Interesting suggestion

I would counter that political and economic union way beyond a mere common market is always what the EU has driven towards, but it compromised that mission through the Big Bang enlargement in 2005 (and earlier by admitting Greece and Spain in the 1980s). Also, you should bear in mind that any common market has four fundamental freedoms: goods, services, capital and, crucially, people. It seems to me that the main gripe of those favouring Brexit is this last freedom, making British membership of even a simple common market hard to tolerate for them.

Posted By: King, Feb 20, 11:40:41