You have to love rabid europhilia sometimes because it just produces the most hilarious nonsense. And where better to get such things than the Lib Dem Conference and the fringe.
The other day the UKIP leader Nigel Farage attended the Lib Dem fringe in order to argue against the EU Constitution and in favour of a referendum. Obviously Farage also wants complete withdrawal from the EU and so it wouldn't be long befoe that topic came up for discussion.
During the debate one hysterically stupid Lib Dem member stood up and apparently said that if the UK left the EU then Felixstowe harbour would close within 24 hours and that Germany would no longer trade with Britain.
Now, whatever ones views on the EU, the idea that the home of Audi, Mercedes-Benz and BMW would no longer want to sell to one of its biggest markets overnight is absolutely loopy.
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If we negotiate ourselves into a purely trading relationship with the EU, we'd keep all the trade and lose the political and financial nightmares that accompany the EU.
Not really, like Norway we'd be effectively subject to the overwhelming bulk of EU legislation anyway, but without the capacity to influence it.
You mean just like every other country in the world that trades with the EU shurely, not just Norway...
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What I really popped up this window to say was that perhaps the LabDim meant was that Audi would stop trading with Felixstowe Harbour?
Yeah, coz we really influence the EU don't we?
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