You can't argue with the logic.

Will we though, because a lot of the UK enterprises are foreign owned. I can't see the UK adding tariffs to German cars, given the number of people employed with say BMW or Mercedes. And wouldn't the price just be added on to the end consumer. If your the EU, that's a much larger group, than the UK.

Also given the number of memberstates in the EU, the option to subsidise those UK tariffs is probably far more viable than it would be for the UK to do the same.

There is then also the risk that in response, that companies will start to relocate to Europe, and the UK is fairly dependent on foreign firms etc. We'll likely end up 'imposing tariffs, and then cutting corporation taxes to compensate firms operating in the UK from import tariffs.

Plus can we really 'fight a trade war' whilst also trying to negotiate trade deals with every other country in the world. Wouldn't they just leverage that 'conflict with the EU' to their own ends?.

I'd imagine it'll be a race between them complaining, and consumers in the UK complaining about the prices. The EU has a reputation for using subsidies to protect its members losses, and could find it easier to raise that subsidy from each member states than the UK could from taxation.

How long to the UK population complain that they can't get olive oil, French cheese, German Cars and parts, and so on (at reasonable prices). How self sufficient is the UK, not very.

I'm not saying your wrong, but I think there is a tendency to over estimate our position of strength, because we're currently in the EU. Obviously I hope your right, but I am concerned about the general assumed 'everything will be fine, and there will be no consequences'.

There are always consequences from change.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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And that is precisely why we need a third party to pressure them. We still need a UKIP or whatever they evolve into. When the government predictably try and continue business as usual, the electorate need to remind them what it was all about.

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Shall I fart or mention a rude part of the body so you and Kermie can laugh some more?

And you just perfectly demonstrated exactly what he was accusing you of.

Brilliant.

You guys;Pot,kettle black to the ultimate degree.But you just don't see it!xxx

Edited by legaleagle (31 Mar 2017 1.45pm)

The response had to come via the ballot box. If people want what is best for the majority, they will abandon Labour completely and vote UKIP, as should many Tory leavers.
This is not, and was never, the time to celebrate victory. This is just a step in the process.

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UKIP aren't looking too good, no real notable leader, no financial backer and no 'core cause'. Most of the Tories who jumped ship will jump back now, as 'job done', and the Conservatives will utilise the end of the EU to formulate their own strategy, which will effectively be sufficient lip service to the core UKIP doubters, whilst manipulating as closer a deal as possible with the EU.

They won't call it freedom of movement, it'll involve visas, and be worse for immigrant workers, but it'll effectively prove to be a formality. They'll cut down the benefits angle (even though these have to be earned), focus on trying to ensure unemployed migrant workers return to home nations and sell that as the major success.

But in truth, it'll just be freedom of movement with the formality of some paperwork.

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And yet you voted to leave.
The biggest pressure is always votes. Voters must vote tactically to get what they want. Party loyalty is for mugs.
UKIP is in the doldrums at the moment but I'm hoping that the realisation of government ducking and diving will reinvigorate opposition.