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The “EU Single Market”, that’s the EU’S protectionist tariff barrier to trade with the rest of the world, that all of us have to pay for through higher world prices, right? Wouldn’t we be better off going for an open global market with no tariffs at all?
So Hot We are where we are. Up to our eyeballs in the brown stuff. Run aground by Tory and UKIP zealots, in the name of Anglo-british nationalism. And then to compound it, we have a divided and incompetent May government to really drive home the nail in our coffins.
Gavin This is all very true. I voted remain as Brexit can only be bad for business. We lost the vote though, so just have to get on with it. We must learn from the EU, though, and never make same mistakes as in letting fanatics talk us into leaving the UK, where Scottish companies sell 66% of the goods/services and where 530,000 Scots are employed. If Brexit is bad, leaving the UK can only be countless times worse.
Realistic Scotsman We did not “lose the vote”, as you put it. The way the 2016 referendum was organised and carried out denied it any democratic legitimacy. The most glaring democratic deficit was the denial of the vote to around 1.2m Britons who had lived in Europe for over 15 years.
George Kelly This is virtually meaningless. The problem behind such a naive approach to polling this topic is that no business wants to find its short term operations affected in an unpredictable manner and whilst discussions are still being held between the UK, the EU commission and with all 27 other countries it is impossible for anyone not to feel some concern that their interests might not be being taken care of
Corrigenda2 For me the lesson is we must know exactly what we’re getting into BEFORE the vote. We voted to leave the EU and then we’re told the appalling truth. Watch the Scottish unemployment rate increase further once the Scottish Parliament’s tax increases begin to bite the working middle classes and local businesses. Somehow the SNP and Greens believe
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Gordon Craig Get folk to pay lots of money When she was introduced to HM earlier she didn’t wear them, so I expect she did ask permission as maybe she has a medical reason. In any case, the nation’s foremost working great-grandmother doesn’t seem too bothered.
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