Labour's plans to negotiate with the EU.

[Doubletrouble99]

Having just heard JC about how the labour party would be able to negotiate with the EU can someone tell me just exactly how they would solve all the 'unsolvable' problems there is currently with the negotiations.
He was full of very general ideas but absolutely none as to how to solve the NI border problem for instance.

India has a 150% tariff on whisky.

Guess which country has been obstructing a Free Trade deal between India and the EU, which has been under discussion for c10 years, because of concerns over visas?

You'd be right

Labour (JC aside) has historically had better relations with the EU than the Conservatives. Its MEPs are part of a cross-border group of left-leaning parties (as the Tories used to be part of a right-wing grouping before they decided to walk out). Blair and Brown both got on quite well with other European leaders and Labour were generally seen by the rest of Europe as easier to deal with than the Tories. They would also probably have approached negotiations with a different tone.

All these things are moot points of course as Labour are not in charge of negotiations and with JC/John McDonnell in charge they probably would probably be equally belligerent in tone. If, in some parallel universe, someone like Keir Starmer were in charge, I could see us being able to come up with an EEA-type agreement with a few little concessions thrown in re. FOM like the emergency brake which was already offered to David Cameron and more effective use of existing limits on FOM.