Move to rejoin EU among options for UK, says Burnham (www.bbc.co.uk)

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"We could stay as we are. That's definitely an option, if people think this is the right place to stay," he told [BBC Radio 4's Today programme].

"We could look at what [former Chancellor] George Osborne has said about a customs union, we could look at what the Liberal Democrats said at their conference about the single market, or we could go all the way."

If you watch the video in the article, he also said this:

Brexit has caused more harm than good, and I think around 60% of the British public agree with that statement.

Do you like these statements from Burnham or not? I think these statements are good.

I don't see the point in cutting ties with our European allies, causing harm to our economy, just so we can wave little Union Jacks and pretend that we're so much better than other European countries.

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[-] deHaga@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

They are using synthetic counter factuals. There is no control. There is no precedent to leaving the EU.

There is no guarantee that the UK would have not still had major disruption from a narrow remain vote

0.29% of UK companies stopped exporting to the EU. Big deal.

[-] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

I have zero idea where you get these numbers from.

https://www.lse.ac.uk/news/latest-news-from-lse/l-december-2024/brexit-reduced-goods-exports-by-27bn

https://www.cityam.com/brexit-onslaught-deepens-as-a-third-of-all-uk-firms-exporting-to-eu-simply-vanish-due-to-red-tape-knockout/

Somewhere between 15%-30% of all exporters to the EU stopped after Brexit.

But this is a waste of your time - I can sense that data isn’t really going to convince.

At least you can enjoy those bendy bananas.

[-] deHaga@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

There are something like 5m UK businesses. A tiny fraction of them actually exported to the EU. And 15-30% of that sub fraction stopped exporting.

Meanwhile UK services exports has increased by over 75% since 2016

We just swapped high carbon polluting goods trade for high margin low carbon services

Just in time for carbon border taxes.

Net win.

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