Latest project fear headline: 1 in 3 UK firms plan to re locate after Brexit. Who ever believes this tripe (most remainders at a guess) need a lobotomy
The headline is accurate but if you read the article "Nearly one in three British businesses are planning to relocate some of their operations abroad or have already shifted them to cope with a hard Brexit". I've no reason to disbelieve that, businesses make all sorts of plans but don't necessarily enact them.
Really!!! Seeing as more than 95% of businesses are local tradesmen, small shops etc - you really think nearly a third of them have plans to expand into the EU
The report is from the IoD so I doubt they would include sole traders/freelancers in their description of a business. I presume they only include SME's & PLCs. Which sounds about right to me, I imagine many will have a plan in place.
Was the headline correct??? No, it was pure sensatialism. And large businesses are in every country anyway. Unbelievable that you were so gullible and now try and make it fit your fear
Isn't that what headlines are supposed to do - sensationalise? It doesn't 'fit into my fear', given that at this point no one has scooby what will happen on 29th March I would expect large numbers of medium and large companies have done some planning, some more advanced than others, but that's all this story says.
Gibraltar under attack from Spain. Funny as I thought they claim/occupy a number of Islands off Africa?
The Irish border was always going to be the problem, which is why the Norway/Swiss model was promoted so heavily by the leave campaign.
It's a shame there wasn't more made of it before the vote, or did I miss it ? It seems to be becoming ' this is why we can't leave the EU.
The backstop was May’s idea. Any Government with an ounce of sense would have ensured they were certain what they were negotiating would be approved by their own Parliament. It ranks as the most shambolic mess perhaps any British Government has engineered. The Tory party as is most likely won’t survive this.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-politics-44615404 I think that says it was the EU's idea, extract below What is the EU's position on the backstop? The EU originally proposed a backstop that would mean Northern Ireland staying in the EU customs union, large parts of the single market and the EU VAT system. Its chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, continually emphasised that this backstop could only apply to Northern Ireland.
I don't think it's reason why we can't leave, it's just no one to date has come up with a sensible solution.
Who already have EU wide infrastructures anyway - headline is quite simply a lie which is all I pointed out - but some believed it and started defending it
