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Originally Posted by Mr K
To be fair on this occasion he's right. EU withdrawal would be a disaster for the British economy which as a business man he now realises.
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Evidence for that it
would be a disaster please.
It may certainly harm big business, however this may also be more than offset by increasing the competitiveness of small businesses - purely domestic businesses will no longer have to adhere to the same standards as those larger businesses exporting to the EU, with extensive legal departments to ensure they adhere to the mass of red tape.
I can find you businessmen who work in more competitive industries and believe that the impact of Brexit would be neutral at worst to their own operations.
EDIT: You can use the CBI as an example if you like, but do bear in mind that of their alleged 190,000 members some 55,000 are farmers who are members of the NFU, which is affiliated to the CBI. If I say Common Agricultural Policy does that ring any alarm bells as far as their bias may go? The NFU are just one of the affiliated trade bodies all of whose members the CBI claims for its own.
The CBI is estimated to represent no more than 2,300 actual businesses in the UK. Less than 1 in 200. In addition their own position was for EMU / the Euro and they ensured they selected the cohorts they surveyed at that time to support their own position. That turned out well. There are plenty of indications they are doing the same again regarding Brexit.
We desperately either need to dive head-long into integration or to leave. The status quo won't do. There is no desire for change of the status quo, the desire is for ever-closer union and that's not changing. There's considerable evidence that ever-closer union isn't going to be viable and it's growing on a weekly basis - see the migration farce as Germany tried to fix its demographic problems in one fell swoop, ended up overwhelmed, and is now trying to strong-arm the rest of the EU to compensate for its mistake.