Shortage at my Sainsbury's!

[Notch7]

30th May 2022

‘Same nightmare week after week’: UK firms fed up with post-Brexit EU trade​

More than a year from Britain’s formal withdrawal from the EU, on terms agreed by Boris Johnson’s government, exporting the goods his company produces hasn’t got any easier for the London-based manufacturer.

Describing it as “the same nightmare week after week”, he says: “A lot more time is spent with things going wrong. The EU really feels like the hardest place in the world to ship things to sometimes.”

‘Same nightmare week after week’: UK firms fed up with post-Brexit EU trade

Exporters fear Northern Ireland protocol row will spur trade war with Brussels, making an already difficult job even harder

www.theguardian.com

 

[Mottie]

None of this alters the fact that you are unable to post a picture of empty shelves in your local supermarket due to Brexit. Stop trying to take the thread off topic or as JohnD would say "Oh look, a squirrel".

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Brexit cost the UK billions in lost trade and tax revenues, research finds​

You have to speculate, to accumulate.

 

[Notch7]

here is a politician discussing the importance of being in the Single Market

 

[fillyboy]

Two things about this graph are a little suspicious.

1. UK export figures recently released show we're exporting more to the EU then we did prior to Brexit/Covid.

2. How the 'rest of the world' recovered trading figures to pre pandemic levels even before the end of the first lockdown.

Extraordinary, only 3 things smell of fish, one is fish, the second is this graph.

 

[Deleted member 294929]

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Two things about this graph are a little suspicious.

1. UK export figures recently released show we're exporting more to the EU then we did prior to Brexit/Covid.

2. How the 'rest of the world' recovered trading figures to pre pandemic levels even before the end of the first lockdown.

Extraordinary, only 3 things smell of fish, one is fish, the second is this graph.

I'm guessing the 3rd

 

[transam]

here is a politician discussing the importance of being in the Single Market

The important part of that ladies speech was her comment on animal welfare standards compared to some of our European neighbours

Whilst in the EU afaik any animal exports to the EU had to be live so as they were slaughtered abroad

Yes exactly

With all the cruelty or increased cruelty that went along with it

Some of these EU welfare standards are imo a total disgrace

How many live animals from the UK were than exported by the EU to dire ear a Stan for ritual slaughter

 

[Mottie]

I'm guessing the 3rd

We used to have a girl on our estate when I lived in Stratford whose nickname was 'Billingsgate'. Say no more!

 

[Notch7]

UK export figures recently released show we're exporting more to the EU then we did prior to Brexit/Covid

Liquid Natural Gas from Qatar.

 

[Notch7]

2. How the 'rest of the world' recovered trading figures to pre pandemic levels even before the end of the first lockdown

They didn’t.

the first lockdown was the UK, rest of world was not subject to UK lockdown

 

[transam]

Tis like a religious calling this hatred that remoaners have as they lash out at any thing or any one in order to further there hatred of the UK

Even when this country was doing reasonably well over this covid vaccination and R and D they found some thing to whinge about

The french vaccinated more people in a day

The UK had more deaths on a Friday then Mongolia

The Japanese did not have a toilet role shortage

Some one snuffed it in Romania from A uk supplied vaccine

The pandemic started in the UK

The pandemic was exported to the world from the UK

And all obviously the fault of brexit and those who voted brexit

This heat wave will have a brexit angle
The remoaners are already trawling the web desperately looking for some type of link

 

[JohnD]

Tis like a religious calling this hatred that

brexers have for the EU

they spent more than 40 years whinging and haven't stopped yet

johnson even tried to blame EU for UK regulations on kippers.

people like tranny spend their time weaving fantasy stories (as above)

 

[JohnD]

Two things about this graph are a little suspicious.

the worst one is that you didn't provide a link to the source.

 

[transam]

brexers have for the EU

they spent more than 40 years whinging and haven't stopped yet

johnson even tried to blame EU for UK regulations on kippers.

people like tranny spend their time weaving fantasy stories (as above)

And you spend yer time spouting yer hatred and towing the party line

Blimey if they put a kipper in a box and the party told you vote for it you would

Party members / activists jeez us wept

 

[JohnD]

the worst one is that you didn't provide a link to the source.

but here's an article with a source for you. please specify any parts you think are incorrect, and say why.


https://www.ft.com/content/a31b4b8e-f9fc-4f1e-84c1-3632f194d05a

"The UK’s trade performance this year fell to its worst level since records began, heaping more pressure on sterling in international currency markets.

The country’s current account deficit was calculated at 8.3 per cent of gross domestic product in the first quarter of 2022, a deterioration from an average of 2.6 per cent across all of 2021.

It was the worst figure on record since quarterly balance of payments data was first published in 1955.

The weak performance of UK exports and a surge in imports highlight the economic effects of Brexit. The figures tally with academic studies that show a decline in exports since 2021, when the UK left the EU single market and new border controls were introduced."