Forced selling...
The continuing campaign by Brexiteers to prove that they have been right all along continues to amuse and stun at the same time.
The long running one is - that the highest growth is in the developing world especially Asia and so British exporters should target Asia not Europe. It never seems to ask why they can’t do both but it has also added another dimension lately.
British firms (being blind and stupid) must be forced, for their own good, to reorientate to the East.
From the party that didn’t like to pick winners, just wanted to get off the back of business and said that government doesn’t create jobs or wealth, business does; this is quite a turn around.
It is also meaningless drivel.
For a start many SME’s happily traded across the EEA because it was cheap and easy, trading with the rest of the world isn’t, so that is a huge unrecoverable economic hit.
Secondly the idea that the UK electorate were sold Brexit on the understanding that its government would erect barriers to trade with its nearest and richest neighbours in order to force companies to sell elsewhere, is a lie.
And even if it was true, the obvious and less harmful way of doing that would be to stay in the Single Market and leave the Customs Union, allowing the UK to cut its own trade deals with Asia but continue to sell to Europe.
Still a stupid idea but not as stupid as the post hoc justifications of people who can see that Brexit is doing great harm but cannot yet admit it to themselves.
Which is what this and other pathetic explanations are.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.