No, I didn't say that.
I said that inside the largest trading bloc in the world not all states have to be exporters, and britain certainly is not in any way an exporter, it's more um...a post-empire bottom-feeding fencer of stolen goods. Look at some of the examples people have given in the last few pages of uk exports. It's laughable...but still gets no scrutiny from anyone. (not just this lot, the people in charge too)
Britain isn't going to be in that bloc shortly...I asked 'what will now be traded'. Never got there, but next I would ask 'to whom' and then 'for how much and in which currencies'. This lot would argue that day is night, though. (as do the people in charge)
And in no way is britain a successful economy (which is the totality of goods, services, currency and the consumption and production of those things, I didn't say that to act smart, just to define what I'm talking about). It's propped up by expensive loans, lines of credit and lots of money coming in (but sadly going out again).
London* is a successful economy (as such/in ways), Scotland is. Wales and NI are not, England is not. That's not their fault, that's the way the centralised system has allowed it to become. That's purely the fault of the people in charge.
You don't just have to look after yourself, you come attached with unsuccessful and broken economies which have suffered from decades of lack of development and investment. Or worse you got that investment but at insane rates that you pay for decades. (people in charge again)
Now what you should have done was gotten an English parliament imo, not brexit. But meh.
*not only is london a massive economy within itself, it's nigh on a country within a country.
