I think the U.K. would be perfectly successful as a standalone country, part of the European marketplace like Norway and Switzerland but without the expensive E.U. bureaucracy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The U.K. and Ireland are like-minded on E.U. matters, and the process of working together in Brussels has built an immense store of knowledge, personal relationships, and trust between our governments.
The U.K. is outward-looking, trade-oriented, growth-oriented, and we do not have enough of that storyline, that tradition, that culture within the European Union.
We have to be extremely strict on the implementation of Brexit so there is a common approach between member states. We must avoid a sector-by-sector or country-by-country approach, and ask the U.K. to be clear.
I strongly suspect that there would be a positive economic advantage to the U.K. in leaving the single market.
I believe that Europe without Britain at the heart will be less reform-driven, less open, less international Europe.
I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.
We want the United Kingdom to remain in the European Union.
I believe the United Kingdom will be worse off outside the E.U. It will not have the influence it has in the world today.
We need Britain not only to stay in the E.U. but to be very active in it.
Leaving the E.U. would mean the 'Guernseyfication' of the U.K., which would then be a little country on the world scale. It would isolate itself and become a trading post and arbitration place at Europe's border.