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There are a lot of Brexit half-truths masquerading as whole-truths.
For example: Only a tiny % of firms trade with the EU. True, but that's because you're using the metric of % not company size. A hairdresser that doesn't trade with the EU, and Nissan that does, both count as 1.
For example: Only a tiny % of firms trade with the EU. True, but that's because you're using the metric of % not company size. A hairdresser that doesn't trade with the EU, and Nissan that does, both count as 1.
Another example: the vast majority of products won't attract tariffs, even in a no-deal situation. True, but that's again a matter of focusing on the wrong thing. It's not a matter of how many goods get hit by tariffs, but WHICH ones. Food, drink, cars - pretty fundamental stuff.
Yet another example: Many countries trade fine on WTO terms. True, but almost none trade *exclusively* on WTO terms. They have trade agreements too, even if not with the EU. Also, we're not starting from scratch. We had a stonking trade agreement (EU membership) and binned it.
One final example: We used to be fine before we joined the EU. Trueish, maybe (although that's a very rose-tinted view of life in the UK in the early 1970s). But the rest of the world evolved too (27 other countries joined the EU) and nowhere other than the UK will "revert".
In other words, we can never go back to those "days that we were fine" because they involved the situations of other countries as well, not merely that of the UK.
