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IIRC UK Gov wants to establish UK standards. I forget the abbreviation, I don't think the UK has the capacity at the moment to produce and defend its own standards, anyhow CE standards are recognised worldwide, I don't see the need to develop competing standards.
 
Actually, revise my previous statement. Just set impossible standards in the industries we don’t have any stake in, like, er, handball and donkey sausages.
 
Interesting to look back 11 months:

 
In fact, the UK are banning live animal exports. Will that not mean the EU also have to, if a ratchet clause is agreed?
 
In fact, the UK are banning live animal exports. Will that not mean the EU also have to, if a ratchet clause is agreed?
Will you be able to transport live animals to N Ireland?
etc
Interesting to look back 11 months:

in that nothing much has changed?
 
Just saw another of those 'talks extended for a further 72 hours' type headlines. GET BREXIT DONE, lol.
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This possible failure of the talks is because of the EU insistence that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. It would be interesting to know what has been provisionally agreed to date, would give an idea how far we have come.

I see fishing as a problem because of political rather than actual value, level playing field and enforcement are much bigger but entirely predictable issues.
 
This possible failure of the talks is because of the EU insistence that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.

If they were agreeing piecemeal what is the incentive to compromise on any individual issue?
 
If they were agreeing piecemeal what is the incentive to compromise on any individual issue?
Free trade is tied to a level playing field, if we/they don't achieve a level playing field there will be tariffs. I would have thought there would be enough motivation to compromise on that without needing fishing to hold it up.
 
If EU minimum standards rise, then UK standards will rise (to avoid consequences). However, it won't work the other way. UK standards can go as high as they like, but EU countries won't have to follow suit. It has to be that way, because otherwise the EU would be giving the UK a power to single-handedly determine EU policy that the EU's own member states don't have.

So, it's a one-way ratchet. Like a one-way street, but confusing.
 
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If EU minimum standards rise, then UK standards will rise (to avoid consequences). However, it won't work the other way. UK standards can go as high as they like, but EU countries won't have to follow suit. It has to be that way, because otherwise the EU would be giving the UK a power to single-handedly determine EU policy that the EU's own member states don't have.

So, it's a one-way ratchet. Like a one-way street, but confusing.

UK standards and high, been a while since I heard a sentence built around those two things
 
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