b'1.2. The second truth: A country does not need to be part of a large trading bloc to have trade agreements.It is not a supportable argument. Chapter two sets out the facts: it is simply not true. 1.3. The third truth: Following Brexit, we as a country would regain our ability to represent ourselves at the World Trade Organisation and other international bodies. The UK can then negotiate its own tradehas shackled us in a morass of rules and agreements that protect and progress ourred tape that stifles our global economic own national interests. Since we agreed tocompetitiveness. Gold plating by the UKs join the then Common Market in 1973, thecivil service and bureaucracy has made this UK has been unable to do so.worse.The UK does itself no favours by submittingThe full context is that less than 15% of the to the EUs trade agenda, which is bothUKs gross domestic productis accounted politicised and protectionist.We are tyingfor by exports to the EU. By definition, GDP ourselves to economic failure. That is not theincludes the entire domestic economy, as way forward to a prosperous future for ourwell as exports. This helps explain the 15% country. Tragically for the UK, far too manyfigure above. of our establishment politicians are in denial that the wrong choice was made in 1973.To take full advantage of the stronger economic growth in the world outside the EU Of course, we want to have friendly relations,and, especially, the Eurozone, the UK must and trade profitably and in abundance, withrepatriate trade policyas well as all the our geographic neighbours.other elements of our national sovereigntyfrom the unelected EU Commission and But one consequence of the UKsthe other EU institutions. This can only be membership of the EU is that ALL of the UKachieved by leaving the EU, and in a clean economy is subject to EU regulation. Thisbreak.180'