Change Britain, one of the successor organisations to Vote Leave have published a "report" (HERE and HERE) claiming we would be better off by £450 million a week or £24 billion a year if we go for a "clean brexit", that is leave the single market and the customs union. The so-called report is a bit simplistic and assumes our trade with the EU suffers no damage at all! This is an amazing (but unspoken) assumption made in the report which only calculates savings in EU contributions and regulations plus increased trade with other countries. The Guardian's take is HERE. It seems like they are simply continuing their dishonest campaign and are determined to see us out of the EU regardless of the economic damage.
The regulatory savings include thing like Batteries and Accumulators (Placing on the Market) Regulations 2008; Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009 which they claim would save £17.53 million a year. But it would also presumably make it impossible for any UK manufacturer to export to the EU. The same applies to Welfare of farmed animals. The alternative is for UK companies to have two sets of regulations to follow!
The Huffington Post (HERE) notes that the OBR said we would be worse off by £122 billion by 2020.
And now this morning the BBC reports (HERE) that prominent leave campaigner John Longworth has written to all 27 EU members Chambers of Commerce, urging them to pressure their government to allow free trade to continue. If I was in one of these chambers I would firstly think he has amazing chutzpah considering he campaigned hard to get OUT of the single market free trade area and secondly I would be concerned that Britain doesn't want to follow the rules but prefers to try and undercut companies in Europe by reducing standards - which would be very unfair.
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