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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
Do you really think it's a brilliant idea to tie ourselves so closely to these growing economies, though? At what point does it stop just being about trade and get to the point where our way of life / way of work has to change to "fit" with those economies?
Do you REALLY want future generations of Brits to live like anonymous drones like 99.9% of people in China / India do? It seems like a very slippery slope. People who really believe in "Great Old Britain" would do (very) well to remember, very carefully, that we are culturally European and that is the life we live. Yes we have a lot in common with other places like the US, Canada, Australia also... but those places, too, are for the mostpart culturally European with their own quirks.
The EU is not growing like other continents because the EU is packed with developed economies as opposed to developing economies. You DON'T want to live in a developing economy, it's a ****ing crappy life  . |
I'm only talking about trade deals not another dictatorship like the EU which ceased to become just a trading block and became a political 'union' and i say union loosely as it is more of a dictatorship now.
We are never going to go backwards to become China or India.If anything those countries are progressing.They aren't going to put restrictions on us like the EU does because they want to do well.Trump looks on the UK favourably unlike Obama who wanted to put us "To the back of the queue",Canada has waited 10 years or so to try and strike a deal with the ridiculous EU and i think would love to do a deal with Britain and much quicker.EU countries need to trade with us and I believe will push to get deals done no matter what pre-negotiation rhetoric the EU wants to spout.It is not in their interests to mess us about as it affects them negatively too.Who knows,Brexit may be the catalyst that gets them to pull their finger out and do something about their inward looking trading policies.Imo