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Increasing our trade with Europe (whether it's with a customs union or some other measure) would be good for two reasons:
Weirdly archive.is sometimes doesn't load for me
So here it is on archive.ph too
Oh thank you π. It's the reverse for me.
A customs union (as opposed to a free trade area) would require us to allow the EU to control what external tariffs we set, that would effectively make Chinese and American goods a lot more expensive.
And given how much China and the US are our friends, that would just be terrible.
Oh no, weβd buy more stuff more Europe, how terrible. Then itβll have to get shipped locally: the terror!!!
And then European businesses and consumers might start buying from the UK again! That will not stand!!
Spiking the cost of living is generally a bad thing π€
Good.
This has been signposted for a long time by the fact that we have not done any regulatory realignment after importing the EU laws into the UK wholesale.