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Because _everything_ that happens between countries (and between the UK an the EU) is driven by treaties and agreements. Simple example: if UK leaves without a
by sz4kerto 9y ago
Because _everything_ that happens between countries (and between the UK an the EU) is driven by treaties and agreements.
Simple example: if UK leaves without agreements and treaties then there can be no flights from the UK to the EU. This sounds crazy but we have tens of thousands of bilateral agreements that drive even the most fundamental things, and they can be (and are) affected by e.g. the EU membership.
Or UK citizens would not be able to buy products from the EU because there would be no agreements in place that'd allow companies in the EU to export goods. Yeah, as soon as you BMW breaks down that's it, because no spare parts would be available.
Yes, it's this important.
- tzahola 9y agoBuy a Jaguar then ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
- ZenoArrow 9y agoJaguar is owned by an Indian company.
- jjoonathan 9y agoWhen did India join the EU?
- ZenoArrow 9y agoLook at the context in which the comments were made. The point sz4kerto made was about issues surrounding the import of BMWs and BMW parts. tzahola followed up with a comment about Jaguars. Jaguar is known for being a British car brand. The suggestion of importing from non-EU countries was not made clear, the implication I took from it was that British people could buy British goods, so I made the comment about who now owns Jaguar. Make more sense?
- mikestew 9y agoCars are still built in Coventry regardless of who takes the profit.
- jstanley 9y ago> Or UK citizens would not be able to buy products from the EU because there would be no agreements in place that'd allow companies in the EU to export goods. This is where you and I fundamentally disagree about how trade works. If I want to trade with a person in a foreign country, I don't see why our governments need to even know, let alone come up with some agreement. If the foreign person and I can agree a deal, why can't we trade without asking permission from our governments?
- eropple 9y agoBecause you have agreed, implicitly and in concert with your fellow citizens, to live in a polity with rules around how members of that polity interact with members of other polities in order to collectively wield the power of your polity for the aims of that polity. You can try to change the direction your polity takes with its stances towards others. You can leave if you don't approve of those stances and see no signs of changing them. But the question belies a fundamental misunderstanding of...yanno...why polities, why politics, exist.
- jjaredsimpson 9y agoThis isn't a real argument. What if you agreed to buy slaves from a foreign person? Governments obviously have a real interest in what their citizen do regardless of where that activity takes place.
- jstanley 9y agoWhat if I'm buying non-slaves from a foreign person? What if I tried to buy slaves from a non-foreign person? I'd argue the former is fine and the latter is still not fine. So international trade agreements are surplus to requirements, since basic decency is enforced anyway.
- polotics 9y agoWow Stanley, where do you live? You really believe that (quote) "basic decency is enforced anyway" ?