1 day/1 year/20 years after Brexit...

[AtW]

Trump and Trumper...

[rl4engc]

Interesting you choose a picture that displays buildings mostly in foreign ownership as a sign of British wealth.

I was thinking more about all the people, inside the offices of all those buildings. You see they do a thing loosely called "The Service Industry" and it generates about 78% of our GDP. A Brexit would mean those people could open up trade with some on the fastest growing nations on the planet; India, China, Brazil, Australia etc. which we can't currently do as the EU won't let us.

Regarding the foreign ownership, DC has promised to get tough on 'Corruption' and offshore tax havens, do you trust him to? Not sure what Boris' policy is on it, but I'd hazard a guess he'll actually do more as PM and his sidekick that just stand there looking like a sweaty pig and a puppet spouting doom and gloom.

[scooterscot]

I was thinking more about all the people, inside the offices of all those buildings. You see they do a thing loosely called "The Service Industry" and it generates about 78% of our GDP. A Brexit would mean those people could open up trade with some on the fastest growing nations on the planet; India, China, Brazil, Australia etc. which we can't currently do as the EU won't let us.

I've daily experience the the UK services industry. Have you ever taken out a load and paid PPI? Did you claim for that accident on your holiday your taking next week?

There's nada stopping the UK trading with outside the EU but our own ineptitude.

[diseasex]

I was thinking more about all the people, inside the offices of all those buildings. You see they do a thing loosely called "The Service Industry" and it generates about 78% of our GDP. A Brexit would mean those people could open up trade with some on the fastest growing nations on the planet; India, China, Brazil, Australia etc. which we can't currently do as the EU won't let us.

Regarding the foreign ownership, DC has promised to get tough on 'Corruption' and offshore tax havens, do you trust him to? Not sure what Boris' policy is on it, but I'd hazard a guess he'll actually do more as PM and his sidekick that just stand there looking like a sweaty pig and a puppet spouting doom and gloom.

That's biggest bulltulip I've ever heard. Fastest growing? Also poorest. Like elephant (eu) to an ant (emerging markets). And their political stability is well to say at least , poor too

[DodgyAgent]

Boris Trump.

[rl4engc]

That's biggest bulltulip I've ever heard. Fastest growing? Also poorest. Like elephant (eu) to an ant (emerging markets). And their political stability is well to say at least , poor too

OK let's look at GDP instead, top 20 countries as of 2014, source World Bank.

United States $17,419,000,000,000.00
China $10,354,831,729,340.00
Japan $4,601,461,206,885.00
Germany $3,868,291,231,824.00
United Kingdom $2,988,893,283,565.00
France $2,829,192,039,172.00
Brazil $2,416,635,506,076.00
Italy $2,141,161,325,367.00
India $2,048,517,438,874.00
Russian Federation $1,860,597,922,763.00
Canada $1,785,386,649,602.00
Australia $1,454,675,479,666.00
Korea, Rep. $1,410,382,988,616.00
Spain $1,381,342,101,736.00
Mexico $1,294,689,733,233.00
Indonesia $888,538,201,025.00
Netherlands $879,319,321,495.00
Turkey $798,429,233,036.00
Saudi Arabia $753,831,733,333.00
Switzerland $701,037,135,966.00

Out of the top 20, only 5 are in the EU. We're as a nation unable to create our own trade deals with the vast majority of the worlds largest economies, because the EU won't allow it.

[diseasex]

OK let's look at GDP instead, top 20 countries as of 2014, source World Bank.

United States $17,419,000,000,000.00
China $10,354,831,729,340.00
Japan $4,601,461,206,885.00
Germany $3,868,291,231,824.00
United Kingdom $2,988,893,283,565.00
France $2,829,192,039,172.00
Brazil $2,416,635,506,076.00
Italy $2,141,161,325,367.00
India $2,048,517,438,874.00
Russian Federation $1,860,597,922,763.00
Canada $1,785,386,649,602.00
Australia $1,454,675,479,666.00
Korea, Rep. $1,410,382,988,616.00
Spain $1,381,342,101,736.00
Mexico $1,294,689,733,233.00
Indonesia $888,538,201,025.00
Netherlands $879,319,321,495.00
Turkey $798,429,233,036.00
Saudi Arabia $753,831,733,333.00
Switzerland $701,037,135,966.00

Out of the top 20, only 5 are in the EU. We're as a nation unable to create our own trade deals with the vast majority of the worlds largest economies, because the EU won't allow it.

You're more likely to receive cheap food from brazil than sell there.

[rl4engc]

There's nada stopping the UK trading with outside the EU but our own ineptitude.

Also the small matter of the tarriffs imposed on goods to non-EU countries, making it uneconomic for buyers to import them.

[DimPrawn]

You're more likely to receive cheap food from brazil than sell there.

We can sell them toxic debt futures wrapped in hedged derivative options. They can't lose!

[VectraMan]

Also the small matter of the tarriffs imposed on goods to non-EU countries, making it uneconomic for buyers to import them.

I thought that's what you wanted?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe...ade_agreements

30 free trade deals in force (if I counted it right), plus 50 more coming, plus the 27 countries of the EU. That's free trade with 107 countries you don't want us to have, plus the biggest one of all with the US.

Don't worry though. We'll be able to negotiate them all back in a jiffy, and nab China to boot.