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Ah, but if you are old enough, you might remember that long before 1973 the UK spanned the world: India, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada.
by flexie 10y ago
Ah, but if you are old enough, you might remember that long before 1973 the UK spanned the world: India, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada. You even had 13 colonies south of Canada. And if you are that old, you might remember that they didn't like the UK way of trading.
I hope the UK will never get back that glory.
The EU never prevented UK from trading with the rest of the world. If anything, it enabled the UK to keep some commerce that would otherwise have bypassed the UK for France or Germany, as the Japanese memo also suggests.
- timthorn 10y ago> The EU never prevented UK from trading with the rest of the world Upon joining the EU, the free trade arrangements that the UK had with Commonwealth countries were dissolved.
- lispm 10y agoWell, the EU either has or is negotiating trade deals with 30+ Commonwealth countries... http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.de/2015/11/the-eu-or-commonwealth-dilemma-for-uk.html http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.de/2015/11/the-eu-or-commonwea...
- rbanffy 10y agoIt's very unlikely those treaties would be readily restored now. Two relevant things changed: the partners have made new treaties with other countries and now the UK needs the treaties more than their prospectie partners.
- flexie 10y agoAnd new trade deals were entered into with many of those with the EU as a party. Now they are EU trading partners, interested in remaining such, and to the extent UK agreements would collide with their EU agreements they are not prone to giving up any advantages they might have for the sake of dealing with their old oppressors.
- mattmanser 10y agoSo, we shouldn't leave the EU, but super-states are bad... Great reasoning.