In message e.net, at
21:06:21 on Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Mark Goodge
remarked:
There are, broadly speaking, three post-EU options:

1. Membership of the EEA and EFTA (the "Norway" model).
2. Membership of EFTA, but not the EEA (the "Switzerland" model).
3. No European trade bloc membership at all.

Obviously, all of those have different sub-options, and there are more
variants to option 2 than option 1 and many more variants to option 3 than
options 2 and 1. But they do represent three distinct scenarios which could
usefully be voted on.

What also makes them viable as voting choices is that the EU cannot deny us
any of them. EEA membership is available to any member of either the EU or
EFTA. So if we join EFTA, the EU cannot exclude us from the EEA if that's
what we want. The other EFTA members could, theoretically, veto an
application to join them. But that is vanishingly unlikely to happen.

Also mindful that currently EFTA is a very small club: Iceland,
Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.

One of the oft-overlooked aspects of the "Norway" mode is it doesn't
include free trade in fish/agriculture; nor does the Swiss" model
include freedom of movement of capital and services.

And of course 1&2 also require us to keep agreeing to freedom of
movement.

Here's a handy chart: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmwXJT8WcAA_LkB.jpg
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Roland Perry