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charles wrote:
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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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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?

nobody is saying that. The qquestion is can we get them to buy more of
our goods so that we can afford to import things from abroad.

Rather simple, isn't it Charles? But the concept seems beyond many on here.

In the protected EU market, we're not doing that well in terms of goods
sales.

Go to an open world market and suddenly we'll be able to compete with
China, etc? Pie in the sky.

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*Young at heart -- slightly older in other places

Dave Plowman London SW
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