Fail.
Brexit Is a Complete failure
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In reality, Brexit has screwed up the hopes of many ordinary people with modest means who wanted to retire to the sun and end their days there. Now places like Spain, etc demand certain income/resources, medical insurance, etc, etc that ordinary people have no hope of complying with. They're stuck with ending their days in grim, damp, rip-off Blighty.
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Ms Betts said that food and drink manufacturers were dealing with unprecedented cost pressures. "Those increases are rooted in the disruption caused by Covid-19, by the war in Ukraine, by the cost of Brexit when moving food stuffs across the border has become much more complicated and expensive."
From an article about Tesco investigating prices rises from suppliers
From an article about Tesco investigating prices rises from suppliers
Funnily enough...
"Ministers have been accused of leaving a “record of failure and broken promises” as internal forecasts show Britain will be 15 years late in achieving its £1tn annual export target after being hit by Brexit.
Projections from the Department for International Trade (DIT) show the value of UK exports will not reach £1tn until 2035, based on current trends, with the total due to fall to £707bn next year.
The deferral underlines how difficult British ministers have found it to meet the lofty predictions Brexiters made about international trade after leaving the EU."
"The estimates are based on forecasts from the independent Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR), which show exports falling from £739bn last year to £707bn next year, before rising again to £725bn by 2027"
The 'target' will be met far later than that of course, if at all...
Maybe brexiteers can point out the benefits?
After all, it only cost £8bn a year to have access to the world's biggest trading bloc, so surely the benefits of dumping that cushy little number should be showing by now?
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Johnson got to be Prime Minister for a bit
Billionaires and tax dodgers can breathe easy
Little crown on beer glasses
Another report that should be of interest to the trades people on here...
"The cost of materials and labour for construction have increased more steeply in the UK than the EU since the Brexit referendum, new research has found.
Analysis of data from EU member states, the central EU database, Eurostat, and the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy show that between 2015 and 2022 the cost of construction materials including cement, timber and steel increased by 60%.
At the same time, the cost of labour in the UK went up by 30%.
In the EU, where similar pressures including supply chain and Covid problems applied, the cost of materials went up 35% while labour in countries such as Denmark and the Netherlands went up by just over 14%.
The UK Trade and Business Commission (UKTBC), an independent body of experts set up to track the impact of Brexit, said the research would deepen growing concerns over labour shortages in the UK.
D’Maris Coffman, the director of the Bartlett school of sustainable construction at University College London said Covid and the energy crisis had also driven up costs. “On balance, I would agree that Covid is the least of the three, probably a fifth all told, and that Brexit and the energy crisis are probably about two-fifths each, about 40% each,” she said.
Hilary Benn, a Labour MP and former chair of the House of Commons Brexit committee, said it was “clear that Brexit and its subsequent trade deals have created many more problems for UK businesses than opportunities”.
Last week a thinktank estimated Brexit had led to a shortfall of 330,000 in the UK labour force, mostly in the low-skilled sectors."
By definition there should be plenty of low skilled brexiteers who could fill those gaps...
Except many of them are brown bread by now!
"The cost of materials and labour for construction have increased more steeply in the UK than the EU since the Brexit referendum, new research has found.
Analysis of data from EU member states, the central EU database, Eurostat, and the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy show that between 2015 and 2022 the cost of construction materials including cement, timber and steel increased by 60%.
At the same time, the cost of labour in the UK went up by 30%.
In the EU, where similar pressures including supply chain and Covid problems applied, the cost of materials went up 35% while labour in countries such as Denmark and the Netherlands went up by just over 14%.
The UK Trade and Business Commission (UKTBC), an independent body of experts set up to track the impact of Brexit, said the research would deepen growing concerns over labour shortages in the UK.
D’Maris Coffman, the director of the Bartlett school of sustainable construction at University College London said Covid and the energy crisis had also driven up costs. “On balance, I would agree that Covid is the least of the three, probably a fifth all told, and that Brexit and the energy crisis are probably about two-fifths each, about 40% each,” she said.
Hilary Benn, a Labour MP and former chair of the House of Commons Brexit committee, said it was “clear that Brexit and its subsequent trade deals have created many more problems for UK businesses than opportunities”.
Last week a thinktank estimated Brexit had led to a shortfall of 330,000 in the UK labour force, mostly in the low-skilled sectors."
By definition there should be plenty of low skilled brexiteers who could fill those gaps...
Except many of them are brown bread by now!
Hilary Benn now you are havin laff.
actually an expert on brexit matters
would you prefer say Andrew Bridgen, he is a real expert......................
Ask a Brexer.
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Prominent Brexiteer peer admits UK should have stayed in the single market
ONE of Vote Leave’s founders has admitted that the UK should have stayed in the single market after Brexit in order to “save a lot of trouble”.
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You mean more faces than a town hall clock.
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and as Chairman of the Brexit Select Committee from 2016 to 2021.
In other words a remainer charged with being gamekeeper. It's no wonder Brexit never had any chance of getting off the ground when the political establishment never wanted to take it on, Johnstone included.
Good luck with that. My Texan friend teaches English in Prague. He's been doing it years and seems to get on well with it. How he does it, I don't know as he doesn't speak Czech. Then again, as a Yank, he doesn't even speak English.
The Jackanories knew how to fool the public into voting for Brexit against their own interests. As for what to do after Brexit - they don't have the foggiest.
The remainers left no stone unturned to put the fear of god into the electorate to vote remain, they even wheeled out Obama in their efforts.
Anyways if being part of a United States of Europe is your bag and westminster a place for rubbing stamping orders then that's your perogative.
Once they've got everyone trapped inside offering them fools gold, that's when we get to see the true face of the EU, suckers.
Anyways if being part of a United States of Europe is your bag and westminster a place for rubbing stamping orders then that's your perogative.
Once they've got everyone trapped inside offering them fools gold, that's when we get to see the true face of the EU, suckers.
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