One thing I think that is telling is that I heard the UK government has characterized this as a "Canada like" agreement (e.g. NAFTA).
I think there is some deeper truth in this. UK is setting itself up to be in a very similar role, i.e. Canada::USA -> UK::EU.
When you are the junior partner in a tightly coupled trade partnership, you have a lot of nominal freedom in practice you are going to steered by the larger player, both intentionally and not.
Who was it that said, "When America sneezes, Canada gets a cold"? I think that was originally a european saying, so we've come full circle.
I'm not sure people in the UK have really come to terms with this, yet. There is no plausible return path to, say, pre-war UK on the world stage. There might be room for another Canada though.
I think there is some deeper truth in this. UK is setting itself up to be in a very similar role, i.e. Canada::USA -> UK::EU.
When you are the junior partner in a tightly coupled trade partnership, you have a lot of nominal freedom in practice you are going to steered by the larger player, both intentionally and not.
Who was it that said, "When America sneezes, Canada gets a cold"? I think that was originally a european saying, so we've come full circle.
I'm not sure people in the UK have really come to terms with this, yet. There is no plausible return path to, say, pre-war UK on the world stage. There might be room for another Canada though.