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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
We were promised we could make our own trade deals. Corbyn's solution doesn't deliver on that and will leave us in a worse position than we are now, taking orders from Brussels.
Come on, Andrew, I'm sure you know the advantages Brexiteers see in leaving and I repeat, Labour's vision simply does not deliver.
Dress it up as you want. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a bloody pig!
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We were promised lots of contradictory things and doubtless some people still believe some of it to this day.
I know that the Brexiter Boris Johnson said "F--ck business" but the business fundamentals remain: If you're negotiating with large countries like China and India, being a 65m country is not an advantage compared to being a 500m person trading bloc. So there is no Brexy bonus here, Old Boy.
By not being in a trading bloc, we will have to be a rule-taker. It's all a compromise. You can either be in the club and influence the rules as we have done so on many occasions, or you can sit outside them and accept them. Even then, you can't pick and choose the particular trading bloc's rules you accept as trade is done largely with the countries closest to you, your options are limited. The closest rules a country has to others, the cheaper that goods and services can be provided.