Nobody got cut off from anything. As nobody is calling you out on your ludicrous hair-on-fire ignorance, let me be the first.
UK is the largest internal customer in the EU. If the EU puts up tarriffs to stop us buying their stuff, whom exactly do you suppose would suffer?
If german fridges, italian tomatoes (etc) got more expensive, then we would simply go buy from someone else - and a lot of germans and italians (etc) would lose their jobs.
Which is no doubt why Markus Kerber - head of the BDI - has already called for a free trade agreement to be set up with the UK. That was on the 24th.
Make no mistake - Merkel could put us behind a tariff wall. After all she has a glorious history of screwing over her own countrymen. But if that happened we would just buy elsewhere. They can't so easily sell elsewhere.
The German and French stock markets had twice the losses of the British =>
UK -3.15%; France -6.24%; Germany -6.82%.
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/europe/
So you think the UK should leave the EU but should continue to have free trade with EU countries? If that’s the case then I agree. Leaving won’t hurt them at all.
But that of course will never happen. The French and the Germans believe that free trade is only “fair” if the same rules apply to everyone. That’s why they have bureaucrats in Brussels creating the rules.
If I understand you correctly you want the UK to dump the bureaucrats and the rules but keep their access to the EU market. Well, that of course would be the perfect outcome and the UK would prosper at the expense of all the countries following the rules.
But if France and Germany allow this to happen I think you can undetstand that every European country abiding by the EU rules might feel like they are getting cheated and would want to leave.
I’m betting that the UK will be isolated (trade barriers will go up), divided (Scotland and Northern Ireland will choose the EU over the UK. France and Germany will give them whatever they want to make it happen) and will face economic ruin. But this is of course pure speculation on my part. The outcome of the negotiations that will take place now will determine what will happen. Will Boris Johnson represent the UK in the negotiations? I forsee a train wreck but I could be wrong.