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The UK was also the sick man of Europe before they joined the EU predecessors.

The modern successful UK is almost certainly a consequence of closer collaboration with the EU.

Almost none of the reasons the UK was successful before are true anymore.



closer collaboration - closer compared to what? The share of the UK's total trade that was with the EEC/EU fell during the time it was a member.


>The modern successful UK is almost certainly a consequence of closer collaboration with the EU.

Is it? Or just neoliberalism via Thacher making it more alluring to modern capitalism (succesful for society is another thing) and the same cheap credit flood in the 90s+ that happened across the West?




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