'innovating and selling stuff or services people want.' Like the world beating Austin Metro, perhaps. Struggling to think of anything since that example of hubris that might fall into your category.Same way the UK always has. Innovating and selling stuff or services people want. There is no rule book that says the UK must be a major player in the international lamb or pork world. Other countries don't get that involved in world commodity production, they do other things. It's down to economics. You surely agree that governments have no business interfering in private enterprise or commercial marketplaces?
'innovating and selling stuff or services people want.' Like the world beating Austin Metro, perhaps. Struggling to think of anything since that example of hubris that might fall into your category.
Putting oneself down and belittling success is a truly British pastime. The typical Norfolk man is a prime example and it is a severe form of inferiority complex. You see them shuffling around with their snouts on the ground instead of being ambitious and holding their heads high, proud and self promoting.If you believe the UK has never had a hand in designing anything useful since the Austin Metro, then I can't help you.
Being self-deprecating toward this country seems almost like a national pastime if this place is anything to go by. I don't understand it. I often feel it grows more and more like some kind of online suicide pact with each passing day sometimes.
Give us some examples.If you believe the UK has never had a hand in designing anything useful since the Austin Metro, then I can't help you.
Being self-deprecating toward this country seems almost like a national pastime if this place is anything to go by. I don't understand it. I often feel it grows more and more like some kind of online suicide pact with each passing day sometimes.
Have they I saw nothing new .France has already built the lorry parks, customs facilities and even the restaurants. Douane have increased in number, many more being trained.
Do you still think the EU will back down?
Not sure why you're so cocky , if you think the the UK will have some problems where are you lot going to flog your cheap beef ...When very shortly, a world class border has been erected around Kent, will the official name of the kingdom become “The United Kingdom of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and Kent”?
Don’t need any help thanks. And I’ve been critical of Britain since before I left. Three weeks after graduationIf you believe the UK has never had a hand in designing anything useful since the Austin Metro, then I can't help you.
Being self-deprecating toward this country seems almost like a national pastime if this place is anything to go by. I don't understand it. I often feel it grows more and more like some kind of online suicide pact with each passing day sometimes.
No doubt you will continue bitching, just like the others with a grudge.Don’t need any help thanks. And I’ve been critical of Britain since before I left. Three weeks after graduation
Best move I ever made. Worst move? Moving back. Solution.? Getting out again as soon as we can. I’m sure many on here would like to help that departure with a boot
Did I say only ireland had run funding,when I visit my friend in Tipperary I see lots of signs, I have seen one in Cornwall and saw one in wales last year, not saying there aren't others but nowhere near the number I have seen over the years in Ireland, still at least we arent going to be coughing up.much longerRubbish. Rubbish. Rubbish. EU part funded projects all over EU. Massive EU investment in NI.
Give us some examples.
Have they I saw nothing new .
Did I say only ireland had run funding,when I visit my friend in Tipperary I see lots of signs, I have seen one in Cornwall and saw one in wales last year, not saying there aren't others but nowhere near the number I have seen over the years in Ireland, still at least we arent going to be coughing up.much longer
You need a trip to Barnard Castle then.
All been finished for over a year:
New Eurotunnel facilities:-
Brexit: Eurotunnel Hands over the New Douane-SIVEP Control Centre to the French Authorities
Regulatory News: On Thursday 4 April, Eurotunnel (Paris:GET) officially handed over buildings intended for customs, veterinary and phytosanitary inspewww.businesswire.com
New Customs facilities as Calais:-
Four new customs inspection bays sit shuttered at the Port of Calais...
Four new customs inspection bays sit shuttered at the Port of Calais cross channel ferry terminal in Calais, France, on Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. The port of Calais on Frances northern coast has spent 6...www.gettyimages.dk
New UK Dover Customs facilities as at 16 July 2020
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Getting out again as soon as we can. I’m sure many on here would like to help that departure with a boot
I was thinking more along the lines of JCB,and stuff like that.Grand Theft Auto. Tough to think of a product that has gone more international than that.
Correct the EU is not a country, it is a community of Sovereign Nations, it is however a large trading block and whilst this may not concern you individually it does or at least should concern those that want to export to it.I am not interested in the size of the EU- it is not a country.
I don't care about the size of relative populations either.
WTO rules are agreed, signed and sealed by a myriad of parties, if they were useless no one would have adopted them.
Now, for the final time. I will repeat- the UK consumer market is a big deal (I know you anti-UK sorts don't like that fact but it still stands) and it represents a very big cherry for a lot of countries looking to sell into it. The UK government has stated (again, I am getting bored of writing this) that it will offer a real-deal, free trade agreement with any and all interested parties who are up for it. This is not just for Europe, it was aimed at a far wider reach than that. Until now, a lot of countries were effectively barred from competing and selling into the UK market because European businesses had favoured terms to get in here. That will now no longer be the case because suddenly everyone has a chance to negotiate for those favourable terms, not just European countries.
The UK makes some very good dairy products, I generally buy them when they are available in our local supermarket, selling niche products is ok for a small country with a small economy, the UK with its large population needs to sell volume. The UK does build cars, many of the foreign owned companies that build them are in the UK as a gateway to the European market, that may well continue time will tell.The fact is, the UK's mouldy cheese (as you so eloquently put it) is quite popular around the world. Even the non-mouldy stuff I have seen on the shelves in far flung places. A lot of these cheese are actually far more expensive, lb for lb than the finest steaks. The UK does have an appetite for foreign cars, that so many Japanese cars are sold here I view as a good thing given how readily the Germans and French were allowed into the place under EU rules. However, the UK builds cars too. I have seen acre after acre of the things parked at Avonmouth waiting to be put on a ship.
As one of the worlds largest trading blocks I would not class the EU as a "little club".The worm is turning and the UK will no longer be part of the EU's little club. There will be businesses who win from that outcome and there will be businesses who lose from it. Given the state of the global car industry I'd say Brexit was the least of their worries- it is highly likely that a number of French and German makers will disappear in a cloud of smoke and become a badge exercise in time, such is life unfortunately.
World wide free trade would be ideal, however I am a pragmatist and realise that the ideal is some way off yet, sectors of the UK would do well under world wide free trade, agriculture would not be one of them, the climate is not in agricultures favour when it comes to low cost production and a farmer based agricultural processing infrastructure is non existent.You argue tooth and nail for global trade but fail to recognise the EU is not about free trade. It's about a group of nations circling their wagons in a protectionist circle jerk and it has cost the average European citizen (and consumer) billions.
How about “a world beating track and trace system “Give us some examples.
All those that were critical of a hard NI-EU border appear to be keeping quiet on the Kent border, the silence is deafening.When very shortly, a world class border has been erected around Kent, will the official name of the kingdom become “The United Kingdom of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and Kent”?
Still alot of noise coming from the Bay of Plenty.All those that were critical of a hard NI-EU border appear to be keeping quiet on the Kent border, the silence is deafening.