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Originally Posted by Hugh
You're confusing superiority with reality - try negotiating with Sainsburys about your grocery shopping prices...
The problem is that it appears the UK wants all the benefits of being in the EU without the costs (monetary or legal) - that wouldn't be 'negotiations' for the EU, that would be capitulation.
Negotiations are based on mutual benefits only if both sides have things that benefit the other without undermining the basic structure of the organisations.
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Most of the money spent by the EU has little to do with the operation of the single market etc. Why does Poland get 9billion a year from the EU? Other than things like the EU commission, single market costs are largely borne by the individual states. They charge us such a huge unrepresentative amount that we have to be given a 66% rebate. The EU's intention has always been to remove that rebate. Don't want to dig out the figures and previous posts again, but even with the rebate, the UK pays a higher %age of GNI(Gross Nation Income) than Germany.
If a product is sold in the EU, then it is subject to EU law, wherever it has come from. Similarly any product sold in the UK(outside of the EU) is subject to UK law, NOT EU LAW. If we internally decide to follow an EU rule, then that is OUR choice, and not because Germany or France insist on it for their own countries agenda.
Why would small countries like Vietnam, do a trade deal with the EU if it's so biased in the EU's favour? Isn't the whole ethos of the EU meant to be mutual cooperation?