The French are revolting.

[carmanmemoranda]

Er being a member you have to pay to keep the poorer nations going. (Membership fees)
That might come under scrutiny by the people's of Germany France and holland going forward with this nett zero ******.

That's assuming you don't get any benefits for those fees.

Do you think we are better off overall, or it's costing us more for not paying those fees?

Try to back it up with proof of some sort rather than a usual gut feeling of course.

 

[SirGalahad]

That's assuming you don't get any benefits for those fees.

Do you think we are better off overall, or it's costing us more for not paying those fees?

Try to back it up with proof of some sort rather than a usual gut feeling of course.

Either have gym membership and pay a fixed fee every month or get out your payment card each time you go gym.

The second option costs more, has more admin costs as well but you have the freedom to go to the other gym which you never end up going to.

 

[ellal]

The second option costs more, has more admin costs as well but you have the freedom to go to the other gym which you never end up going to.

Or that 'other gym' denies you access because you are no longer worth doing a deal with

 

[Brigadier]

Germany the basket case of the eu is on a four day week.

..and still better off than the average Brit.

Do you practice looking dumb, or does it come naturally?

 

[gant]

..and still better off than the average Brit.

Do you practice looking dumb, or does it come naturally?

Naturally, you?

 

[SirGalahad]

Germany vs the United Kingdom Economies: 61 Stats Compared

Germany with a GDP of $3.9T ranked the 4th largest economy in the world, while the United Kingdom ranked 5th with $2.9T. By GDP 5-years average growth and GDP per capita, Germany and the United Kingdom ranked 136th vs 126th and 19th vs 23rd, respectively.

georank.org

Government debt & reserves​

Stat	Germany	United Kingdom
Central government debt, % of GDP	59.8%	86.9%
External debt stocks, % of GNI	N/A	N/A
External debt stocks	N/A	N/A
Short-term debt, % of total reserves	N/A	N/A
Total debt service, % of exports and primary income	N/A	N/A
Adjusted net savings including particulate emission damage, % of GNI	14.1%	5.5%
Gross savings, % of GDP	29.3%	13.4%
Gross capital formation, % of GDP	21.8%	17.3%
Total reserves including gold	$198B	$172.7B
Foreign direct investment net inflows	$105.3B	$35.1B

 

[SirGalahad]

The FT left wing?

Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich people

When it comes to average household incomes, the UK may soon need to ask migrant labourers to take a pay cut

www.ft.com

Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich peopleWhen it comes to average household incomes, the UK may soon need to ask migrant labourers to take a pay cut

 

[gant]

We can compare notes in a few years if and when the Ukraine war is over.
You missed the 7 million of the workforce is coming to the geriatric stage and they have an infrastructure that's going down the tubes. They're suffering like all countries in the western world of not replacing themselves and relying more and more on immigrant labour.

 

[SirGalahad]

What has taken hold in the UK is this rabid free market right wing ideology pushed by the Tories and the Press. It creates a few winners and many losers and the only way to sustain this is to get the average person to punch down and blame everyone but the system - NHS is full of lazy workers, Councils are pen pushers, there is a mass of migrants both working and supressing wages as well as on benefits.

The rich need their useful idiots like mottie, filly, motorbiking.

 

[Mottie]

Or that 'other gym' denies you access because you are no longer worth doing a deal with

That’s what Iceland did to you, isn’t it?

 

[Notch7]

Er being a member you have to pay to keep the poorer nations going. (Membership fees

cost of doing brexit = around £100b

cost of brexit red tape per year = around £10b

net cost of membership = around £10b


Why do you think the richer nations should not help the poorer nations? -since the A8 eastern block countries joined they have massively increased their wealth and gdp and contribute considerably to trade inside the Single Market

 

[Notch7]

pay to keep the poorer nations going

London and the South East is ther cash cow for tax revenue, wTF should it help poor regions like North East, Wales or Cornwall.

Sod that levelling up nonsense

 

[gant]

cost of doing brexit = around £100b

cost of brexit red tape per year = around £10b

net cost of membership = around £10b


Why do you think the richer nations should not help the poorer nations? -since the A8 eastern block countries joined they have massively increased their wealth and gdp and contribute considerably to trade inside the Single Market

That's social/communism for you keep the people's reliant on the state.

 

[gant]

London and the South East is ther cash cow for tax revenue, wTF should it help poor regions like North East, Wales or Cornwall.

Sod that levelling up nonsense

Wasn't always the case when the north was making the money in the industrial revolution.

 

[Brigadier]

Naturally, you?

It is not my fault that you make everyone else look smart.