Japan's Unprecedented Warning to UK Over Brexit
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Japan's Unprecedented Warning to UK Over Brexit
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Re: Japan's Unprecedented Warning to UK Over Brexit
#2No way that the EU is going to remove the UK from its single market; the rest of EU is far too dependent on demand from the UK economy.
Re: Japan's Unprecedented Warning to UK Over Brexit
#3TL;DR: if japanese companies suffer losses in EU or other markets that import from the UK, since Brexit might have impact in taxes, they might reconsider the headquarters location and then move to continental EU.
Re: Japan's Unprecedented Warning to UK Over Brexit
#4The knuckle-draggers who voted to leave the EU won't care about threats like this - they'll just use hate speech to dismiss it. Downvote me by all means :)
Re: Japan's Unprecedented Warning to UK Over Brexit
#5The full text can be found here.
http://www.mofa.go.jp/files/000185466.pdf
Japans request is basically "Please don't Brexit or if you must pretend that you did, but don't really..."
Brexit, will lead to an unforced reevaluation of the UKs governmental system by its people. The entire Brexit concept is the most radical development ever started by a conservative party in government.
Re: Japan's Unprecedented Warning to UK Over Brexit
#6Thinking about this from the perspective of the Japanese, they've got little to lose by making this kind of threat. Either the British government give them a deal that is just as good or better than they have now to encourage them to stay, or they give them a good excuse to move their manufacturing elsewhere.
The real issue is when a community is overly reliant on jobs from a small number of employers. That gives the employers more leverage when it comes to extortion tactics like this.
Re: Japan's Unprecedented Warning to UK Over Brexit
#7Indeed the most likely scenario appears to be the 'Norwegian model', where the UK in essence remains in the single market and thus will have to follow European regulations but will have a much smaller say when it comes to the future direction of the EU. They will, however, have officially left the EU so the leave camp can pat their shoulders over their Pyrrhic victory.
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#8It's really incredible that three months after the vote, we still haven't the slightest idea what post-Brexit UK will look like. Will they go for the EEA (the least destructive option), or will they - as Theresa May threatens - sacrifice everything just to limit immigration?
Three months after the biggest decision in decades, and the subject is barely even being talked about seriously in the UK. I don't understand it.
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#9this "warning" was totally unnecessary and those kinds of acts go without saying anyway. Whoever wrote it up doesn't realize that this attempt at posturing makes them looks weak rather than strong.
Re: Japan's Unprecedented Warning to UK Over Brexit
#10The knuckle-draggers who voted to leave the EU won't care about threats like this - they'll just use hate speech to dismiss it. Downvote me by all means :)
The bottom line is that it would be economic suicide to leave the single market, and both sides of the debate know this. If they do leave the EU it will mainly be a proforma move and their single market status will be affected less, if at all.