There's plenty of it about Nick, but we do need the single market in order to retain the inward investment of foreign companies that have set up their European bases here if only to secure the half a million jobs they currently provide us Brits with. Volume retail businesses like McDonald's and Starbuck's will stay here regardless because we're just fodder for them, but manufacturer's may think twice as their costs have rocketed especially when they are importing raw materials.NickFazer wrote:They also threatened something similar when we were were debating joining the Euro, pulling out if we didn't join the single currency. I imagine they feel the need to put some pressure on the UK government to retain access to the single market.
Here's the BBC take on how the negotiations at the G20 are going.
Basically all the world leaders are publicly saying we won't get an easy ride but obviously the politics/diplomatic overtures aren't necessarily going to be reflected in any actual deals we might enter into. And still we wait.....