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Originally Posted by Big Brian
Do we actually need to have access to the single market? What's to stop us just trading with the EU countries we trade with now like Germany, for example? I don't think we trade with all countries in the single market so why have access to it? I'm not sure how it would work but you could have private deals with the countries we do trade with in the EU surely?
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Not sure if there is a way of doing that given that the EU countries and EEA countries require freedom of movement.
Angela Merkel said Germany will continue to trade with the UK but there was no mention of on what terms.
Even it would be possible it would take a long time to negotiate all the deals and we have to wonder what the consequences would be in the meantime.
A lot of people use Amazon which is based in Luxembourg. I wonder what the impact of Brexit will be. Will Amazon stop trading with the UK or will it be business as usual with possible variations in price?
A lot of our reservations are based on the uncertainty and we need some concrete facts and decisions to decide our own course of action. Until those facts and decisions emerge, the uncertainty will continue and we will just have to watch and wait.