Miltiades:
Robin, if you can remove obvious prejudices you harbour for the EU and ask your self this.
I don’t have a prejudice for the EU I just don’t think it is as successful as it would have been had it remained a economic union. d. As it turned out the bigger picture is a Federal States of Europe with Germany and France running it very much to their advantage.
If you were a manufacturing company based in the UK with your largest market next door would you feel comfortable ?
I would be cautious, consider various options and the likely effects but I would not rely on the rumour mill for information. I would also talk to my customers because in all these doom stories no one seems to consider that the EU customers still want us to both supply them with our products and buy theirs. There are always ways around problems if you gather all the intel and work out relative risk. e.g. If my normal port of entry was through Calais and the French looked as if they could get spiteful ........ then I would make plans to move to Rotterdam, Bremerhaven or Gdansk if that happened. But I would not react until I could see the trend.
Come on mate is common sense.
It is common sense to consider the options, it is stupidity to react to rumours of what certain people believe is going to happen. Far better to look at the broad picture and make sure you are prepared for any likely eventuality.
Brexit, if and when , will go down in history as the biggest blunder committed by the UK ever. All those who want out do not do so for any economic reasons, simply put they loath the EU more so with Germany being the top dog.
That is your opinion but not an opinion I would agree with! For me, although I didn’t have a vote, getting out of a club dominated by federalist’s was one reason I would have voted LEAVE. The main reason was economic and the restrictions built into the Lisbon Treaty that severely restrict member states from being the masters of their own economies. Members of the EuroZone are ruled through the ECB and the ECB operates for the interests of Germany and to a lesser degree France. Before long the EU Mandarins would move to make the UK adopt the Euro.
I think leaving the EU will turn out to be one of the better things we did and IMO I think once the UK shows the way ....... others will follow and that scares the shit out of the Federalists like Junker and Barnier. Within ten years I see the UK and other European states reverting to the EEC doctrine of a trading union.
Now a question for you: With all that is going on it seems it is very difficult to freely trade between countries without a mountain to climb to achieve it. So ...... how come they call it A FREE MARKET ECOMOMY? There seems little about it that is actually free, it is all tied down by innumerable regulation’s, quotas, restrictions, tariffs, duties, taxes and even sanctions applied by the US to protect the America First principal.
