Quote:I'm sorry you don't understand that people won't acknowledge in public how far they are willing to negotiate in advance - obviously not a Business major.

 

Notice how Merkel has never said that the single market can't be negotiated? - that's the real key. Now how much further she is willing to go to assure this we will find out. 

 

Merkel going to damage the german car industry? You are dreaming mate. 

Of course she and the EU will negotiate the free market, they'd be foolish not to. But they're not just going to hand the UK a free pass and tell them to get cracking. They're gonna drag every single obligation out of the UK they have to. All the things the Leave campaign said would happen; own control over immigration, no more being bound by EU law, no more money going to the EU? Not of that is going to happen. They'll be as screwed as the ever were with the added bonus of losing all of their influence in Brussels. 

 

On top of that Scotland is in high gear to leave the UK and join the EU. Northern Ireland is doing the same but at a slower pace. By the time the UK leaves they might not have trade deals with the US and/or China. Pretty soon there won't be a UK economy left to sell things to anymore.

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