daveyz999 wrote:
I'm excited about the prospect of the UK being able to negotiate trade deals with non EU countries.
I already do quite a lot of personal trade with China and the prices are far more competitive than what I would get in the EU.
Ordering items from China is just as easy as ordering them from any European country. The delivery time is pretty similar as well.
There seems to be a message from the remain campaign that we would lose out on deals if we're not sat at the big table. I wonder how countries like New Zealand, Australia, China and America survive as they cannot be included in the 'amazing' European Union.
I'm guessing if you find the transit time similar you're buying parcel sized goods transported by courier?
Please bare in mind that the largest portion of that cost is actually attributed to process in UK. Air freight part of it costs pence per kilo.
Without EU workers the already crisis state of the driver and warehousing staff shortages will ensure that those goods will inevitably shoot up in price.
Although of course we don't know what brexit will look like. It's more than likely we'll actually end up with a situation where we've signed up to most of EU's rules in return for free trade. Such things like accepting refugee's, fisheries rules, funding, border less travel etc. EU members will probably continue to move to UK without visas etc.
That is of course as long as the unelected House of Lords and queen sign the results off.
