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Originally Posted by Mr K
The advantages are already proven: - free trade, more jobs, low prices, freedom to work in the EU, bigger say on european issues, workers rights.
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None of these things is proven. All of them is a comparative with the UK's alternative status outside the EU, and as you say we can't know what that would be like, we can't know whether prices are lower, jobs are more plentiful etc etc inside the EU than outside.
Negotiating a relationship with the EU, having just dumped the relationship we already had, is, naturally, a risk, however the status quo is untenable. The price we pay for the (supposed) benefits of membership is simply too high.