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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
We shouldn't pay for access to the single market and if push comes to shove we walk away entirely, the french and the germans already have teams going to financial institutions in the city of london to try and get them to move operations to the continent.
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We should pay if we think it's in our economic interest to do so. We need to be pragmatic and calculating here, walking away to prove a point or some misplaced notion of pride would be silly. We might not have to pay, it may not be worth it but if we think we should and it would be a net gain then go ahead.
If it involves privileged deals with the single market then all the better to keep the banks too.
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Originally Posted by martyh
Either we stay 100% in the EU as we are now or we 100% leave ,there can be no half measures
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We'll be out of the EU but there are many other agreements we can have with Europe. Europe as a bloc is our single biggest trading partner and is right on our doorstep, we are tied to them no matter what. So we need to work out what the relationship will be and
maybe paying a fee for access to single market as part of a tailored arrangement will define that relationship post-Brexit.
Brexit is happening but what comes next is wide open and we don't know what that will be. There will be downsides and compromises though, same as if we had voted to Remain.