Well after all the crap I've read in the last year or so, that's perhaps the most back to basics and yet so convincing post I've seen so far. Thanks for that mate.
. It think that it might have been Wills trip to Norway that reminded me that Norway is not a member of the EU. But it's doing very nicely thank you 'on the outside looking in'. Norway has what we want and pays for it. It's possible that The EU may have to concede something similar whatever bluster is put up by both sides in the negotiations. They export to us rather more than we export to them. But basically, we need each other. Then there is the EU Budget. UK is one of the major contributors. Depending who's figures you read, we get back much less than we pay. Given our GDP this is understandable, and to me at least, acceptable though the huge subsidies we contribute to French Farmers rankles more than a little. But without our contribution the support that goes across Europe will have to reduce, substantially. In a simplistic sense, just consider Cars. If The EU puts up tariff barriers against cars from The UK, we can do the same to them. BMW and Mercedes in Germany are not going to like that. Or the French, Czeck's and Spanish. Nobody wins. Tariff free trade though benefits everybody. Or to put it even more simply we, The UK reverts to the Trading Agreement we originally voted for in 1972 when it was The EEC.
