Free Trade Or Else

Having at last heroically liberated our great nation from the bureaucratic tentacles of the Nazi-Soviet single market in Europe, Her Majesty's Government is naturally concerned to offer the provinces appropriate protection against any kind of complex and fragmented regulatory environment, such as the one Her Majesty's Government and its chums have spent the last few years bringing about. A single market among the Euro-wogs may be an insult to democracy and an assault on parliamentary sovereignty; but the British single market in Britain, with its Britishness belching Britishly forth in all its resplendent Britishness, is altogether a more British proposition. Accordingly, in what the Imperial Haystack, with his usual plausibility, referred to as "possibly the biggest single act of devolution ... in modern memory", new legislation will ensure that the devolved parliaments don't take the idea of glorious independence to any un-British extremes.