Yes peach, this is something I’ve been stumbled over and over again since Day One when DC first announced the Referendum date way back in February after his miserable failure in gaining more concession from the EU and the pathetic Project Fear was then launched.
“We would be denied access to 500 million people in the single market if we left” so it was drummed into our heads. This instantly didn’t look right to me. If we’d left, then it would only be 430 million. So Project Fear falls flat on its face at the first hurdle.
And so what if we are denied access to 430 or even 500 million people in the EU single market? People who suggest this to us clearly cannot see beyond the borders of Europe. Nor have they, as Nigel Farage would say, done a single day’s business in their lives.
Let’s take it down to its simplest form. We are talking trade and business, are we not? Any business man or woman worth its salt will tell you: Have money, we’ll talk. No money, no talk!
The UK is the fifth largest economy in the world i.e. lots of money here. I’m just worried how Britain will prioritise who her trading partners are as the whole world will be falling over themselves wanting to trade with us, to buy and to sell.
Yes, look beyond the European borders!
For a start, there’s China - 1.4 billion people. In other words, more than 3 times the EU!
Not to mention India - 1.3 billion people - another 3 times that of the EU!
I won’t bore you with the Americas, Africa, Australiasia and other Asian nations like Japan etc.
Trump says he’ll put Britain first in the queue for USA. Australia and New Zealand are vying against each other to be the first to sign up with Britain. Gosh, the future looks really exciting!
And let’s hope the manufacturers of Audi, BMW, Mercedes, VW, etc. can find somewhere else to dump their products.