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pamela wrote:
Maybe we should expect to get our most profitable trade from places
like Honduras, Nigeria or Egypt. Can you imagine buying an Egyptian
toaster? Oh my! It's come to that,

Keep on saying, but it doesn't sink in.

Out of the EU we can buy pretty well anything we want from anywhere.
Including anything from the EU too.

The real question is what are we going to sell to other countries to
pay for those purchases?

the EU

why do you persist with this nonsense that from outside the EU they will
stop buying our products?

Ah - the eternal optimism of the confirmed Brexiteer. The UK is already
running a massive trade decifit in goods. Within the relatively protected
EU. And you really think that will suddenly change in a world market?
Where so many countries have lower production costs than the UK?

And if there's one thing the EU will be delighted to get their hands on
after we leave it is our trade in financial services, which is what keeps
us afloat at the moment.

This is why I voted remain. Brexiteers don't seem to have even a
schoolboy's grasp of basic economics. Just that bloody optimism. And you
can't sell that.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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