[superMAUS]

That's not necessarily what I meant, but I guess it's my fault for wording it that way. I meant UK companies as well as the UK itself are now free from the burden of EU regulation, meaning they will no longer have to pay a bunch of money to the EU as well as support other failing countries in the EU (like Greece). Trade with EU countries will still continue because the UK import more from them than they export to them. And the thing you said about geographical position and history is nonsense, how is the UK being surrounded by water going to make it hard to establish trade? Being surrounded by water is actually the preferred place to be when regarding trade, since the water is your friend. Land-locked countries are actually at a huge disadvantage because those countries are dependent on neighboring transit countries for their external trade and suffer from high trade transaction costs. According to the World Bank, land locked countries are paying about 50% more in transport costs than coastal countries and have up to 60% lower volumes of trade. As for the historical perspective, I don't even see how that makes sense. Nobody is going to say no to potentially profitable with Britian just because of what has happened in the past, assuming you're talking about British imperialism and the slave trade and whatnot.

My point about geographical placement and historical connections wasn't about UK being potentially disadvantaged because it is an island or something along those lines, nor was it about the bad taste of imperialism souring international trade discussions. Instead I was saying that the UK was a part of the European Union because of its placement geographically and historical ties with Europe based around trade and whilst that sounds obvious and irrelevant, I was stressing that it is actually highly important because it means that the UK is not going to have the same kind of ease breaking into the historical trade connections between other countries which are firmly cemented because of historical ties. It was easy for the UK to get good deals and be paid quite generous amounts for products which are very cheap elsewhere in the world simply because it was a European country and had important historical trading connections. Countries that have been allies historically will trade with each other even when they are actually making less than they would were they sourcing materials from China. Non-European countries will not have this obligation and will go straight to the cheaper countries rather than create trade agreements with Britain.