Why would we pay tariffs on exports? I don’t think you quite understand.I am really surprised seemingly intelligent people such as yourself are finding this so hard to grasp: I thought it would be even worse. All of the things we are experiencing, I fully expected.
Have the things above come as any kind of surprise? Were you asleep for the 2 years of pre-and-post referendum wrangling? I was not.
I ALSO expected us to have to pay tariffs on our exports to the EU, for example. By some miracle we have avoided that and are still able to trade with the EU essentially tariff-free albeit with the additional (expected additional) red tape.
Clumsy wording, I meant our exports would be subject to tariffs. Please don't insult my intelligence by suggesting I do not understand something a 5 year old can grasp.Why would we pay tariffs on exports? I don’t think you quite understand.
Why did you not think there would be a FTA? Everyone else expected one. The problem was that the deal we got wasn’t particularly good.
No, not clumsy just wrong.Clumsy wording, I meant our exports would be subject to tariffs. Please don't insult my intelligence by suggesting I do not understand something a 5 year old can grasp.
And regards an FTA, no they absolutely DID NOT expect a tariff-free trade deal. The Brexiteers said we would get one and the Remainers STRONGLY argued that the EU would never agree to it lest it gave the green light to other want away countries to seek their own exit.
Whatever gets you off mate.No, not clumsy just wrong.
And as for your second paragraph that’s complete rubbish. We’ve got a bare bones free trade deal that the EU would pretty much give anyone. It was no triumph of negotiation. Only the ERG and the Brexit ultras didn’t want one. What Remainers argued was that we would not get the same terms as we had when we were in the single market and they were absolutely correct.
Most people wouldn't have known there was a winter of discontent but for the media.Thing is, I’m 53, and the only party that had delivered solid economic growth in my adult life is Labour and the only party that has overseen widespread industrial action is the Conservatives.
Time to move on from the Winter of Discontent for some.
According to the OBR, net migration in the UK is now projected to be 250,000 a year. That’s significantly more than the 100,000 pledge made in 2019 and around 40,000 more than the prediction made in November 2022.
That’s the reason I highlighted it. With immigration a driving force behind Brexit, then all parties, and especially the Conservatives, should acknowledge that a quarter of a million people are still going to be arriving each year; pretty much the same number as pre-Brexit.Another part of the OBR report **** neglected to reveal to the Gammonati....... they can still be whipped up over small boats and their occupants whilst being kept in the dark that "immigrants" in ever greater numbers are being invited in to the country