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A pack of lies and half-truths, starting with #1! Notice that there they now say jobs "linked to" and not dependent on (the blatant Nick Clegg lie), and they also say "European Union's single market" and not simply the EU. Norway is already outside the EU but in the European Union's single market. Those jobs would not disappear, in fact there would be more UK jobs as we expanded our global trade. The EU is a contracting market mired in bureaucracy. We'd surely maintain our trading relationships though, because the EU can not afford not to trade with us. We buy far more from Germany than they buy from us, and without the UK economy the EU will sink even faster than it is already doing. Overriding all this are the EU treaties which state that the two year notice period for leaving is to negotiate a trading relationship "on favourable terms". If the worst were to happen, and the EU bit it's own nose off to spite it's face, we'd be faced with a piddling 1.8% tariff barrier against our goods, which we'd recoup several times over by retaliating against German goods - so, that simply ain't going to happen! The EU originated when worldwide trade barriers were far higher, and so this (and the EU) becomes increasingly irrelevant. This is how the bureaucratic EU is performing (dark blue line) against the "Anglo Saxon economics" which those Brussels mandarins so hate. These stats come from the EU and the European Central Bank no less; so if anything would downplay EU under-performance! Happy to tackle the rest of those lies, but just look where they come from. The Brussels Council of the British European Movement, Square de Meeûs 25, 1000, Brussels - EU propaganda bought and paid for by our own money!

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