UKIP supporters claims that
business leaders want to leave the EU is simply not true, as proven
by the recent CBI poll which showed 80% of their
members want the UK to stay in. A similar overwhelming majority of
members of the Engineering Employers Federation said the same 3
weeks. Not a single credible business organisation wants to
leave the EU. Hardly surpising in view of CBI's analysis that EU
membership is worth £3000 p.a. to every household in the UK. For those
who are interested the abolition of hordes of regulations
that is result of merging 27 different nations set of product safety
rules into a single common code, is also a major factor. No longer do I
have to design a
French version, or a German version or an Italian version of the same
widget – I just make a British version and no-one can prevent me
from selling it in any country within the EU as used to happen
pre-Maastricht Treaty days. Perhaps James might appreciate why Nissan
have said that an EU exit would threaten continued production of
their cars in the UK.
There is no paperwork
required to export goods to any country within the EU, or any bureaucratic barriers. There is paperwork, bureaucracy and costs
associated with exporting anything outside of the EU – those of us
who have to pay these costs call them 'The Farage Tax' – as that is
the burden of red-tape and costs that fall on every business in the
UK the day we walk out of the EU. Many small businesses would find it
uneconomical to continue to export goods to Europe once these costs
are imposed on them, which is why small businesses now also support
EU membership.
So it would be helpful if opponents of
the EU just for once listened to business, as it is their exports
that creates Britain's wealth and employment.
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