We get it you don’t have to post about brexit every single day, literally everyone knows how it turned out.
Maybe back to EU hmmm?!
It’s kind of a “well duh” but it’s also important to keep in mind that any gains of Brexit would only be experienced in another decade and that it was always costing a bit of trade at hopfully(?) gaining back manufacturing. Only reporting on the known bad sides of it doesn’t necessarily paint the full picture.
*There and back again, a Brexit tale.*
*It’s a dangerous business, BoJo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to…*
Personally it doesn’t bother me when you take a look at the whole picture.
We have record levels of employment, 1.8 million job vacancies and an unemployment rate of 3.8% – that’s not a shrinking suffering economy as this article would like to portray. Every manufacturing business in the UK is going absolutely balls out making stuff, the one I work at has seen trade increase so much it’s entered the FTSE100, we’ve had to expand the size of our haulage fleet and it feels like the annual sales period all year round that’s how busy we are. There are other sectors that used to export which are the same too. Something that came as no surprise to anybody with a functioning brain, the UK fishing fleet has discovered a market for their catches in the UK – who’d have thought that when it became more expensive and complicated to import fish that customers in the UK would prefer to source from the UK?
What is happening that isn’t reported in this article is that a lot of business that used to be exported to the EU is now being directed within the UK as people and companies that used to buy from the EU now try to source from the UK due to increased hassle and/or costs.
>”A fortnightly ONS survey published on Thursday showed that more than half of UK businesses that had changed their supply chain had switched to more domestic sourcing since the end of the Brexit transition period in January 2021.”
There you are.
A low unemployment rate is misleading if workers increasingly rely on foodbanks to eat.
The EU, as its devotees are often eager to point out, is more than just a trade bloc. Which means trade alone is not sufficient justification for wanting to be in it.
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Well, call me Jack’s total lack of surprise.
We get it you don’t have to post about brexit every single day, literally everyone knows how it turned out.
Maybe back to EU hmmm?!
It’s kind of a “well duh” but it’s also important to keep in mind that any gains of Brexit would only be experienced in another decade and that it was always costing a bit of trade at hopfully(?) gaining back manufacturing. Only reporting on the known bad sides of it doesn’t necessarily paint the full picture.
*There and back again, a Brexit tale.*
*It’s a dangerous business, BoJo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to…*
Personally it doesn’t bother me when you take a look at the whole picture.
We have record levels of employment, 1.8 million job vacancies and an unemployment rate of 3.8% – that’s not a shrinking suffering economy as this article would like to portray. Every manufacturing business in the UK is going absolutely balls out making stuff, the one I work at has seen trade increase so much it’s entered the FTSE100, we’ve had to expand the size of our haulage fleet and it feels like the annual sales period all year round that’s how busy we are. There are other sectors that used to export which are the same too. Something that came as no surprise to anybody with a functioning brain, the UK fishing fleet has discovered a market for their catches in the UK – who’d have thought that when it became more expensive and complicated to import fish that customers in the UK would prefer to source from the UK?
What is happening that isn’t reported in this article is that a lot of business that used to be exported to the EU is now being directed within the UK as people and companies that used to buy from the EU now try to source from the UK due to increased hassle and/or costs.
>”A fortnightly ONS survey published on Thursday showed that more than half of UK businesses that had changed their supply chain had switched to more domestic sourcing since the end of the Brexit transition period in January 2021.”
There you are.
A low unemployment rate is misleading if workers increasingly rely on foodbanks to eat.
The EU, as its devotees are often eager to point out, is more than just a trade bloc. Which means trade alone is not sufficient justification for wanting to be in it.
*Surprised remainer face*