Daniel Hannan:
Owen Paterson:Absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the Single Market.
Scrotal Pimple:Only a madman would actually leave the Market.
Matthew Elliot:Wouldn't it be terrible if we were really like Norway and Switzerland? Really? They're rich. They're happy. They're self-governing.
Arron Banks:The Norwegian option, the EEA option, I think that it might be initally attractive for some business people
Official campaign:Increasingly, the Norway option looks the best for the UK.
Minister of Bullshit, immediately after the referendum:"There is a free trade zone stretching all the way from Iceland to the Russian border. We will still be part of it after we Vote Leave."
There are no rational interpretations of these statements--that pass the "oh come ON"-test--that amount to anything less than explicit or implicit endorsements of outcomes that involve meaningful access to the Single Market comparable to eg. the EFTA model--or, in Johnson's case, at least an FTA.there will continue to be free trade, and access to the single market.
Vote Leave staffer:
https://www.newstatesman.com/politic...-single-market
Indeed, even you spent a number of posts on this Norwegian fantasy--and, a year ago, you said:But what is more concerning is the number of people who believe in an imaginary mandate to leave the single market, or rather to withdraw from the EEA Agreement. No such mandate exists. Vote Leave did not ever present to the electorate a plan for Brexit, and did not advocate leaving the single market. Don't believe me? Our website is still online at voteleavetakecontrol.org. Take a look at our campaign messages and our claims. We argue for things which are utterly achievable in the EEA and make no mention at all of leaving the single market.
http://theworldforgotten.com/showthr...l=1#post181357I don't think the government could whip its own MPs into agreeing a Norway style agreement (since that still includes unlimited free movement) which means relying upon opposition MPs which may pass amendments to demand other things too which is then a very risky strategy. OTOH if the negotiations end as a forced choice between a Norway style agreement and no agreement at all then there would be a massive forced majority to agree to the Norway agreement rather than let the clock run out.
Please prepare yourself for some bullshit sophistry that doesn't pass the "oh come ON"-test.