Political relations between UK-EU

[BobKowalski]

Or maybe since bananas are £0.79p / kg at the moment and British apples are £2.63 /kg at a certain well known supermarket we should pay more for Bananas to the countries that grow them which are generally a lot worse off than us, and grow more of own apples.
Put that on a bus.

My joke was funnier, so it makes the bus...

 

[GH64]

My joke was funnier, so it makes the bus...

Fair enough, mine would need a very big bus, needs to be a bit more punchy

 

[west didsblue]

That’s all well and good but what do you know of York?

Sadly I have to admit I was not one of the 5 million. I did see us win at Macc though.

 

[west didsblue]

Buy British, it's that simple. Start having pride in the nation you inhabit. If you can't bring yourself to do that, and think it's better elsewhere, then once the lockdown is over, bugger off!

I was going to buy a bottle of Bushmills but it got held up in customs.

 

[BobKowalski]

Think we need to improve things at the EU/GB border...

‘Days after Brexit and after NI Secretary Brandon Lewis declared “there is no Irish Sea border”, scores – & perhaps hundreds – of products are disappearing from Northern Ireland supermarket shelves because of that new border, it can be revealed.‘

Days after Brexit, many products vanish from Sainsbury’s in Northern Ireland and are replaced with Spar brand

Days after the Secretary of State declared “there is no Irish Sea border”, scores – and possibly hundreds – of products are disappearing from supermarket shelves in Northern Ireland because of that new border, the News Letter can reveal.

www.newsletter.co.uk

 

[Vic]

Or maybe since bananas are £0.79p / kg at the moment and British apples are £2.63 /kg at a certain well known supermarket we should pay more for Bananas to the countries that grow them which are generally a lot worse off than us, and grow more of own apples.
Put that on a bus.

we will be paying more for Ghanaian bananas, but the extra won't be going to Ghana but into the Treasury to pay toward the £2billion cost of extra customs officers. Put that on a bus.

 

[mcfc1632]

we will be paying more for Ghanaian bananas, but the extra won't be going to Ghana but into the Treasury to pay toward the £2billion cost of extra customs officers. Put that on a bus.

IMHO - You really do need to move on from 2016

 

[Vic]

IMHO - You really do need to move on from 2016

Give over. Five words look back, the rest is the future (and it doesn't work).

 

[GH64]

we will be paying more for Ghanaian bananas, but the extra won't be going to Ghana but into the Treasury to pay toward the £2billion cost of extra customs officers. Put that on a bus.

"Brexit creating jobs scandal". More punchy. (Joke.....)
Have the import docs changed for Ghanaian bananas? They certainly didn't need to. Ghana isn't in the EU. These were the regs before we left the EU - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/import-...duce#taric-codes-and-the-uk-trade-tariff-tool. Not exactly seamless. And it is still on the Govts website.

The banana comment was that we should pay more for bananas to Ghanaian farmers, not a comment about tariffs. That's why I said "to the countries that grow them" to avoid confusion. But I failed. The treasury gets the tariff money. Obviously. It is 10% of the wholesale price of bananas which in Ghana is now about $0.48 (high end) so about 4p a kilo.

Oh, and your £2bn number looks a bit high - perfect for a bus!

 

[BobKowalski]

Back to the shares trade shifting...FT has put a figure on it. Great start, chaps. I can see the glimmer of sunlit uplands, which coincidentally is also the name of an orange drink no longer available in NI.*

‘Nearly 6bn of euro-denominated share trading shifted away from the City to new EU hubs on the first trading day of 2021‘ @FT


* I may have made this up.