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Originally Posted by Hugh
You have your statistics confused - whilst we import 54% of our goods and services from the EU, that is only 16% of their goods and services exports...
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Maybe those figures are not accurate but this from May is.
Trade is one thing if it works both ways but in the case of UK v EU it was all one-way. That's another reason we had to get out.
Britain’s trade deficit with other European Union countries is running at a record high level ahead of the referendum next month, official figures show.
The latest healthcheck from the Office for National Statistics on goods coming in and going out of the UK reveal that the gap between exports and imports in the first three months of 2016 widened by £0.7bn to £23.9bn.
https://www.theguardian.com/business...erendum-brexit
It was going down anyway so what's the point being in an organisation where not only does it cost billions to be a member but it also cost billions in lost revenue? You wouldn't run your own business at that kind of loss. Believe it, we did you a big favour.
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Originally Posted by Jimmy-J
Me too.
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Me three.
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Originally Posted by martyh
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 .
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What's so good about the single market anyway when we are trading at a 24 bn. deficit? Give it up folks accept the result and move on.
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Originally Posted by Damien
No but the single market is a big attraction. It's now an advantage France and Germany now have over us that they didn't before.
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Of course it is. They benefit from it, we do not.