I'm not sure what doing a Norway means. It has rejected joining the EU twice with bigger victory margins than Brexit. Polls indicate that if they had another referendum the no vote would rise to over 70% so in my book that makes it an anti EU country.
If we replicate their model we will be replicating the model of a country more anti EU than the UK.
Their model is a small population with loads of oil. Instead of blowing the oil money, they have invested it.
With oil, which they can sell to anyone without needing to be in a trading bloc, a high income per capital, and having a liberal social system, they have no need to be in the EU. But they do need some immigrants and allow free movement through their agreement with the EU.
Our model is not working because of the distribution of wealth and a government which has been unable or unwilling, to get affordable housing built, to tackle the increase in the gig economy and zero hour contracts, to deal with the increasing elderly population‘s effect on the NHS and to create a public works project to improve infrastructure.
Our so-called representatives of the poor, but „decent ordinary folk“, have blamed the EU and our government is involved with the , seemingly, at best time consuming, and at worst, potentially damaging project of Brexit. Will the „folk“ be better off, and will the UK replace the Dennis Skinner described „capitalist club“ of the EU with a less capitalist club after Brexit? Based on the show so far, not a chance.
