Anyway, qualification made, caveats noted, please read on.
Brexit Fear and Foreboding
Its July 2017, the British weather can’t decide whether to boil us or drown us and the Brexit negotiations roll on.
On the 23rd, amongst the endless array of internet gossip with Brexit in the title is a blog from http://www.iiea.com/blogosphere ( Institute of International and European Affairs) called Brexit : Employers Speak, by Tony Brown.
It goes like this:
In London a short, but clear, statement was issued by five organisations – British Chambers of Commerce, Confederation of British Industry, Institute of Directors, Federation of Small Businesses and Engineering Employers Federation EEF.
The statement affirmed that the group fully accepts the decision of voters last June that the UK will leave the European Union:
“We have come together to urge the Government to put the economy first as it prepares to start formal negotiations on the UK’s departure from the European Union. We call on the Government to ensure that negotiations take place in an atmosphere of mutual respect, and engage continuously with UK business interests on the many crucial and complex aspects of our future economic relationship with the European Union.”
The blog goes on to state the groups Brexit wish list:
Economic principles for the final agreement between the UK and the EU27 were set out, covering tariff-free goods trade between the UK and the EU; minimal customs formalities at the land, sea and air borders between the UK and the EU; regulatory equivalence and mutual recognition of standards on an ongoing basis; a flexible system for the movement of labour and skills between the UK and the EU; on-going UK participation in those pan-European programmes, initiatives and agencies which add real economic value to communities, businesses, young people and universities; and protection of the benefits of free trade agreements currently delivered through the European Union.