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Re:UK formally leaves European Union after 48 years by hndudette on Thursday December 31, 2020 @07:50PM (#25599332)
The chains are still on because the UK still needs to trade with said bureaucracy, and of course the fault of that lies with the EU's bureaucratic nature itself instead of the UK's decision to exit.

Ultimately we should want the EU to be eliminated entirely and replaced with a multilateral free trade treaty, and UK's exit is a very productive step in that direction.

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Re:UK formally leaves European Union after 48 years by riffraff on Friday January 01, 2021 @02:58AM (#25601625)
How does that multilateral free trade treaty works?

You'd still need the same bureaucracy compiling the norms, except instead of doing it once for 27 countries you'd do it 27 times.

See how long it took to create other agreements like the EU/Japan, EU/Canada and failed EU/US.

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