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Old 11-04-2008, 10:36 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by steve fowler View Post
It would be good if the Commonwealth council could do a sort of costs test to see if the UK would be better off trading and working with it then being stuck in the EU......
Without Commonwealth trade and trade with our largest single trading partner the USA - we would be bankrupt as a country on trade with the EU alone (we have had a massive trading deficit with the EU countries - to their advantage - from year two of our membership of the EEC/EU).
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