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  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    leveller2911 wrote: »
    Oh dear, you are very bitter and twisted .I'm guessing you are actually a member of the Nu Labour Champagne Socialist set who went to Private school and bugg**d regularly in the headmaster office and have an agenda. ;)



    Do the voices in your head tell you what to post?.......

    Sounds like a riposte from down under:think:
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

    "big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham
  • bigheadxx
    bigheadxx Posts: 3,047 Forumite
    edited 28 April 2013 at 8:15PM
    ukcarper wrote: »
    he may or may not be bigoted but his answer to how pulling out of EU would affect our trade with EU was his normal. Mercedes and BMW would still sell their cars to us. I'm sure they would but I'm not so sure Nissan Honda etc will continue to make them here if they don't have free access to EU.

    Why would they not have free access to the EU?

    We have a massive trade deficit with the EU, the free trade area but a growing surplus with the USA which is not in any kind of union with us. http://www.europeanfoundation.org/my_weblog/2009/05/uk-trade-deficit-with-eu-still-astronomical-but-trade-surplus-with-us-rises.html
  • Sampong
    Sampong Posts: 870 Forumite
    ukcarper wrote: »
    he may or may not be bigoted but his answer to how pulling out of EU would affect our trade with EU was his normal. Mercedes and BMW would still sell their cars to us. I'm sure they would but I'm not so sure Nissan Honda etc will continue to make them here if they don't have free access to EU.

    Yes they would. Because we would have a free trade agreement with the EU (as opposed to the constrains of the political union).
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    bigheadxx wrote: »
    Why would they not have free access to the EU?

    Because we would no longer be part of the free trade area.
  • penrhyn
    penrhyn Posts: 15,215 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    I'd like to know why the Greens are being given so much airtime by the BBC. Given that they are a niche party, led by a mad woman.
    That gum you like is coming back in style.
  • bigheadxx
    bigheadxx Posts: 3,047 Forumite
    ukcarper wrote: »
    Because we would no longer be part of the free trade area.

    So why do we have a surplus with the USA.
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    bigheadxx wrote: »
    So why do we have a surplus with the USA.

    Will will still be able to trade with Eu but not with the advantages of being within the EU so how long will those Japanese companies that move here for those terms stay when they are removed.
  • bigheadxx
    bigheadxx Posts: 3,047 Forumite
    ukcarper wrote: »
    Will will still be able to trade with Eu but not with the advantages of being within the EU so how long will those Japanese companies that move here for those terms stay when they are removed.

    Nissan built its first UK car plant in 1984. The single market didnt exist then, the Single European Act was passed in 1986 and wasn't fully implemented until 1992.
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    bigheadxx wrote: »
    Nissan built its first UK car plant in 1984. The single market didnt exist then, the Single European Act was passed in 1986 and wasn't fully implemented until 1992.

    The single european act might have been passed in 1986 but the UK had been in EEC 13 years then.
  • bigheadxx
    bigheadxx Posts: 3,047 Forumite
    ukcarper wrote: »
    The single european act might have been passed in 1986 but the UK had been in EEC 13 years then.
    http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=881

    Given that the EU is looking to establish a free trade deal with Japan it is unthinkable that it would be looking to exclude one of its largest and its closest trading partner from a free trade arrangement. The EU already has a free trade deal with Turkey.
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