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Did you know that by leaving the EU, we've binned trade agreements covering at least 63.3% of all our exports (that's just our top 50 markets) in order to try for new ones with the remaining countries we export to? Oh, and the EU is already negotiating with many of those too!
Think that's grim. You ain't seen nothing yet! The EU has trade agreements with at least 69.5% of all the places we import goods from and, again, is deep in negotiating agreements with several more. So the window of opportunity on the import side is even smaller.
It's hard to convey just how stupid Brexit is, but the above 2 charts do an adequate job. We're throwing up barriers for 63.3-69.5%+ of our trade in order to chase the remaining %, and we're doing so against a much bigger and more powerful adversary which has sacrificed nothing.
Note: there's absolutely nothing to "argue against" when it comes to the above, because facts exist irrespective of your political stance. Facts are like a Möbius strip: they only have one side. The data doesn't lie, and it spells out our situation very precisely and clearly.
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