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Re:UK votes to leave EU by lottin on Friday June 24, 2016 @04:55AM (#11967994)
Switzerland had to agree to freedom of movement of persons in order to get a free trade deal with the EU. The UK, on the other hand, is flat out opposed to freedom of movement, so it seems unlikely they'll manage to get the same conditions as the Swiss with regards to trade.
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Re:UK votes to leave EU by mcv on Friday June 24, 2016 @08:50AM (#11969384)
The Leave campaign was very contradictory on this point. They wanted to prevent EU citizens from freely moving to the UK, but they also claimed they could still get access to the common market like Norway or Switzerland. But you can't. They come together.

And if they did decide to get both, they'd end up fairly close to the current situation, but without a vote in EU matters. It's possible the Leave campaign may have mislead the voters on this point.

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Re:UK votes to leave EU by keithpeter on Friday June 24, 2016 @07:06AM (#11968757)
The UK may well not exist for much longer, get used to talking about England please.

Two and a half years is a long time, you may well find that enough people have sort of forgotten about EEA free movement of people requirements by the time it comes to actually leave EU and gain membership of EEA. Remember, 'enough people' is only about 500,000 or so, and that will be in the context of a general election.

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Re:UK votes to leave EU by Sean1708 on Friday June 24, 2016 @06:29AM (#11968537)
> The UK, on the other hand, is flat out opposed to freedom of movement

50% of the UK is flat out opposed to freedom of movement. In fact I'd wager it's even less than that since freedom of movement wasn't the only talking point of Leave.

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Re:UK votes to leave EU by tremon on Friday June 24, 2016 @07:06AM (#11968755)
It wasn't? It sure was the point that got the most coverage, at least here on the mainland. Other than "the EU is corrupt because we don't control it", what were the Leave side's arguments?
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Re:UK votes to leave EU by pbhjpbhj on Friday June 24, 2016 @08:45AM (#11969336)
Freedom of movement seemed like the main issue, well "immigrants" really. It could also be a problem for people voting to remain. Indeed we weren't in the Schengen Area say if you wanted less movement within Europe then Remain could have been the right vote.

The other big issue was the money we pay to Europe which was exaggerated; has the falling pound wiped out that 'saving' yet?

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