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All this doom and gloom for the UK is laughable.

Lets say the UK government did this.

1) Lowest business taxes in Europe.

2) Least amount of red tape for businesses in Europe.

3) High Priority Visas for tech people and other sectors like bio, engineering, etc.

4) Investment for setting up businesses.

Pretty much, things that a conservative government which is pro business does.

In one fell swoop they can keep the current businesses here and make the UK attractive for foreign investment and also, with a strong economy. Once again make it a safe bet and keep that AAA rating.

I really wouldn't bet on the UK imploding. Those who say it will, don't know what they are talking about

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Your #1 and #2 say "in Europe". Either Britain will be part of the EEA so they can't have less red tape than the rest of Europe, or they aren't in the EEA so the "in Europe" part of your statements isn't relevant.

As much as many Leave voters might wish for it, the geographic position of the United Kingdom is unlikely to change and therefore they will remain part of Europe.

The worst part about EU is how they make people assume that everyone who isn't in EU is not a true European. This is something you'd expect of Americans (from USA), but EU member states hardly have anything to be proud about, so where's the arrogance coming from?

You're relying on an unlikely level of sanity in the politicians.

You are tacitly forgetting Scotland and Northern Ireland leaving the UK soon... very soon while being welcomed into the EU and the major impact that will have in British economy.

Scotland and NI leaving are not "when", but "if", and even discussing "when", it is not "soon" and definitely not "very soon". Scotland has no history of maintaining a strong independent economy and by the time they (theoretically) leave the UK and manage to join the EU, the rest of the UK will have comfortably established an economic position without the EU.

None of the OP points was about "when", but just some theoretic "if".

And Scotland and NI don't need to maintain "a strong independent economy"... they will be part of EU and the common market, that's the all point.

If Scotland leaves the UK over Brexit, maintaining continuity in the EU will clearly be the goal, which means the timeline must be shorter than the two year timeline for Britain to leave the EU (the same would be true with NI, but that's less likely to happen; pro-EU Republicans want a union with Ireland that neither Ireland nor unionists -- pro-EU or otherwise -- want, and unionists still have a majority and the pro-EU ones are still probably more pro-UK than anything else. Brexit may increase factional tensions in NI, but it's unlikely to directly or in the near term lead to a consensus on independence.)

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