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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
When we leave the EU, it won’t be a 500 million bloc any more. Also in economic terms, our 66 million has the buying power of at least 120 million (I haven’t done the actual analysis) of the poorer EU nations.
What we need is decent negotiators.
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Surely that means the remainder of the EU totals 380m with buying power equal to or greater than us? Obviously that figure includes us, 314m without.
Decent negotiators? We can’t even negotiate a few hundred million pounds worth of fishing rights without the ideology getting in the way.