User blog comment:Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali/English Politics Polls/@comment-26486187-20160307233657/@comment-26172435-20160310133247

The EU is, by far, not a team of predominantly non-valuable players. That would be a gross and foul misconception.

Staring into economic growth figures too much blinds the eye. We cannot grow our 'real' economy of tangible products endlessly. The non-tangible products economy (services), may be able to grow (in terms of real added value) as long as the populous grows, but that also has its limits. We're in fully developed countries. Growth is slower, and dips every now and then. When the world economic growth staggers, we all see black growth figures turn red, while our averagfe values are just lower than elsewhere.

In my simplified view the UK could be leaving the entire EU, putting their most beneficial cooperations / relationships with their most relevant trading partners, because of bad performance of a number of EU members the UK isn't actually depending on. This would mean lowering the gains from the best relationships you have because some of our common, minor, trading partners don't live up to their promises. That doesn't make sense to me.

For reference, here's an interesting report that also holds overviews of our mutual relationships in terms of trade, labour, etcetera: check this report.

''In my personal opinion economic growth shouldn't be the most important aim for any society. Instead, I'd rather have the EU adopt some objective related to Sustainable Human and Ecological Well-being, and make that more guiding in our decision making.''