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struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 02:25 PM Oct 2016

Business leaders urge London against 'hard' Brexit

3:11am October 9, 2016

British business leaders on Saturday urged the government to rule out a hard break with the European Union, saying the uncertainty over the terms of Brexit was impacting investment decisions.

"What we would like is the ruling out of the really worst options," Carolyn Fairbairn, the director general of CBI, Britain's biggest business lobby group, told BBC radio.

She outlined her case in an open letter to the government which was also signed by the heads of the EEF manufacturers' association, the International Chamber of Commerce UK and the techUK technology industry body.

They warned against a situation where Britain leaves the EU single market without having a new trade deal in place, meaning it would revert to trading under World Trade Organization rules ...


http://www.9news.com.au/world/2016/10/09/03/11/business-leaders-urge-london-against-hard-brexit

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Business leaders urge London against 'hard' Brexit (Original Post) struggle4progress Oct 2016 OP
It's too late, baby! BlueMTexpat Oct 2016 #1
It's not too late but we're running out of time. LeftishBrit Oct 2016 #2
I'm keeping my fingers BlueMTexpat Oct 2016 #3

BlueMTexpat

(15,369 posts)
1. It's too late, baby!
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 05:48 PM
Oct 2016


Blame Cameron for the f**king referendum, UKIP and RW Tories for their lies and all of those who didn't make the case for "Remain" because they believed it to be so obvious - as it should have been.

LeftishBrit

(41,206 posts)
2. It's not too late but we're running out of time.
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 06:40 PM
Oct 2016

'Too late' will be when the Prime Minister triggers Article 50, which sounds just as dangerous as it is, and which she's threatened to do by the end of March.

BlueMTexpat

(15,369 posts)
3. I'm keeping my fingers
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 05:50 AM
Oct 2016

crossed for you all - that somehow common sense will take over.

But the way that your UK "leadership" is playing this, I'm not hopeful. And there is little goodwill left toward the UK on the EU's part. What a terrible shame!

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