The Pub Analogy

[BlasterBates]

No I mean the common market

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...ferendum,_1975


If you are trying to say that the 5th largest economy with an export deficit won't have anyone willing to trade with it then that would be a bit of a surprise. Not everyone is pro EU around the world.

Ministers cannot name a single country that asked UK For A Post-Brexit Trade Deal

oh dear

[original PM]

Ministers cannot name a single country that asked UK For A Post-Brexit Trade Deal

oh dear

Ministers can also not find a list of countries who have said they will not be dealing with the UK post brexit?

[sal]

Ministers can also not find a list of countries who have said they will not be dealing with the UK post brexit?

Countries don't trade with each other, companies and individuals resident of different countries trade with each other.

Without the current trade agreements we have by virtue of EU membership or new ones that were promised by the Brexit campaign the resulting trade tariffs are going to decrease the volume of goods traded with the UK. Either because it will be unprofitable or because the bureaucracy involved is not worth the hassle. Anyone who believes in the contrary is delusional.

[original PM]

Countries don't trade with each other, companies and individuals resident of different countries trade with each other.

Without the current trade agreements we have by virtue of EU membership or new ones that were promised by the Brexit campaign the resulting trade tariffs are going to decrease the volume of goods traded with the UK. Either because it will be unprofitable or because the bureaucracy involved is not worth the hassle. Anyone who believes in the contrary is delusional.

So because it has always been this way it can never change then?

[meridian]

As our GDP growth was not heading consistently negative its difficult to suggest that we would have seen much worse GDP if we hadn't joined. It varied and then stabilised to smaller variations after 1979. That wasn't joining the EU.

It’s nothing to do with GDP growth being negative or not, it’s simple maths. Do we have more people in the U.K. due (in part) to being in the EU? Do they spend anything, and does the government need to spend more? If so, then GDP has risen because of that.

I think you’re confusing GDP with trade income.

I think if you asked people whether they want to be part of a common market they would say yes, however it evolved into the EU and they lied about the journey that is why most people want out.

We simply don’t know why “most people” wanted out, there are many varying reasons. If we knew, we’d be there already.

But now here we are, leaving both the EU and also the common market. Is that what you voted for?

[darmstadt]

EU (without UK) Pub: decent opening times, good beers, enjoyable atmosphere, no chains (Wetherspoons), attractive women (and men), good prices
UK Pubs: tulip opening times, chains, watered down mass produced weak beer, chazzy pissed up women (and men), violence at any opportunity, extortionism

A good Brexit analogy, glad one of the above noted customers of an UK pub made it

[vetran]

EU (without UK) Pub: decent opening times, good beers, enjoyable atmosphere, no chains (Wetherspoons), attractive women (and men), good prices
UK Pubs: tulip opening times, chains, watered down mass produced weak beer, chazzy pissed up women (and men), violence at any opportunity, extortionism

A good Brexit analogy, glad one of the above noted customers of an UK pub made it

you go to crap pubs?

[darmstadt]

you go to crap pubs?

Oh, I forgot, I'm in the UK! No, but we know you do: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/8...teven-bradbury

[vetran]

Oh, I forgot, I'm in the UK! No, but we know you do: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/8...teven-bradbury

ah we are at the name calling level again.

[darmstadt]

ah we are at the name calling level again.

But it's not name calling is it? It's called pointing out the truth, something that Brexiteers have only vaguely heard about