‘The geopolitical situation is looking bleak. Defence spending may have to rise dramatically. Quite apart from the commercial and investment opportunities of a resumption of membership of the EU, strategic considerations may well come to the fore.’ https://t.co/jiYVaXBoCZ
Ultimate symbol of the failure of UK government post-Brexit trade policy - to sign an agreement with Australia that allows them almost unlimited access to the UK market, but doesn't allow UK beef producers any reciprocal access. https://t.co/7Ru7smbK9M
Right in the middle of a news & data deluge on how Brexit is battering the UK economy UK news shows are deliberately avoiding “Brexit” in the list of things battering the UK economy ahead of Wednesday’s budget
If you think they should be pointing it out RT this widely
I never thought I would read the most honest assessment of #Brexit in the Telegraph!
But here it is in all its glory, you just have to read the article to believe it but here’s a taster:
“It was up to Brexit’s political cheerleaders to make something out of Britain’s decision to leave the EU, whatever the obstacles, but they failed. They over promised and under delivered, and the presiding government is now about to reap the whirlwind.
This was not because the bureaucrats betrayed them, or even the rather more credible excuse of the pandemic; it was because the vision of Singapore-on-Thames was always a fantasy that would never be capable of uniting the nation behind it.
Everyone wants low taxes, but on the whole they also want top drawer public services, a credible military, a free at the point of use NHS, and triple-locked state pensions.”
“In all, Truss’s premiership was one of the most humiliating episodes in British economic history since the mid-1970s, when the Government was forced to go cap in hand to the IMF for an emergency bailout.”
“There could scarcely be a bleaker read than the IFS’s latest appraisal of Britain’s tax and spend options. You can fiddle around with detail as much as you like, but the big picture is that there aren’t any.
Three economic shocks in a row – the financial crisis, the pandemic and the energy price shock – in combination with the spending pressures of an ageing demographic and an ever more thirsty military have left the public finances in the most ghastly mess.
Unable or unwilling to take advantage of Brexit freedoms but denied unfettered access to European markets, the wider economy meanwhile splutters alarmingly from one shock to the next, seemingly holed below the water line. Singapore-on-Thames this is not.”
https://t.co/ffPk5bOZLk
Russian funding of political parties and individual MPs in the U.K. - indeed all overseas funding - needs to be made illegal. Retweet please if you agree.
The Brexit bill: £100bn hit to UK exports as toy and jewellery sales slump
“Brexit is leaving a hole of almost £100bn in annual UK exports, making Britain’s economy worse off than if it had remained in the European Union”
@AngusRobertson@mikegalsworthy
https://t.co/MVhYdk3QgB
This ii the nitty-gritty of Brexit: pointless trade barriers with our nearest neighbours, that hurt consumers and farmers and create a risk of food shortages.
https://t.co/S0Ai9SzQXx
Sadly, Brexit in practice appears to be Britain cutting itself off from the rest of its own continent, small step by small step.
https://t.co/xqeoGehKSw
🚨 New poll just out…
The gap is opening further. Possibly due to the news of Brexit import checks coming. No wonder the govt delayed them so many times.
We’re better off as members. Join the European Movement —> https://t.co/UYOABSdQjt
Appeasing idiots & charging the rest of us for the privilege is all Brexit is now.
‘Post-Brexit food labelling rules to appease DUP will lead to higher prices, says industry’ https://t.co/ojMmpUPwv5
Brexit: a mug's eyeful. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. Fittingly, 4 years on, the week's Brexit news is dominated by trade non-deals, costly border controls, and yet another NI reboot. It's ever clearer that Brexiters sold the public a dud product: https://t.co/xtjjrprsEx