Refs are a super under rated team this year . That was a great offensive effort on their part . <| sep |> Character attack ? By saying that three expert witnesses probably know more than you ? You ' re a grown man and know very well what you ' re doing when you do it . You don ' t have to make snide comments about Guardian readers or whether these three probably know more than you . Either be civil or stop it . The consensus from the witnesses seem to be that we should leave the single market and customs union , and look to form a sectorbased Free Trade Agreement , with the possibility of a 34 year transitional agreement in the meantime . Which won ' t sell . The Brexiters have made roared at any suggestion of leaving the single market and made their desire of retaining membership of it their very clear . Which is understandable because it ' s what they were promised by the campaign they voted for . Some of the cards the UK is able to negotiate with is things like security How ? Beyond the utmost trivial level , at level level is the UK able to bargain with security ? As I ' ve already said the EU is more than capable of protecting it ' s own interest and support for further military investment is growing , not abating . Furthermore the UK is already obligated to provide military assistance to the majority of EU member states under NATO regulations . You ' re going to have to go into more detail than this if you want to use it as an offer . There ' s also the option to offer additional support such as help towards infrastructure development to certain countries within the EU . This is certainly an option albeit a minor one . The UK was always vocally against using British money to invest in infrastructure in the continent , particularly in eastern Europe where this investment was most in need . Apart from this , the idea that token or otherwise infrastructural investment is a sufficient key to being offered single market access is absurd . It is a long panel covering a wide range of subjects , so I can ' t type out everything . I ' m not expecting you to , but you introduced it to the topic so unless you were just counting on the weight of 3 names to carry the argument in the place of actual content it ' s down to you to explain what was covered and how . Internet arguing aside , I recommend watching it because it gives a good idea of what the concerns are such as timelines . etc . and what kind of deal we ' re likely to expect . I ' m keeping an eye on as much of the negotiation coverage as is practicable but the simple fact of the matter is that it ' s too early and there are too many variables to reliably go into details until Article 50 is enacted . At that point we ' ll have a much better idea of what ' s going to go down , although Westminster is understandably hesitant to actually enact it both because it ' ll mean they ' ll have to put all their cards on the table and because they just probably don ' t want to .