28/06/2015
Here
we go again ⦠the confusion between Single Market participation and EU membership. Under
Flexcit the whisky trade would be completely unaffected by withdrawal from the EU.
It has to be said, though, that if
certain regimes were followed, the whisky trade with the EU would not just be disrupted, but almost destroyed â along with most of the rest of our trade with the EU. The only thing that is stopping the putative "yes" campaign having a field day on this is that their campaign groups seem almost as inept as some of ours.
However, one cannot rely on this continuing to be the case, and I wouldn't like to be the group forced to "do a Salmond" at a late stage in the campaign, having to deny that its recommendation would probably cost the British economy not three million but closer to ten million jobs.
In this game, you can get away with a lot, for an incredibly long time. But the thing about dormant time bombs is that you never know when they are going to go off.
