| Scoobes said: It's educated guesswork though. Medium to large employers are less likely to setup bases in the UK (and more likely to move) if we leave for the simple reason it becomes harder to break through to the EU market, and other countries will give easier access (and in a few cases, better productivity). The idea that we'll have a better time of it negotiating from outside the EU is a joke at best considering the EU is the largest economic block in the world and therefore has a much stronger position at the negotiating table when it's all said and done. In my own field in the sciences, leaving the EU makes it a lot harder to collaborate on major projects around Europe (scientific collaboration and subsequent output is less in non-EU countries, the UK currently punches well above its weight). This puts the UK at a major disadvantage in global sciences which has a knock on effect on the economy (for every £1 of investment in R&D, the economy benefits by £3 in 5 years due to the startup companies/industrial breakthroughs that form). Even so, it might not be as bad as this study paints, but making a educated guess based on a full analysis of data is far better than the crappy sound bites the politicians try to ram down our throats. |
Exactly how I see it. We are stronger together and I don't see the need to become so isolationist. For all it's flaws, I think the EU ultimately benefits us even if there are parts we don't like. That is just life really.
I'm only open to a new referendum so I (and many people I know who I suspect form a silent majority) can have our say to state we DO want to be part of the EU.
RIP Dad 25/11/51 - 13/12/13. You will be missed but never forgotten.
