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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
We want to trade financial and other services with them freely. This needs single market membership.
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The country voted to leave the EU and in doing so also voted to leave the single market and give up EU citizenship ,i think we should stop grasping at the single market straw
Trading goods is easy. Trading some services isn't especially difficult. Why should we have all the benefits of being in the single market with none of the costs? If we get that
why would anyone else want to pool sovereignty within the EU when they can have a UK-style deal?
They wouldn't and the EU are using the ultimate sweetener of free trade in goods and services ,not to mention the other 'benefits' of the single market to take control of the sovereignty from those countries and make sure that other countries don't try it .Unless the EU changes and gets rid of freedom of movement and a host of the other 'benefits' of the free market we shouldn't even try to stay in it ,it's just not worth it .Besides given the fragility of all the European economies do we really want to remain so closely tied to them and is the free ,market even working as it's supposed to .