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Donaldson and Heaton Harris deserve great credit for the work they have undertaken - difficult and not helped by Republican and nationalists ,, and they have succeeded
And the outcome is good , well done Mr Donaldson |
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Still far too much regard being paid to the EU regulations by GB politicians but anyone who can find news about the EU (which tends to be suppressed by the BBC) will know that the rest of the EU is certainly going from bad to wurst. Farmers rioting in France and Germany, drought in Spain, rebellion by Hungary and Italy, migrants becoming a bigger issue in Spain and other places than they are here. As a prominent politician said yesterday, what a relief that we are not still a Member of this madhouse.
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I think rioting is a bit of strong phrasing for German farmers. In general regarding the doom and madhouse talk: Nichts wird so heiß gegessen, wie es gekocht wird.
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The water situation however might indeed get worse and worse in parts of Europe as man-made climate change continues.
"Rebellion" by Hungary is just Orban doing Orban things. The man is always looking to be destructive and deliberately uses his veto powers with the singular aim of extracting some concessions and Extrawürste (extra wursts). Loves doing it with the EU, and also with NATO. Migrants on the continent have always been a far bigger issue than they are in the UK with your 40k boat arrivals that you guys like to stylise like the UK is the ultimate and loan destination of everyone. |
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In general Orban and Hungary are not as much of a problem for the EU as maybe Orban himself would like others to believe. The senior statesmen know the game he is playing and also know how to handle him, albeit probably finding it a bit annoying at times and it delaying stuff and it not being optimally constructive.
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Europeans have to kinda go for the greater good, better together and all that,don't put trade sanctions on yourself and be in a position to barter with the big boys instead of a non entity getting rode by said big boys.
Can't do much with drought,the French are admirable in that they are vociferous in moral obligations really. Orban is kinda dup ish. Overall the EU is a playa,are the UK? |
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"No routine checks on goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland in deal that could restore Stormont government"
There's feck all checks going on at the moment anyway I will find out for definite next week The EU wont stand for this much longer Sell your shares in Brittany Ferries now |
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See? Orban's a big kitty cat at heart that the EU can handle.
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There is what they say is going in.....and what is actually going on
I am betting they are very different |
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Pie in the sky, yum yum
Wurst news yet? No pie in the sky. OneWeb cost us £400mn but now its intellectual property belongs to French company bit.ly/49mjiH6 .. |
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Southern Salads Ltd ceases trading thanks to Brexit.
Southern Salads Ltd, a Tonbridge-based supplier of fresh salads to the UK's supermarkets, restaurants, and travel chains, has ceased trading, affecting approximately 260 employees. The company, producing over 50 tons of salad daily, encountered significant cashflow difficulties following the EU referendum. Despite a £30 mln turnover in 2016 and investment in production expansion in 2014, the anticipated growth did not materialise, exacerbating financial strain. The depreciation of sterling post-Brexit unexpectedly impacted the company's purchasing power by 10% to 20% for imported salads, essential for winter and early spring supply in the UK. The firm's currency hedging strategies offered insufficient protection, leading to increased cashflow pressures. Efforts to renegotiate pricing with European suppliers or to pass costs onto customers were unsuccessful. Southern Salads sourced its produce from across Europe, including the Netherlands, Poland, France, Italy, and Spain. Salad day of brxhit |
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Southern salads appear to be victims of over confidence and an inability to move with the times.
When the referendum was forecast to be 1/7 remain ,they took a view that the UK would stay in the protectionist EU and fresh produce like salad/fruit/veg could only be bought tariff free from the limited countries in the EU. When 17.2 million defied the odds and voted out ,the UK consumers could still purchase from the EU but swifter,smarter buyers were sourcing better and cheaper products from the new tariff free markets ,Morocco ,Egypt ,RSA and many many more. Also many laugh that when they say "our friends in Europe" and simply prefer to buy outside the Eurozone now. |
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The long term trade trajectory has been away from the EU
and is set to continue . In 2002 the EU took over 60% of U.K. exports but this had declined to 45% by 2022 ( slight upturn 2023 ) This was the result of goods exports to the EU being largely flat while exports to non EU countries rose 90% |
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When 17.2 million defied the odds and voted out ,the UK consumers could still purchase from the EU but swifter,smarter buyers were sourcing better and cheaper products from the new tariff free markets ,Morocco ,Egypt ,RSA and many many more.
since leaving the eu we have two new trade deals in operation (with nz and aus). the government did roll over many existing trade deals aiming to replicate the terms that were in these countries' deals with the eu as much as possible (including with morocco, egypt and the sacum block which covers rsa). looking at morocco they have some tariff rate quotas for toms and cucumbers which are based on shares when we were in the eu adjusted according to actual trade levels, so no great change on these tariff free limits. we now have our own tariff schedule, here is a comparison of us against the eu. i dont see any salad products which are now tariff free. https://ahdb.org.uk/eu-and-uk-import-tariff-rates-for-selected-horticultural-products bearing in mind we dont have any tariff free rates on salads when trading under mfn terms and all but two of our 'new' trade deals are roll overs copying existing terms as much as possible including the three specific countries you mentioned, can you please explain this 'sourcing better and cheaper products from the new tariff free markets ,Morocco ,Egypt ,RSA and many many more' and who exactly are the many, many more? thank you. |
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It aint spain I know that much
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https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/more-10-billion-departs-london-100504305.html
The post-brexit decline of Britains leading service industry continues. The claim that Britain would slash red tape to stimulate a boom, another lie, just like every claim about brexit advantages. |
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Designer brands platform Matches is being put into administration less than three months after it was bought by Mike Ashley's Frasers Group.
The company spent £52m on the loss-making retailer in December and had planned to turn it around. But Frasers, which has been adding more upmarket brands to its original Sports Directs-focused business, said Matches was making unsustainable losses. "Too much change would be required to restructure it," the group said. Matches, which sold items from established designers such as Balenciaga, Gucci and Prada, is a UK business but makes made of its money selling overseas. It was founded more than 30 years ago by husband-and-wife team Tom and Ruth Chapman from their shop in Wimbledon, south-west London, before moving online. Poor Mike. |
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emptyflat16 will be along shortly to post unsupported rebuttals, possibly involving sheep farmers.
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Quite a damning report on Brexit and hard to argue against this report,
'RTE,Britain has not managed to cope with brexit' 13/03/2024. Why is this not on the BBC? |
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Because there’s lies , damned lies , propaganda , and RTE
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Britains Brexit trade agreement with Texas means the
U.K. has deals with eight states that are worth a combined GDP of £ 5.3 trillion , equivalent to a quarter of the US economy and bigger than Japan |
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The gist of it is there is no strategy re brexit, that looks true to me a few years in.
Everything should be tickety boo if the trillions you are trying to give as an example are not 'damned lies' as the economic picture is painted differently. |
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Government has no strategy for anything so
nowt to do with brexit, lol. |
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Except stuffing their pockets with our monets, of course.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina ,is the next country to join the EU apparently ,not sure if that is one or two languages you Dublin boys will have to learn,before they start arriving.
Need to build a few more houses and a lot of hotels with your Cheltenham winnings. Veruca says you should get used to 150,000 pa but as the EU expands ? |
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another one of akabulas right wing scum, its time betfair had a look at these accounts and barred the lot
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flat16, you made a post on this thread on 6 march, a day later i asked you about this post. can you please reply, tia.
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Salad/Morocco: Trade with Morocco has increased since brexit by 30-60% dependant on crop ,some 200,000 Tonnes in 2022 and 35% of our tomato market.........fresh fruit journal 10-11-2022.
The new trade arrangements can be viewed in politics home 26-7-2023 explained by james dodderidge. TBF chap the best way to see the changes is to just walk round any British supermarket and you will see tons of fresh top quality produce sourced from around the world and I suggest the figures quoted are already out of date and the quantities quoted have risen rapidly. We are not consuming more ,we just have more choice of suppliers. |
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can you answer my questions please? it isnt very hard
you mentioned tariff free trade with specific countries, please give details of this. |
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When 17.2 million defied the odds and voted out ,the UK consumers could still purchase from the EU but swifter,smarter buyers were sourcing better and cheaper products from the new tariff free markets ,Morocco ,Egypt ,RSA and many many more.
this is what you posted. i think it is lies as we dont have 'new tariff free markets ,Morocco ,Egypt ,RSA and many many more' as we dont have new trade deals with these countries, we have continuations of what we had in the eu. please post details of these new tariff free deals. thank you. |
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Technically all Britains trade deals , tariff free and other , including continuation trade deals are new trade deals
As they are trade deals agreed by a single independent country that is no longer an EU member |
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"in the period straight after brexit ,Morocco managed to negotiate improved market access to the UK to the polnt that 34% of all Moroccan exports to the UK are fruit and veg".
In 2021 an association agreement between UK and Morocco came into force ,with business task forces still working and a scheme of most favoured nation tariff schedules exists. In fact a gate way into Africa ,if we were not hindered by the behind the times establishment and a dreadful Government. Not for slaving ,not for exploitation ,not for miracle faith conversions ,not for political purposes ,for beneficial fair trade. |
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new tariff free markets ,Morocco ,Egypt ,RSA and many many more.
This isn't difficult - please link the govt press release of the formal trade deals with these countries. scheme of most favoured nation tariff schedules exists. I'm fairly sure this would be the uk's portion of the eu wto schedule and nothing new. |
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flat 16 here is the association agreement, which is basically a rollover with much the same tariffs as before -
https://investmentpolicy.unctad.org/international-investment-agreements/treaty-files/6049/download some of the produce that comes from morocco used to arrive via spain, holland and france. these quantities are now added to the total, some of the increase is an automatic result of this, as explained in this article - https://www.freshplaza.com/north-america/article/9525600/moroccan-fresh-produce-exporters-urgent-demands-to-the-british-government/ i dont see tariff free markets as claimed by flat16, i see the same rates as before but quotas that dont represent the reality of our trade with morocco. hopefully things are liberalised more, a tariff review started in october last year and will meet again this year. dave, mainly yes. that article explains it and argues the case for adjusting the deal, it says that there are actually tariffs on cucumbers which didnt exist before. |
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Bendy cucumbers, perchance?
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English cucumbers are the best
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Longer and straighter
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A brand new £24m border control post in Portsmouth may have to be demolished.
Sky’s business correspondent @pkelso visited Portsmouth to find out why trib.al/931hMBy |
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Brexiteer complaining about the damage of brexit
As ironic as foinirony ironing his iron head guard. https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1772335047938281694?s=19 .. |
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So you are blaming tory government failure on Brexit now? Not surprising from someone who thinks that PolPot was right-wing.
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