Liam Fox is a thick cunt.
The point of being in the European Union is that our supply chains are across the whole of Europe.
The internal market functions like a country, with no restriction once inside the external border.
The internal market functions like a country, with no restriction once inside the external border.
The European Union is our domestic market. And there is no way to recover the cost of that if you throw it away.
Trade deals with the rest of the world? Don't be so fucking stupid.
Trade deals with the rest of the world? Don't be so fucking stupid.
We are dissolving our trade relations with the European Union, and through Europe to the rest of the world.
That is going to create new and unproductive expense. It will cost everyone more, much more, to do the same business they're doing now.
That is going to create new and unproductive expense. It will cost everyone more, much more, to do the same business they're doing now.
And there are two ways of absorbing that cost. Either you charge your customers more, in which case your European competitors will put you out of business. Or you cut your own costs, cutting the wages, cutting corners, and becoming a junk shop that no one wants anything from.
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