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In a grand democratic exercise, the British people have decided to leave the EU
Now, they're looking hard for the exit
While a lot of people know they are against the EU, fewer know exactly what they want instead
So let us take you around the post-Brexit showroom, where all the available models for new economic relations are on display
They all have different designs, so we can find the one that suits your priorities best
Whether that's to limit European immigration, be rid of Europeans laws, or remain a great trading nation
choice number one is to go it alone
cutting loose from a sinking continent and setting out on a great global adventure
Well, what is more boringly called the WTO, or World Trade Organization model
If Britain makes a clean break with the EU, it can keep the foreigners out, and it can ignore foreigners when making its laws
Unfortunately, it can also forget about a lot of the lucrative trade it's currently doing
Going it alone means to trade on the lowest common multiple of market access:
the WTO rules that almost every country in the world accepts
The WTO model is much worse for trade than the EU single market
As EU members, Britons have been able to buy and sell to other Europeans just as if they were in Britain
No tariffs, no discrimination, and exactly the same standards and regulations across the continent
Cutting loose means losing those benefits
So this choice is not so much the glory of the wide open seas
It's more lost at sea
If that doesn't appeal, how about choice number two? The Canada Model
Canada has struck a free trade deal with the EU
and the UK could try to do the same
It improves marginally on the WTO model, but it only covers goods, things you can load on ships and trucks
while the UK's greatest export advantages lie in services, such as finance and law
So what if you want to keep trading services unimpeded?
Then you might like choice number three
Ever heard of europeiske økonomiske samarbeidsområdet? Oh yes, you have
That's Norwegian for the European Economic Area, or EEA, which everyone calls the Norway model.
There's a lot to like about the Norway model
The EEA agreement lets Norway trade most goods and services freely inside the single market without being part of the EU
It can even strike its own trade deals with other countries
But then there was that thing about taking back control
And Norway has accepted wholesale the free movement of workers and the EU single market rules
So has Iceland, another EEA member
You could call it the Iceland model, if you prefer
Maybe that would do something for the football, but it won't keep immigrants out
By now you might be thinking that we're looking at ever more absurdly small countries for the UK to model itself on
Well, wait till you see this
Some unscrupulous dealers will tell you they can get you a special bespoke version of the EEA
This is choice number four: EEA+, or the Liechtenstein model
Liechtenstein is in the single market through the EEA
It's allowed some limits on freedom of movement
But Liechtenstein is 25 kilometers long, and has 37, 000 people
You won't get this model in a size that fits Britain
And even if you did, it would still require full compliance with the laws governing the single market
but without any say in what they are
So I'm afraid there is no model that takes all the boxes
If you avoid immigration, or laws not made at home, you lose out on trade
so you have to choose which priority to give up
If you could accept free movement, we do actually have a model that gives full single market access
and equal power of the rules
In fact, choice number five has been our bestselling model for years
It's called EU membership
But then that's the model you've just come to trade in