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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
what do you mean you can't walk away? what's the diff between the hard and soft brexits exactly?
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Technically we
can ignore triggering article 50 (the notice sent to the EU that we wanted to leave) but we won't. So it's not like we can go into negotiations with any leverage. The EU know they hold all the cards and we can't do anything about it now. May had this election with the sole purpose of gaining more seats in parliament and making the conservatives stronger to push through whatever laws they wanted post EU negotiations. It was a gamble that failed massively.
Hard exit/Soft exit. This is basically down to how much do we cut off from the EU. A soft exit would mean keeping, for example, tariff free trade with the EU, but the EU would demand that to get that we'd have to continue allowing freedom of movement for people in the EU. The freedom of movement was a massive deal for people wanting out so it's not gonna be great to hear they have to accept that.
Dunno if that makes for things any clearer