Brexit Metaphor No 156
A country can switch to a different regulatory regime but this would be like learning to write with your left hand for a right-handed person: not impossible but be pretty difficult and quite time-consuming.
Britain's metrification (switching from Imperial units to kilograms and metres) took 30 years between 1970 and 2000. How long would it take to switch from EU membership to being outside of the EU then? And would anyone be surprised if most of the Brexit policies came out left-handed.
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| Measuring tape (Source: Wikipedia) |
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