Quote Originally Posted by noel View Post
Some good points MR. I agree the CBI have made some poor recommendations. Let's see what small businesses think about Brexit. If your narrative were correct, they'd be clamouring for a no-deal Brexit to break the strangle-hold that big businesses have got on the UK economy. But in fact they're not:

https://www.fsb.org.uk/media-centre/...no-deal-brexit
The link you provided dealt with businesses that export to the EU and only 8% of UK businesses do. Yet as I mentioned before all have to comply with EU Single Market rules whether they export or not. Plus our sales to the EU only comprise 44% of all exports and this is reducing. As we agree more free trade deals with the rest of the world the cost of exporting will reduce. Indeed I expect in time the EU will want to do a deal with us given their massive trade surplus.

Frankly I think it is better to have a deal than no deal but not at any price. May's withdrawal agreement that keeps us shackled to the EU via the backstop without ever being allowed to unilaterally exit should be deemed totally unacceptable.