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Originally Posted by Carth
You could probably say the same about most things . . . especially if you buy from the major supermarkets.
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I'm not sure you understand Jon's point. The inference is that Nissans and Hondas will no longer be exportable from the UK.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Well, Andrew is also concerned about out imports being more expensive. I omitted to answer this properly last night, there was a lot going on here.
What I should have said was that while EU exports are more expensive for us to import with a weaker pound, with our new found ability to trade with additional countries, those same goods may be cheaper. The EU is not necessarily the cheapest to import from, I would say.
Anyway, the cheaper pound does not seem to have affected the average man in the street much, so it's not a reason in itself not to leave the EU.
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Which countries will we be able to trade with that we're not trading now? The EU opens up access to free trade with markets like Korea, Japan, Canada, Chile and Turkey that we wouldn't get automatically. There may be a village in Africa that we might be able to sell a few pots of Marmite too if we had a free trade deal with it but membership of the EU provides the largest free trade deals. And that's before we've even counted the 500m EU residents.