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Family & Relationships34 mins ago
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.What he's whining about is the EUSSR hissy fit because we dared to leave. They can cooperate if they choose to. Trade etc can go on, they don't have to be so obstructive. You don't have to surrender control of your country to have free trade and general cooperation. I was happy with what we joined in 1973.
Not a single person mentioning the fantastic Brexit benefits; blue passports, signage in Dartford tunnel (at integer yard distances) and shellfish in the Thames estuary – plus many more I’ve listed.
Let’s not mention the loss of £40 billion a year in tax revenues to the UK exchequer – how could anyone think there was any downside to Brexit (let alone the biggest disaster in their lifetime)?
No 10 seemed to be struggling a bit today to find any real Brexit benefits:
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He (or is it the narrator, it’s not clear) suggests the Chancellor should say “Look, we’d like to do X, Y and Z but we can’t because of Brexit”.
But five years ago the call would be “Look, we’d like to do X, Y and Z but we can’t because of the EU”.
The government can do what it likes. And what it should do is to build relationships with the rest of the world (which is generally open to doing business and growing) and kick the EU (which is generally restrictive, regulatory, and diminishing) into touch .
The Withdrawal Agreement and particularly the Windsor Framework should both be ditched because far from smoothing trade, they both simply impose additional burdens. They should never have been signed.
Lord Sugar suggests that the UK was never pro-European but saw the EU as a necessary evil. He is absolutely correct and much of the Remain campaign was built on that premise. Not so much it’s a great club to belong to – more it’s a club we cannot leave.
That is still the attitude now. Nobody – not even Lord Sugar – is extolling he virtues of the EU. He is simply commenting on the difficulties it makes for non-members. That’s because it is a pernicious, protectionist organisation which seeks to stifle competition not only from without, but also between its own members.
Rejoining would be even more foolish than joining in the first place (but then we didn’t have the benefit of hindsight). The UK needs to tear up any agreement it made with the EU as clearly none of them work and instead associate itself more with countries which are open to proper business instead of stifling regulation. It also needs to revoke any legislation it has made which compels us to pursue he unachievable and pointless “net zero” lunacy and get the country working properly again.
“….blue passports, signage in Dartford tunnel (at integer yard distances)”
Neither of those was a Brexit benefit. EU member nations can issue their passports with any colour cover they choose.
Throughout our EU membership it was unlawful in teh UK to display road signs showing anything other than miles or yards.
If you are going to make fatuous arguments you should at least get it right.
If Lord Sugar believes the UK government should go “on bended knee” to beg for readmittance to the EU he should move elsewhere. Anyway I strongly suspect they wouldn’t have us as a member. Apart from a few rabid politicians, few people in the UK believe in the European Project. Those craving for readmittance do so only because they think being outside is all too much trouble for them. They need to crack on and live with it. The EU requires total acquiescence and compliance and that is not in the nature of most British people.
Billionaires don't see it that way, untitled...self made billionaires are generally driven/self motivated, want to continue to succeed, don't want to lose their wealth and want to pass as much as possible onto their families, preserve their status in society and in some cases want to be a benevolent donor to charities etc. Why else do they continue? If they agreed with you they'd all retire/close their businesses (and lay people off maybe) after making a few tens of millions and just put their feet up
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