According to the president of the European Union (EU), the UK
is confronted with the unambiguous decision of either a hard Brexit or no
Brexit, the first occasion when he has taken such an unmistakable line on the
feasible result of the UK's leave talks.
This announcement came hours after Boris Johnson, had told
an advisory group of MPs of his certainty that Britain could strike a superior
exchange deal with the EU after Brexit, Donald Tusk utilized a discourse in
Brussels to ruin the notion that Britain can "have its cake and eat
it".
Addressing a crowd of people of policymakers in Brussels on
Thursday, Tusk – who heads EU leaders’ summits – said it was futile to guess
around a gentle Brexit, in which the UK remained an individual from the single
market. “The only real alternative to a hard Brexit is no Brexit, even if today
hardly anyone believes in such a possibility.”
Without naming Johnson, infamous in Brussels for his jokey
expression that Britain could have its cake and eat it, Tusk condemned
"the proponents of the cake philosophy" who contended the UK could be
a piece of the EU single market without bearing any of the expenses.
“That was pure illusion, that one can have the EU cake and
eat it too. To all who believe in it, I propose a simple experiment. Buy a
cake, eat it, and see if it is still there on the plate.”
Businesses, Labor, and direct Conservative backbenchers have
all asked the British government to strike an arrangement that keeps up a large
portion of the advantages of the single market.
Johnson had before told the cross-party foreign affairs
select group: “We are going to get a deal which is of huge value and possibly
of greater value … We are going to get the best possible deal for trade in
goods and services.”
However, Tusk cautioned that Brexit would leave both
Britain, and other members of the EU, more worse off. “There will be no cakes
on the table, for anyone. There will be only salt and vinegar.”
His mediation is probably going to elevate nervousness in
the City about the potential expenses of Brexit after the fast auction of
sterling lately, which was started after Theresa May seemed to hint toward the
begin of the Conservative party gathering that she supported a total separation
with member country of the EU.
So far some senior ministers are secretly point the finger
at each other for compounding the market flimsiness. The chancellor, Philip
Hammond, is said to be worried that some of his associates are neglecting to
get a handle on the full size of the dangers the administration confronts as it
explores through the perplexing procedure of Brexit; he, thus, is singled out
by others for notice of a financial "rollercoaster" in his meeting
discourse a week ago.
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