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Why a British withdrawal from the EU could be beneficial to Ireland

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  • #52
    micosoft
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭micosoft


    murphaph wrote: »
    Why is it a bad habit? I'll bet you find neighbouring countries usually trade more with each other than more distant ones. Makes practical sense I would have thought with shorter routes to market and often a common(ish) language. I'll bet Austria trades more with Germany than Norway and Norway trades more with Sweden than Spain and Spain trades more with Portugal than Poland.....

    Over-dependence on a country that speaks the same language, 1000 years of history, best transport links, similar business attitude, same plugs, shares the island with us, drives on the same side of the road, etc etc is plain daft!
    We need to trade more with ISIS, North Korea and the Penguin King of Antartica who have never heard of QE. You can depend on them!


  • #53
    realitykeeper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭realitykeeper


    micosoft wrote: »
    Over-dependence on a country that speaks the same language, 1000 years of history, best transport links, similar business attitude, same plugs, shares the island with us, drives on the same side of the road, etc etc is plain daft!
    We need to trade more with ISIS, North Korea and the Penguin King of Antartica who have never heard of QE. You can depend on them!
    It is unfortunate but you are more correct than you know. QE can be stopped temporarily but not permanently, QE4 will eventually be required in the US and it will be bigger than QE 1, 2 & 3 combined. The same will go for the EU, UK and Japan. In short, the state will end up owning everything and communism starts then.
    I think that is when North Korea will follow Cuba in opening up to the free markets which will be mainly in Asia and Africa.


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