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  I'm with Cpt Haddock when he said in post 241:
  
  "2) Negotiate as advantageous trading relationship as possible with EU (The same as every other country in the world from Afghanistan to Zaire has somehow managed to).
  
  I really don't see what all the pointless wittering here and elsewhere is about. Which bit is difficult to understand?"
  
  But it seems that many do find it difficult to understand; in the Independent article linked to post 250, Sir Andrew Cook is reported as warning that he will stop finding [sic] the party if Theresa May pulls Britain out of the single market as part of Brexit. The same thing pops up in a Telegraph article: "In particular there is a debate about whether Britain should leave the European single market".
  
  OK, here's the thing. Since it was completed on 1.1.1993, all EU Member States have been in the Single Market and no non-EU States have been in it. Now, one could ask to stay in it, or one could ask to re-join it. But for a non-EU State to be in the single market is unprecedented.
  
  So Mrs May is prudent to tell Sky News (reported by the BBC) "The UK cannot expect to hold on to "bits" of its membership after leaving the EU" - even if it wanted to.

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