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If we vote for Brexit what happens

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  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    Herzlos wrote: »
    If it can bring enough new opportunities that can make up for the ones we lose, then that's great. But I'm not sure we're even close yet.

    How many boosts from flowers and sugar and the like do we need to close the £66bn a year gap from the report?

    the only people that believe in the £66bn are
    - people who believe that WW3 will follow brexit
    - there will be a recessiosn in starting july 2016
    - that there will be an emergency budget in june 2016 with high tax rises, large benefits cut and massive increase in interest rates.
  • Herzlos
    Herzlos Posts: 16,049 Forumite
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    CLAPTON wrote: »
    the only people that believe in the £66bn are
    - people who believe that WW3 will follow brexit
    - there will be a recessiosn in starting july 2016
    - that there will be an emergency budget in june 2016 with high tax rises, large benefits cut and massive increase in interest rates.

    You don't have talk a not of nonsense.

    That £66bn came from a government paper, post-referendum. Have you got anything to counter it? Do you know more than the experts you dislike?

    I think the £66bn is pretty credible, I don't think we'll see a WW3, but we'll see a recession once we leave (as do the experts on both sides).
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    Herzlos wrote: »
    You don't have talk a not of nonsense.

    That £66bn came from a government paper, post-referendum. Have you got anything to counter it? Do you know more than the experts you dislike?

    I think the £66bn is pretty credible, I don't think we'll see a WW3, but we'll see a recession once we leave (as do the experts on both sides).

    do you believe all government papers or just some?
    if some, how do you select the right ones?
  • masterwilde
    masterwilde Posts: 270 Forumite
    66 billion - its laughable

    the government always over pay and under budget, where the hell this number came from (as in which stupid think tank) will be wrong, and be wrong by a large amount.

    We keep getting scare stories but thats all they are.
  • Herzlos
    Herzlos Posts: 16,049 Forumite
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    Do you have a more credible figure as a starting point?
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    Herzlos wrote: »
    Do you have a more credible figure as a starting point?

    do you have the full paper with supporting info ?
  • Thrugelmir
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    Herzlos wrote: »
    As a consumer, I'm just not convinced that scrapping large swathes of EU red tape will benefit me.

    Why does red tape cutting have to benefit you as a consumer? What are you expecting cheaper prices?
  • Herzlos
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    edited 12 October 2016 at 2:08PM
    CLAPTON wrote: »
    do you have the full paper with supporting info ?

    I haven't read the whole thing, but it exists and has supporting info. Do you have, well, anything?
  • Herzlos
    Herzlos Posts: 16,049 Forumite
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Why does red tape cutting have to benefit you as a consumer? What are you expecting cheaper prices?

    I was referring to things like reducing restrictions on companies which directly benefit the consumer, such as standardized phone chargers, or exhaust emissions.

    Most (not all) of the red tape is there to try and improve things, not just for the sake of petty bureaucracy.
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    Herzlos wrote: »
    I haven't read the whole thing, but it exists and has supporting info. Do you have, well, anything?

    then you will be able to see the flaws and false assumptions just as you doubtless saw those of the IMFs
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