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Strewth to Power.
Mischief to Wisdom.
Integrity, but only as long as I can keep it together.

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@cjd55yorkie @muddymuddymum I know of somebody who lost a finger

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It’s heartwarming to see Mr Dyson taking advantage of the government’s preferred route to transferring a family farm and handing it over to his kids.

Though it must suck to now have to rely on the vacuous earnings of a £ multi billion technology empire in his old age.

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@MarinaPurkiss Well at least we’ve all forgotten about Mr Mandelson.

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@LoftusSteve I also blame the consumers in the 1990s who wanted something for nothing instead of paying a proper rate.

So now they get less for more.

In the same way that switching is supposed to have made electricity cheaper, but it just handed out bargains whilst loyal customers paid.

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@LoftusSteve @premnsikka How are those assets valued?

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@peterrhague There’s nothing here which couldn’t be solved by making stabilisers compulsory for urban cyclists, so that they can always safely stop without falling over. 🙂

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@CountryStandard I don’t believe in agricultural free markets because contrary to the propaganda distributed by our overseas competitors they don’t exist.
Governments everywhere manipulate food production by regulation and internal tax policy as well as subsidy.

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For any farmers who can’t see which side their bread is buttered.

It’s contained in this post.
You are irrelevant to her and the people like her.
These are the people who helped negotiate those terrible trade deals.

They don’t work for us.

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For the many UK politicians @UKLabour and journalists @BBC who don't know anything about UK trade, here are the highlights:

1. The UK is now predominantly a service exporter. 57% of UK exports are services, which are not affected by EU 'red tape'.

2. UK goods exports have dropped from almost 70% of our total exports in 1997 to just 43% in 2025. This trend began long before Brexit and is tied to Net Zero mandates, high UK energy prices, and EV mandates.

3. Machinery and transport goods, such as cars and aircraft parts, are 42% of all UK goods exports. This is by far the UK's largest export sector, although it is also falling. It was 50% of UK exports in 2000. But if the UK joins the EU's CBAM, companies in this sector will see their imported material costs rise, making their exports even less competitive.

4. Chemicals are the UK's second-largest export sector. They account for 19% of UK goods exports, but this share is shrinking due to UK and EU energy costs and Net Zero regulations. These will increase if the UK joins the EU ETS.

5. Miscellaneous Manufactures account for 11% of UK goods exports. This is still the UK's third-largest export sector, even though it includes many goods the UK no longer makes because of our high Carbon taxes, which will increase if the UK signs up to the EU's even higher ETS on November 20th.

6. Fuels account for 9% of UK exports. This is still the UK's 4th largest goods export sector, even though the current and previous governments are/were trying to destroy it with bans on new exploration and ultra-high taxes.

7. Material Manufactures account for 8% of UK goods exports. This sector includes iron, steel, aluminium, ceramics, and glass manufacturing - industries that have gone, or are going, out of business in the UK because of high UK energy costs, which will rise if the UK joins the EU ETS.

8. These five sectors make up almost 90% of UK exports. The other 5 industry sectors are insignificant. But the government and our journalists think the UK is New Zealand and that the only goods we export are food and live animals to the EU. We don't! UK food and live animal exports to the EU were just 1.3% of the UK's total exports.

9. The government is about to sacrifice all of the export industries listed above to slightly reduce the IMPORT costs of a handful of Supermarkets, at least two of which are privately owned German companies.
These savings will not be passed on to UK shoppers because the government has also increased wages again, and supermarket energy costs will increase if we join the EU's ETS.

10. UK exports of food and live animals will not increase because we are paying farmers to not produce them, this has nothing to do with EU red tape. Instead we are paying farmers to plant trees and wildflowers or plaster their farmland with solar panels. (54% of UK electricity is coming from gas today, 12% from solar and 3% from wind.)

11. Write to your MP and tell him to #StoptheReset.
If you don't stop this, don't complain when all of our goods export industries have closed because of EU higher carbon taxes, EU higher carbon import tariffs, and the cost of complying with the EU's new packaging and process regulations.

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@DavidHenigUK They’re already likely to lose badly.
In the current economic climate that would guarantee it.

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@UxbEconomist07 As usual the risk assessments aren’t done. Food security is forgotten.
The only think she counts is cash up front.

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@UxbEconomist07 The Pharaohs may have loved pyramids, but at the end of the day they were buried under them.

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@UxbEconomist07 The real problem here is that there is a micro economy based on Brexit, which is little more than a way of keeping the pundits employed now the real debate has run out of steam.

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@UxbEconomist07 It’s a phoney debate when an SPS deal is being dressed up as rejoining the EU.

The hypocrisy of demanding various one sided deals with everybody else in the world and then having a melt down over simplifying some EU paperwork is fairly ridiculous.

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@alan_muso Somewhere close to the HS2 terminal.

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@sharrond62 If she set about teaching you how to swim would you believe every word or would you engage the logical part of your brain and think about whether she might be overreaching her ability?

As a farmer much of the same process applies.

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@CountryStandard Building my resilience stash of boil in the bag kippers and TimTams, because after this SPS agreement the sky is falling in.

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@theukrainianr Is that before or after they save them?

It’s amazing that there still people pretending Russia had any positive intentions when this war started other than straightforward conquest of a territory it just wanted.