[Cherie]

just seen this blog from DR and she has put it much better than I ever will....hope you don't mind me reproducing it here..

rexit was described by US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross as a “God-given opportunity” to take business from the UK, while Britain is facing a “period of confusion”.

We have outsourced ourselves for decades to the EU and subsequently have very little experience on how to make good trade deals and because of the imbalance of market size, that puts us in a terrible bargaining position. This could well end up as a game of bullying and when it comes to bullying, the larger guy usually wins.

What we are going to end up with is American rabid free traders because most people won’t be willing to pay for expensive cuts of British meat and dairy products. Our own prices will cripple the economic sustainability of large parts of our farming and that’s why the American food chain will move in with ease. The more we are forced to close down, the more unaffordable our meat and dairy products will become.

Remember what happened when Thatcher removed the tariffs from imported coal? This is going to be the same story again and again and for what… for some short term gain to a small number of people at the top.

And for those worried about chlorinated chicken (and so you should be), its not just food. Food labelling, in fact any labelling will have to be deregulated. Changes in our NHS system will almost certainly happen. Undermining our already crippled NHS by charging for pharmaceutical products more in line with America will ensure our NHS fails. It means changing our laws, our standards. Compromising our environment, giving up more and more control to the big boy.

Should we be scared, I mean could we be cleaned out like Wilbur Ross is so gleefully suggesting? As far as I can see it, we are jumping from one union straight into another… out of the frying pan into the fire. Its like we have nothing to gain and everything to lose.