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Originally Posted by martyh
You know what i give up ,you asked the question and every time someone tries to answer it you shout them down .Joining EFTA is an option ,it would mean we would not have to be in the single market but would benefit from some of the FTA's already in place ,or we could simply trade under WTO rules or we could negotiate our own FTA with the EU,the latter could be negotiated over the 2 year period and start the day after Brexit.There are options and we will take one and it will be ok simply because we are the 5th largest trading nation in the world,the EU need us to continue pretty as before for their own stability ,we already have all the needed regulations and infrastructure in place .You really need to get over yourself and stop trying to convince everyone that the end of the world is nigh simply because we kicked the failed EU into touch.Most of the world manage without EU membership, so will we .
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Correct. It's perfectly OK to question what'll happen and be concerned that we get it right but we need to have confidence that we can do perfectly well without the constraints, political and otherwise, that EU membership requires. IMHO the biggest failure imaginable would be for us to appear to have lost the confidence to manage our own future and find ourselves cobbling together an unsatisfactory deal which almost gives us the worse possible outcome.
The EU is in a mess with massive, I believe terminal, problems ahead and we need to remind ourselves that no matter what the bluster from Brussels might convey we don't need or wish to be joined at the hip to all of that and their inexorable lemming like drive to oblivion. That's the reality folks, the EU isn't interested in the reforms we would like, their only answer to the problems they've created is to insist that they haven't gone far enough. It's almost like they're trying to recreate the Soviet Union and with the same outcome.