Holding Centre

The "Norway Option" is for people who do not really want to leave the EU, and who think that it only went bad at some point in the very late 1980s. But in any case, EFTA would never let us back in. There are two reasons for that. 

First, the sheer size our economy would unbalance the whole thing completely. And secondly, the only point of EFTA is, and has always been, as a holding centre for countries where the Political Class wanted to join the EU, but where enough of the electorate remained sufficiently unconvinced.

Britain was the principal force in the creation of EFTA, at a time when Britain was exactly that kind of country. 10 countries have ever been members of EFTA, and six of them, including four of the six original members, have left it in order to join the EU. 

No country has ever left EFTA except to join the EU. No country ever will leave EFTA except to join the EU. That is exactly what EFTA is for. And no country that had ever left the EU will ever be allowed to join EFTA. That is exactly what EFTA is not for.

I do not know why people who do not understand even these basic things are allowed to have a say over them, but another hung Parliament is coming, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it.

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