"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 11:41:59 on Tue, 14 Jun 2016,
tim... remarked:
"We benefit" means the country's gross product benefits (as I said) but
we
get a big share of that. Remember that more trade equals more money
going
round of which we all get some, even if not as fair shares as many would
like.

And I see you ignored my last comment so I make it again

The idea that we would lose all of that trade if we left the EU is simply
preposterous

As this is Usenet then nothing is ever going to qualify as "all" (unless
it's something like "all of Queen Victoria's children are dead").

Even after trade negotiations with the EU, an exited UK will still have to
manufacture goods to the standards within the EU, without ever having had
a say in what those standards are.

well no change there then :-)


What may dry up quickest (but isn't necessarily a huge sum) is
cross-border trade covered by the successor to the Distance Selling
Directive, without whose safeguards consumers in the EU may be more
reluctant to buy from us.

There's also likely to be a big shakeup of travel ticketing (will CIV
survive?)

Um, when was the last time anyone (here) bought one of these across a UK
border

Surely almost everyone buys a point-to-point E* ticket.

I suppose there's the border on the Belfast-Dublin route. Can't remember
what type of ticket I had when I did that

as the whole low-cost flights thing is a result off EU deregulation, and
the allocation of slots is also an EU thing:

Low cost flights are based upon a "modern" business model.

Whilst slots at airports might play a role at the margins, they aren't the
difference between them existing, or not

tim