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Does anybody have the video of Boris in BTTF Square, with the whole banana-based shenanigans?
I'd love to see that again.
Certainly helps me sleep well at night.Give it time and it might be slightly better.
Or it might not be.
Possibly not in your lifetime, though,
Boris Johnson and Liam Fox have our best interests at heart.
I suspect that, sadly, we'll never know, at least as regards the longer term.Give it time and it might be slightly better.
Got talking to a Maltese guy today, he can't believe people his age want to deprive their children of the ability to freely travel and work abroad. He doesn't think many countries in the EU will really miss trading with the UK, as we're such a small trading partner compared to the other nations in the block. Tariffs will just make them trade with each other more and import from us just the very few things they can't get elsewhere. And this is a island that heavily imports from the UK for foodstuffs due to the strong British influence.
It may cost more for cider here afterwards admittedly!
Utter bollocks !
I suspect 3/4 of that 13% is easily supplied cheaper within the EU once WTO tariffs kick in, do we produce anything that isn't also produced elsewhere?We are 13% to the EU
The EU is 47% to the UK&NI
I suspect 3/4 of that 13% is easily supplied cheaper within the EU once WTO tariffs kick in, do we produce anything that isn't also produced elsewhere?
Are you on Twitter by any chance?I suspect 3/4 of that 13% is easily supplied cheaper within the EU once WTO tariffs kick in, do we produce anything that isn't also produced elsewhere?
Nope, never understood the fascination in basically texting people you don't know.Are you on Twitter by any chance?
Richard Vadon@richardvadon 19 minutes ago
Replying to @stephenkb
All this talk of trade deals misses out the key point we don’t produce enough things other countries want to buy even when we devalue.
https://twitter.com/richardvadon/status/922538177612611586
I quite enjoy Twitter, but anyway ....Nope, never understood the fascination in basically texting people you don't know.
He missed something anyway, we make weapons. As long as people keep killing each other for some reason or another we'll have some trade to speak of. Think that trade is in the other 53% though, rather than EU it's usually sold to the middle east.
Oatcakes?I quite enjoy Twitter, but anyway ....
I remember giving some thought to stuff we produce that no one else does, but it didn't go much further than Scotch whisky (I'm assuming that those that know this stuff will say that anything produced abroad is just a cheap imitation). I suppose the other things were good at is the IT stuff - games and CGI graphics.
Not sure they've made it across the M6 let alone across the English Channel and the Irish Sea.Oatcakes?
The scope for expansion is almost limitless.Not sure they've made it across the M6 let alone across the English Channel and the Irish Sea.
The future is bright?Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid
Who with? They would have to be fairly local these days. Portugal hasn't had a turn for a long time.If a Government feels it's power is draining away
If politicians feel no courage
If the cabinet office have run out of ideas
Then the expectation is of War