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Looks like Éire is a couple of £billion better off as Northern Ireland do more trade with them and less trade with Great Britain.
Any benefits you have noticed for us?
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Only negative benefits for me @Brydo. Is that possible?!
We like to travel and have done many a driving holiday in Europe. Now there is a 90/180 day rule, it kind of restricts us. Roll on April though ??
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There were never likely to be any benefits to the common man/woman with Brexit. Just for the rich to get richer and have more power, and less interferance from EU. That last bit may be a little benefit, but may be the opposite.
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I think Brexit will result in the breakup of the UK. Whether that is viewed as a benefit or not will depend on individual opinions. Apart from that none of the “promises” made by the leave side have come to pass or are likely to.
As struth states it was never meant to have been for the benefit of ordinary folk, just the greedy rich.I run a business, we buy stock from the EU and sell in the UK and the EU. We had to stop selling into the EU as it became to problematic. The stock we buy from Germany used to take 2 days to arrive, now it can take 2 weeks, we had a shipment last year that took 6 weeks. For me it’s an absolute disaster, I’m paying UK gov less tax now than I have in every previous year I’ve been in business. As a business owner you’d think the Tories would be on your side, but they clearly don’t have a clue.
Difficult times we’re living in Georgina, sorry can’t help with how you feel, however it’s nice sometimes just to share things, maybe away from family or loved ones, even doctors ?..
Guess I’m no help, however I can understand some of the points you make, this disability thing, well I’m new at it, certainly changes peoples lives..
Back on topic – @JoJoe has anything helped? Like the Covid support and jags, furlough maybe? Although, it’s a tenuous link to Brexit, Boris does bang on about the success of the vaccine programme and we are the best in the world.
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@DumfriesDik, I got nothing from government, I run the business part time due to caring duties and took income as Dividends when I made a profit, which meant I could not claim furlough. To be honest, I’m seriously thinking of calling it a day. If I do quit I may set up again in a couple of years once Covid is over and Brexit is properly sorted.
According to Gove recently:
“Taking back control of borders with a points based system of immigration.
Making our own laws and regulations.
A British regulatory framework will be able to better exploit the fourth industrial revolution and avoid EU protectionism.
Controlling trade policy, leading to new and better agreements such as the Japan FTA and joining the CPTPP.
An independent sanctions and human rights regime separate to and more progressive than the EU’s.
Taking back control of fishing waters and exclusive economic zone.
Replacing the wasteful anti-environmental Common Agricultural Policy.
More accountable political system. Direct Parliamentary accountability. Politicians no longer hiding behind EU rules.
A new state aid regime that is responsive and in keeping with free market principles, but also that support the agenda of levelling up.
New freeports.
Taking back control of the £20 billion currently controlled by the EU every year to spend on UK priorities instead.”
We might be waiting a while for some of those things to happen…
So the answer wigwam is NO ?
The only person who got all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
Anything i post over three lines long please assume it is an article lol.Freeports!!!
BBC “They are not a new idea. The UK set up seven freeports after 1984, including at Liverpool and Southampton, but they were phased out in 2012.”
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The state of our country is becoming a mirror image of the inept, self serving, bumbling fool that we entrusted the running of the UK to. He has surrounded himself with a posse of equally self seeking “yes” men and women, who allow him to get away with and survive one crisis after another.
Brexit was just the opportunity that he seized on and repeatedly lied about in order to promote himself. A man who would do anything and say anything to further his own narrow ambition is not to be trusted, as we are sadly finding out to our cost.
I don’t usually post about ‘politics’ so if anyone is annoyed by my pointed criticism of this dangerously self absorbed man (in my opinion), I’m happy to delete the post.
Like you, POPS, I have given up posting about “politics” because I get accused of being a conspiracy theorist or being sacrilegiously anti-Boris. However, in this case I must own up and agree with you wholeheartedly. Please do not satisfy the Daily Mail readers among us by deleting post.
Daughter with husband and daughter en-route to Spain to little flat they’ve bought for holidays. Hired van to take down stuff from old house in UK to use in Spanish casa. Almost all stuff is old, well used. etc. Couple of new beds and mattresses. Now we are no longer an EU member, we are limited to the “value” of stuff we can take into Europe. Roughly for my party this amounted to some 1,000 Euros. Customs people at Santander pulled them over for inspection. This took four hours. They then said that the value of stuff was in excess of limit and they had to pay 400 Euros NOW or they would not be allowed to enter the country.
Now, aside from the bloody-mindedness of the Spanish jobsworths, this is all down to that fat, ignorant, incompetent, power freak at Number Ten. Just like Thatcher with the Falklands, he must be rubbing his hands with glee that Emperor Vladimir I has caused a war to break out and give BJ the chance to kick everything else under the table.
Tharg, given up posting about politics? Didn’t last long! No matter how annoyed you are about your family’s experience, I recall a referendum decided the issue of EU membership, not Johnson.
A non binding vague referendum based on lies, misdirects and corruption.
The referendum didn’t say anything about leaving the single market or ending freedom of movement, or even leaving the EEA. Boris and his cronies did.
I am not a supporter of Boris Johnson, politically, but he, and Brexit supporters in Parliament carried out the wishes of the majority of the British electorate- which is almost unheard of in Politics, and he and they should be commended for supporting democracy (just as he is supporting democracy in the Ukraine) not condemned!
Whether Brexit was the right or wrong path is debatable, and will continue to be so no doubt, and whether or not you see no clear advantages to Brexit, the blame if that’s what you are trying to allocate, lies with the electorate, not Boris Johnson, nor the Tories!
Two previous PM’s tried to deliver the people ‘s Brexit but were very clearly undermined by Marxists ,Nationalists & Momentum mixing with Tory rebels in Parliament , and that unelected bunch of metropolitan snobs in the ‘so called’ upper house (the realty of which is that most of whom were foisted upon us by Tony Liar ,did I spell that correctly , of course I did ) repeatedly attempting to overturn the will of the people, each one of them, in effect, telling the 17.4 million who voted to leave to ‘eff orf’ ‘cause we are going to cheat and cheat and cheat , to try and undermine a ‘ truly democratic vote’ !
Since he became PM, Boris has had a torrid time, with Brexit and Covid, subjects which few other
political leaders have had to face, and now has a madman in Russia to deal with, and he may eventually turn out to be a failure as a PM once Brexit, covid and the mad Russian are history?But, he supported the people’s democratic vote, and he secured an almost unheard of 80 seat majority in Parliament .
He might be a tousled haired overweight Bullington Club Tory yob to some, but he is certainly no buffoon, and certainly no power madman – no Putin, and thank God Corbyn was not elected!
Yes, WW, I did want to leave behind posting about politics. However, my family experience under Boris’ Brexit drove me back. If this is the great, new freedom and marvellous opportunity for the UK which Brexit delivers then it should go where the sun don’t shine.
Yes there was a referendum supporting leaving. Engineered and foisted upon us by the Mail and Boris telling a host of lies. Capuchin, above, describes it perfectly. People believed the crap they were told and voted accordingly. I really do despair of this sad country. I wish that I could up-sticks and move to mainland Europe.
Maybe one day Tharg, hopefully sooner rather than later aye..?
Mike700 haven’t you been watching the news he already is a failure and a liar. He will hopefully be will hopefully leave No 10 very soon, although not by his own volition as he has no morals.
I agree about brexit and people voting for it but the lies that we’re told by BJ, and his cronies, maybe mislead some into voting to leave the EU.
Putin, and what he’s doing, has been a godsend to BJ as it’s taken the focus of him and his wrongdoings. He will be hoping that when this settles down people will have forgotten what he’s done or at the very least minimise them.
The only person who got all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
Anything i post over three lines long please assume it is an article lol.I doubt many people were affected by the campaigning by either side up to the referendum and most had already made up their mind. Already the European parliament elections had sent a majority of ‘leave’ MEPs to Brussels. I decided the EU was bad for this country in 1998 when I had official dealings with the EU bureaucracy. It was clear then they were saying one thing and doing the opposite, and not working in our interests.
I actually got frustrated with a number of people that I knew personally who would regularly parrot the “350 million a week for the NHS” lies to anyone who would listen to them. Dominic Cummings actually admitted some time ago that they knew it was wildly untrue, but it was a hugely successful “marketing tool”. I believe that the catalogue of falsehoods did sway enough voters to create a small majority for the “leave’ vote.
personnally i was against the eu from the start, germany and france were determined to have a federal europe and used it to benefit themselves france in particular with the common agricultural policy. the uk had no chance of changing their cabal. everything has to be decided centrally and no nation can have a differing opinion, just look at the farce over covid vacceines, france delayed things insisting that their factories had to be invloved in production an threw a fit when it turnedd out one of their vacceines was crap. so they then tried to insist the uk give up vacceines it had ordered well before the eu had even approved their use.
now i am not a fan of boris but i am glad were out of the eu. when we originally joined we were sold it as a common market to ease trade and movement of people. it morphed into a massive demistate controlled by france and germany.
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