German for beginners..
I just love the concept that “Global Britain” will be a triumph once it exports as successfully as Germany.
How could you possibly argue that and not notice that Germany is a much more successful exporter inside the EU?
The reason it exports more than the UK is that it makes things that rapidly developing countries need. Trains, transport infrastructure, power plants, machine tools, mining equipment etc etc etc.
Most of those industries were wiped out in the UK by Margaret Thatcher’s recession of the early 1980’s.
But more widely I have been told by Brexiteers that the reason Germany does so well in the EU is that it ignores the rules.
Demonstrating that famous German trait of not following orders.
You just have to ask what it was about the EU that stopped the UK being efficient, productive, dynamic and an exporting power house.
Apparently nothing, it was all home grown and now it is home grown without the benefits of foreign investment or the Single Market.
Chapeau chaps, chapeau.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
"But more widely I have been told by Brexiteers that the reason Germany does so well in the EU is that it ignores the rules".
It would be more useful if they said which rules, exactly.
I haven't met or engaged with a Brexit advocate yet who even knows what the EU is, or why.