For the EU's economy, Brexit is like the EU28 becoming the EU10

We present our second 'one-pager' in the Brexit Fightback Initiative

The UK's economy is bigger than 18 EU countries COMBINED

We look at the latest official EU economic data for 2018, as part of our 'Brexit Fightback Initiative'.

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For the third year in a row, Brexit Facts4EU.Org shows just what a massive impact Brexit makes on the EU’s economic size. This information has been used by pro-Brexit MPs in Parliament many times. Here we bring you the latest official EU economic data for 2018, as part of our 'Brexit Fightback Initiative'.

Brexit Facts4EU.org Summary

The UK’s economy is bigger than 18 EU member countries – COMBINED
This shows the dramatic economic impact to the EU of Brexit
If the 18 smallest EU member states left simultaneously, the EU’s total economy would not shrink as much as it will on Brexit
In effect, Brexit is equivalent to the EU28 becoming the EU10, in terms of the EU’s economic size

All these countries could leave the EU, and they would not have the same impact on the size of the EU's economy as when the UK leaves:-

Ireland
Denmark
Finland
Czech Republic
Romania
Portugal
Greece
Hungary
Slovak Republic

Luxembourg
Bulgaria
Croatia
Slovenia
Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia
Cyprus
Malta

Why is this important?

When negotiating with Brussels, Boris Johnson seems to understand the relative importance of the UK to the EU. When listening to Theresa May - and to Remainer MPs and the BBC - the public could easily have received the impression that the UK is minor player - just one out of 28 members. In fact it has the economic power of more than 18 of the smaller EU member states.

Mrs May in Brussels

Mrs May almost looked apologetic when she attended EU Council summits. It is little wonder that the EU Council and Commission were able to impose on her the appalling surrender treaty known as the Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration.

We very much doubt that when Mr Johnson attends the next EU Summit in two weeks' time he will come across as weak and supplicant, in the way that Mrs May did.

The EU has expanded by adding economically-small countries, each of which has had little impact on the overall size of the Single Market and the Customs Union. The latest factsheet in our new ‘Brexit Fightback Initiative’ shows just how significant the UK really is.

You can now download this information as a simple, one-page PDF leaflet
We hope you find it useful

Endorsed by a NINE Brexit organisations with big reach

We are pleased to tell readers that we have received endorsements for this factsheet from eight other Brexit organisations, each acting independently. With us that makes nine.

These are: Alliance of British Entrepreneurs, Economists for Free Trade, Fishing for Leave, Get Britain Out, Global Britain, Veterans for Britain, Better Off Out (part of The Freedom Association), and Campaign for an Independent Britain . We recommend visiting their websites and following them on Twitter and Facebook, if you haven't already done so.

Further action: This factsheet follows on from the first one in the ‘Brexit Fightback Initiative’. More factsheets are coming, with several of them nearing completion. In the meantime we hope that readers will do everything they can to promote them.

We would like to thank the following readers for their specific support of the ‘Brexit Fightback Initiative’:-

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Observations

To take just one example from the list above, the Maltese PM governs a country the size of the town of Kirklees in West Yorkshire. And yet when unanimous votes are required at the EU Council, his vote carries the same weight as that of the British Prime Minister. Imagine the Maltese PM making the decision to extend Article 50 past 31 October - a decision which will affect a country that has a population 139 times greater than his?

This is the reality of the EU, not the glossy impression given by Remain MPs that the UK is ‘too small’ to flourish as an independent country. If they knew the first thing about the EU, they would know this.

When the Prime Minister presents his Brexit plan today we hope to see 'Big, Bold Boris', acting in the interests of 'Big, Bold Britain'.

As ever, the lack of funding limits the resources we can put on this initiative. We are inviting readers to help by becoming a Sponsor (£10 donation), a Gold Sponsor (£50 donation), or a VIP Sponsor (£100 and above). We will not publish your name unless you give express permission, naturally, and your contact details are never used.

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[ Sources: Eurostat official EU data | EU Commission ]

Brexit Facts4EU.Org, 02 Oct 2019

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Reader Comments 17

1. Sydney Ashurst , Wednesday, October 02, 2019, 06:58:

Sorry Brexit Facts4EU HM Opposition is not interested in such facts.
A few days ago the BBC news announcer said there is a new law preventing leaving without a deal. The BBC was referring to the Benn Act and it is wishful thinking on their and the oppositions part.
The Benn Act is an exercise in can kicking and is currently non effective. It is pointless, the extension
T & C's preventing further negotiations.
In the meanwhile the Cooper - Letwin extension now has only 30 days to run to ratify the WA or for the PM to make a breakthrough on the backstop ans successfully pass it through Parliament.

2. Julie Williams , Wednesday, October 02, 2019, 06:59:

One of the most disgusting and depressing aspects of the whole Brexit farce has been the belittling of our country by our Parliament, government institutions and the media(particularly the BBC) apparently we are a failed nation with too much nostalgia for a shameful long-gone empire.
Trouble for them is that we aren't: we are still a major world player (except in industry, unfortunately) in finance, diplomacy, military and we always seem to be the "go to" country when another country either wants money or a scapegoat!
Let's start sticking up for the UK , starting with Johnson politely telling the EU to start negotiating with some respect to reach a mutually beneficial trade deal or...forget it.

3. James Bertram , Wednesday, October 02, 2019, 07:18:

Julie - let's negotiate a trade deal with the EU once we have left, just like any other self-respecting independent Nation would do. In that way there can be no political strings attached.

4. James Bertram , Wednesday, October 02, 2019, 07:37:

Here is Boris's long expected BETRAYAL - a fudged deal based on May's appalling Surrender Treaty so as to keep the Tory Party united - party before country - selling the British People down the river once again.
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'...In a startling departure from his no compromising stand on Brexit during bitter Commons clashes last month, the PM said he wanted to try to reunite the divided nation and “address the sense of loss of Remainers”.
Saying he was now in “Bruce Banner mode” — the Incredible Hulk’s modest scientist alter ego — Boris insisted he wanted to “take down the temperature, cool the fever and get everybody back together”.
The PM explained: “It’s an emotional thing. And it goes to people’s sense of identity. There’s a very, very serious task for government to think about how to manage those feelings because they’re real....'
https://www.thesun.co.uk/ne...
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Never trust a Tory.

5. R. Ellison UK , Wednesday, October 02, 2019, 07:56:

Keep your head, when all around are losing theirs.

6. Sydney Ashurst , Wednesday, October 02, 2019, 08:13:

Anyone want to bet on a meaningful vote no.4 getting through Parliament

7. Patrick F , Wednesday, October 02, 2019, 09:08:

Comment 6, Sydney, I'm putting a tenner on "fat chance."

8. tarien , Wednesday, October 02, 2019, 11:11:

Well said 2 Julie Williams- I've been screaming and yelling the same things for years-pride, patriotism, and being British has been smothered by the duplicity of the self serving intervention of the European Union and most disgracefully by this nations Parliamentarians. I am certain all subscribers here, are quite disgusted with the H o P and with the traiterous media, led by the BBC that, have not so much surreptitiously, but blatently subverted any call for support to the 17.4 million who voted out of the EU. Like many just now I would condone shutting off the British Broadcasting Corporation's £5.5 billion per annum, and let them sink or swim against the non public funded media operations.

9. Daren , Wednesday, October 02, 2019, 11:12:

I suspect that Boris knows that his deal will not be accepted by Europe or parliament-he can then say that he tried -we can then leave with no deal

10. Steven , Wednesday, October 02, 2019, 13:47:

Boris The Buffoon should do the decent thing at long last and RESIGN. This stupid clown seriously proposes to leave a part of our country - Northern Ireland- marooned for a period of several years in the EU. The So-called CONServative and supposedly UNIONIST party is an absolute disgrace going along with EU, Yankee and Irish government meddling and attempts to break the constitutional integrity of what is meant to be the UNITED Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
He is also a hypocrite because what he is proposing is basically what he criticised Teresa May for!

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