Wrong, and wrong, and wrong and true.
Germany, France, Italy, THEN UK followed Spain and Netherlands... for the top 6 contributions. Net contributions are incredible difficult to calculate and say not that much. More important is the question what it costs per capita. Guess who's paying the highest amount per capita?
It's not about a trillion dollars of business, it's about 223 billion export, 293 billion imports. 44% of the UK export goes to the EU.
The Eu exports about 16% to the UK, but that doesn't take in account what is shipped and forwarded out the UK.
So guess who's got the most to loose? Netherlands would be impacted the most heavy. About 6% in some business.
It's not unheard of for politicians to have a mind of their own and not listen to (very possibly wise) advice from companies and institutions. They might do not what business wants.
And really true: People can be incredibly short sighted indeed.
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Both sides have a lot to answer for in their scaremongering indeed. I remember a big red bus with some millions on the side and I do also remember talk about the world coming to and end, barbarians at the gates and all that BS etc. Etc.
I do believe working together is important. Important for economic growth, important for keeping peace and important for equalising wealth. Not just in Europe, but in the whole world.
On the other hand, the EU has been developing into directions nobody (except a few money-blinded-bankers and some career-politicians) can approve of. Democratic principles are threatened and seem at the brink of extinction, bureaucracy is unbelievable and makes it almost unworkable. Yet I do believe that many of the people that work for the EU als civil servants and staff do work hard for a better Europe.
So I think too change is needed, but I doubt leaving is the best way to improve on Europe, improve the lives of those in the UK.
Right thanks. And does your import and export involve goods only then? Not services?
It's pointless trying to work for a better Europe because they couldn't care about the UK. They are sweating over the loss of our money, you wouldn't have politicians from European countries using hate speech against the UK otherwise, I consider threats to punish us for years and years as hate speech.
Europe wants its own army, it wants to control everything from one place for all its members by unelected people, that's what a union is. France and Germany will come to blows over who does run it if their not careful.
We have to leave, the entire EU idea is just turning more and more into a dictatorship, it's totally lost its way. It no longer works for the UK.
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Well of course it hasn't happened yet. Nobody knows what the Brexit will look like, still (more than 6 month after the vote by the way).
May presented her goal/terms/threads this week. The EU side will do the same in due time, but until the final terms become clearer and the impact on the banks business will become clearer, few jobs will actually be moved.
And yes, many jobs will remain in London, it is still a big financial center of this world, but loosing the ability to also trade with the Rest of the EU legally (which leaving the EU common market means), a lot of those jobs will go to Paris or Frankfurt.
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There is even a EU/Brexit related version of this staring the great Patrick Stewart.
I'm fully aware it's been over 6 months, the constant never ending moaning from the remoaners and the dispicable traitors trying to stop Brexit remind me of that!
How are we going to lose the ability to legally trade with the EU?????. Pllleeeaaasssseeeeeee do tell us all, I'm dying to know. I mean I want to then go and ask every other NONE EU country exactly how they trade with the EU!!!!
Not one job has gone yet, so likewise we have NO idea what Jobs, if any which will be none, go to Europe.
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You may not care about them but they pay 12% of the UK's taxes and make aroun 8% of the UK GDP. And going along side with them there are legal services, consulting services, IT services. And the UK is one of largest exporters of services (which ones? you guessed) in the World.
And??? The UK and Manhatren banks bankrupted the planet, the UK banks have closed branches everywhere, and they milked tax payers money yet again to keep them up after going bust, oh and let's not forget the milllions and millions and millions in bonuses the executives and high end employees pay themselves each and every year DESPITE the scams they get caught doing, the sacking of thousands of staff, the loss of profits, that's all true you can look it up.
So yeap, I couldn't care less about them and I am still waiting for one job to have been moved to the EU.......... they aren't going to go anywhere because they damn well know which side their bread is buttered. When your in a country where you have a garunteed bailout no matter what you do, you get money guaranteed, you have a monopoly that forces people to use your services and you can screw them over and get away with it and pay bonuses out, oh and then you are even able to pursued the government not to punish you anywhere near the amount you should be. You ain't going to go anywhere when you have all that.
Oh look, a bank that today stated it WILL stay in London, what a surprise:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-barclays-idUKKBN15310V?il=0
And from before when both Barclays and HSBC stated they'll stay':
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13743...n-is-still-the-centre-of-the-financial-world/
Oh and here's Barclays claiming it will be GOOD for Britain to leave the EU, well I never a British bank being positive about Brexit, funnily I do also believe Barclays didn't need to be bailed out by the tax payer either...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...elieves-worst-effects-Brexit-felt-Europe.html
So that's two big banks with different opinions to the others.
