if brit came of world stage what would happen?

Question

if britain decided to make herself self sufficient and steped out of economic world system, we have 60 million customers at home
could we stand on our own feet and mind our own business

Answer 1

Impossible for us too do, if we want to maintain our present lifestyles. There is much that we cannot grow,( for various reasons,) our fossil fuels are about depleted. We do not have enough oil for even a fraction of our needs, more than half of our farmland has gone with not enough land left to grown enough food to sustain us. Steel, gold silver uranium, we have none of these in enough quantity to allow us to continue to live at the level we have become used to. So short of reverting to living in `shelters` without light or heating, and returning to a primitive existence, the answer is "no".

Answer 2

No; we cannot be self sufficient in tobacco, tea, coffee or bread flour (our climate grows the wrong kind of wheat). Our population couldn't do without items they consider staples.
Plus the States has the monopoly on wheat and other grain seeds; the varieties grown these days are F1 varieties; can be eaten but useless for seed. So there would be no seed for the following years harvest.

Not everyone would tolerate the self sufficiency lifestyle; we couldn't grow enough canola for biodiesel and food, so would have to cut back on electricity, plastics and so on.

So it looks like we'll have to continue to trade with and talk to the rest of the world then.

Answer 3

would need scotchland and wales,could never stop smuggling