"The one good thing to come out of Brexit: a bonfire of national illusions"

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You always had a choice when you part of the EU, and previous PMs negotiated numerous op-outs to specific regulations which applied to the rest of the EU members.

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You still haven’t grasped it.

The UK is bound, by this deal, to EU labour laws, health and safety requirements, quality controls, etc.

Not only for goods being traded with the EU.
The UK cannot undermine EU wages, etc.

If they do so, the EU has the right to compensation.

So, no matter which trade deals the UK wants in the future, no matter what they want, they’re going to have to stick to the EU’s level playing field.

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We did.
We also explained that the UK is sovereign over its own borders in the EU (hence passport controls and everything).

This was all explained to you many times.
And yet you think you’ve won sovereignty. Yet you think you have broken free from imaginary shackles.

All you’ve done is created a bureacratic nightmare for yourselves.

And most of you are too thick to even comprehend the deal you’ve just signed.

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Dude. You are seriously reeling in nothing but a trade deal which gives you something you already had and nothing what brexiteers thought they wanted.