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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Yikes. During today we've gone from 55% of our imports coming from the EU to 75%.
Given there are no tariffs on services it's pretty good that our exports to them are largely these, so that's comforting.
They can't arbitrarily slap tariffs on us. We would default to Most Favoured Nation status within the WTO. We'd be subject, at worst, to the same Common Customs Tariff as everywhere else.
Obviously with 2 years of negotiation before exit we'd have ample opportunity for our market to begin to work with suppliers outside the EU. Outside of the CCT there wouldn't be large tariffs being placed on goods like foods and solar panels in order to protect French farmers or German manufacturers.
It's really not as simple as doom and gloom, neither would it be a smooth and painless transition. It's not beyond the wit of man to get it done.
EDIT: All this said I should mention that if people think we're not going to negotiate free movement or something basically indistinguishable from it post-Brexit as part of a deal you're mental. It's not about that for me and I'm fine with it.
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The Single Market is NOT that important. Vote Leave:
Britain's main export market is no longer the EU
Britain is exporting more goods to countries outside the European Union than to countries inside for the first time since the UK joined the Common Market in the 1970s, official statistics show. And this comes from what I call The Torygraph.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/e...er-the-EU.html
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Originally Posted by Pierre
Bored of it all.
Also, being fairly politically engaged as I am, I don't want to listen to politicians that most likely know less about all the issues than I do.
I don't understand why people think politicians somehow are experts on this, they're not.
Ignore the politicians, seek out the facts away from the " official" campaigns.
I'm still 50/50.
Nothing either campaign puts out will affect my decision.
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I listen to what they have to say and sometimes it makes my day. Most of them should change career and become stand-up comics but they do not and never have influenced my vote. Like you I consider myself politically savvy since the age of 16 and make my own mind up. The Single Market in my honest opinion is not a good enough reason to vote to stay in the EU. See my post from the Telegraph. I scour the net looking for facts to back up my statements on here unlike some who seem to spout the same garbage the In or Out Campaigns feed them. I agree wholeheartedly with you on this.