Why the British economy has done better than expected since the Brexit vote

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OneTime said:

Here’s an interesting piece of information that may challenge your “UK still has a British Empire”:  other countries in Europe just don’t care enough to worry about a deal.  Why would they?  The EU may be 50% of the UK’s trade, but the UK is only 3% of any other county’s trade.

The rest of the EU forgot that  Brexit happened within a week...  they just need to get stuff moved from London to Frankfurt in an orderly fashion.

Wtf are you on about?

Frankfurt or Paris might pick up any business that has to be done inside but if you think London's success is because of the EU, you're deluded. Are you one of those who think the EU is responsible for peace in Europe too?

ArchangelMadzz said:
Brexit hasn't even happened..

Some of the predictions were supposed to happen immediately/before leaving.

palou said:

Since when is the EU protectionist? The union has actively (and successfully - the EU is the world’s largest exporter and importer, the former by a fair margin) promoted increased trade on a global scale, not to speak of the clearly anti-protectionist nature of the existance of such a single market, in the first place

Does the EU impose tariffs on countries outside the EU? Quotas? Restrictive regulation?

numberwang said:

GB pays about 10 billion pounds more into the EU than they get back every year - a major economic boost if they can keep their money in the future.

10Bn is peanuts compared to the 130Bn+ we'd save by not imposing tariffs on non-EU countries.