Nice *sunlit* photo of London in that photo there.
:3
Almost as if severing ties to one of the worlds largest trading blocks that happens to be n our doorstep was a really bad idea
You mean our new fish based economy hasn’t saved us?
….. Nobody saw that coming.
I don’t have a Facebook account anymore, so I can’t revisit all those who replied to absolutely everything with screeches of ‘PROJECT FEAR!’ to see whether they have changed the record or not.
Edit just to be sure: use of “screeches” here isn’t an ad hominem, the posts were literally just that. No argument, no discussion, just typed ‘shouting’ of a catchphrase to drown out any disagreement.
aren’t we still in the nice easy transition part? Brexit isn’t even in its final form.
The EU isn’t about money just like Eurovision isn’t about sending in the best band.
This article seems like it’s desperately trying to find ways the UK is worse off.
Yes trade is down with the EU, but it’s also up with the non-EU.
It says the UK’s rebound from the pandemic is relatively worse off, but then shows a chart where we’re exactly the same as Germany, and better than Italy and Spain?!
As for the OBR, based on how incredibly, massively wrong they’ve been with their economic predictions over the last few quarters… Well if they said it was raining I’d still lean outside to check.
I have a senior colleague who sees ships full of rotting produce being held up in EU ports (because they don’t have the right paperwork now) as proof that Brexit was the right thing to do.
The logic is mind-boggling.
I mean, how much of that is Brexit and how much is the fact that for coming up on two years the entire fucking global economy has been turned off?
The first year was always going to be the hardest. It’s a small sacrifice now so that our greatgrandchildren can live in a better world /s
There are some legit points here. However, there has obviously been something else causing major economic disruption in 2021. Their own graph that claims our rebound has been worse than other countries, and claims that it’s because of Brexit, has us rebounding better than Japan and Spain. Reducing the availability of cheap labour is a good thing that will result in higher wages, better conditions and more investment in automation technology (generating high skilled jobs).
Luckily for us the new brexit minister is highly qualified and will get on top of the situation in a short period of time.
Didn’t they UK received more science and tech funding more than any countries in the same geographical locations recently?
People think and are told (by gov) that this is just adjusting to brexit and things will improve, without providing any specific proof of how things will improve? There’s a sense that this is like a WW2 campaign and once victory is achieved everything will be fine and the UK will stand aptop the EU to assert it’s dominance. Unfortunately, brexit is forever, it’s not a campaign. Leaving the world’s largest economic and industrial trading bloc for essentially an isolationist, nationalistic approach, when you are a small services based Island, well, would never end well for anyone.
Has there actually been any tangible Brexit benefits yet?
I mean if you can claim this whilst we are in the midst of a world wide pandemic, you are a moron
That settles it, there could be no other reason for economic downturns in the past year other than Brexit.
What, you’re saying that uber remain Bloomberg are saying Brexit is a failure?
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Nice *sunlit* photo of London in that photo there.
:3
Almost as if severing ties to one of the worlds largest trading blocks that happens to be n our doorstep was a really bad idea
You mean our new fish based economy hasn’t saved us?
….. Nobody saw that coming.
I don’t have a Facebook account anymore, so I can’t revisit all those who replied to absolutely everything with screeches of ‘PROJECT FEAR!’ to see whether they have changed the record or not.
Edit just to be sure: use of “screeches” here isn’t an ad hominem, the posts were literally just that. No argument, no discussion, just typed ‘shouting’ of a catchphrase to drown out any disagreement.
aren’t we still in the nice easy transition part? Brexit isn’t even in its final form.
The EU isn’t about money just like Eurovision isn’t about sending in the best band.
This article seems like it’s desperately trying to find ways the UK is worse off.
Yes trade is down with the EU, but it’s also up with the non-EU.
It says the UK’s rebound from the pandemic is relatively worse off, but then shows a chart where we’re exactly the same as Germany, and better than Italy and Spain?!
As for the OBR, based on how incredibly, massively wrong they’ve been with their economic predictions over the last few quarters… Well if they said it was raining I’d still lean outside to check.
I have a senior colleague who sees ships full of rotting produce being held up in EU ports (because they don’t have the right paperwork now) as proof that Brexit was the right thing to do.
The logic is mind-boggling.
I mean, how much of that is Brexit and how much is the fact that for coming up on two years the entire fucking global economy has been turned off?
The first year was always going to be the hardest. It’s a small sacrifice now so that our greatgrandchildren can live in a better world /s
There are some legit points here. However, there has obviously been something else causing major economic disruption in 2021. Their own graph that claims our rebound has been worse than other countries, and claims that it’s because of Brexit, has us rebounding better than Japan and Spain. Reducing the availability of cheap labour is a good thing that will result in higher wages, better conditions and more investment in automation technology (generating high skilled jobs).
Luckily for us the new brexit minister is highly qualified and will get on top of the situation in a short period of time.
Didn’t they UK received more science and tech funding more than any countries in the same geographical locations recently?
People think and are told (by gov) that this is just adjusting to brexit and things will improve, without providing any specific proof of how things will improve? There’s a sense that this is like a WW2 campaign and once victory is achieved everything will be fine and the UK will stand aptop the EU to assert it’s dominance. Unfortunately, brexit is forever, it’s not a campaign. Leaving the world’s largest economic and industrial trading bloc for essentially an isolationist, nationalistic approach, when you are a small services based Island, well, would never end well for anyone.
Has there actually been any tangible Brexit benefits yet?
I mean if you can claim this whilst we are in the midst of a world wide pandemic, you are a moron
That settles it, there could be no other reason for economic downturns in the past year other than Brexit.
What, you’re saying that uber remain Bloomberg are saying Brexit is a failure?
I’m shocked.