After watching this programme last night ,it highlights why we should take a stance on the EU.The amount of stuff coming into this country,plus the trade outside EU of goods we sell.So why are we moaning how will we cope with leaving when clearly judging by the stuff coming in to this country from EU surely they must be far more worried.
What Britain buys and sells in a Day
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It was a very interesting programme, I never thought much of Ed Balls as a politician but he did a good job as presenter on this, asked much more intelligent questions of the people he spoke to than most do.
Exfarmer
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It is a good point, however remember how difficult the French in particular can be.
Day one of issues at the border and it looks like Mr Sainsbury, Tesco or Waitrose, etc are going to be short of food in the aisles they will be straight on the phone to No. 10 and that will result in the UK border force being told to stay in their little sheds and wave the Lorries through. ( that is if they ever came out of their sheds.)
Pierre on the other hand will have no such thoughts he will be asking every single driver to open his doors and get the cargo out to inspect. Then he will lock his gates and declare it is lunch time, leaving the lorries backed up the M2. Why do you think they have spent so long preparing for operation stack in Kent
kfpben
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I hope you all enjoyed the English wine section ?
People are not going to starve,you would think there was no food at all in this country.If the attitude is to wave them in with no tariffs or a deal then put the white flag up now.This country will be dead ,its serious to make you stop amd think about what if (war) how would we feed this nation.Plus how much stuff coming in is something we can do without.What a state this country is in,Well is the answer all farmland as playing fields,import everything .Quite frankly the service industry doesn’t produce food without we are dead.This programme showed just how much a mess this country is in.What was it 246,000 app,es exported ,4.4 million imported.How much harm is been done in countries that are using so much water
beardface
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Complete opposite on that one calais have spent a good couple million adding additional brexit lanes and recon they can have a wagon which turns up with wrong or no papers split off and ready to board in about half an hour. The extra lanes will also heavily reduce traffic loading at the port in this instance, they recon the border force strike was far more trouble than brexit will be. Its our side that isn't ready for the extra paperwork and general traffic volume. I remember a sky news piece where the calais boss was basically saying that he wanted a no deal brexit to justify the cost and got very angry when the UK suggested using other freight routes. This is because the EU planned for no deal from the outset whereas our lot have been against brexit at all from the outset, something which as a leave voter I commend the EU for.
of course, they need us more than we need them - was always the case
Interesting tweets by the NFU yesterday on twitter " British #farmers cannot plan to sell their products around the world."
I had the audacity to question and ask why they so persist in promotion of project fear
Remoaners make you laugh
The big problem for the NFJ is the tariff on lamb. Is it 48% or something? Of course theres no reason why the EU couldn't agree not to stick a huge tariff on lamb and we could agree a similar reciprocal tariff on frog wine or something straight away and then we can move on.
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Yeah right, you remember the truckers going on strike/protesting in France?
You reckon they are going to stop movement in either direction, it will be chaos, all of Europe will feel the pain.
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Holding off buying a new car, it will be 10% cheaper after Brexit, unless we put a tariff back on them.
Campani
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Unless the pound drops even further in value.
don't get me started on the nonsense that is sheep meat import-export!
100K t imported each year ............................................ 100k t exported each year
environmental and trade nonsense at its greatest - why on earth would we import meat we are almost perfectly self-sufficient in?
was asked to sign a brexit currency clause when ordering a new (German) car recently accepting up to 10% price rise if things went against the manufacturers pricing ...................... not sure it worked the other way ie a 10% price reduction, however!
Homesy
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The NFU might as well have joint conference with the LibDims. I wouldn't be at surprised if they tell us to vote that way in the next election. They are very good at telling us the consequences of a no deal but say nothing as to what a jump of over 15% in the pound would do in the event of no Brexit. Beef down to £2.60, lambs down £12, milk down 4p a litre and barley under £100 per ton.
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You are not a sheep farmer then? We produce more than 100% here. 30% goes to France alone,and we usually keep what our own population want to eat here(the best bits) and export the rest. The EU demand is slowly weakening,even before Brexit.They are not going to pay 48% more. Average Live Market prices this week will be in the 150s,lower than previous years even with a weaker pound.I await your reply when there is a hefty tariff on your milling wheat for export.
Homesy
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The world does not end at the borders of the EU. Lamb is worth more in Asia. Last year NZ lamb was selling in UK supermarkets for more than home produced. Nuts. We are still in the EU at the moment Brexit is no excuse. The problem is with the processors and retailers. You talk about a weaker pound, imagine if the referendum had gone the other way, and the pound was 15% higher. Lamb would be under £1.30.The processors would then be using the currency as an excuse to hammer you.
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you have completely misunderstood what I posted.
The French customs are not interested in what is departing their shores, that will be just waved through.
it is what is coming in from the UK that will attract their complete interest, and you can certain that Pierre will not just be very interested, they have long had suspicions that the UK is an easy port of entry to the the EU in terms of customs inspections. They are certain to be checking any containers and lorries going in from Dover very closely, remember there has not been real checks there for a long time.
A little bit of back up along the A16 or A26 will be nothing when you look at congestion levels on that road ( nearly zero ) compared to the M2, which could easily paralyse Kent and reach back to the M25
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