Remainer Rant
People worried about leaving the single market are ridiculous. Membership forbids us from freely creating our own trade deals & the EU is the only trading bloc whose percentage of world GDP is decreasing. Leaving the EU & remaining in the single market is akin to leaving the crew of a sinking ship but remaining on board. The US is the largest economy in the world & has a President who's half British (Scottish Mother), currently engaging in a trade war with the EU & is the most pro-UK President since Thatcher was Prime Minister. Indeed, one of his first acts as president was restoring the bust of Winston Churchill back to its place, a symbolic act representing his commitment to rekindling the transatlantic relationship that saved the world & that Obama had been neglecting because his political views aligned more with Merkel. They are a great source of trade & membership of the single market prevents us from getting a bespoke trade deal with them. India has a population of more than a billion people, twice the populace of the EU on its own, with a shared cultural lineage with the British through the Commonwealth & is an economic powerhouse on the rise (Unlike continental Europe) & we can't get a bespoke trade deal with them because of our membership of the single market. The Commonwealth Wealth of Nations numbers 2.4 billion people, nearly a third of all of humanity & is the largest collective in the world. Their economies while not yet fully modernised will be soon, with a labour force that has the work ethic of a pre-modern economy, that coupled with their huge amounts of mineral wealth & rapidly growing populations will mean that over the long term, Africa & Asia will become the dominant areas of the global economy. 95% of the Commonwealth citizenry are in these two continents & they want trade deals with us. If we seek to remain a tier one economy & centre for global commerce over the long term we have to look beyond the decaying continent of Europe & to the ascending continents of Africa & Asia, away from the European Single Market & towards a Commonwealth single market.










