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That only works if the only market to trade with is the European one. Don’t forget EU membership restricted trade with the ROW. Trade deals cannot be arranged independently. So it’s a bit like asking “how will 1945 Berlin ever function with 10% of its infrastructure intact”

Of course, FDI will also be affected for Europe too, as we are the second biggest member, one of the free net contributors, and actually represent a largely disproportionately large market of consumers.

Our economy is larger than

Greece, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Ireland, Serbia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic and the Netherlands combined.

Whether or not the politicians like it, eventually, business will not allow politicians to tariff the 2nd largest export market and therefore harm everybody.

The EU is in essence a political organisation, not an economic one. Free trade will happen, it just might need the EU as an organisation to collapse first, as its politics driving the deal making, not economics as you’re fed in newspapers. If article 50 happens, wait and see what happens to the budget, and watch Italy first, Greece and all the poverty stricken southern states leave in droves.

Germany has a horrible hiding coming to it once again. It has truly stitched up trade In it’s favour, assumed it to be due to their magnificence, and they will find out the hard way once they can’t rig the currency to help their exports at the expense of the Southern European states.

If you view the bigger picture here, you’ll see that it’s not about what happens to us, it’s about what happens next once we are gone.