EalingBlue2
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It seems that there are still people who think we get cheaper goods under the EU when nothing could be further from the true, we pay MORE for goods than we would on the world market, that does mean we also get more for what we sell there, but thats only 9% of our exports as opposed to the 91% we sell to the rest of the world. Yet we hamper that 91% because of the rules and regulations applied across the board on industry just to sell that 9% rather than target them to meet the requirements of the destinations as they do in the rest of the world.
Besides what we sell to the EU currently now there will be an immediate bonus to our exit with a virtually waiting market because one thing that has not come up is the return of our fishing grounds, I can only assume its an age thing on here to remember just how big our fishing industry was and can be again, this on its own means thousands of jobs with associated services (Fishermen,boat builders, engineers, dockers, process workers, packers, net makers etc ) and the corresponding increase in exports.
It is a pity there aren't any fish or at least whilst some are recovering very few of the mackerel , herring and cod are at more than a fraction of what they used to be. The boats will come from Korea or elsewhere as will all the other elements. Going out of Europe isn't going to reverse a century of manufacturing going and environmental damage. It is true though we could close the waters for decades and try to stock them back up.
I reckon the main reason that Bluemoon is keen on getting out is that we'd be selling Fernando as he couldn't get a work permit