly, the EU makes very little that cannot be sourced elsewhere.

The world just got smaller.

Congrats to the Panamanians on a job well done!

[PaulaFarrell]

17. Britain makes nothng that cannot be sourced elsewhere

Trying to imagine how the UK could fiull one of these bigger containers ships and coming up blank.

[Recursion]

19. Ooh, I know: Sheffielders looking to move somewhere that has jobs (nt)

[muriel_volestrangler]

23. That only makes a difference for the west coast of the Americas going to Europe

https://www.bbh.com/en-us/insights/redrawing-global-shipping-routes--the-panama-canal-gets-an-upgrade/10940

Coming from most of Asia, the Suez canal is still a quicker route than the Panama - from the link above, Shanghai to New York is 26 days via the Panama, and 28 days via the Suez. But to Europe, you'll add on a couple of days to the Panama trip, and take off perhaps 7 (if you go to a Mediterranean port) or 4 (to a North Sea port) from the Suez figure. Either way, Suez is quicker than Panama.

It's good for California, or, say, Peru to Europe, but Panama is mostly important for the US east coast.