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Leavers - Reasons For Leaving
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I very rarely enter into the world of politics but I am sick to death of this mess that I believe is tearing the country apart. (Dramatic words I know, but hey ho).
What exactly will we gain from leaving the EU apart from independence and saving whatever billions Britain contributes each year? How will the Britain benefit from leaving? Whats in it for the average Joe and where will we stand on the global economic map?
Sorry if these questions have already been debated on here but I haven't viewed the posts and would like to know why its so important to leave, as I gather from what I have seen, most of you are leavers.
As a 'traitorous remainer' as one ABer has put it, viewings of my hanging, drawing and quartering will take place later!
What exactly will we gain from leaving the EU apart from independence and saving whatever billions Britain contributes each year? How will the Britain benefit from leaving? Whats in it for the average Joe and where will we stand on the global economic map?
Sorry if these questions have already been debated on here but I haven't viewed the posts and would like to know why its so important to leave, as I gather from what I have seen, most of you are leavers.
As a 'traitorous remainer' as one ABer has put it, viewings of my hanging, drawing and quartering will take place later!
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Even if I had voted to remain, I would have changed my mind by now. For one thing, the total palaver of trying to escape from them... and why would anyone want to live in a country that would hold a referendum, but keep going until they got the right answer? I find it hard to believe anyone is really hoping for that
Now hold on, "EU gave us BSE (mad cows)....." and (unless in my quick scan I missed something) nobody corrects that nonsense ? BSE was an utterly pure British product - cows were fed waste slaughter products from cattle ONLY in the UK and BSE erupted. Individual EU countries and others banned beef imports from the UK for years as a result. The poster's assertion really tops the nonsense I have seen put forward in the UK about the EU and pretty much everything "foreign". The whole Brexit thing is proving a rich source of education about the ignorance that is found in this country, way beyond the assumptions I had previously come across - and they certainly were not flattering either.
Sorry, been a bit busy but back now...
To be honest I thought the vote to leave was a knee jerk reaction to immigration issues but fair points on the others outlined.
My fears are more wider based in that we will be isolating ourselves from Europe although other countries seem to trade easily outside of the EU.
How will leaving effect the economy and the sterling? Will house prices rise along with food and other commodities? And what about the impact on medicine and the NHS?
To be honest I thought the vote to leave was a knee jerk reaction to immigration issues but fair points on the others outlined.
My fears are more wider based in that we will be isolating ourselves from Europe although other countries seem to trade easily outside of the EU.
How will leaving effect the economy and the sterling? Will house prices rise along with food and other commodities? And what about the impact on medicine and the NHS?
I shouldn't worry too much about 'tearing the country apart' if I was you, it's been slowly heading that way for the past 100 years. I believe the newly found 'sovereignty' will actually tear it apart even more because the enemy will now be squarely on our shores rather than those awful 'others' in the EU club.
The only benefit to Brexit to me is that I have some good plans of how to make some money out of it by taking business from our UK competitors who will be more disadvantaged by the disruption to existing EU trade agreements than me.
The only benefit to Brexit to me is that I have some good plans of how to make some money out of it by taking business from our UK competitors who will be more disadvantaged by the disruption to existing EU trade agreements than me.
“Most of our trade is with the EU”
Whilst that’s true of total (both way) trade, our exports to Non-EU nations far exceed those to the EU (by about £40bn a year). The reason our “total trade” is greater with the EU is because we run an £80bn pa trade deficit with the EU. More than three quarters of that deficit is with Germany (£30bn), the Netherlands (£13bn), Belgium (£8bn), Italy (£8bn) and France (£6bn).
Whilst that’s true of total (both way) trade, our exports to Non-EU nations far exceed those to the EU (by about £40bn a year). The reason our “total trade” is greater with the EU is because we run an £80bn pa trade deficit with the EU. More than three quarters of that deficit is with Germany (£30bn), the Netherlands (£13bn), Belgium (£8bn), Italy (£8bn) and France (£6bn).
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