{"id":3085,"date":"2016-06-27T09:43:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T08:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2016-06-27T12:48:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T11:48:38","slug":"are-uk-small-businesses-better-in-or-out-of-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/are-uk-small-businesses-better-in-or-out-of-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Are UK small businesses better IN or OUT of the EU?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Updated Monday, June 27, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s historic referendum vote went in favour of the &#8216;Leave&#8217; campaign, and so now the UK faces the prospect of a future outside of the European Union (EU) &#8211; and it&#8217;s a future that&#8217;s looking increasingly uncertain by the day.<\/p>\n<p>So will small businesses be better in or out of the EU?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>A crooked Brexit campaign<\/h2>\n<p>There have many dubious claims from both sides of the argument, as well as countless debates and opinion pieces on the matter &#8211; not to mention the fleet of think tanks predicting everything from a booming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/brexit-affect-uk-eu-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\">economy <\/a>to a broken one should the UK decide to overthrow the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>Since the results came in it&#8217;s emerged the &#8216;Leave&#8217; campaign was built, at least in part, on half-truths if not outright lies, not least the promise to spend \u00a3350 million-a-week on the NHS &#8211; as Brexiter Iain Duncan Smith so duplicitously put it: &#8220;Our promises were a series of possibilities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;re left with the country in a complete state of flux &#8211; the pound has dropped to a 30-year low, massive companies including\u00a0Airbus, HSBC and JP Morgan are considering moving out of the UK and civil war is breaking out in the two major political parties.<\/p>\n<p>And still\u00a0no-one know what Brexit will bring.<\/p>\n<p>So we want to hear from YOU &#8211; will UK business better off in or out of the EU?<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3eoQ9HsQeqE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>What&#8217;s best\u00a0for business?<\/h2>\n<p>And while the leave campaigners are hung up on securing the borders\u00a0and returning to some sort of perceived 1950s-style, &#8216;British-is-best&#8217; Utopia, the remain camp are warning of the impact on the economy and the effects on business.<\/p>\n<p>So we want to know your thoughts, whether you&#8217;re a business owner looking to leave, or looking to stay.<\/p>\n<p>If you own a business and want OUT, how do you think this will benefit your business, and what effects do you think it&#8217;ll have on business in general?<\/p>\n<p>If you want IN, why do you think your business will be better off if things remain the same, and what has the EU done for you?<\/p>\n<h3>Let us know in the comments below&#8230;<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated Monday, June 27, 2016 Thursday&#8217;s historic referendum vote went in favour of the &#8216;Leave&#8217; campaign, and so now the UK faces the prospect of a future outside of the<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/are-uk-small-businesses-better-in-or-out-of-the-eu\/\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are UK small businesses better IN or OUT of the EU?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[23,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3093,"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions\/3093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}