jra wrote:Pessimism knows no bounds.
How about this? Let's wait and see what happens, before jumping to various probably mostly unfounded conclusions.
One thing is for sure. We haven't done that well with being in the EU, so now time to take a different tack.
The rules are all our goods going into the EU will be sanctioned .... cost more because we won't be part of the union.
All goods coming in from the EU will cost more because of sanctions.
The captains of Brexit are saying our standard of living will drop maybe for fifty years.
The captains of Brexit are moving all their money to Europe because it's better there.
It's the captains of Brexit that are being pessimistic.
We will have no say anywhere in the world regarding trade and economics unlike now where we have been in thde top three countries making the rules and writing the laws.
India China America will not be changing their laws for us or allowing us to change them.