Posted: Tue Nov 8, 2022 5:13pm
My other half is Danish and I've spent a lot of my time there and I can assure you there is no desire to leave the EU, the OBR has stated that Brexit has hit the UK economy by 4% and that will be year on year, the hit from the pandemic was just 2%, significant but half the impact of brexit.
The UK has signed 70 trade deals since leaving the EU, however all but 2 of them were existing deals which we already had in place through our EU membership, the trade deals with Aus and NZ are worth something like 0.08% to our economy and are stacked heavily in favour of Aus and NZ, so much that one of the NZ negotiators said they couldn't believe what we agreed to, both deals will heavily impact on UK farmers as they are not competing on a level playing field.
The EU is the world's most successful trading block and leaving has obviously impacted us adversely.