EFTA4UK
The Campaign to Rejoin EFTA
Applying to rejoin the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and securing a better relationship with the EU through EFTA membership presents the fastest and most realistic way to limit economic shock and build a brighter future for the United Kingdom.
WHAT IS EFTA?
EFTA is the ‘European Free Trade Association’ which the UK helped establish in 1960
HISTORY
EFTA was founded by the Stockholm Convention in 1960. Relations with the EEC, later the European Community (EC) and the European Union (EU), have been at the core of EFTA activities from the beginning. Since the beginning of the 1990s, EFTA has actively pursued trade relations with third countries in and beyond Europe.
EFTA and THE EU
EFTA consists of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. The Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA Agreement) brings together the Member States of the European Union and three of the EFTA States – Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway – in a single market, also referred to as the “Internal Market”.
The campaign in 2021
WHAT NEXT?
A no deal or a thin deal will not be sufficient for the UK and the shortcomings of the situation will become apparent very quickly.
In those circumstances, the pressure on the Government to act and return the country to a sense of normality will be overwhelming.
THE EFTA OPTION
Applying to rejoin EFTA and securing a better relationship with the EU through EFTA membership presents the fastest and most realistic way to return to normality.
CAN IT BE DONE?
Although there are challenges, we believe that EFTA membership could be achieved in perhaps 5-6 months and the new relationship with the EU close to a conclusion by the end of 2021.
GET INVOLVED
HOW YOU CAN HELP
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SOCIAL MEDIA
EFTA4UK campaigner Ben Kelly blames leaving the single market and customs union for many of our Brexit woes in his podcast this week...![]()
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kite.link/its-the-brexit-stupid
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Global supply chain issues seem to have hit the UK harder than most. Well, why could that be? Ben and Mat discuss that, the futile drive to get people back into the office, whether to hire moving comp...
The government is actively damaging our economy and making us all poorer. ![]()
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We cannot "build back better" having abolished freedom of movement - a market-based, flexible immigration system - and left the Single Market in order to erect trade barriers that restrict the supply of goods and a restrictive, hostile immigration system that restricts the supply of labour. ![]()
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www.ft.com/content/5f4db022-465b-4380-9f79-6f8db5c8eaba
Boris Johnson steps up battle with business over UK supply chain crisis
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Prime minister to say bosses have used high immigration as ‘excuse’ to avoid investment
'Britain is battling for scarce petrol at pumps, supermarket shelves are turning bare and traders have sent the pound plunging. “When are the locusts due to arrive?” joked the Bank of England Governor, Andrew Bailey, last week.'![]()
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We are suffering the consequences of leaving the single market and abolishing freedom of momement...![]()
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www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/10/05/sterling-struggles-investors-lose-faith-conservative-comp...
Sterling struggles as investors lose faith in Conservative competence
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The fuel crisis along with shortages of goods and workers is undermining confidence in the Government's economic management
' It makes complete sense to have a more liberal immigration regime with our neighbours with whom we do the majority of our trade and are geographically closer and thus a valuable source of labour to fill gaps in the market.'
Wetherspoon boss’s plea for liberal migration stance isn’t a U-turn. - Reaction
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Freedom of movement with our closest neighbours makes sense. It’s not a contradiction for Brexiteers to agree.
A real step towards reintegration with EFTA took place today, with the UK concluding a trade agreement with Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. These are the three EFTA countries who are also in the European Economic Area (EEA), along with the EU. It will not return all our (mutually) lost EEA privieleges, but it is a great start. (Switzerland is the other EFTA member but, like the UK, is otherwise a special case) However the BBC report is curiously coy about EFTA, failing to mention it at all. Ignorance or politics?
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