Brexit is destroying Britain

br jones

Member
Ons figures for april
  • Total imports of goods, excluding precious metals, increased by £0.4 billion (0.7%) in April 2022 compared with March 2022, because of a £1.1 billion (4.2%) rise in imports from EU countries – while imports from non-EU countries fell by £0.7 billion (2.6%).
  • Total exports of goods, excluding precious metals, increased by £2.2 billion (7.4%) in April 2022 compared with March 2022, driven by a £1.2 billion (8.1%) increase in exports to EU countries – while exports to non-EU countries increased by £0.9 billion (6.5%).
 

Qman

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Near Derby
Ons figures for april
  • Total imports of goods, excluding precious metals, increased by £0.4 billion (0.7%) in April 2022 compared with March 2022, because of a £1.1 billion (4.2%) rise in imports from EU countries – while imports from non-EU countries fell by £0.7 billion (2.6%).
  • Total exports of goods, excluding precious metals, increased by £2.2 billion (7.4%) in April 2022 compared with March 2022, driven by a £1.2 billion (8.1%) increase in exports to EU countries – while exports to non-EU countries increased by £0.9 billion (6.5%)

This can't be right, I keep hearing Brexit is a failure from many French residents and you are saying we are doing well!
 

Farm buy

Member
Livestock Farmer
Ons figures for april
  • Total imports of goods, excluding precious metals, increased by £0.4 billion (0.7%) in April 2022 compared with March 2022, because of a £1.1 billion (4.2%) rise in imports from EU countries – while imports from non-EU countries fell by £0.7 billion (2.6%).
  • Total exports of goods, excluding precious metals, increased by £2.2 billion (7.4%) in April 2022 compared with March 2022, driven by a £1.2 billion (8.1%) increase in exports to EU countries – while exports to non-EU countries increased by £0.9 billion (6.5%).
All good news
 

le bon paysan

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Limousin, France
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Qman

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Near Derby
And since when did the OECD get anything right? They said before that we would be bottom and we ended up top. It's like the Remainers predicting high unemployment, firms leaving the country, when we are doing well.
 

Qman

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Near Derby
To follow up my above post, there's a good article by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Friday's Daily Telegraph which counteracts all the Remain lies.
 

br jones

Member
can going tinkle tinkle down the road
Another reality the UK’s re-join movement must face is that, at the core of the EU, the eurozone remains an ill-designed and extremely fragile, half-finished currency union. And, over recent weeks, there have been growing fears we could see a re-run of the 2011-12 eurozone crisis, which threatened the collapse of the entire single currency construct.
Almost exactly a decade ago, Mario Draghi, then ECB President pledged to do “whatever it takes” to save the euro from destruction. At the time, Greece was on the verge of stumbling out of the eurozone. Italy, the region’s third-largest economy, was so indebted that it too seemed destined to leave, perhaps sparking the implosion of monetary union – and spreading financial turmoil across the globe.
Today, Mario Draghi is Prime Minister of Italy – now even more in the red, with government debt exceeding 150pc of GDP. And there are warning signs on global bond markets that as inflation rises, and the ECB starts raising interest rates, we could face a renewed euro-zone crisis and related market turbulence.

Eurozone inflation is now 8.1pc and, as in the UK, heading for double-digits. All major economies are raising rates to push down on price pressures. The eurozone is so weak, though, the ECB’s rate remains minus 0.5pc – and is set to increase just 25 basis points in July, before possibly reaching 0pc in September.
The ECB is meanwhile propping up various over-indebted member states – including Italy, one of the world’s largest economies – who can’t depreciate their currencies to escape the economic doldrums. For years, in fact, the ECB has been using quantitative easing to hose down eurozone sovereign bond markets with newly-created money, buying up the debts of eurozone strugglers.
Now sitting on government bonds worth around €5 trillion (£4.3 trillion), the ECB is still making net purchases of over €30 billion a month.
As inflation rises, the spread between yields on German and Italian bonds, the two ends of the eurozone credit risk spectrum, is getting broader. It now stands at around 240 basis points, having more than doubled since the start of the year.
The Germans, Austrians and Dutch, deeply concerned about inflation and sick of bailing-out eurozone laggards, are determined to curtail ECB largesse. The “Club Med” bloc, led by France, wants the money-printing to continue, which is why Lagarde is issuing public warnings that eurozone financial markets are about to collapse.
The stage is indeed set for a re-run of the 2011/12 eurozone crisis. I wonder what the Rejoiners will make of that.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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