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Originally Posted by martyh
None of which has anything to do with kicking criminals out of the country.We get to dictate our terms now not Brussels
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Not until we've actually left.
You may not care about an £18-36 billion a year hole in the economy with £8-10 billion a year less tax for schools and hospitals as a result of a WTO deal on financial services for the sake of 'sovereignty', I would hope HMG do.
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Originally Posted by martyh
Some of it we can and should ,for example criminals,and i'm fairly certain the EU couldn't give 2 hoots how many criminals we refuse entry to or deport ,not now we are leaving anyway .
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None of it we can, or should. The country is signed up to the EU treaties until Brexit day.
I'm fairly certain the EU would be quite bothered if we started tearing up the treaties early. They would have no choice politically but to retaliate, probably by withdrawing our access to the Single Market early. I appreciate this is something you'd love to happen but those who live and trade in a bigger world really don't.
I have no idea whether you negotiate anything or are purely a manual worker, but as a general rule upsetting people before you negotiate with them isn't a great way to get a good result.
The attitude you seem to want to take towards the EU, basically ''eff it and 'eff them' terrifies UK businesses for good reasons. Between that and the government deciding it wants to start controlling the economy more, that'll be the bastion of free trade stuff kicking in, we quickly become an even less attractive location for investment.
We aren't entitled to investment from abroad. We keep sending out these signals about making it harder for them to do business here all the corporation tax cuts in the world won't help us, shell companies don't tend to employ many staff or pay that much tax.
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Originally Posted by Chris
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Sounds great, but how does it help the UK longer term when assets, and the income they generate, are being sent abroad on what is, to them, the cheap?
Also ignores the impact on inflation which will be filtering through more and more. People's wages aren't going to suddenly start going up, so what about real wages and living standards?