‘We're freeing ourselves from a FAILED economic model’ Rees-Mogg tells QT audience member
JACOB Rees-Mogg remained defiant in the face of a scathing attack from a local business owner who questioned the success of Brexit on BBC Question Time last night.
Rees-Mogg: We are freeing from FAILING European economy
The European Research Group (ERG) chair shutdown the audience member’s long and impassioned rant as he laid out the benefits of Brexit. The woman, who runs a local Chemical company in Aylesbury, argued that due to the trade barriers and other repercussions of Brexit, she now has to bypass the UK to maintain her business. Mr Rees-Mogg met her speech by insisting that the EU was a failed model that the Uk had to get away from.
Mr Rees-Mogg said: “The EU is a failed economic model and we are freeing ourselves from it.
“We will be able to engage with the rest of the world rather than hiding behind the barriers that it thinks will help it.
“We can lower the prices of goods in this country by cutting tariffs by having cheaper food, clothing and footwear with will benefit the least well off in our society.
“Do I think industry will benefit in the end? Overwhelmingly, it will be good for competitiveness and good for British business.”
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Mainly directed at Mr Rees-Mogg, the audience member insisted that the businesses like hers will lose employees and the underfunded public services will be put under huge strain.
Within her brutal attack on the MPs, she also questioned how the Leave campaign could escape the ramifications of lying throughout their campaign but all their “illegal methods” to obtain Brexit.
She said: “Brexit is going to be massively damaging for the UK.
“We’ll be the ones to suffer from all of this while the Government and the opposition just fight amongst themselves."
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She added: “Any Brexit deal is going to be worse than what we’ve got.
“The worst case scenario would be no deal Brexit which would be catastrophic.
“And the Brexiteers just don’t seem to care or they don’t what they’re trying to do.
“As more and more things come about the Leave campaign, I just don’t see how this result can be valid.”