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Very angry today. The way this has been framed and covered in the UK is ridiculous. You're not talking here about 'following new regulations or be punished', but about a bloomin arbitration mechanism between a huge trade bloc and a massive nearby partner.
The EU are not going to be there saying 'aha, you've reduced health and safety regulations in meatpacking, here's some tariffs'. It doesn't work like that. You'd have to have some pretty hefty changes to take to a panel.
You're going to help recommend and appoint the panel. It's going to have a remit and practice. Stop talking nonsense.
Focus on that - on making the language more like CETA, in which IIRC 'consult' and 'consider' are used a lot. Not on the *utterly absurd* idea that compulsory abritration on divergence is somehow weird.
You've got rid of ECJ. You've got rid of an independent arbiter in UK law. You've got rid of ex ante referral. You're out of the acquis and the Single Market. For God's sake, take your wins.
For this single point, you're going to lose police database and intell co-operation, Erasmus, full flights deal, European Research Council, you're going to accept obliterating your pasture farming? I never use mental health terms for obvious reasons, but I'm sorry, that's crazy.
