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Originally Posted by Mick
Yawn. 
Still going on about the non-Russia issue that didn't influence mine or the other 17.4 Million people who voted leave.....?  |
It only had to influence 634,751 voters to swing to leave, half +1 of the majority leave had.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Given that we will get a tariff free trade deal and the customs issues are resolved sensibly, as I believe they will, I think it is for you to prove that we will be poorer.
The people who are saying we will be poorer take the view that we will not get the deal the government wants. If you assume we will, you get a different answer.
As I said before, continued trade with no tariffs between the UK and the EU, plus new trade deals that we will agree with other countries, amounts to a plus, not a minus, for Britain.
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Given that the government does not want a customs union, then non-tariff barriers will exist, even it it's simply rules of origin declarations. These have a cost for either exporters to the EU or in enforcement for imports from the EU. I believe we will also leave the single market so there will also be regulatory barriers (CE marking, veterinary, phytosanitary, etc.)