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Originally Posted by jfman

You are assuming it’s actually possible to deliver long term and sustainable economic growth when outside he largest trading bloc on the planet, with it entirely unclear where this trade will come from and what benefits it will have.

Your proposal is equally as hypothetical as chopping someone’s hands off and suggesting they find a way to tie their shoelaces.

Indeed politicians have told you the best way to deliver economic growth and that is to remain.

I’m still unclear on any EU laws we will be “free of” that will deliver economic benefits. I asked last week and got no meaningful reply.

We will be free of EU laws made subsequent to our exit. How our freed om is used to deliver economic benefits is down to policies to be set by a competent government (if such a thing were to be possible).

As to your "chopping hands off" analogy, that is ridiculous. You too are implicitly hypothesizing that peeling away from the Internal Market leaves us unable to develop our economy. Nah.


With regard to your best to remain sentence, as I've said before, economic growth isn't the be-all and end-all of benefit. We voted leave so that we take control of our destiny. Growth may fall but the forecasts (such as they are) don't forecast negative GDP, only lower GDP. No deal (or EEA) is a price well worth paying to get away from German hegemony, French control of the discredited CAP, the Spanish veto over Gibraltar & fisheries, the perfidious Irish government, etc.

Why would you want to have anything to do with those nasties?