Thread: UK & EU Agree Post-Brexit Trade Deal
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Old 28-10-2019, 08:30   #1723
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Re: Brexit Development(s) Discussion
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Originally Posted by ianch99 View Post
It is sad albeit amusing that there are people in this country that actually believe this rubbish. This sort of stuff only really belongs in the Daily Mail readers comments ..

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Evidence please that No Deal is the bargain you claim?

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Yet again, the childlike tropes are wheeled out. You need to apply science and not faith to this process. Without evidence backed up by authoritative reasoning, all you have are aspirations ..
It is well known that when you remove restrictions and reduce taxes for business, entrepreneurs respond. It is not possible to forecast how they will respond in most cases but it is possible to determine the overall likely benefit. With something big like this, and with the additional incentives Boris would put in place, the benefits could be huge.

We will be trading with more countries, not less, and our trade with the EU will remain largely the same. So the absence of the 'science' to prove the point is on your side, old chap.

The economic forecasts are heavily weighted towards the benefits we would lose, not the benefits we would gain, so these are very skewed forecasts.

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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
The EU don’t have to “mean it” though. The longer we waste time we remain a net contributor to the EU. The longer the farce continues we demonstrate to other countries that leaving the EU is incredibly difficult, which suits their needs.

As for the part in bold you can see I’m referring to polling.
Polling or trolling?
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