
Understanding Brexit Options
What future for Britain?By David KaudersLength2h 51m
About this audiobook
This book clearly describes other Brexit options available, their impact on the UK economy and on individual citizens resident both in the UK and Europe.
Are the existing trade agreement and "reset" good enough?
The basic trade and cooperation agreement has proved woefully insufficient for Britains needs. It has reduced the supply of doctors, nurses, lorry drivers, agricultural and hospitality workers, bringing pressure and chaos to everyday life. It has hit or will damage exports and employment in fishing, food, artistic and other services and it threatens the peace in Ireland. Leaving the EU internal energy market has increased energy prices
relative to the rest of Europe. Promised new trade opportunities have vanished.
This book explains alternative relationships with Europe. The detrimental effect on trade in both goods and services that has been caused by leaving the single market was entirely foreseeable. As the United Kingdoms relationship with Europe changes and evolves, the book documents better options that Britain needs but are rejected by its politicians.
Audiobook details
GenrePolitics and Government
Length2 hrs 51 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 21, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Understanding Brexit Options
2Acknowledgements
3The author: By the same author
4Wisdom from our forebears
5Abbreviations
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6Tables
7Introduction
81 Britain’s options
9Timetable for the UK to leave the EU
10Option 1, a complete break with the EU: “Hard Brexit”
11Hard Brexit and the single market
12Hard Brexit and the non-EEA existing free trade countries
13Hard Brexit and the rest of the world
14Four questions about trade
15Other consequences of Hard Brexit
16Travelling in Europe
17Option 2, a loose arrangement
18Option 3, staying in the single market: “Soft Brexit” (“Brexit-lite”)
19Soft Brexit outside the customs union
20Soft Brexit inside the customs union
21Option 4: negotiating a Close Association agreement
22The World Trade Organisation
23Evaluating the Brexit alternatives
24The coming recession: A word about capital markets
25Brexit summary
262 The importance of free trade
27Development of free trade
28The four freedoms, EEA, EFTA and British trade with the EU
29The European Economic Area
30Joining EFTA
31Free trade or migration?
32Alternative trading relationships with the EU
33Britain needs the single market but the EU does not need Britain
34Rotterdam effect
35Economic impact of leaving the single market
36Trade with the rest of the world
373 A British view of non-trade factors
38“Fog in channel, continent isolated”
39Keeping the United Kingdom together
40Reconciling the different groups of British attitudes to Europe
41British citizens residing in other free-movement countries
42The risk of political upsets
43Politics of inequality and austerity
44Regulation
45Negotiating with the EU
464 Britain and Europe
47The EU is not perfect
48What does the EU do?
49Structure of the EU
50The democratic deficit in Europe