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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
You've changed your tune, too, Andrew. Little Singapore is doing better than us with the sort of policies Boris is considering. And yet you said we couldn't survive against the big boys.
Well, if Singapore can do well, so can we.
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Not atall. I've never said we can't survive against the big boys. My ambition extends beyond your apparent ambition of survival to optimising our position in the world both economically and politically.
Singapore is a very small country which can focus on a few things in the same way that Luxembourg does. The UK is far larger with historical industrial legacies so can't follow Singapore's route. It can either be part of a larger bloc like the EU (which helped turn the country around from being the sick man of Europe) or it can be stuck between the EU, China, etc and do its best.
Other reasons why it won't work are detailed here:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...emier-lee-says
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/27/u...ntl/index.html
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
The withdrawal agreement, of course. By the end of 2020, the expectation was that a trade deal would be in place.
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Totally agree.
