The government is wilfully wrong in saying we lost 4% or 8% of GDP through Brexit. The graphs and charts of our GDP versus France, Germany and Italy show that is nonsense. The government is hopelessly misled in thinking its growth strategy will spring into life if we re set with the EU.
How will paying even more for energy once in the EU carbon trading and emissions scheme help? It is ultra dear energy that is deindustrialising us at pace.
How will imposing a carbon border tax on imports from non EU help? That makes business inputs dearer and squeezes consumer spending power.
How will adopting more EU rules make us more prosperous? Their rules add costs and impose bans and limitations on business activity.
How does bringing in lots of low paid and no paid young people to the UK boost per head incomes?
How does paying ten times as much for student support to help EU students much more than UK ones help us? Why stop supporting UK students to go to non EU universities?
How does giving away so much of our fish for so many years do anything but damage to our coastal communities and fishing grounds?
If aligning with EU laws makes you richer why is Northern Ireland worse off than GB, as NI does align?
Why did the UK growth rate plunge in the Uk’s first twenty years in the EEC, and fall further when we joined the single market in 1992?
Given how stretched our budgets are, why will paying more money to the EU help? Won’t that put up taxes or put up borrowings more, with higher interest rates as a result?
How does seeking more EU trade help GDP, when we run a large deficit with the EU and imports subtract from GDP? We run a surplus on non EU trade which is growing faster.
The EU re set could undermine or prevent our trade deals with the TPP, US and other large overseas economies. Why risk it?
People voted for UK MPs to decide our laws and run our government, answerable to the UK voters. Making us accept EU laws we cannot change or influence undermines democracy.