"Clank" wrote in message
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On 01.02.2017 9:19 PM, tim... wrote:


"Clank" wrote in message
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On 01.02.2017 9:00 PM, tim... wrote:


"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 16:35:18 on Wed, 1 Feb
2017, tim... remarked:
I have heard on the radio more than once that legally we could
remain
inside the EFTA but still leave the EU since the former was a
seperate
agreement.

EFTA is Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland. Down in the
noise level.

Membership of EFTA requires remaining in the SM with FoM

So not really a Brexit at all.

well no

You know you don't have to tell me that ;-)


with Liechtenstein, (presumably due to it insignificant size) having
an exemption


And most informed opinion says Norway would veto us joining.

Why?

It doesn't do anything as "a block" that our size would dominate

Allegedly Norway thinks we would (dominate).

If we only get one vote, how?

That we export 10 times more to the rest of the world then they do may
affect them adversely, is irrelevant

We are going to be exporting 10 times more whether we are in their
little club or not

And that attitude is exactly why they wouldn't want the UK in their
"little

I think you completely misunderstood my meaning of "we are going to be"

It's not a threat

It is as it is

Or do you expect us to stop making Jaguar cars, RR engines and wings for
Airbus planes, just to please you?

Of those three, only one is controlled by a UK company. Which is a
basketcase in need of turnaround, oddly enough.

I suspect threatening Norway with "but who's going to sell you Jaguars,
eh?"

Look, it's not a threat

Norway has 5 million people

we have 60 million.

That we export 10 times as much to the REST OF THE WORLD than they do, is a
given.

It is not something that we use as a threat to get greater control over how
this little club negotiates it rules because it doesn't actually have common
rules about trade with the ROW (members of EFTA are free to negotiate their
own external trade deals)

If you thought that I was saying that "we export more to them than they
export to us", I WAS NOT!!!!!

tim