11-10-2016, 11:30 PM
“If you have a grounding based on Shakespeare, you never come across anything new,” is Michael Heseltine’s verdict on the shake-up of British politics triggered by the EU referendum. “Shakespeare knew it all, articulated it all, laughed at it all, exposed it all. Keep around in politics and the Shakespearean plot comes back and back…”
Interview: Michael Heseltine—Brexit was very scary before. It still is | Prospect Magazine
The basic position of all the institutions in Europe is very clear: the four freedoms are bound to each other. The internal market is based on four freedoms — not three, or two. Goods, services, capital, and the free movement of people. You cannot separate them. I think this is a perfectly firm and clear position for everybody. It's easy to say 'yeah, we want a special passport for people working in our services to go and work in Europe,' for example, but the opposite, like the possibility of Polish people to work on a construction site in London, is not possible. This just doesn't make any sense.