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Old 09-02-2022, 16:41   #3856
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth View Post

I and others have said several times that this "grubby little project" as you call it has little to do with the promises made by the leave campaign apart from some exception such as the fishermen (who should be OK in about 4 years' time).

It was about rejection of the "ever closer union" mantra put out by Brussels and the handing of sovereignty over to the ECJ.

A competent government (which we don't have) would get us to a good point sooner. As it is, rolling over EU trade deals and making new ones does not make us worse off in international trade terms. Furthermore, the EU remains our largest trading partner. Why do we need to be a member of the EU?
We've generally done a great job on rolling-over trade deals.

But exports to Europe have suffered and costs have risen more than they needed to, making us worse off.

And asylum-seekers continue to cross the channel at their peril in large numbers. The deterrent that they will be sent back to the EU has now been removed.

We need to resolve the NI dispute and make EU trade as frictionless as possible as such costs will only be passed onto us again through higher prices.
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