PM says Britain is now likely to go for an Australia-style relationship with EU

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PM Boris Johnson says it's time to 'get ready' to prepare for no deal with EU

Britain's Prime Minister says that the EU is not open to a Canada-style deal and Britain will go for an Australia-style relationship instead

BREAKING: Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he has concluded 'we should get ready for an Australia-style deal' and adds the EU 'are not willing to offer the UK the same terms as Canada'.

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— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 16, 2020

BREAKING: UK Government source says Lord Frost has spoken to Barnier and told him not to bother coming to London on Monday for more talks.

— Adam Parsons (@adamparsons) October 16, 2020

Good news. The EU seem to believe they own our fishing grounds as though we were some sort of colony.

Lord Frost seems to be doing a good job and not backing down like the weaklings running the show under PM Theresa May.

Thoughts?

[dbgtz]

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A deal would've been nice but given the nerve of our European neighbours in demanding our fishing waters, they can go take a running jump.

Australia-style relationship suits me just fine.

Theresa May attacks government in the Commons for failure to focus on security implications of a no-deal outcome. Gove responds with her own words: "No deal is better than a bad deal." pic.twitter.com/26SEZz8quf

— Hugo Gye (@HugoGye) October 19, 2020

An exchange today between Gove and May.

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Next weeks thread: EU rejects Australia style deal

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Next weeks thread: EU rejects Australia style deal

They're unable to do so as Australia doesn't have an FTA with the EU. They trade on WTO terms, like we (and the EU) currently do with America.

WTO terms is the de facto relationship in international trade.

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So it's not a deal, they're just using the phrase "Australia-style" to make it sound like they've done something

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So it's not a deal, they're just using the phrase "Australia-style" to make it sound like they've done something

Relationship, yes. Australia has bilateral agreements with the EU on a sector by sector basis (eg, tourism/visas/security etc).

I always thought this was preferable to a comprehensive overarching agreement anyway so I am pretty happy with such an outcome.

HUGE defeat in the House of Lords on the #InternalMarketBill - we believe the biggest since Lords reform in 1999

395 peers opposed the government, just 169 supported, a margin of 226. Biggest prior defeat was by 191 on the Counter-Terrorism Bill in 2008https://t.co/fBJKN9l5Bp

— Constitution Unit (@ConUnit_UCL) October 20, 2020

In related news the House of Lords has just sent back the Internal Market Bill to the Commons by rejecting it by a huge majority. This however will not prevent the bill passing as the government has such a huge majority in the House of Commons that it can simply 'ping pong' the bill back to the Lords unamended.