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Originally Posted by Damien
It's not just the selling and buying of cars that's the issue though. It's about where those cars are made, regulations on cars and how the EU trade deals help car manufacturers access foreign markets.
The car industry would rather stay: https://next.ft.com/content/ab31282a...a-00144feabdc0 |
Yes, and we were threatened with carmageddon if we didn't join the Euro as well. That's the problem with so many of these anti-Brexit assertions: they are in many cases just re-heated anti-Pound assertions ... assertions which have been shown to be not just wrong, but dangerously wrong.
Most of the world's cars are made and driven outside of the EU. The idea that EU membership is some sort of all-conquering super-weapon, without which we can't possibly function in the world, is just nonsense. Most of the world is not in the EU, and most of the world's nations have smaller economies than we do.
Most of the world's economies are growing. The EU economy, when judged as a whole, is sclerotic. We are already bucking the trend, growing despite the EU, not because of it. We are shackled to a corpse, as Dan Hannan is fond of saying.