No BrEntry: the EU never allows the UK to join

Would the UK be better off economically today if they didn’t join the EU


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Denmark entering EU at some point was given, UK was lessening in importance as export market and Germany growing as export market, if Denmark doesn’t enter in 1973, it will likely do so a few years later as the economic woes of the seventies hit and likely even harder than in OTL. I think Sweden and Finland following later are also given. Ireland are likely the only country which stay outside EU if UK stay out.
 
Denmark entering EU at some point was given, UK was lessening in importance as export market and Germany growing as export market, if Denmark doesn’t enter in 1973, it will likely do so a few years later as the economic woes of the seventies hit and likely even harder than in OTL. I think Sweden and Finland following later are also given. Ireland are likely the only country which stay outside EU if UK stay out.
It's curious how it was the Danish government that instigated the Nordek negotiations in the late 1960s. Were they seeking backup from rest of the Nordics in order to get better terms from EEC as a joint Nordek area?
 
The economic data is pretty clear the UK would have been much, much worse off. The biggest areas of growth in the UK were in the "Home Counties" in 1980s through the 2000s. Growth in here to a great extent was driven by finance. Much of this was drive by the UK being the English speaking port for the EU. If the UK wasn't in the EU, then the Japanese and Americans go to tap into the EU market in Paris and Bonn. No LIBOR, Eurodollars. The City withers and dies a slow death, becoming a backwater if no EU.
 
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