Brexit is like a Premier League side wanting to be relegated | William Keegan
by William Keegan from Economics | The Guardian on (#418YN)
The man who used to run the WTO says the EU single market, set up by Margaret Thatcher, is 'the top league'. How right he is
This country is obsessed by football. Many of the people who voted to "leave Europe" follow closely the ups and downs of the teams in the Premier League, teams whose stars and managers are often from, well, "Europe".
It is unimaginable that any football fan would want his or her team to descend from the Premier League to the lowest, just like that. Yet that is not unlike what this country would be doing if the wishes of the Brexit extremists were to be realised.
The idea of trying to set up new trade agreements in a world that is going protectionist fast is for the birds
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