brexi t was always going to be a mess when nobody knew what it really meant or would be.
There are 2 main aims concerning Brexit.
We send £x to the EU and get £y back. If we stop doing that we can still spend £y and have the remaining part of £x as well.
That makes thing difficult for political remainers so all they can say is it will make us poorer., It has. They could also say it will make exporting to our nearest large market more difficult. It has. In fact the leaving faction appear to want to make that even worse. Our own food standards tor instance - whoops not prepared to say we will stick to theirs
The UK exported an average of over 156,000 tonnes of beef and other bovine products per year between 2013 and 2017, equating to an average value of £456 million. Over this period, exports to the EU accounted for an average of 82% of all exports.
The same sort of thing may well crop up in other areas. Workers rights and obscure areas might even figure. Lowest possible wages help.
This same area also has an impact on the taxation levels we need to have. More money for free - on the face of it but with losses from other aspects.
The 2nd factor is EU tariffs. Import from places where they would be applied. They probably will be coming in anyway however without the tariff they will be cheaper. Mogg mentioned 4.5% on childrens shoes. Wow. In some areas food is one they intend to apply their own tariffs. If that results in a price that exceeds our domestic prices it isn't going to sell. If cheaper what do you think that will do to our own producers? Yet more taxation anyway. Some areas of privatisation are similar we are paying taxation. It's just not obvious. We are doing that on all of them. Some things are more suitable for state ownership and in areas like rail where there is a hodge podge of companies involved it makes little sense at all.
EU money in comparison with the whole. Not a lot really and then comes world events and most of the gains vaporise. More manufacture here - why come here when the stuff will go through export channels. The channel doesn't help either - the chunnel does but only has so much capacity.
Some Tory recently have said if only covid hadn't cropped up. Our recovery hasn't matched others anyway. I wonder why.
