The EU is wrong, anyway it would take years to sue for any compensation which they would probably lose. Even if the EU won its case we would have left the EU so not applicable.
And crash the economy? Great plan. Why do most of the UK's business leaders want access to the Single Market? Do you think it'll affect our credit rating if we do that? What will happen to UK citizens living in the EU? What happens to the airports? Docks? etc... If you think we can leave and everything will be rosy you're completely deluded
80% of UK businesses do not trade with the EU. We would trade under WTO rules as we do with non EU countries. I doubt it will have much effect on the UK's credit rating. Agreement could easily be agreed on expats. I'm sure there would be some short term problems but well worth it.
Nobody, especially the discredited 'project fear' bunch can know what will happen. I am quite happy to join Lord King and Lord Lawson is being reasonably confident. I'm used to taking calculated risks, Brexit looks a good bet.
As long as your build in his obvious and substantial bias. He would rubbish any stance a government activating Brexit takes.
Ah, the 'I'm alright Jack' approach to life. I couldn't look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I ever became like you.
So give us even money and you can go.... This isn't about what's best for all the European people (and we Brits are Europeans until we pull up the drawbridge and flood Eurotunnel), Britain as a group of nation states, the constituent parts of the EU or the EU as a single entity. The bottom line is money, we have some and the EU grandees want it. Doesn't matter about expats, trade getting on with your neighbours it's pieces of plasticised paper with the Queen's head on.
You can't state that as a fact, as it's a matter of juxtaposed legal opinion. Royally pissing off our closest 27 markets who currently account for nearly half of our exports wouldn't be the smartest political move either.....nor would it put the UK in a great light as a Nation to be trusted when it came to upholding contractual agreements.....just as we're looking to negotiate our own trade deals.....
Strikes me that he's being realistic. As you rightly say elsewhere "we don't know" but in this case that's akin to standing on the edge of a tall cliff all the while proclaiming that gravity is "just a theory".
I would think most remoaners would think he is talking absolute sense. It does not make his pessimistic forecast any more realistic.
The EU is far from being cash-strapped, as a whole they're some of the richest and most developed countries in the world. They'll do just fine without us. We owe them cash for the stuff we've signed up for, so we pay. Otherwise I'll just not pay my rent or bills next month because I don't feel like it and get away scot-free.
Some of us are extremely successful but retain a social conscience and a desire to see a fairer and less economically divided nation. I think that people who either lose or have never had that viewpoint to be 'losers' irrespective of their financial status.
You get it loads of it on the Guardian website too. Some right-wingers seem to treat the internet like a troll-hangout, finding the most peaceful places and inundating them with right-wing hate and propaganda. I would call them 'losers' before anyone else...
