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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
We will get a deal, and we will have a frictionless border. All these negative scenarios about being poorer are based on an assumption that this will not happen.
How, exactly, do you think we will be able to forge our own trade deals if we remain in the customs union? That notion is a fantasy. The government has made it very clear. We will be out of the EU, out of the common market and out of the customs union. A way will be found to achieve a frictionless border.
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As Professor Minford of Economists for Brexit made clear, we're part of a European supply change. He was in favour of a hard Brexit but said that the UK would cease to be a significant manufacturer if that happened. We don't have the kind of internal supply chain that larger countries like China do. By geography we are part of a European supply chain.
I'm afraid the cat's out of the bag and the implications of the choices that the country has to make are becoming clear. Boris's F-business rant says it all and unlike the Heathrow vote, he can't fly out of the country to miss it.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
No-one here has yet explained why more trade makes us poorer. Do you actually know, or are you simply chanting the same old mantra?
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You'd be better off posing that question to a Trump supporter on that thread.
The question with Brexit is how less trade with the developing world, Asia Pacific, America and Europe and on worse terms with more red tape will make us richer.