Comments by "daniel webb" (@danielwebb8402) on "Does the EU Need a Deal with Britain: Can Europe Cope with a No Deal Brexit? - TLDR News" video.

And UK farmers are a small % of the UK GDP, much smaller than German car makers are of theirs (reason Germany's GDP performance was pony last year was mainly China buying less cars). Agriculture is 0.6% of the UK's value added, so could be halved and we'd only just about notice.
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Didn't the UK just vote in again a party, with an increased vote share / majority, very open that no-deal was a possibility? And that they'd be ok with that but wasn't the ideal. How's that not democracy? How many times will the UK public have to tell the politicians until you believe it is democratic?
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@khucthan4099 So... the UK aren't small. Unless one thinks 193 of the 200 odd countries in the world are small. The original comment said the UK was small and normal. It's mathematically quite high up is my point and multiple examples. Indeed the random number generator of successfull countries does appear to have landed on ex UK colonies quite often. Weird hey.
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@vullings1968 And Churchill said that for mainland Europe and explicitly said not UK. That if Europe tied themselves together war less likely. The main attraction for joining / creating the EU was / is a) poor countries who want other people's money. And are willing to lose their dignity for this. b) countries worried about German military aggression. And the later includes Germany themselves weirdly. All of the initial members fall under b. The UK doesnt fall under either of those categories. Yes Thatcher was very much pro more trade. But anti large net contributions. You can have one without the other. There is no need for Danish taxpayers to subsidise a village hall in Portugal in order to have no tariffs. Very sure neither of those would have thought UK tax payers being liable for Italian borrowing acceptable. In the 80s the predecessor to EU was a predominately economic group of similarly developed countries. Now it is clearly something entirely different. Which is fine. If that is what country's people want. But it is different.
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Cost us more because... Tariffs on EU imports? So transfer from UK consumer to UK taxpayers (that's all tariffs are). Or on non EU imports? Or The UK could just reduce food tariffs and reduce food prices to the consumer. Wherever they come from.
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"At worst 7th" isn't a normal country. In G7. Permanent seat on the UN security council. One of the 5 eyes international intelligence security. Size of economy. Military competence. Financial centre. Easily "about 5th".
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As many of the comments are saying, is probably bigger aggregate € amount for EU but as % for each country smaller (except Ireland). Even no-deal will still mean growth for the UK (ignoring coronavirus). Just slower growth. Just "Today you have 100. In 10 years time we think you'll have 110 when we think would have been 115 if stayed in EU." Given the only financial prediction to date that has come even half true was the fall in sterling, the treasury "models" / IMF / business groups should have a larger lack of credibility than they are given at present. So that 5% difference above is going to be more like 2%.
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