The Withdrawal Agreement needs to be renegotiated-made simpler and not so explicit
This is an interesting article by Sammy Wilson DUP MP – link below – and spells out some of the objections to the Withdrawal Agreement
Not mentioned is Article 4 which ties the UK into fully accepting Union Law (under ECJ rulings) during the implementation period and thereafter if no agreement is reached on the future relationship between the UK and the EU
In my view the government should be quite clear with the EU. The WA needs to be renegotiated, made simpler and act as a process for the two sides to negotiate the future relationship (the conclusions of the Political Declaration)
If there was a process like that it might be just possible for a FTA to be established between the UK and the EU for implementation by 31 October 2019
It will be clear during the weeks leading up to that date whether there is any chance that the EU will agree to such an arrangement and then “ jointly” with the UK give their permission for us to LEAVE the EU
If that appears not to be the situation, and we will be able to make that judgement quite early on, we would simply LEAVE the EU
There should be a political resolve that this new approach would have to stand firm
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