EU Red Lines

         
         When is a red line not a red line. Apparently when it is a EU
principle. The EU's consistent line is that the UK's red lines make it
very difficult: leaving the Single Market; leaving the Customs Union
and ending the jurisdiction of the ECJ in the UK. Is it not the EU's
insistence on the indivisibility of the "four freedoms" - free movement
of people, goods, services and capital resulting in the Single Market,
Customs Union and the claimed supremacy of the ECJ the biggest red line
of all?
Pragmatism is more than just a word! The UK has just unilaterally
extended the rights of EU citizens to remain in the UK should they
arrive during the transition/implementation period. Evidence of the
EU's claimed pragmatism and political good faith would be shown by
rapid reciprocity for UK citizens going to the EU in that period.

Letter to Independent 1st March 2018