The Conservative Party

[Ashton Moss Messi]

If you, like me, was thinking WTF with that ridiculous 10 Downing Street podium speech last Friday by Richi Sunak, then it was a classic dead cat speech.
What was it distracting us from?
Perhaps it was this news from the latest trading figures released coincidentally last Friday...

UK trade volumes suffer record five-year decline​

Drop in goods imports and exports attributed to Brexit by economists

The key points:
- steepest five-year fall on record for goods imports and exports
- Brexit has reduced flows both into and out of Britain
- volume of UK goods imports and exports was 7.4 per cent smaller in 2023 than in 2018
- volume of imports fell 7.4 per cent compared with 2022 and was down 3.8 per cent compared with 2018.
- Over five years, export volumes fell 12.4 per cent.

UK trade volumes suffer record five-year decline

Drop in goods imports and exports attributed to Brexit by economists

www.ft.com

UK goods trade has fallen 15% below the G7 since Brexit​

Brexit triggered lasting economic upheaval, including tougher trade barriers with the UK’s largest trading partner.
The UK economy has notably underperformed other advanced countries since, with real GDP per capita barely above pre-Covid levels, at 4% above the mid-2016 level, compared with 8% in the eurozone and 15% for the US.

The Conservatives’ economic record since 2010 in 10 charts

From a huge budget deficit to weak GDP and a record rise in tax, we look at the background to the Tory budget

www.theguardian.com

Self-imposed trade barriers making it harder to sell and buy goods to/from outside the UK, who'd have thought it?
The UK doesn't trade as much as we used to and increasingly doesn't matter to the rest of the world.
Not so much Great Britain as Little England.

 

[johnnytapia]

If you, like me, was thinking WTF with that ridiculous 10 Downing Street podium speech last Friday by Richi Sunak, then it was a classic dead cat speech.
What was it distracting us from?
Perhaps it was this news from the latest trading figures released coincidentally last Friday...

UK trade volumes suffer record five-year decline​

Drop in goods imports and exports attributed to Brexit by economists

The key points:
- steepest five-year fall on record for goods imports and exports
- Brexit has reduced flows both into and out of Britain
- volume of UK goods imports and exports was 7.4 per cent smaller in 2023 than in 2018
- volume of imports fell 7.4 per cent compared with 2022 and was down 3.8 per cent compared with 2018.
- Over five years, export volumes fell 12.4 per cent.

UK trade volumes suffer record five-year decline

Drop in goods imports and exports attributed to Brexit by economists

www.ft.com

UK goods trade has fallen 15% below the G7 since Brexit​

Brexit triggered lasting economic upheaval, including tougher trade barriers with the UK’s largest trading partner.
The UK economy has notably underperformed other advanced countries since, with real GDP per capita barely above pre-Covid levels, at 4% above the mid-2016 level, compared with 8% in the eurozone and 15% for the US.

The Conservatives’ economic record since 2010 in 10 charts

From a huge budget deficit to weak GDP and a record rise in tax, we look at the background to the Tory budget

www.theguardian.com

Self-imposed trade barriers making it harder to sell and buy goods to/from outside the UK, who'd have thought it?
The UK doesn't trade as much as we used to and increasingly doesn't matter to the rest of the world.
Not so much Great Britain as Little England.

Vaccines

 

[TinFoilHat]

Jeremy **** has leaked an NI cut.

Less money going to the NHS so labour will have to privatise it.

I'm sure both parties are gutted...

 

[Bodicoteblue]

If you, like me, was thinking WTF with that ridiculous 10 Downing Street podium speech last Friday by Richi Sunak, then it was a classic dead cat speech.
What was it distracting us from?
Perhaps it was this news from the latest trading figures released coincidentally last Friday...

UK trade volumes suffer record five-year decline​

Drop in goods imports and exports attributed to Brexit by economists

The key points:
- steepest five-year fall on record for goods imports and exports
- Brexit has reduced flows both into and out of Britain
- volume of UK goods imports and exports was 7.4 per cent smaller in 2023 than in 2018
- volume of imports fell 7.4 per cent compared with 2022 and was down 3.8 per cent compared with 2018.
- Over five years, export volumes fell 12.4 per cent.

UK trade volumes suffer record five-year decline

Drop in goods imports and exports attributed to Brexit by economists

www.ft.com

UK goods trade has fallen 15% below the G7 since Brexit​

Brexit triggered lasting economic upheaval, including tougher trade barriers with the UK’s largest trading partner.
The UK economy has notably underperformed other advanced countries since, with real GDP per capita barely above pre-Covid levels, at 4% above the mid-2016 level, compared with 8% in the eurozone and 15% for the US.

The Conservatives’ economic record since 2010 in 10 charts

From a huge budget deficit to weak GDP and a record rise in tax, we look at the background to the Tory budget

www.theguardian.com

Self-imposed trade barriers making it harder to sell and buy goods to/from outside the UK, who'd have thought it?
The UK doesn't trade as much as we used to and increasingly doesn't matter to the rest of the world.
Not so much Great Britain as Little England.

Aaaahh…remember the days when the great and good of the brexiters were falling over themselves and each other to take ownership of it and trumpet its enormous benefits and how it was we naysayers who were talking the country down and how they knew what they were voting for?
Now they sneak it out under cover and hope no-one notices.
Could it be a tacit admission that the whole fraudulent con-trick has monumentally backfired and it is obviously nothing but a grift perpetrated by con-men and liars.
Maybe we should give it 50 years, or maybe 100 years or any other random number they pull out of their arses.

 

[kaz7]

Love sophie

 

[Brewster's millions]

If you, like me, was thinking WTF with that ridiculous 10 Downing Street podium speech last Friday by Richi Sunak, then it was a classic dead cat speech.
What was it distracting us from?
Perhaps it was this news from the latest trading figures released coincidentally last Friday...

UK trade volumes suffer record five-year decline​

Drop in goods imports and exports attributed to Brexit by economists

The key points:
- steepest five-year fall on record for goods imports and exports
- Brexit has reduced flows both into and out of Britain
- volume of UK goods imports and exports was 7.4 per cent smaller in 2023 than in 2018
- volume of imports fell 7.4 per cent compared with 2022 and was down 3.8 per cent compared with 2018.
- Over five years, export volumes fell 12.4 per cent.

UK trade volumes suffer record five-year decline

Drop in goods imports and exports attributed to Brexit by economists

www.ft.com

UK goods trade has fallen 15% below the G7 since Brexit​

Brexit triggered lasting economic upheaval, including tougher trade barriers with the UK’s largest trading partner.
The UK economy has notably underperformed other advanced countries since, with real GDP per capita barely above pre-Covid levels, at 4% above the mid-2016 level, compared with 8% in the eurozone and 15% for the US.

The Conservatives’ economic record since 2010 in 10 charts

From a huge budget deficit to weak GDP and a record rise in tax, we look at the background to the Tory budget

www.theguardian.com

Self-imposed trade barriers making it harder to sell and buy goods to/from outside the UK, who'd have thought it?
The UK doesn't trade as much as we used to and increasingly doesn't matter to the rest of the world.
Not so much Great Britain as Little England.

Why would you only focus upon goods trade, and not include the trade in services, given the relative importance of the latter to the UK economy?

How are service exports doing relative to the pre-pandemic level?

 

[meltonblue]

Unbelievably, the tax payer is paying for this. Again should be a resigning issue.

Science minister retracts extremism claims made against academics

Michelle Donelan pays undisclosed sum over allegations that triggered months-long probe

www.ft.com

 

[Phil1]

Why would you only focus upon goods trade, and not include the trade in services, given the relative importance of the latter to the UK economy?

How are service exports doing relative to the pre-pandemic level?

Is that it? That’s your contribution after another day of shithouse Tories coming out with nonsense? Do you have any opinion whatsoever on the top people in your party embarrassing themselves on a daily basis?
You say I follow you around? You make it easy by being so out of touch it’s getting to the parody stage.

 

[Vic]

Why would you only focus upon goods trade, and not include the trade in services, given the relative importance of the latter to the UK economy?

How are service exports doing relative to the pre-pandemic level?

Whatever they're doing, they'd have been doing better if we were still in the EU.

 

[Brewster's millions]

Is that it? That’s your contribution after another day of shithouse Tories coming out with nonsense? Do you have any opinion whatsoever on the top people in your party embarrassing themselves on a daily basis?
You say I follow you around? You make it easy by being so out of touch it’s getting to the parody stage.

I used to think you followed me around the forum, but now I think you’re obsessed with me. Really odd.

A poster discussed the trade data, and posted an FT article which was ultimately misleading in that it focussed heavily on the goods data rather than services. If you’re not interested in that issue, and have nothing to add to that discussion - you clearly haven’t - why react to my post in the way you have? You could simply ignore it, but instead you just want to have a pop and make a bit of a dick out of yourself.

You can’t help yourself can you?

 

[Brewster's millions]

Whatever they're doing, they'd have been doing better if we were still in the EU.

Very likely, yes, but it is interesting and noteworthy that services exports are doing well given that trade barriers have been introduced in that area as well.

 

[Mike N]

More rats deserting the shit Tory ship. They’ve absolutely ruined our country. Shame on every one of them.

 

[shemnel]

Why would you only focus upon goods trade, and not include the trade in services, given the relative importance of the latter to the UK economy?

How are service exports doing relative to the pre-pandemic level?

The service exports are certainly a positive, but a story that is notoriously hard to interpret. Ignoring the recent dip at the back of 2023 and early '24, services trade over 5 years or so is still strong. One to watch; service exports driven by education to South Asia is about to take a big hit following the change is visa rules. I foresee a contraction, personally, but who knows!

 

[TinFoilHat]

More rats deserting the shit Tory ship. They’ve absolutely ruined our country. Shame on every one of them.

Brewster will be there on HMS Tory sinking with the ship.

Knocking one out over the cruelty and division they've created during their time in office. Cameron fucked a pig, May fucked her majority, Johnson fucked the country, Truss said hold my beer and Fucked the economy. Now Sunak is dangling his tiny rat cock inside of the ripped arsehole of UK to finish the job.

 

[Brewster's millions]

Brewster will be there on HMS Tory sinking with the ship.

Knocking one out over the cruelty and division they've created during their time in office. Cameron fucked a pig, May fucked her majority, Johnson fucked the country, Truss said hold my beer and Fucked the economy. Now Sunak is dangling his tiny rat cock inside of the ripped arsehole of UK to finish the job.

All very odd.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

All very odd.

It’s not that odd.

Pretty much everyone in the country has given up on the current government.

You replied to me a while back that you wouldn’t stand as a Tory candidate as you enjoy giving it back.

Whilst that’s commendable, you’re fighting a lone battle as there’s not much left to defend. You do your best to rile people on here, but even you know it’s futile. You get the occasional nibble, but you’ve resorted to the “stalking” nonsense that posters use when there’s nothing left to debate.

Even your other two allies have changed tack to concentrate on Labour just being “Tory lite”.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Lord Howard on the Rwanda Bill openly saying that the government could pass a law saying black is white "because the government is accountable" (and the courts aren't).

"2+2 equals 5 because we are accountable" (says a member of an unelected chamber).

On what planet is a UK government accountable under our sinfully wankvoting system. They just need 40% of the vote in a GE in order to do what the fuck they want for five years. Fucking accountable ffs.

 

[blueinsa]

It’s not that odd.

Pretty much everyone in the country has given up on the current government.

You replied to me a while back that you wouldn’t stand as a Tory candidate as you enjoy giving it back.

Whilst that’s commendable, you’re fighting a lone battle as there’s not much left to defend. You do your best to rile people on here, but even you know it’s futile. You get the occasional nibble, but you’ve resorted to the “stalking” nonsense that posters use when there’s nothing left to debate.

Even your other two allies have changed tack to concentrate on Labour just being “Tory lite”.

Every post…rent free ;-)

 

[law74]

Every post…rent free ;-)

Sadly after 14 years of self-servative misrule not only is rent free almost unheard of, but rents are rocketing driving inflation and boosting the wealth of Tory landlords

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I wonder if Donelan will be the subject of a question at PMQs.
Good of her to cost the country some money by smearing two academics, absolutely entirely coincidental that the Policy Exchange named the two as people to be targeted at the same time.