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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by dragonwriter on Friday June 24, 2016 @04:06PM (#11973017)
> Clearly, free trade can and did exist before 1992, 1957, and 1942.

Trade did exist. Free trade less so, and a durable expectation of free trade on predictable terms (free or otherwise) even less so.

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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by djschnei on Friday June 24, 2016 @04:18PM (#11973101)
Not sure how I'm failing to make my point. I said post WW Europe had regressive protectionism. The initial unions did alleviate some of that. However, over time it turned into a larger version of the initial problem.
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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by jerven on Friday June 24, 2016 @07:25PM (#11974272)
Only for those outside of the union... inside it was much better and getting better.
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