03-30-2019, 05:51 PM
(03-30-2019, 05:38 PM)TETLEY74 Wrote: Sorry and I really do not understand the finer workings of politics but why are people so obsessed with the notion that the moment we leave the EU we will be incapable of sorting out anything ourselves and the whole country will suffer catastrophic economical & social disaster and dissappear into the abyss never to be seen again,,, I just don't get it myself even though I know it will anything put plain sailing.
As a member of an existing trading bloc we have trade deals in place the we will lose and have to work to, in effect, get back to where we already are. You can argue that, absent deals after a cliff edge, we could be totally free trade, like idealogues like Proth would risk but that leaves exporters completely exposed and sections of UK prodution also undermined. We have absolutlely nothing to negotiate with. The Brexiteers had no plans because they didn't think they would win. As I have observed, even arch Brexiteers like Gove have woken up given the size of the task at his own dept, DEFRA.
It won't be the end of the world if we crash out, but it will be very painful.
Why do YOU want to leave the EU, by the way?