I work in a warehouse in St. Helens. When we where discussing the referendum before it happened the vast majority of my colleagues said they where voting to leave. That included 19 year old unskilled lads and girls aswell as the managing directors. The only people who said they were voting remain were the Pilks pensioners who were worried that their investments would drop in value.

As far as I can see there is no voter regret.

Have you worked out what the actual tangible benefits are yet of leaving ?
(Anyone can answer this one, anyone)

It's a bit like sports clubs refusing to leave their own squalid spiritual homes rather than sharing a better facility elsewhere , it makes you ' feel ' better

Increase in vale of investments.

So we were trapped ?

Do you like being trapped ?

So every product we sell to the EU will require a separately negotiated tariff ? , fair enough

Every product they sell us will need a similar negotiated tariff , no worries

As for free movement of people , well it does need to be under our control with regards those coming into Britain , if the EU want to put controls on British citizens entering the EU , again , no worries

Why does free movement and tariffs need to be linked??

Will our trade deals with Australia, USA, India etc be linked to the number of people we are willing to let in?

Why aren't tariffs linked to your environmental performance, military spend...........

1/ They are linked within the EU because that is the deal that every member agrees to when joining the EU.

2/ We dont yet have independent deals with the USA, India, Australia yet but, bearing in mind that the EU is our largest market and they simply wong give the UK a preferential deal, especiallly IF we obtain cheaper tariff free raw materials or finished goods from India, China etc and then try to supply back into the EU, they will first of all protect their "members" just as they currently do.

3/ Tariff's are not linked to anything other than being applied to ALL goods brought into the EU.

I'm pleased that you have "no worries" about the products that the UK sells to the EU.

If your business depended on sales to the EU, you may think differently ?

Some politicians have tried to comfort the UK public by saying thet total trade with the EU is similar in both directions and therefore it makes sense not to have and "penalties" for trading with one another and whilst this may be true, the value of trade is approximately half of all the UK's exports but is no where near half of all exports out of the EU, therefore, in proportion, Britain has far, far more to lose.

Or goods supplied from the EU in reply/retaliation ? , those BMW,Audi's,Mercs and Volkswagens will get more expensive

Again as you suggest , we are trapped , or being held to ransom ?

You ok with that , is that what ' friends ' do ?

I wouldn't call it trapped at all.
We signed up to being a part of the EU and had a voice within there to influence the direction of the "organisation".
Without doubt, certain aspects of being a member have certainly helped the UK over the last 40 years, after all we keep hearing how well our country is doing within the world market, achieved whilst being part of the EU.

The end to the cold war, the falling of the Berlin wall, living in a free society, fee movement within the EU (especially for the 2 million plus Brits in Spain.
The main aspect, free trade is huge and only now as we try to unravel the UK from 40 years of ties, can we see just how embeded we have become.

Why the panic? France will vote in Le Pen and the EU will be finished. Its distintegration will hit the German economy hardest and we'll become, for a short while, Europe's economic powerhouse.