GBNews at it again with the misinformation as we join the CPTPP.
https://www.gbnews.com/politics/brex...c-cptpp-update
It is worth £1.8 bn to the UK.Brexit trade boost as UK signs £12trillion treaty in breakthrough that could not be achieved in EU
And it gives us preferential trading terms with these countries: Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, Brunei, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and Japan.
I'm sure you can agree that those are not exactly geographical neighbours of ours.
Expecting no VAT and import duty on your JDM parts? Think again. This is a commercial agreement that will not benefit private buyers.
Net gain is expected to be 0.08% of GDP, over 10 years. Net loss thanks to Brexit is around 4%.
A stunning victory.
The UK has re-joined the Horizon scheme for Scientific funding, which is excellent news.
What is not excellent news is our yearly contribution to be in the scheme has risen by a billion a year more than it was before Brexit. Fantastic work gammons.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66737714
Absolutely amazing, Sunak and Johnson have both stood separately touting how good our independent 'replacement' (and I use that word lightly) for Horizon was going to be and how we didn't need Horizon, yet here we are, 3 years on, arguably 6 years on, and the unified voice of the actual experts wins again.
So we are back to where we started, but paying more.
Expect more of this in the future!
How long before the argument to re-join the EU is about how much money we'd save and how much red tape we'll remove??
Haha, never. I wish it would go that way but as we proved here in this very topic, Brexit voters, in general, don't need facts to vote on. They need feelings.
Even now, considering that they voted to reduce migration and in the face of increased legal and illegal immigration, they'll still never accept going back in is a good thing.
So the India trade deal becoming a priority is interesting. Quote
Doesn't sound very independent to me.Originally Posted by The Telegraph
If you didn't like immigration before Brexiteers, and you hated hearing white people talking in strange tongues, just you wait till we grant visas en masse to 'brown' people. You'll have nightmares
The other point of interest for me is that the UK Government is attempting, again, to delay the roll out of the rules it negotiated and signed up to, specifically for the car industry. It's good for me that it gets delayed, but of course it wouldn't be an issue at all had we not left
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-b2407732.html
HS2 - spent 10s of Billions and it will save 20 minutes to get from London to Birmingham
If the French had built it, probably would have cost a tenth and it would be running by now....
Yeah the Brits do things so much better than EU countries
Time saving is out the window completely now it's not even going into London proper.
If you're traveling from Birmingham to London, who's really going to chose getting dropped off somewhere down the line from Paddington and being left to make their own way the rest of the journey?
I dunno it's not looking amazing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67021225Originally Posted by BBC News
To be fair to the Tories though, this isn't Brexit. It's just their own mismanagement
RTE published an article today polling 9% of survey respondents saying they believed Brexit had gone well, though they don't make clear how many people were surveyed.
https://www.rte.ie/news/brexit/2023/...8-poll-brexit/
Hmmm, I remember the rhetoric but I don't think it was ever used in respect of HS2.
I could be wrong though, but I'm not prepared to go any further in defending the Tories
Well funk me
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-b2434582.htmlOriginally Posted by Article
He is a prized prick on a good day, this is just another slap. For context, he is the Northern Ireland minister so he is making the case that Ireland shouldn't reunite without a decisive majority.
I hate Conservative Brexiteers. So much.
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And, just for good measure:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67206997Originally Posted by Article
You remember that crash, you know, the one entirely caused by the property and banking sectors over-stepping lines carelessly driven entirely by profit, the crash that put 50,000 UK families out of their homes between 2008 and 2012.
That crash.
£850 million reduction in british beauty product exports attributed entirely to Brexit customs processing delays according to Oxford Economics.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...uverify%20wall
Eight hundred and fifty million quid. In one sector.