Brexit Watch

Whitesince63 wrote:The problem is, thanks to joining the EU and especially with Blair allowing in hordes of Eastern European’s to keep wages low, we’ve now achieved exactly what he wanted. We are a low wage society whilst the likes of Poland Rumania and Lithuania have improved their economy making it unnecessary for these people to now come here. Sadly the damage is done so it’s no surprise that after returning back home HGV drivers, Care Workers, Fruit pickers, tradesmen et al don’t want to return to the UK.

Good I say because we now need to stop relying on these people and start accepting that we need to raise standards, wages and infrastructure to encourage our own people to do these jobs, as they did perfectly well before we ever joined the stinking EU in the 50’s.

Of course things will be tough. Much labour has returned home and the EU, totally as expected, are applying every tactic they can to punish the UK for daring to leave their club. Many of the things we import from them we can produce here or purchase elsewhere but it will take time to build supply chains. Hopefully the reliance on our near neighbours will increasingly reduce and as they gradually deteriorate with their expensive and bureaucratic over regulations, we can prosper from the new economies we will deal with.

Natasha Whittam wrote:Politician can't be trusted shocker!

I've never heard anyone say that before.

wanderlust wrote:Business insolvencies have hit new high in the last 6 months.

According to the Bank of England, higher borrowing is to blame for putting more businesses at risk.
It said: “The increase in debt – though moderate in aggregate – has likely led to increases in the number and scale of more vulnerable businesses.
As the economy recovers and government support, including restrictions on winding up orders, falls away, business insolvencies are expected to increase from historically low levels.”
Last month, it emerged that Brexit-related trade barriers have risen to £2.2 billion in UK businesses costs in the first half of this year.
An additional £600 million in costs hit British importers since January according to HMRC data. The cause has been identified as Brexit, because the taxes were not required for EU imports when the Britain was in the single market."

Meanwhile, Frost  - from his holiday location in Spain - has demanded that the EU completely rewrite the NI protocol agreement.

Despite Johnson lauding the deal he signed up to as "a great deal for Britain" it would seem that the government are now seeking confrontation with the EU in order to provide a scapegoat for their own failings.

Whitesince63 wrote:As usual wander, like most remain voters you only pick out the bits that show Brexit negatively. You could easily have mentioned that inward investment into the UK is at its highest ever level, the AUCUS deal or the new trade deals that we’ve done outside the EU, or the projections that the City of London would be trashed by moves by business to the EU were completely unfounded as more European companies open offices within the square mile.

Everybody can accept and indeed expected business with Europe to decline early on as businesses adapt to new regulations and the obvious punishment tactics from the EU came into effect. Boris did sign the agreement which again everybody at the time new was a bad deal but it was essential Brexit was completed ASAP. That said, there was within the agreement scope to discuss problem areas and amend them and in fact every contract or agreement has that facility. Like it or not we have left the EU and it does no good keep looking for negative factors whilst ignoring the huge possibilities our new freedoms present us with. Unless we all accept where we are and try to make the best of it we won’t get anywhere.

Whitesince63 wrote:As usual wander, like most remain voters you only pick out the bits that show Brexit negatively. You could easily have mentioned that inward investment into the UK is at its highest ever level, the AUCUS deal or the new trade deals that we’ve done outside the EU, or the projections that the City of London would be trashed by moves by business to the EU were completely unfounded as more European companies open offices within the square mile.

Everybody can accept and indeed expected business with Europe to decline early on as businesses adapt to new regulations and the obvious punishment tactics from the EU came into effect. Boris did sign the agreement which again everybody at the time new was a bad deal but it was essential Brexit was completed ASAP. That said, there was within the agreement scope to discuss problem areas and amend them and in fact every contract or agreement has that facility. Like it or not we have left the EU and it does no good keep looking for negative factors whilst ignoring the huge possibilities our new freedoms present us with. Unless we all accept where we are and try to make the best of it we won’t get anywhere.

T.R.O.Y. wrote:
We are stuck with Brexit for now, but don't sit there pretending it's been anything but a disaster. Delusions of Brexiteers like you are what took us to a hard Brexit and what are keeping us in the shit.

We could have left the EU without doing this, none of this was necessary. I blame the politicians for lying to you in the first place, but now you have the evidence stop deluding yourself.

T.R.O.Y. wrote:You just rated the worst ever post on here as 'top', your credit round here has slipped.

Whitesince63 wrote:

As usual wander, like most remain voters you only pick out the bits that show Brexit negatively. You could easily have mentioned that inward investment into the UK is at its highest ever level, the AUCUS deal or the new trade deals that we’ve done outside the EU, or the projections that the City of London would be trashed by moves by business to the EU were completely unfounded as more European companies open offices within the square mile.

Everybody can accept and indeed expected business with Europe to decline early on as businesses adapt to new regulations and the obvious punishment tactics from the EU came into effect. Boris did sign the agreement which again everybody at the time new was a bad deal but it was essential Brexit was completed ASAP. That said, there was within the agreement scope to discuss problem areas and amend them and in fact every contract or agreement has that facility. Like it or not we have left the EU and it does no good keep looking for negative factors whilst ignoring the huge possibilities our new freedoms present us with. Unless we all accept where we are and try to make the best of it we won’t get anywhere.

White wrote:it does no good keep looking for negative factors whilst ignoring the huge possibilities our new freedoms present us with. Unless we all accept where we are and try to make the best of it we won’t get anywhere