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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
You may have thought you were voting to quit the Customs Union, but many leavers did not as it was not stated one way or the other. But a smaller country cannot negotiate better trade deals than a significantly larger bloc; thus you're correct in appreciating we'd be better off remaining in the EU.
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While it might be true that some would not have been aware of what a customs union was, the message that we would be able to forge our own trade deals was made abundantly clear. That requires us leaving the customs union.
Your analysis of negotiations between bigger blocs and smaller countries is too simplistic. You only have to look how Singapore operates, appreciate that we could operate as a lower tariff country, bear in mind that we are the 5th largest economy of the world, and little facts such as these, to realise that there is no reason why we could not improve our fortunes outside of the EU.
You take no notice of the negatives of staying in the EU against the new opportunities that would exist for us, and this is the big flaw in your arguments and these economic forecasts, which give too much emphasis to the possible downsides and nowhere near enough to the upsides.