USA! USA! USA!FFS - what a stupid post - and does any one in their tiny mind think that a couple of thousand City fans changing their buying habits would have any impact? no. nothing to see here, move along. I'd rather buy american than european anyway! I'm no interested one bit in supporting the EU, corrupt f**kers
You quoted incorrect data from a random source. I gave you the correct data.
Your inability to add three numbers together and divide by one larger number isn’t my problem.
Only if when USA says "jump", we say "how high?"Do you think the current US regime is our friend and ally?
Own it? A man cut from the same cloth as Trump and several conservative MPs who double down on their bullshit and bluster when called out??You were wrong. Own it.
HowHate the yanks. They're just a bunch of dirty squatters. Soon as they return the land, the better.
Don't think we would notice tbf.Should I cancel my Bluemoon account? :(
I see what you did there and I like it :-)
So you would prefer a Mustang or Corvette to a Bentley, Aston or Porsche etc.FFS - what a stupid post - and does any one in their tiny mind think that a couple of thousand City fans changing their buying habits would have any impact? no. nothing to see here, move along. I'd rather buy american than european anyway! I'm no interested one bit in supporting the EU, corrupt f**kers
Couple of Thousand City fans won't make the slightest difference, except out in the real world there are many out there that while not outright boycotting American goods are shopping with an aversion to American goods probably across many countries. That will hurt American companies.FFS - what a stupid post - and does any one in their tiny mind think that a couple of thousand City fans changing their buying habits would have any impact? no. nothing to see here, move along. I'd rather buy american than european anyway! I'm no interested one bit in supporting the EU, corrupt f**kers
I hope you recover your equipoise soon.Give it up. What is staggering is your brain not only thought to write that shit, re-read it, thought nailed it, and it actually let you hit the post button.
Truly staggering.
Correct, we must do what we can.USA! USA! USA!
Imagine thinking the EU is more corrupt than this current incarnation of America.
Whilst nothing will be done and nobody is likely to boycott anything it's still good to know which posters don't have a problem with the current situation.
Seriously, the way things are going, we need to wean ourselves off America and its produce ready for the naval blockade.You missed out driving your car or turning the central heating on, wouldn’t want anyone burning them nasty yanks petrol and gas.
Alas there is no way to ween ourselves of our ties with the United States our economies are bonded together, it would be silly to even try daft Donald won't be around forever.Seriously, the way things are going, we need to wean ourselves off America and its produce ready for the naval blockade.
I'm afraid that your figures are indeed nonsense and, because I'm a helpful chap and also because God loves a trier (even yourself), I'll show you the real figures and explain why you're wrong.No,you didn't give any data, you just challenged figures that BKB doesn't like, I suspect because you were one of the 52% that voted to make us all worse off and now are struggling that you are partly to blame for us being in the mess we are. Anyway, the "random source" paints the same picture as the source you do approve of. Last time I checked, 7.9 + 6.9 + 5.8 = 20.6% compared to the 15% (US trade).
I do hope you find this useful, along with @Alan Harper's Tash , @roubaixtuesday and particularly @Phil1, special guy that he is
I'll be on the phone to Trading Economics first thing tomorrow because they clearly don't live up to:I'm afraid that your figures are indeed nonsense and, because I'm a helpful chap and also because God loves a trier (even yourself), I'll show you the real figures and explain why you're wrong.
The first mistake you made was to just glibly accept the data you found as correct, and not question whether the figures quoted were in fact feasible. Most obviously, your data stated that total UK exports in 2024 were the rather dubious figure of USD509bn. At the average 2024 exchange rate, this amounts to just GBP398bn. Given that UK nominal GDP last year was GBP2.88 trillion, this would imply that total UK exports amounted to just under 14% of GDP.
This is obviously bollocks - the actual figure is 31% - and so a quick sense check would have told you that the figures were wrong. In fact the figures you found are (inaccurate) United Nations estimates of UK goods exports, not total exports, and so again the problem here is simply a lack of thought on your behalf.
Total UK exports in 2024 were actually GBP893.2bn; a bit of a difference. Exports to the US were GBP200.8bn (22.5% of the total) last year, while exports to Germany were GBP61.7bn (6.9%), France GBP46.9bn (5.2%) and the Netherlands GBP51bn (5.7%).
Exports in 2024 to the three EU countries you picked out accounted for 17.9% of the total, and were therefore equivalent to just under 80% of the value of exports to the US, as I've previously said. Again, very different from the 150% figure you believe to be true.
All the figures I've quoted here are from the ONS and a handy summary can be found in the Trade and investment core statistics book, published a couple of weeks ago.
I do hope you find this useful, along with @Alan Harper's Tash , @roubaixtuesday and particularly @Phil1, special guy that he is.