I must say whilst I'm throughly sick of Brexit, it hasn't half conjured up some catchy slogans, some of which will be found available in an 'Ath-Leisure' collection via my soon to be launched ecom site www.t-shite.com 'No Deal No Meal' It's sure to be a number one seller
Yep, Tesco. Those renegades. Morrisons too. I think it's a conspiracy to derail efforts to Remain in the EU and overturn the wishes of 16M voters plus a bunch of non-voters who clearly signaled their desire to Remain in the EU by not voting in the Referendum.
Morning 749er let me see if I can get you to take off those blue flagg with yellow stars tinted glasses for a moment. The good friday agreement is mostly about the people of Ireland, both sides. eu membership since maastericht is about a political project where trade is an essential tool to keep the project and the project only going, people are way down the list. Tusk last night mentioned several times that he thought letting the people vote on europe was stupid, Macron said last year that if the French were given that same democratic opportunity, the French would probably vote to leave the eu too, so people and democracy are way down the scale for the eu, the project is all that matters. Now for the republic of ireland, the U.K. government consider the people important and point blank refuse to put up any hard borders between the two countries as promised in the gfa For the eu project, the eu project and it's commercial need is more important than the people so it will instruct the republic to have a hard border unless the eu gets it's own way The eu work incredibly hard to allow the people the perception of democratic freedom whilst at the same time not allowing the freedom to vote on the eu itself and it is that if anything, will see a hard border upon instruction from the eu that will see a hard border
I hear Lidl and Aldi are offering cumquats to anyone who says they voted remain and two cumquats if they can get a second bite at the apple, if you get my drift
IIII dunno, the v4 and the amount of recalls has provided some mommemts but nothing beats the which battery? divide
https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/james-obrien/experts-explanation-trading-wto-rules-means/ but were familiar with the food price and shortages scare storys clamied by the UK gove in 2014 and, rather hypocriticly parroted on here
Those were the latest detailed figures published: https://www2.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Economy/Exports/ESSPublication The next figures are published 30th Jan so let's see how EU trade has turned around then. The 2016 details showed the USA was still your biggest export country and the fact that the EU was just 17% of your exports so quite a transformation that you have seen in the recent quarterly report. I wonder what export product group has made such a difference? Maybe the Dutch have got a taste for that Whisky but be careful, they do make their own. So the conclusion from your seat is that Scotland would rather be in the EU as an independent state (albeit ruled by Brussels) and in the event of a positive "Leave the UK" referendum, would rejoin the EU and adopt the Euro (that would be one of their conditions). I believe your economy would be in a much worse place that staying in the UK, even under WTO rules. All I would say is that I hope that wouldn't happen but if it did; do you guarantee that it will stop the Scots blaming the English in the future and instead you can blame the EU? If so, then go for it! Nicola doesn't seem to have too much confidence though having heard her on the Marr show.
Fin, I had an email from two people the other day, I didn't want to mention it but their feelings have been hurt by you. One was from Murray and the other from wings over sumerzet, both were along the lines of, he doesn't mention us anymore since discovering James O Brian. Man send them an email, a text, a letter or even just a call, they miss you
Deja vu. The wee J'obbie and a self confessed expert. Still, helps the J'obbie sell his books and preach his greatness to the remain masses .
Puffin' Billy O'Brien? Sir Sighsalot? He's ace. I love his monologues. He should invite people onto his show to speak, that would be brill!
I did, but as I said they were just one QTR and didn't give much detail. You get a much better picture of the annual trade figures and I was relying on the Scottish Gov figures which are of good detail but rather late. Will the 30th Jan figures be for 2017? I suspect so, tell them to speed things along Finm.
Well it's going well up to now, next is the trade negotiations, that should keep this thread going a bit longer. Its great being retired, I have time to catch up and try and make sense of all this informative information. Steve
hmm. i;m reading september 18 and december 18. where it quite clearly points to faster growth in exports for us, a trade deficit of 130 bill for england with a surplice of 3bill for us.
