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originally posted by: earthling42
I do hope it will work out well for the UK but i'm less positive about all this.
The EU is the largest trading partner for the UK, almost half of the total export is to member states within the EU.
originally posted by: ufoorbhunter
originally posted by: earthling42
I do hope it will work out well for the UK but i'm less positive about all this.
The EU is the largest trading partner for the UK, almost half of the total export is to member states within the EU.
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Even worse many of our major exporters are owned by companies based on the continent. Most of the companies worth dealing with tbh are actually German! Are they going to keep producing here in the UK when they've got Poland and Slovakia to transfer production to? I'm scared and as you state "less positive about all this."
Swings and roundabouts mate I know loads of factory's that left for cheaper labour in Poland . Hope they come back soon !edit on 30-6-2016 by Denoli because: (no reason given)
If you do not think a lawyer could find a connection between the Brexit vote, her home country (UK) and the timing of the release from her role then it is a very naive way of looking at it.
Leaving the European Union would mean that British citizens would lose their right to move freely, work and do business
originally posted by: Flavian
a reply to: MrCrow
No referendums are legally binding in this country - no one in either camp claimed they were before the referendum either. That is not how our system works.
The point of the referendum was to gauge the appetite for withdrawal within the UK. They now have that answer.
I am starting to see these claims a lot now through media and social media - it just demonstrates how many people do not understand our own system, which frankly is quite depressing.
originally posted by: MrCrowLet's just face it, we'll get shafted no matter what.
originally posted by: ufoorbhunter
a reply to: Denoli
Yeah know where you are coming from. Around here in the industrial heartland of the UK it has been mental. So many places have uprooted and gone for some slavstate in the east. But things can still get worse, much worse as so many of the really decent top flight manufacturers employing workers in the UK are not from here. The vast majority of companies around Staffordshire, Cheshire, Derby, I'm talking about the top of the chain devourers of all the small factories, every one bar JCB are foreign owned and most from the continent.................... largely Germany! They can pull these places like Bentley, Siemens, Airbags etc out of here in no time and then all the small suppliers will be done for. This is serious stuff and I really do expect the worst.
originally posted by: paraphi
[The fact Juncker continues to ignore and look pompously on with a smirk on his face when Farage gets up to rant, is a real clue to the problem.
originally posted by: Denoli
We will watch it unfold ,but I can't see us doing bad out of this really , it just means shifting operations back here.
We have to play hardball in the negotiations . We just need to put our foot down
originally posted by: Denoli
We will watch it unfold ,but I can't see us doing bad out of this really , it just means shifting operations back here.
We have to play hardball in the negotiations . We just need to put our foot down