UK announces new post-Brexit global tariff regime

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On 5/20/2020 at 5:18 PM, RuamRudy said:

Well go on then, help us understand the tangible benefits. How will our lives improve as a result of brexit, and why, on the cusp of a crisis, is it wise to strike out alone?

Because the EU has been a fizzer from the onset.  Even the Germans are now talking of bailing.

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24 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

I've got some bad news for you .

 

I'm sorry to tell you Jonny but the bad news is on you, it's just you don't realise it yet. Talk to me in another year if the corona doesn't get us and see how old Blighty is doing then.

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1 hour ago, bannork said:

I'm sorry to tell you Jonny but the bad news is on you, it's just you don't realise it yet. Talk to me in another year if the corona doesn't get us and see how old Blighty is doing then.

You're a little ray of sunshine aren't you .

 

 

Take my word for it, Britain will be fine, prosper in fact. It's a big world out there outside the EU's clutches.

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2 hours ago, bannork said:

I'm sorry to tell you Jonny but the bad news is on you, it's just you don't realise it yet. Talk to me in another year if the corona doesn't get us and see how old Blighty is doing then.

As if continued EU membership would or could save us from corony.

They are already trying to squeeze the UK for more cash to support their failed project and  euroscroungers. At each step it’s increasingly obvious we are one of their favourite cash cows. Best out of it altogether. 

 

This time next year we will be comparative millionaires, compared to what we would have been if still in the EU. 

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43 minutes ago, Loiner said:

As if continued EU membership would or could save us from corony.

They are already trying to squeeze the UK for more cash to support their failed project and  euroscroungers. At each step it’s increasingly obvious we are one of their favourite cash cows. Best out of it altogether. 

 

This time next year we will be comparative millionaires, compared to what we would have been if still in the EU. 

Time will tell gentlemen, time will tell.

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I see that Johnson's promise not to sell out Northern Ireland has, like so many of his promises, come to naught.

 

Brexit: Gove confirms plans for checks on goods crossing Irish Sea

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The government has confirmed for the first time that there will be Brexit checks on animals and food goods entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK from next January.

The announcement, detailed in a 23-page document released by the government on Wednesday, comes months after Boris Johnson pledged there would be no checks on trade crossing the Irish Sea – telling businesses that if anyone asked them to fill in new paperwork, they could “throw it in the bin”

 

I'm not a great believer in opinion polls, but others here are and have used the regular YouGov poll to show how popular Johnson is. It's been a week since Starmer's approval rating overtook Johnson's. I wonder how big the gap will be in the next one.

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On 5/20/2020 at 12:20 PM, RichardColeman said:

Excellent , 500% import tax on Chinese goods please, to be paid by the exporter in China prior to shipping

Oh dear...i guess this is the kind of economic (il)literacy which gets you to brexit. That and a bit of flag waving and chest thumping I guess. 
 

As someone else has already said, that’s not how tariffs work. Never mind, the vote is in and the brexiters have moved on.
 

Interesting to note though - not content with the EU, they’ve found a new bogey man in China. Quelle Suprise. 

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1 hour ago, samran said:

Oh dear...i guess this is the kind of economic (il)literacy which gets you to brexit. That and a bit of flag waving and chest thumping I guess. 
 

As someone else has already said, that’s not how tariffs work. Never mind, the vote is in and the brexiters have moved on.
 

Interesting to note though - not content with the EU, they’ve found a new bogey man in China. Quelle Suprise. 

I’d add the Aussies and Thais to the bogey man list. They’re always ilirtat too, the edjumacated ones quoting boganomics ad nauseam. Chips on shoulders I guess. 

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25 minutes ago, Loiner said:

I’d add the Aussies and Thais to the bogey man list. They’re always ilirtat too, the edjumacated ones quoting boganomics ad nauseam. Chips on shoulders I guess. 

Economics 101.

Do not screw up your biggest market.

Still not to worry. Sunlight uplands ahead re pleat with unicorns and angels waving the union flag. 

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1 hour ago, Loiner said:

I’d add the Aussies and Thais to the bogey man list. They’re always ilirtat too, the edjumacated ones quoting boganomics ad nauseam. Chips on shoulders I guess. 

Obviously you are free to do what you want.   

Edumaculating all over yourself while humming ‘Rule Britannia’ seems to be the go for some...  
 

Just don’t come grovelling to us for a FTA in your brave new world when the music stops! 
 

(On the off chance you are looking new song though, Australian kids band ‘the wiggles’ might suit. Just change the title from ‘big red car’ to ‘big red bus’ given that’s where you get your economics lessons’

 

 

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49 minutes ago, Rookiescot said:

Economics 101.

Do not screw up your biggest market.

Still not to worry. Sunlight uplands ahead re pleat with unicorns and angels waving the union flag. 

‘They need us more than we need them’ 555

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2 hours ago, samran said:

 

Just don’t come grovelling to us for a FTA in your brave new world when the music stops! 

 

Grovelling to where - Oz or Thailand? They’ll both have to join the queue down Downing Street. 

What’s Scott Morrison going to do as China escalates the trade war? Naughty Aussies. Thailand will do a deal with the devil if it provides more opportunities for trade and corruption, so no worries there. 

 

Be brave sweetie, join the brave new world. 

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2 hours ago, samran said:

‘They need us more than we need them’ 555

Patently obvious from all sides of the EU now, and every day their getting more desperate. 

555 

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On 5/20/2020 at 7:54 AM, RuamRudy said:

Try raising your eyes above your hatred for the EU - it's not just the EU but the whole world is expecting a recession unlike any seen in our lifetimes. Is this really the time to be leaving the world's most successful trading partnership on the back of a bucketful of lies and a few ethereal slogans that nobody can tangibly define?

The big red bus has a lot to answer for.