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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
You are both being very silly.
As I’ve already said, the baseline was reset by Covid. Had we remained in the EU, we would be no better off economically than we are now. There is no mutual ‘pull’ there - they’re all looking after themselves. Germany is in the deep doldrums, France remains totally up itself, Holland and Italy are in political turmoil, Poland seems to be doing well, etc.
Because people want to better themselves (=need) and business must make profit to survive (=must), so it will. This has happened before and requires the government to create an investment friendly business regime - which they haven’t properly done.
Had we remained in the EU, we would have had the same stupid government, no independence of action but maybe fewer boat people.
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You're again conveniently overlooking all the extra ongoing costs and missed inward opportunities like Tesla going to Germany and not the UK. It's great that Stellantis and Nissan have remained in the UK but to grow we need new investment not new red tape. "Three years on from Brexit and the impact to retailers and consumers has been relatively limited. However, in many ways, the most difficult bit is yet to come, says British Retail Consortium’s Andrew Opie."
That difficult bit is more red tape further denting the UK's Brexit-induced declining productivity.