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What is your favourite Brexit benefit?

Where has this question come from? 😂

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Oh that’s great to read that the trade unions are now pushing for the Labour to abandon Brexit and rejoin the EU and allow freedom of movement back into the UK.

Sorry if I’ve got it wrong but this implies you want to be out of the EU.

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It doesn’t though? I mean it could be sarcastic, but that’s not a given.

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You’re right, it might be sarcasm. That’s why I asked if they thought Brexit was a good thing.

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I think you’re reading too much into an internet comment 😊.

It simply means that I am surprised the trade unions are now enthusiastic about the EU when they’ve been historically hyper critical of freedom of movement and cheap European labour. Trade unions, given they are the biggest donors of the Labour Party in the UK, could quite easily demand reintegration with the EU at the next Labour Party conference. “Reintegrate with the EU or lose Trade Union votes and money”. But they don’t… and won’t. Which is why I’m surprised at this comment in the article.

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The EU rules on FoM include the ability of states to prevent the abuses the unions were concerned over.

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Cheers for clarifying. On reflection that “oh” at the start should have given it away.

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