EU has rules about origins for imported goods and tariffs. You really don't have a clue, what you are talking about.
If not for this rule UK wouldn't have had the Japanese car plants assembling them in the UK. When Japan was looking at how it can over come protectionist Common Market tariffs on car imports it learned about the rule of origin rule and looked at producing cars or rather assembling them in EU. At the time UK offered biggest subsidies to attract them to the UK. Subsidies it begrudged to BL it paid to Japanese plants. Here we are today thanks to EU's rules of origin rules UK is one of the biggest car producers.
With respect to your green credentials you are very funny it you don't see the fallacy in your paper tiger argument pretending to be concerned about global climate change.
Aren't you the one who's suggesting we are better off trading with rest of the World, transporting products to Australia, NZ, Asia, Africa, North and Latin America? Instead of trading with our neighbours you feel we are better off getting substandard produce from considerably longer distances. You then go on reply with some trash trip response pretending to be concerned about global warming. You take the biscuit. Sit down and have a cuppa
fwiw Instead of competing with the best ie European neighbours such as Germany and France, you choose to compete with Commonwealth countries. This is a little like dropping off the premier league where UK is in 5th position and choosing to compete in the 2nd division in the hope it can top the league table. I mean the whole thinking process is just simply crazy.
I'm absolutely flabberghasted about how you can come out with such amazing total rubbish.
