Dave Plowman (News) wrote
charles wrote

the whole 'EU free trade' issue is a total straw man.
WE don't benefit from it at all.

Right. That explains why we were desperate to join

Britain wasn’t desperate to join, just wanted to do that.

- and no government of any colour since has wanted to take us out.

But plenty like Corbyn did.

So Turnip right - the vast majority of those directly involved, wrong.

It means that UK manufacturer goods or services don't attract
additional taxation when sold/proviided to the rest of the EU.
If you don't know that, then you shouldn't be discussing the subject.

It will have almost no impact when we leave.

It will have amajor impact on sales to thn EU

It will have a major impact on lots of things.

Bet it doesn’t. It will certainly have a major impact
on agriculture and immigration from the EU, but
I bet that is the only major effect it does have.

If there really were no trade benefits from being in the
EU, every single UK manufacturer would have said so.

Most don’t get involved in politics.

After all, why put up with EU regs etc if
nothing in it for them at the end of the day?

Some of them just prefer the lower risk of doing nothing
but are in fact still taking considerable risk with what will
happen to the eurozone if the EU can't work out how to
make it work.