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Post by vinny on May 24, 2024 14:35:06 GMT
Friction? We still have free trade with it. Get over it.
Meanwhile we have more free trade, and our trade with the rest of the world is growing.
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Post by AvonCalling on May 24, 2024 14:46:07 GMT
But you have the pro lem that always exists which is establishing a CLEAR causality between Brexit and this. There will be other factors that affect investment decisions not just Brexit. I think Brexit was shooting ourselves in the foot but you can't just dump a graph that shows something and say this is because of Brexit But it is the no shit Sherlock explanation for the massive correlation. Why would anyone invest as much as they used to do in a country that tore up its friction free access to the worlds biggest market? There's also a strong correlation between people who drowned by falling in a pool and films Nicolas cage appeared in. Still doesn't make it Nicolas Cages fault irrespective of how bad an actor he is |
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Post by Steve on May 24, 2024 20:14:29 GMT
Friction? We still have free trade with it. Get over it. Meanwhile we have more free trade, and our trade with the rest of the world is growing. You suppose we have frictionless trade with the EU? Do get real. Ask yourself why so many small businesses in the Uk have closed because exports to the Eu were a key part of their business and now they can't afford the paperwork. Ask yourself why you can no longer get small businesses in the EU to supply to the UK on anything other than 'same price as to the USA' terms. Because it ain't frictionless that's why And for UK banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions it's not possible to trade direct with EU located customers. As you full well know. |
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Post by vinny on May 24, 2024 22:58:35 GMT
If they're not able to get enough customers from the domestic market, the EU was never going to be enough to keep them afloat either.
Badly run businesses go bust. Nothing to do with Brexit.
As for friction, I remember there being plenty of friction because of it whilst we were in.
All kinds of idiotic regulations were imposed including idiotic rules regarding bananas, idiotic rules regarding headed cabbages, idiotic rules mandating the free movement of gangsters.
Get over it.
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Post by Steve on May 25, 2024 7:21:34 GMT
FFS that banana lie yet again, well debunked as a shallow lie by 2007. Did you swallow every lie that git Boris came up with? And do you not have any truthful stories you could post? news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6481969.stm |
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Post by vinny on May 25, 2024 17:29:06 GMT
Not a lie at all, Paxman in Brussels, who really governs us referenced the regulation on "abnormal curvature".
Did you watch Paxman's documentary before the referendum? I did and it is still on YouTube.
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Post by Steve on May 25, 2024 19:46:22 GMT
Not a lie at all, Paxman in Brussels, who really governs us referenced the regulation on "abnormal curvature". Did you watch Paxman's documentary before the referendum? I did and it is still on YouTube. Well either he lied or you misheard There was no rule banning bent bananas. it was a lie made up by that git Boris in his notorious Brussels stint where he wrote up whatever his DT masters wanted to see and its Eurosceptic readers were so eager to pass on as supposed fact.. Had you clicked the link I gave you would have read this: 'Here is the correct answer: the commissioners have no problem with straight bananas, it's the crooked ones they don't like so much, but they have never banned them'if you need 'never banned' expressed more simply please say. |
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Post by vinny on May 26, 2024 5:34:18 GMT
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Post by Zany on May 26, 2024 8:24:41 GMT
The regulation was designed to stop Plantains being imported and sold as Bananas. They look similar but do not taste the same. So do tell me the down side of this regulation? |
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Post by vinny on May 26, 2024 8:59:16 GMT
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Post by Zany on May 26, 2024 9:05:30 GMT
You're talking to a guy who runs an SME so you don't need to tell me how convoluted regulations are. But that's no different here in Blighty. |
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Post by Steve on May 26, 2024 9:39:23 GMT
Oh the irony Show us the words in that regulation about how to classify bananas that forbid the selling of bent bananas. You can't so stop accusing me of lying |
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Post by vinny on May 26, 2024 10:54:40 GMT
Show me where I said what you've accused me of saying.
I referenced idiotic rules regarding bananas, I didn't mention "bent" you did.
Your argument against my argument is a lie.
My argument was regarding the idiotic regulations.
The sheer amount of waffle makes for difficult reading and easy misinterpretation of the rules. Doesn't it?
You know I'm not lying.
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Post by Steve on May 26, 2024 12:11:46 GMT
I didn't say you lied. I said you naively repeated Boris's lie BIG difference between that and your personal attack on me with ' I didn't lie, did I? You did however'
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Post by vinny on May 26, 2024 12:57:43 GMT
It wasn't an attack it was an observation, you made a statement which wasn't true.
"FFS that banana lie yet again, well debunked as a shallow lie by 2007."
Nothing in my post about the regulation was a lie.
And I've already linked to the regulation itself.
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