Quote Originally Posted by BigLadonOS View Post
Kerr your just spouting the same bag of bollox over and over again but you are actually saying nothing mate as the outcome still remains to be that a full and proper deal will not be decided until after we give the EU what they want!!!!!!! And even after that it still comes down to what the EU are willing to give us.

If we go ahead and sign this deal then not only are the Gov going against the leave vote they are actually burying us deeper into EU control! How come you cannot see that? May is playing a deadly game wanting this deal to pass, why do you think so many of her cabinet have walked away from it!

What we need is a strong leader to go in there and forge a deal that is good for this country. Why should we care what the EU want? We are leaving the EU or at least supposed to be so who gives a flying **** what is good for them. And if you really believe that no EU country will trade with us after we leave with a no deal Brexit you really do need your head feeling mate. Plenty of countries will follow us after we make the break but it has to be a clean break not a whimpering submissive one like May is trying to force through. The EU is clinging to the hope that they can hang on to us until after the next GE in the hope that whoever wins might change their mind and stay in. May is playing right into their hands and she either cant see it or she is hoping for the same thing herself.

Lets take the bull by the horns and **** them off completely and leave without a glance back.

Some stats that seem to contradict the stance that the EU need us more than we need them:

UK exports to the EU27: 14% as a share of UK GDP

EU27 exports to the UK: 3.2% as a share of EU27 GDP


While these figures already make abundantly clear who needs whom more than vice versa, it gets worse:

The amount of service exports as a share of the total exports is 39% for the UK and 25% only for the EU.

The backstop doesn't cover Freedom of Services. No one ever gets Freedom of Services without Freedom of Movement from the EU.
That would be 5.5% of UK GDP gone.