Posted on 03/18/2016 2:28:51 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
If the UK leaves the European Union, British households could be on average as much as £1,700 a year worse off, a think tank has said.
In the longer term, the average cost to households could be up to £6,400, according to the Centre for Economic Performance.
It says a decline in trade would cost the economy "far more" than would be gained from lower EU contributions.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Brought to you by the same economists who insisted in the early 1990’s if the US eliminated tariffs and opened up its markets all of those manufacturing jobs would magically be replaced by higher paying, higher skilled service jobs and the economy would boom for decades.
even if it were true, i’d rather have a couple of grand left than be dead or a slave to muslims.
they are not the Turks, this breed. They are, many of them, ISIS terrorists and assorted jihadis.
...sure the influx of a few million mooslems will help. After all they have contributed to the Us
could be up to £6,400Prostitution in Russia is surging in the wake of the country’s financial crisis
the major media is certainly invested in keeping UK subservient to the ‘continental interests’
(Brussels/Berlin)
and meanwhile the mass-scale Muslim invasion continues!
once a great empire, ....”The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!” (King David)
GB what is the price of your freedom, history and legacy that was passed down to you? Are you willing to sell it for $1,500 a year?
Boy, look at all those poor, starving, widows & orphans.
Centre for Economic Performance
Boy, I bet this result simply SHOCKED this group!
What isn’t disputed is that Britain will be better off to the tune of... 53 MILLION POUNDS A DAY if we quit the European Union, That is 53 MILLION POUNDS, A DAY, That Britain pays to the EU...!!
I thought it was 66m!.
LOL
Centre for Economic Performance - think tank.
Right ... thinking for the highest bidder.
The arguments for a Brexit are about sovereignty: control of immigration policy, the British conception of human rights being applied rather than the Continental, Westminster (and Holyrood and Cardiff) being able to control even mundane things things like agricultural policy and consumer safety rules without Brussels gainsaying their decisions (Brussels just backed down on a ban on high-power kettles, a standard in British households, for fear that tea-loving would override environmentalism among the British public and tilt the balance toward a Brexit).
The arguments against are either leftish multiculturalist claptrap from folks who want Brussels to destroy British sovereignty or short-term pocketbook arguments like the one in this article. The latter turn on the EU being vengeful and not allowing a mutually beneficial open trade agreement to persist after a Brexit, and in the long-run are not much of arguments since outside the EU, Britain could pursue its own trade policy (most notably to establish a Commonwealth-wide free trade agreement and lower trade barriers with the US).
(I’m sojourning in England just now, and paying more attention to this than most FReepers.)
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