RE: 67% voted to stay in Europe24 Mar 2019 12:13
Looked it up on the google machine; 44% of exports are to the EU, 54% of our imports. There is also the effect of supply chains particularly in the case of cars where components go back and forth. Perhaps, oldskool, your figures include financial services. I am no great lover of the EU, but I have serious concerns over how issues will be addressed; there are no planned process for them. The leave campaign described how the leaving would be through a negotiated process, so one imagines that was what was voted for. All sides do not fully understand what they are talking about; mind you my favourite ones include the Tory that said he hadn’t realise a lot of goods went through Dover and Calais, and the one that said that all British citizens were entitled to an Irish passport so we could still have all
our eoropean rights. It’s like a car trip, Dave ( driving) said let’s have a vote to decide if we use the route we know or use a magic map. The people in the back who couldn’t see said; marginally voted for- let’s use the magic map then we won’t be on a road with those we don’t like and it will be better. Dave jumped out of the car and May grabbed the steering wheel, but she had never learned how to drive but did the best she could. They followed the map off the side road, it got bumpy, some people were car sick, it took a long time, the people in the back started shouting at each other. Then the car went over a hill, they could see the sea! But they were hurtling towards a cliff edge, May could not control the car, they were in danger of not going to the beach they were familiar with and they could not see if it was a high cliff or a low one. So they decided to have a vote on the map again, in the meantime the car hurtled.May screamed and they started fighting for the steering well.