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Originally Posted by Gavin78
Just look at the amount of money handed over to Greece? How much of that was or could have been in Osborne's budget for our economy? How much or how many times have we lost out under that status some of it I guess we'll never know.
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That would be none, only Euro zone countries were liable.
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Originally Posted by Gavin78
With the way the EU was going this referendum was going to happen sooner or later anyway. There might be talk of some businesses move out of the UK Vodafone as an example but well this is just a clear out or reshuffle and probably had every intention of moving anyway. Whatever company falls or goes there will be 10 others waiting to pick the pieces up.
Like Farage said we are open for business if you want to cut off millions of people you trade with and have mass job losses your end then so be it, it won't be the UK that causes your down fall but your own selfless acts.
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So why would major global companies have left the UK anyway if we had stayed. There was no indication on companies just wanting to move for the sake of it.
It's not so much cutting of trade just the fact that this trade will become more expensive outside the single market
As for a special deal just with the UK why would they treat us better then the US? The US trade with the EU is twice the size of the UK.
On top of this we will still need to comply with all of the rules and regulations of trading there, CE marking as a starter among lots of other things .
In addition if we say our rules and regulations will be ours to decide and so will start to drift away from the EU this would mean companies potentially having to produce a special UK version (this was the whole point of harmonization) and I can't see suppliers absorbing all of those costs.
J