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Re:UK votes to leave EU by lettergram on Friday June 24, 2016 @01:07AM (#11966720)
My bad, it was much closer than I thought. I do recall that the majority prior to joining the EU was with commonwealth nations.

Regardless, it's not like materials to trade disappears... my guess would be the UK negotiates with the EU to basically keep trade the same. If not the UK will be increase exports elsewhere.

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Re:UK votes to leave EU by matthewmacleod on Friday June 24, 2016 @03:04AM (#11967360)
That's the point though - keeping trade rules the same implicitly means keeping things like free movement and acceptance of EU regulation.

It's far from clear that the UK will be able to sort this out easily.

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Re:UK votes to leave EU by tonyedgecombe on Friday June 24, 2016 @10:21AM (#11969943)
Especially since the electorate thought they were voting against free movement.
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