Is the penny finally dropping
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Danllan
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Sky's editorial team are well-known remainers...
Well the £ is!
But the future is rosy. Cheap food will come in from all over the world to nourish our workforce who will be working hard to keep up with export orders.
To maintain food security farms will be mothballed in good agricultural condition and farmers will be paid to walk around once a day to check everything's ok.
Ahh Nirvana.
But the future is rosy. Cheap food will come in from all over the world to nourish our workforce who will be working hard to keep up with export orders.
To maintain food security farms will be mothballed in good agricultural condition and farmers will be paid to walk around once a day to check everything's ok.
Ahh Nirvana.
He is a labour party activist, I thought journos were meant to be non political, and their job was to report news not produce pieces of opinion.
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What is incorrect about the article, it is just stating a fact the we all know. But some refuse to believe.
caveman
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Another loser.
What fact ? The one where he says we are too small to survive on our own ? NZ, Australia, canada dont do bad let alone many others, last time I looked we are in the top five economies how do the rest survive ? Our exports to the eu are about 8% of gdp including financial services, how much of that we would lose is anyones guesstimate and of course it would be balanced by less eu imports. Will there be some impact ? Possibly depends on lots of factors, remember its not us that is playing silly buggers, if free trade is best then why dont the eu want it ?What is incorrect about the article, it is just stating a fact the we all know. But some refuse to believe.
ollie989898
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More in the news from analysts stating that BREXIT and a no-deal situation will hurt the EU more than the UK...
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The EU does have free trade, that's what it's all about.
NZ, Australia, Canada are all small economies compared to the UK with mostly primary product based exports so aren't really comparable. The UK's problem is not particularly who it's exporting to, but rather it's not exporting enough. Instead it relies on endlessly boosting home consumption of goods and services though low tax and cheap credit in many varied forms and selling UK assists to foreigners.
The point he was making was that we are too small to cope on our own well ad we are top five in the world how do the rest survive. I do agree we are too reliant on finance and banking but that goes back decades when it was decided we should all get education and go white collarThe EU does have free trade, that's what it's all about.
What page of the daily express is that on ?
Let’s be honest, a hard brexit will hit Ireland hard but the rest of Europe don’t really care anymore. Did it get 5 mins at the last Euro summit, don’t think so !
ollie989898
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http://www.cityam.com/272707/hard-brexit-cost-eu-twice-many-jobs-uk
You can read one such research paper, in it's entirety, here:
https://feb.kuleuven.be/drc/Economics/research/dps-papers/dps17/dps1713.pdf
wanton dwarf
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Who cares what the EU thinks ?
We are beyond "repairing" any relationship and personally speaking I don't think there was a beneficial one in the first place.
ollie989898
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Oh, there was a beneficial one all right: it involved billions of pounds worth of UK money.
musker
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Journalists being non political? Where are on earth have you been?
musker
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Good find Ollie.
"We find that Brexit hits the UK relatively harder than the EU-27."
Doesn't really support your position though.
ollie989898
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You do not elaborate their thinking for that statement.
I mentioned jobs. A specific and clearly defined measurement. Of course the UK will be impacted by BREXIT, but is that just due to general market uncertainty, or other more specific and tangible factors?