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I'm going to keep arguing like this and I'm not sorry.
I will point out that immigration culturally, economically and medically enriches our society. But I won't convince everyone in 4 months. So for those who only see it as a negative, I'll point out the EU's safeguards on that.
There are those whose principles prevent them from taking a two-pronged approach and I respect that (even if one such person did call me "disgraceful" for my approach today) but for me I have one priority: Preventing something which would in fact do FAR more harm to EU citizens.
I was sat there on @BBCPolitics #PoliticsLive surrounded by politicians all treating Free Movement as a big problem completely unchallenged until I set them all straight. As I've done with Farage, and repeatedly across news and social media.
So I would ask for some latitude.
THIS IS MY POINT! @SkyNews
This guy thinks EU27 Citizens are 'blood suckers'. Even though he's stood next to someone who's contributing hugely to the UK... Because nobody pointed out the available controls he still thinks 'uncontrolled migration' makes Brexit worth it
#BrexitVote
I mean... We all know how that conversation should have gone...
Please @skystephen, for next time ⬇️ #BrexitVote …
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You're Nissan (Japanese) and want to sell cars across the EU Single Market (same laws/standards, so distribution is frictionless). So you choose to base production in North-East England employing 35,000 people. EU & Japan just signed a Free Trade deal.
UK is about to leave both.
Forget project fear and just use your head. What would you do if you were them?
75% of the cars go to mainland Europe.
Would you keep your factory on the opposite side of a trade barrier to where most of its cars go?
Oh look! Hitachi. ANOTHER Japanese company removing thousands of planned jobs from an area of the UK that voted Leave, BECAUSE we voted leave.
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To believe that 27 countries need us more than we need them, knowing that Germany alone has a larger GDP and that their combined GDP is 5 times ours, one must believe that Brits are inherently better than other people.
As predicted, I'm already seeing "but we buy more from them than they buy from us." Here's the answer to the trade deficit argument.
While we're on the topic of national exceptionalism (nationalism) I feel I should share this brilliant clip from @TheLewisBlack.
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The economic benefit of the EU comes from making rules & trade policy together so trade within the EU is cheaper and so we have more negotiating leverage in global trade.
Keeping those benefits outside the EU just means we're no longer making the rules, just following them.
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If we don't follow those rules, that makes continental trade more expensive FOR US. Even businesses who don't export: They and their staff all rely on EU products being as cheap as possible.
Who voted to give EU-based companies an advantage over British ones?
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Now, once we've admitted that we're putting ourselves at a competitive disadvantage on our own continent, the only question is:
Can trade with the rest of the world replace trade lost closer to home?
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