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That's fine until you realize long term, that common market won't be around for the UK to export to -- at least nowhere near as open and free as it is today.
by radicaldreamer 10y ago
That's fine until you realize long term, that common market won't be around for the UK to export to -- at least nowhere near as open and free as it is today.
- bpodgursky 10y agoI'm certainly not arguing that leaving the EU is good for the economy net. But what the newspapers (or at least the headlines I see) are focused on is IMO the absolute least-bad fallout.
- disordinary 10y agoGood for the countries of the Commonwealth who, despite being part of the same organisation and historical empire, and even all having the same head of state (the Queen), have been locked out of trade deals with the UK because of the EU. What's the bet the UK falls back onto the "empire" that it has so long ignored.
- gcurt2 10y agoMost commonwealth member states don't have the queen as their head of state. Only 16 of the 53. With the exception of Australia, NZ, Papua New Guinea and Canada these 16 are almost all small (in many case island) countries. You can very be sure that Pakistan, India, South Africa and Nigeria along with 33 other countries don't regard Queen Elizabeth II as their head of state.
- disordinary 10y agoI should have said Commonwealth Realm then.
- dingaling 10y ago> that common market won't be around for the UK to export to Yet somehow the UK still manages to sell just over 50% of its exports outside the EU. Under WTO rules the EU cannot apply any tariffs to the UK that are more punitive that those applied to any other non-EU country.
- gonvaled 10y agoWhich is considerably worse than what they have today.