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Originally Posted by Damien
Well we haven't joined the Eurozone or the open-borders arrangement and that will still be the case. We're not signing away our right to leave at a later date (i.e is the 'one-state' happens) and in fact I suspect that if we do vote to remain EU Referendum will join the Scottish Referendum in the list of things that never end.
I see that it would be perceived as a stamp of approval though but such symbolism is partly countered by the symbolism of having 'Britain is not part of ever closer union' stamped all over the place.
I think a vote to remain would be a begrudging pragmatic acceptance than access to the single market is not worth losing.
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This isn't a marriage with an abusive partner though. It's more like a business deal between two companies that don't quite trust each other. However that business deal allows us to address a much bigger market so we put up with it.
My fear is that we would see our industries, especially services, stall in growth and maybe even recede as their access to the European market diminishes and we're faced with having to redo the existing trade deals which could take many years and result in worse deals. If we stay in I think things will be as they are. We will moan about the EU and occasionally get angry at some bit of stupidity but ultimately our economy will be more important.
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Isn't it diminishing now? What's the difference? The risks are the same.
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Originally Posted by Osem
More scaremongering, this time it's a lost generation cut off from the world FGS!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35911017
Would they be like the lost generation of unemployed, helpless youth in places like Spain, Greece, France, Portugal?...
How can anyone seriously argue that our leaving the EU would cut anyone off from the world?  |
You just got that off the NEWS. Can't you make your own mind up?