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@saulzmon
I love when politicians actually attempt to follow through on promises.
It's such a rare occurrence.
Same as here in the UK: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fzjw4fQXwAEY-cQ?format=jpg&name=small
@saulzmon
I love when politicians actually attempt to follow through on promises. It's such a rare occurrence.
On Monday, June 26, 2023 at 4:27:07 PM UTC+1, swldx...@gmail.com wrote:
@saulzmon
I love when politicians actually attempt to follow through on promises.
It's such a rare occurrence.
Truss and Kwarteng promised to "grow" the UK economy last September and
this was the result.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzkBaEVXwAEfU9q?format=jpg&name=medium
More "winning".
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UK meat and fish exports to the EU have slumped by almost half since
Brexit, new analysis of trade figures has revealed.
A bonus Brexit benefit - well done you Brextards.
That will show the EU.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzkFzrzX0AAQErD?format=jpg&name=medium
On Monday, June 26, 2023 at 10:00:16 PM UTC+1, swldx...@gmail.com wrote:
A bonus Brexit benefit - well done you Brextards.
That will show the EU.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzkFzrzX0AAQErD?format=jpg&name=medium
No wonder exports of fish has halved since 2016 - who wants to eat
shellfish grown in raw sewage?
BBC QT last week had a whole audience filled with these deluded racist
liars in the name of "balance" of course.
Thankfully, these gammons are rapidly dying off and will be replaced with educated young people who will rejoin their EU friends once again - just
a matter of time and demographics.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fznyy1FWAAEI-2d?format=jpg&name=medium
Traces of E.coli have reportedly been found in seawater off beaches in Blackpool after raw sewage flowed into the sea during heavy rainfall
earlier this week (June 16).
One day after another dismaying U.K. inflation report, Nigel Farage – champion of Brexit, current TV talk show host – went on a Twitter offensive.
His target: Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey.
“He is no good. It is time he was sacked,” the former leader of the populist UK Independence Party ranted in a video tweet Thursday.
“He didn’t see inflation coming … Now, rates are going to soar, and anybody with borrowings is going to pay the price,” he said.
“This bloke is a total incompetent.”
The tirade came just hours before the Bank of England did, indeed,
increase its policy rate by half a percentage point to 5 per cent,
escalating its uphill battle against Britain’s serious inflation problem. The U.K. inflation rate was 8.7 per cent in May, among the highest in the industrialized world. It’s nearly double Canada’s rate. It’s 2.6 percentage points higher than the euro zone average.
Mr. Farage’s bit of political theatre likely made him seem pretty clever
to his supporters, staunch euro-skeptics who voted in 2016 to pull
Britain out of the European Union. Mr. Farage even sprinkled some Brexit ideology into his anti-Bailey mix, arguing that what the country really needed in a central bank boss was “a Brexiteer … someone who believed in making us competitive.”
But his offensive is a smokescreen. He wants to deflect blame from where
it clearly belongs: on Brexit itself.
Britain’s withdrawal from the European trade bloc is a major contributor
to the country’s sad inflation story. It has exacerbated strains on
supply chains and labour markets throughout the recovery from the
COVID-19 recession. It has created new cross-border complications and paperwork headaches for importers. The effect has been to pile additional costs onto an already steeply inflationary global environment.
As British voters cool on Brexit, U.K. softens tone towards EU
The damage is most readily apparent in Britain’s soaring food prices. Year-over-year food inflation was 18.4 per cent in May, down only
slightly from the peak of 19.2 per cent in March. (By comparison,
Canada’s food inflation in April – the latest figures available – was 8.3
per cent.) In the past few months, the British have endured the highest
food inflation in 45 years.
Food prices throughout Europe have soared in the past year; Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and unfavourable crop-growing weather have hurt the entire region. Still, Britain’s food inflation rate is far above the euro area’s average of 13.7 per cent in May.
Researchers at the London School of Economics
recently dug into price data to quantify the proportion of foodinflation attributable to Brexit effects. They looked at food products that were more exposed to imports from EU countries prior to the Brexit
Prior to Brexit, there was little difference in inflation between the two groups. Since then, price increases have been notably steeper for high-EU-exposure foods. That trend has accelerated markedly since the
Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the U.K. and the EU took effect
at the beginning of 2021, effectively marking the end of Britain’s membership in the EU trade bloc.
The LSE analysis found that of Britain’s 25-per-cent increase in food prices since the end of 2019, nearly one-third can be attributed to the Brexit split. Just since January of 2022, the researchers estimated,
foods more exposed to EU imports have risen 3.5 percentage points more
than the less-exposed group.
The researchers said that these inflationary effects “were entirely
driven by products with high non-tariff barriers.” This refers to cross-border restrictions such as regulatory and sanitary standards, labelling requirements and customs inspections that can significantly
slow trade flows and add costs, and are particularly intensive for foods
such as meat and cheese. Within the EU, members have mutual exemptions
from many such measures; outside of the EU, British consumers must
shoulder these costly trade barriers.
Beyond non-tariff barriers, Brexit has also added to Britain’s labour shortages, as the free movement of in-demand workers from EU countries
has ended. A study from the Centre for European Reform estimated that
Brexit has cost the British labour market more than 300,000 workers.
Extreme tightness in the labour market has fuelled wage inflation: Three-month wage growth was running at an annual rate of more than 7 per cent in April.
Now, clearly, Brexit isn’t to blame for all of this mess. As Canadians
know all too well, Britain holds no monopoly on high inflation, or
strained labour markets or rising interest rates. But Brexit has
absolutely added to the economic pressures, and misery, that have left Britain in considerably worse shape than many of its global peers.
“Brexit did not cause all of the UK’s economic problems, but it made almost all of them worse,” said Adam Posen, head of the Peterson
Institute for International Economics, a U.S. think tank, in an op-ed in
the Financial Times last week.
Several British grocers limit sales of some vegetables amid shortages
Lord knows that Andrew Bailey – along with central bankers in many other countries, including Canada – has a share of the blame for misreading
early inflation signs and acting later than he should have to raise
interest rates. But mistakes in a complicated economic time are one
thing; the self-inflicted wound of Brexit is something else entirely.
Nigel Farage and his Brexiteer bedfellows seduced Brits with
unsubstantiated claims and unrealistic promises, and this is the price
the country is paying. If Mr. Farage insists on laying blame, he might
start by looking in a mirror.
Back in 2013, prime minister David Cameron promised a referendum on
leaving the EU. He didn't want to leave, he just wanted to stop the right wing of the Conservative Party "banging on about Europe".
That went well.
Cameron is now living a quiet life in a £16,500 shepherd's hut in his
garden in Chipping Norton. He resigned the day after the shock result of
the 2016 referendum.
His selfish political gamble opened the way for Theresa May, Boris
Johnson, Liz Truss and now Rishi Sunak. As leaders of the still divided Tories, their job has been to turn slogans from an ugly and divisive referendum campaign into a functioning way of running the country.
The huge turnover at Cameron's former gaff in Downing Street suggests
that this is not as easy as putting a glib promise on the side of a bus.
Current problems, from the increase in migrants willing to risk their
lives crossing the Channel in inflatable dinghies to the price of salad,
have their roots in Brexit.
Take the right-wingers Cameron tried to shut up. They are still there, demanding that the referendum promise to reduce immigration to the tens
of thousands be honoured.
But there are massive job vacancies left by EU workers who wouldn't or couldn't stick around after Brexit and there are not enough home-grown workers to pick the lettuces. (Or make the coffees. Or be the GP.)
Meanwhile, because the UK does not work with European partners on
immigration issues, there are increasing numbers boarding dangerous small boats. Overall migration is at a record high.
That ramps up the pain on the Prime Minister. But Brexit has brought
misery to all our lives.
Inflation, currently 8.7 per cent, comes from the increased costs of importing food and other goods. But it's also caused by rising wages,
which are caused by staff shortages.
The cost of fuel is also a factor. We were promised reduced fuel prices. Instead the pound's value is in the toilet. The UK is left buying oil and
gas with a weak currency, in a market already savaged by the war in Ukraine.
Those puny pounds do not go far if we brave the airport queues and go to Europe on holiday. Once there, we need decent health insurance. A blue passport is not much help to a broken leg.
Brexit has shrunk the UK and turned us inward. Investment has fallen -
why would an international company choose to put a factory or office here?
If they want to export to the EU they face horrendous red tape. If their staff want to go anywhere they will have to queue at the airport .
In February, AstraZeneca, the firm that made the Covid vaccine, announced
its new factory would be in Ireland. We are losing out on lucrative international business.
British universities used to carry out billions of pounds worth of pharmaceutical research, funded by the EU. Those jobs and opportunities,
all that potential, gone.
The idea that the NHS would get an extra £350million a week is perhaps
one of the sickest jokes ever played on the electorate. Brexit has
damaged our precious health service in many ways, from staff shortages to gaps in drug supplies.
Fishermen thought they would get rid of their hated quotas at last.
Instead Brexit has been a disaster for the industry and left many feeling used then discarded as the campaign ended.
Complaining is very unattractive, which is why the right tagged those of
us who thought it was bonkers to leave the EU as "remoaners". But in the
face of something obviously disastrous, a negative response is the
correct response. And it's hard to overstate how damaging Brexit has been .
What makes it so heartbreaking is that it was all so unnecessary.
Brexit was a referendum held by an overconfident prime minister who
thought it would put his internal snipers' gas at a peep.
It was fought using phony promises and wildly misleading figures. The
Leave vote ended Cameron's career. It left us with Theresa May, who did
her limited best to make it work, then Boris Johnson who could not be bothered to read the small print, or stop smirking and appreciate the
gravity of what was at stake.
The mess they have left will take decades to clean up. They printed lies
on the side of a bus. Then they threw the country under it.
Brexit has seeped into every corner of our lives.
It affects our huge decisions - where do we want to live, or study, or retire?
And our smaller ones, like where we go on holiday or whether or not we
put Greek olives and Spanish tomatoes into our shopping trolleys.
Businesses have to cope with everything from screeds of paperwork and
extra taxes to staff shortages and price increases. Even charities have
seen their European funding dry up.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/how-tories-broke-britain-reckless-30317341?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar
His target: Bank of England Governor. ENDS
On Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 11:40:24 AM UTC+1, swldx...@gmail.com wrote: QUOTE: > One day after another dismaying U.K. inflation report, Nigel
Farage – champion of Brexit, current TV talk show host – went on a Twitter offensive.
His target: Bank of England Governor. ENDS
Farage is the offensive one - clueless as per usual and wrong.
All Frogface has done has wrecked the economy and the GBP.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzoWfNuWYAQjCsO?format=jpg&name=medium
On Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 11:40:24 AM UTC+1, swldx...@gmail.com wrote: QUOTE: > One day after another dismaying U.K. inflation report, Nigel Farage – champion of Brexit, current TV talk show host – went on a Twitter offensive.
His target: Bank of England Governor. ENDS
Farage is the offensive one - clueless as per usual and wrong.
All Frogface has done has wrecked the economy and the GBP.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzoWfNuWYAQjCsO?format=jpg&name=medium
One day after another dismaying U.K. inflation report, Nigel Farage – champion of Brexit, current TV talk show host – went on a Twitter offensive.
His target: Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey.
“He is no good. It is time he was sacked,” the former leader of the populist UK Independence Party ranted in a video tweet Thursday.
“He didn’t see inflation coming … Now, rates are going to soar, and anybody with borrowings is going to pay the price,” he said.
“This bloke is a total incompetent.”
The tirade came just hours before the Bank of England did, indeed, increase its policy rate by half a percentage point to 5 per cent, escalating its uphill battle against Britain’s serious inflation problem. The U.K. inflation rate was 8.7 per centin May, among the highest in the industrialized world. It’s nearly double Canada’s rate. It’s 2.6 percentage points higher than the euro zone average.
Mr. Farage’s bit of political theatre likely made him seem pretty clever to his supporters, staunch euro-skeptics who voted in 2016 to pull Britain out of the European Union. Mr. Farage even sprinkled some Brexit ideology into his anti-Bailey mix,arguing that what the country really needed in a central bank boss was “a Brexiteer … someone who believed in making us competitive.”
But his offensive is a smokescreen. He wants to deflect blame from where it clearly belongs: on Brexit itself.
Britain’s withdrawal from the European trade bloc is a major contributor to the country’s sad inflation story. It has exacerbated strains on supply chains and labour markets throughout the recovery from the COVID-19 recession. It has created newcross-border complications and paperwork headaches for importers. The effect has been to pile additional costs onto an already steeply inflationary global environment.
As British voters cool on Brexit, U.K. softens tone towards EUlatest figures available – was 8.3 per cent.) In the past few months, the British have endured the highest food inflation in 45 years.
The damage is most readily apparent in Britain’s soaring food prices. Year-over-year food inflation was 18.4 per cent in May, down only slightly from the peak of 19.2 per cent in March. (By comparison, Canada’s food inflation in April – the
Food prices throughout Europe have soared in the past year; Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and unfavourable crop-growing weather have hurt the entire region.
Still, Britain’s food inflation rate is far above the euro area’s average of 13.7 per cent in May.referendum of 2016, compared with products that have less EU import exposure.
Researchers at the London School of Economics recently dug into price data to quantify the proportion of food inflation attributable to Brexit effects. They looked at food products that were more exposed to imports from EU countries prior to the Brexit
Prior to Brexit, there was little difference in inflation between the two groups. Since then, price increases have been notably steeper for high-EU-exposure foods. That trend has accelerated markedly since the Trade and Cooperation Agreement betweenthe U.K. and the EU took effect at the beginning of 2021, effectively marking the end of Britain’s membership in the EU trade bloc.
The LSE analysis found that of Britain’s 25-per-cent increase in food prices since the end of 2019, nearly one-third can be attributed to the Brexit split. Just since January of 2022, the researchers estimated, foods more exposed to EU imports haverisen 3.5 percentage points more than the less-exposed group.
The researchers said that these inflationary effects “were entirely driven by products with high non-tariff barriers.” This refers to cross-border restrictions such as regulatory and sanitary standards, labelling requirements and customsinspections that can significantly slow trade flows and add costs, and are particularly intensive for foods such as meat and cheese. Within the EU, members have mutual exemptions from many such measures; outside of the EU, British consumers must shoulder
Beyond non-tariff barriers, Brexit has also added to Britain’s labour shortages, as the free movement of in-demand workers from EU countries has ended. A study from the Centre for European Reform estimated that Brexit has cost the British labourmarket more than 300,000 workers. Extreme tightness in the labour market has fuelled wage inflation: Three-month wage growth was running at an annual rate of more than 7 per cent in April.
Now, clearly, Brexit isn’t to blame for all of this mess.
As Canadians know all too well, Britain holds no monopoly on high inflation, or strained labour markets or rising interest rates. But Brexit has absolutely added to the economic pressures, and misery, that have left Britain in considerably worse shapethan many of its global peers.
“Brexit did not cause all of the UK’s economic problems, but it made almost all of them worse,” said Adam Posen, head of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a U.S. think tank, in an op-ed in the Financial Times last week.
Several British grocers limit sales of some vegetables amid shortages
Lord knows that Andrew Bailey – along with central bankers in many other countries, including Canada – has a share of the blame for misreading early inflation signs and acting later than he should have to raise interest rates.
But mistakes in a complicated economic time are one thing; the self-inflicted wound of Brexit is something else entirely.
Nigel Farage and his Brexiteer bedfellows seduced Brits with unsubstantiated claims and unrealistic promises, and this is the price the country is paying. If Mr. Farage insists on laying blame, he might start by looking in a mirror.
Follow the money - they have.
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Follow the money - they have.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzpJQIwXwAYhKPB?format=jpg&name=900x900
These are the typical morons who voted to ruin the UK.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0XQQBYX0AEiFTu?format=jpg&name=medium
Follow the money - they have.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzpJQIwXwAYhKPB?format=jpg&name=900x900These are the typical morons who voted to ruin the UK.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0XQQBYX0AEiFTu?format=jpg&name=medium
On Thursday, July 6, 2023 at 4:24:42 PM UTC+1, swldx...@gmail.com wrote:
Follow the money - they have.These are the typical morons who voted to ruin the UK.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzpJQIwXwAYhKPB?format=jpg&name=900x900
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0XQQBYX0AEiFTu?format=jpg&name=medium
I forgot these racist twats.
Thick as mince.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0XYv8EXwAM9DS7?format=jpg&name=medium
On Thursday, July 6, 2023 at 4:24:42 PM UTC+1, swldx...@gmail.com wrote:
Follow the money - they have.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzpJQIwXwAYhKPB?format=jpg&name=900x900These are the typical morons who voted to ruin the UK.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0XQQBYX0AEiFTu?format=jpg&name=mediumI forgot these racist twats.
Thick as mince.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0XYv8EXwAM9DS7?format=jpg&name=medium
On Thursday, July 6, 2023 at 5:01:55 PM UTC+1, swldx...@gmail.com [the Chief Chav] wrote:
On Thursday, July 6, 2023 at 4:24:42 PM UTC+1, swldx...@gmail.com [the Chief Chav] wrote:
Follow the money - they have.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzpJQIwXwAYhKPB?format=jpg&name=900x900
These are the typical morons who voted to ruin the UK.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0XQQBYX0AEiFTu?format=jpg&name=medium
I forgot these racist twats.
Thick as mince.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0XYv8EXwAM9DS7?format=jpg&name=medium
Can't even spell either - C2DE thicko.
I forgot these racist twats.
Thick as mince.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0XYv8EXwAM9DS7?format=jpg&name=mediumCan't even spell either - C2DE thicko.
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