Friday 26 June 2015

Reader's Letter Of The Day

From City AM:

Lucy Thomas' declaration that 'nearly half our trade is with other EU countries* is, to be charitable, economical with the truth.

About 80 per cent of our trade is internal - and only 8% of our trade is with EU countries.

As the referendum approaches, we must not allow these distortions to become accepted truth.

Chris Mounsey.


More background info here.

* Pedant point - they are not "EU countries", they are "EU Member States".

2 comments:

Random said...

Eurozone nations have to export to the UK because of the idiotic way they have set their economy up. Remember this.

Bayard said...

Well, you can see where she got here figure from, (about half our external trade is with the EU) but it's still a lie.