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UK.gov's Brexiteers warned not to push for divergence on data protection laws

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Re: @ Halcin

Actually the EU are dictating that leaving the EU (voted for) requires leaving the single market.

No, that was dictated in May's first speech at Lancaster House, the same Lancaster House where Thatcher extolled the virtues of the single market after the UK played a major part in designing the it, and repeated by May in every of her speeches about Brexit since.

As for the previous post, you don't have an answer apart from spouting Boris-like piffle, now you seem to believe the UK will a say in setting standards for 169 countries. There is no idea to Brexit beyond stomping off home in a tantrum with your ball and proposing absurd half-baked ideas.

Manufacturers will sell products with standards specified by and for the EU and stick a UK plug or steering wheel on it. The UK will either accept those standards or it won't but it will be in no position to get the EU to change its standards, in no position to get manufacturers to make special versions of products due to deliberately-introduced changes to standards that mean incompatibility with EU standards, and certainly in no position to go through everything at customs and confiscate items. It can't even do that with China now.

The UK has no leverage and no bargaining power either with the EU or with other countries it might want to strike trade agreements with because it opted out of all that, first with the referendum result and secondly with the inept government.

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