• Kissaki@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    What do you mean? The Brexiters wanted free trade with the EU, so they left the union? I don’t see how that makes any sense.

    • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org
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      Yes. The Brexiters argued that they would be better off without an agreement with the Europesn Union on future trade policy and sgreements, seeing a “No-Deal-Brexit” as leverage which left the UK free to make more advantageous trade agreements with other countries.

      Years later, not a single agreement has materialized which could even remotely make up for the lost trade with the European Union.

      And, ironically, business sectors which thougth that they would profit from Brexit like fishing companies or farmers, suffered the most because they were completely unaware how much advantage the collaboration within the EU was giving them.

      https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49325620

      https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48631741

    • Don_alForno@feddit.org
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      1 day ago

      Basically, yes. They wanted to keep the free trade but get rid of all the other pesky rules, like freedom of residence, common regulations and so on.