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EU threatens to ban UK ag and food exports to them
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<blockquote data-quote="farmerm" data-source="post: 7137491" data-attributes="member: 7195"><p>Once upon a time the Roman empire conquered most if not all of Europe and more besides, times change, even Portugal once had an empire, empires rise, empires fall and the world moves on. </p><p></p><p>Not wishing to take anything away from those brave men and women who died but the truth is the United Kindom survived the risk of German invasion only because of the fortunate success of the Spitfire, Hitlers over confidence and an awful lot of luck. Our country was only able to returned to and liberate Europe because Japan dragged America into the war. Britain did lead the way in the industrial revolution of the 17-1800s but has never in my opinion at least, led the world in car manufacturing. Britain may have led the way in the agricultural revolution during a similar historic era but our union has been a net importer of food since the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846, world leaders in food production we are not. Not even the seemingly immortal Jacob Reece Mogg was around to witness the mythical period of British "Greatness" which you are so keen to revive! </p><p></p><p>I have no doubts the UK can thrive outside the EU but make no mistake there will be some significant and in some cases painful rebalancing ahead of us, there will be good and services on both sides of the channel for which demand will crash overnight as new tariff and regulatory barriers take effect. Manufacturing accounts for only 20% of our economy, agriculture is 0.6%, most of our national GDP comes from white collar office based services. This pandemic has shown that with modern technology most white collar work can be done remotely or autonomously. If these roles can be filled by employees or algorithms who do not need to live within commuting distance to their London offices, do firms even need to fill the roles with expensive wage workers who live in the UK? India and Asia is full of very bright, very motivated and very cheap workers who are more than capable of filling many of our white collar office roles. Will the high rise commercial towers on which our economy is currently dependent, soon go the same way as the windmills, wool mills, ship yards and coal mines of our past?</p><p></p><p>Just for the record the prefix Great has nothing to do with our nations historic world concurring prowess! Great Britain is not a country it is merely the historic term for the largest island in the British Isles ie the land mass that is England, Scotland and Wales</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerm, post: 7137491, member: 7195"] Once upon a time the Roman empire conquered most if not all of Europe and more besides, times change, even Portugal once had an empire, empires rise, empires fall and the world moves on. Not wishing to take anything away from those brave men and women who died but the truth is the United Kindom survived the risk of German invasion only because of the fortunate success of the Spitfire, Hitlers over confidence and an awful lot of luck. Our country was only able to returned to and liberate Europe because Japan dragged America into the war. Britain did lead the way in the industrial revolution of the 17-1800s but has never in my opinion at least, led the world in car manufacturing. Britain may have led the way in the agricultural revolution during a similar historic era but our union has been a net importer of food since the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846, world leaders in food production we are not. Not even the seemingly immortal Jacob Reece Mogg was around to witness the mythical period of British "Greatness" which you are so keen to revive! I have no doubts the UK can thrive outside the EU but make no mistake there will be some significant and in some cases painful rebalancing ahead of us, there will be good and services on both sides of the channel for which demand will crash overnight as new tariff and regulatory barriers take effect. Manufacturing accounts for only 20% of our economy, agriculture is 0.6%, most of our national GDP comes from white collar office based services. This pandemic has shown that with modern technology most white collar work can be done remotely or autonomously. If these roles can be filled by employees or algorithms who do not need to live within commuting distance to their London offices, do firms even need to fill the roles with expensive wage workers who live in the UK? India and Asia is full of very bright, very motivated and very cheap workers who are more than capable of filling many of our white collar office roles. Will the high rise commercial towers on which our economy is currently dependent, soon go the same way as the windmills, wool mills, ship yards and coal mines of our past? Just for the record the prefix Great has nothing to do with our nations historic world concurring prowess! Great Britain is not a country it is merely the historic term for the largest island in the British Isles ie the land mass that is England, Scotland and Wales [/QUOTE]
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