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A couple of SME owners (Leaver & Remainer) campaigning for a smart approach to Brexit. We favour the EFTA/EEA option as a perfect compromise.

[David Henig 🇺🇦 @DavidHenigUK]

I'm old enough to remember a time when we had politicians who would regard a hostile interview as a challenge they had to undertake to demonstrate their credentials to lead a country.

[Jonathan Hall @JHallHDI]

So I’ve seen a lot more interest in #EFTA #EEA this week, so here’s the question (please RT for sample size): if legal and parliamentary challenges fail and the choice is no deal or EFTA/EEA without a Customs Union, then would you be:

[SmallBusinessBritain @smallbizbritain]

@baghwallah A pleasure. It’s just a shame that 3+ years after the referendum that this kind of detailed, balanced and sensible discussion is entirely absent from the debate in both the media and Parliament (bar the CM2.0 crew of course).

[SmallBusinessBritain @smallbizbritain]

Spot on. Agree with every word of this thoughtful post...

[Baghwallah @baghwallah]

Don't let's be imprisoned by past failures.
https://t.co/62C8mtlNFE

[EFTA 4 UK @EFTA4UK]

How about instead of spending £2.1bn on no deal planning, we pivot to EFTA/EEA and spend the £2.1 billion on hiring more nurses, police and teachers instead?

[SmallBusinessBritain @smallbizbritain]

This is spot on. Timothy and May's decision to go for a harder Brexit was her first, and biggest, mistake. It wasn't inevitable that we'd end up here. May drove us onto this path...

[EFTA 4 UK @EFTA4UK]

If Nick Timothy hadn't encouraged her to rule out ECJ, EEA, CU etc early on, Mrs May might have had more room to maneuver and this might not be happening now. She allowed herself to be backed into a corner and her premiership was doomed from the start.

[Roland Smith @rolandmcs]

No Deal is the end of the road where all other options have run out; an admission of failure - that they don't actually need us more than we need them; a precipice at the edge of Britain's greatness; the point where hubris meets nemesis...

[Baghwallah @baghwallah]

No, @BrandonLewis, you don't work for any of that. You're obsessed with banning things, and you have opposed Margaret Thatcher's greatest achievements — the Single Market and Freedom of Movement (aka the Free Market in Services). A pox on your pitiful Party.

[SmallBusinessBritain @smallbizbritain]

A pointless delay caused by your failure to vote for the WA. A delay is better than your fantasy WTO exit too (and significantly less damaging to the country). If Brexit fails, the ERG and your media cheerleaders will carry the can.

[John Redwood @johnredwood]

Another pointless delay - the decision to delay Brexit is a bad one. The Withdrawal Agreement is not Brexit and is not acceptable to most UK voters. The WA is a long and expensive delay leaving the UK in a very weak position.

[Peter Geoghegan @PeterKGeoghegan]

Why on earth is David Davis back on #r4today? Seriously it’s almost like he has a weekly slot. In which he giggles inanely and says nothing

[SmallBusinessBritain @smallbizbritain]

@Peelite9 They're not even bothering with the details as long as the headline fits their "no deal will be ok" narrative.

[SmallBusinessBritain @smallbizbritain]

Moronic thread. Queen doesn't have to make a statement simply because you a) don't know how the constitution works or b) you disagree with an Act passed by the Commons and Lords. Royal Assent is a formality as Parliament is sovereign.

[EFTA 4 UK @EFTA4UK]

MPs need to wake up to the fact that there are only two brexit options on the table - a soft brexit or the break up of the UK. Once you accept that you don't want the UK broken up, then a soft brexit remains the only logical choice.

[SmallBusinessBritain @smallbizbritain]

Can you lot stop wasting time on this Malthouse nonsense? We need you to confront reality and come up with solutuons not more unicorns...

[Rt Hon Nigel Evans @nigelmp]

Theresa must say no no no to any longer extension- and no no no to fighting EU elections- offer Malthouse compromise, Leave into implementation period April 12...with one year extension for talks on trade with EU- and then we would have delivered for the country and democracy

[Adrian Yalland @AdrianYalland]

@redditchrachel You have a duty ro LEAD, not follow like a sheep!

No deal is a cliff edge. A danger. A threat to the economy. It will cost your constituents dear. Expert opinion is almost unanimous in that.

You can either be a leader or a sheep.

Which will it be?

[SmallBusinessBritain @smallbizbritain]

A very good thread from the team @EFTA4UK...

[EFTA 4 UK @EFTA4UK]

1/ In the images below, we have a mobile telephone and a calculator. They are both similar in many ways. Both are manufactured electronic devices.

[SmallBusinessBritain @smallbizbritain]

@leander_starr @LeaveHQ You mean they'll have to confront reality?

[SmallBusinessBritain @smallbizbritain]

How many times are MPs going to try and flog this deadhorse of an idea? It won't fly with the EU so why waste everyone's time?

[SmallBusinessBritain @smallbizbritain]

@NorthamptonEye @Anna_Soubry @peoplesvote_uk Totally agree. Very disappointing and risks of no deal have increased.

[SmallBusinessBritain @smallbizbritain]

@heidiallen75 @TheIndGroup Sorry but you all voted against CU and CM2 so you’re prolonging the pain. It’s also increased the risk of no deal. A lot of us are disappointed by your collective lack of compromise.