“We know that Britain leaving the EU would mean having to re-establish terms of trade from scratch with our home market of 500 million consumers. That wouldn’t just hurt exporters but the hundreds of thousands of small and medium firms who do business with them”
How about a REALLY specific example of a problem this would cause.
Generally speaking, the quote above is a typical “tory” type of argument (as in tories of US revolution). They basically say, I don’t give a sh** what rights are trampled on as long as I’m making out ok.
The fact that the largest companies want to stay and the smallest are divided (per article) tells you the desire to stay is an elitist one. The EU deal works for big boys only apparently.
The world political system today is indeed corporatism as Nigel Farage described it at CPAC in 2015-Big Business, Big Government and Big Banks.
They as hostile to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to bear arms and other Constitutional rights.