"Yes whickerman but 2 can play that game, do you really think that France, Germany etc would not want to sell us their goods?". Loosehead, it's not so much them selling us their goods, it's us not being able to sell them ours.
With no export markets of our own, where would we get the money to buy their goods?
What's more, many international companies who currently manufacture or have their European headquarters in Britain, would naturally move out if we were not part of the EU, so Britain would end up as poor as some of the former Eastern Bloc countries.
What's worse, is that the many thousands of people like me who live and work in Europe would be forced to return to the UK and live with all those tiny-minded little-englanders.