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by ben_w 2623 days ago
I have the impression that no-dealers generally believe that all EU membership benefits can be attributed to things other than the EU, or that they can force the EU to provide all important benefits post-Brexit regardless.

I mean, perhaps there’s someone who wants it so much they’re fine tearing up the residency and employment rights of 10% of the workforce while simultaneously messing up most import and export oriented businesses — tourist, service, industrial, and fishing/agriculture — and that having no further access to medical radioisotopes is a small price to pay for leaving Euratom, and who think it’s great (or at the very least ‘fine’) that the UK has already not only lost 10% of the value of the currency but also had a capital flight of approximately 20% of non-land assets…

But I think most of them hear stuff like that and say “project fear”.

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Your impression is incorrect. No-dealers do not expect EU policies when out of the EU.
So, are you one of the few people who thinks it’s entirely fine to seriously mess up an enormous part of the UK’s economy? You don’t think, for example, that such a concern is “just project fear, they need us more than we need them and will therefore give the UK a great deal”?
I'm one of the very many who thinks it's entirely fine insignificantly shake a small part of the UK economy for the long term advantages.