Briton wins prize for UK exit plan from EU, says economy could benefit

Yahoo News ^ | 8 Apr 2014

[mandaladon]

(Reuters) - Britain's economy could grow by 1.3 billion pounds if it left the European Union due to less regulation and more trade with emerging economies, a British diplomat who dreamt up a prize-winning blueprint for the country's EU exit said on Tuesday.

Britain's free market Institute of Economic Affairs on Tuesday awarded a 100,000-euro prize to Iain Mansfield, a British diplomat based in the Philippines, who it decided had come up with the best blueprint for a 'Brexit,' a British departure from the EU.

Amid widespread public disenchantment in Britain about the EU's perceived over-bearing role in everyday life Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to give Britons a referendum on leaving the EU in 2017 if he is re-elected next year. Many opinion polls suggest a slim majority would vote to leave the 28-nation bloc and that the anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP) is on course to come first or second in elections to the European Parliament next month.

[mandaladon]

Mansfield, director of trade and investment at the British Embassy in Manila, argued that significantly fewer regulations, coupled with greater trade with emerging economies, could provide a real boost for Britain's economy..................We are doing the opposite here in the US under Obama.

[mac_truck]

They should have paid him in pounds sterling :^)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks mandaladon.

[gleeaikin]

British EU exit ping

[Seruzawa]

I wish they’d stop calling Cameron a conservative.

[Rusty0604]

They should have listened to Margaret Thatcher.

[JSDude1]

Go UKIP!

[Psalm 144]

Yes. Listening to Nigel Farage on youtube is some exciting stuff. Not every western politician is a mushmouthed filet.

[ExCTCitizen]

The EU is not needed for the UK.