Brexit
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Trade agreements are nothing short of a market haggle. You go to the market and want something, and negotiate a price, you get a good price, haggled the price down. Perhaps you also have something to sell, the buyer negotiates you down a bit. At the end of the day you're happy to have the market and be able to flog your stuff and get a good price for the things you wanted to buy.
Now imagine you team up with your mates to buy stuff, more people = more buying power. Now you can get a really good deal from a seller, as there's 28 of you wanting their stuff. Likewise when a buyer comes to you and your mates, you can all agree to not go lower than a certain price, ensuring you all get a good price for the stuff you sell. And you can give mates rates to each other. That's the current position we find ourselves in as part of the EU, and we don't even have the Euro, we got a special deal with our mates the EU.
But Brexit means we'll be going to the market as billy no mates.
We'll be approaching our old mates and saying "do you want to buy this" and they'll say, nah.. we already got that.
Then we'll say "can I buy that? give me a good price old friend" they'll say, "nope, can't sell it to you cheaper than I sell it to the Japanese bloke over there and that American guy, because I got a good deal going on with them, don't want to jeopardise that, sorry mate it's 15% more for you". And so billy no mates UK will be stuck, having to lower it's selling prices to get a buyer interested in their stuff, and then having to pay an arm and a leg to buy the stuff they want from other countries.
Half the country voted for this. Stupid people are dangerous in large groups: