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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
He has a point imo, if we're going to potentially become the next Denmark I'd like as much unbiased information made available to as many people as possible so we can an educated choice rather than relying on some shyster trying to persuade us to his cause.
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Yup. This is not going to be a small decision. The way it's being viewed at the moment is that it will be an action without consequence, that we'll be free of EU meddling and bureaucracy and that will be that. There is never a mention of the benefits we will and might lose. 50% of our trade is with the EU.
What happens to the car companies that depend on the smooth and tariff-free trade between us and the mainland when their factories are here?
What happens to the start-up community the government is trying to build at the Silicon Roundabout in Old Street? I can tell you now that there is an abundance of people that use the right to work as members of the EU there. Do we cede that to Berlin who also want that industry?
People point to Norway and Switzerland as examples of being able to stay out of the EU but they do still have to deal with some EU edicts only they have no power to sway them. Norway still trades with the EU but they get given the rules and they cannot influence or veto them.
Of course we don't know that the alternative is exactly. As Heseltine said:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...on-Europe.html
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Lord Heseltine said: "To commit to a referendum about a negotiation that hasn't begun, on a timescale you cannot predict, on an outcome that's unknown, where Britain's appeal as an inward investment market would be the centre of the debate, seems to me like an unnecessary gamble".
He told the Financial Times: "Why put your factory [in Britain] when you don't know - and they can't tell you - the terms upon which you will trade with us in future?"
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