Brexit: Government to slash up to 90% of trade tariffs if UK leaves EU with no deal
Sky sources say that many trade tariffs for the UK could be removed entirely.
Legitimately insane.
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Legitimately insane.
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I don't believe there has been any government announcement that the Stronger Towns Fund is merely an aperitif to a much larger project to support towns left behind that will not only match existing EU funding but surpass it. Do by all means link me up though, or otherwise accept that this government are complete turds who are unlikely to do anything you suggest.
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As a self confessed technophobe I'm not particularly good at linking things. Luckily my mate Jebus has done it for me.
Fully understand that. Happy to help.
The last 3 headings of this article might be useful too:
Regional economic policy | Institute for Government
We assess the government’s approach to reducing regional inequalities, and how it can learn from previous (mostly unsuccessful) attempts.www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
This is actually one of the websites I got my information from, and obviously the fact that Jebus has also linked it shows it has his endorsement too.
As a self confessed technophobe I'm not particularly good at linking things. Luckily my mate Jebus has done it for me.
This is actually one of the websites I got my information from, and obviously the fact that Jebus has also linked it shows it has his endorsement too.
Did you read the article?
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Of course. Did you?
Don't treat my link as an endorsement lolAs a self confessed technophobe I'm not particularly good at linking things. Luckily my mate Jebus has done it for me.
This is actually one of the websites I got my information from, and obviously the fact that Jebus has also linked it shows it has his endorsement too.
Yes. Nowhere did it say that funding would be matched. It said in the event of no deal the UK would support those projects that have already begun, and that a review would take place as to any future support. As the EU funding cycle is up until 2027, that's inevitably going to leave a lot of places that could have received support in limbo.
Incidentally, the article says a public consultation was supposed to have happened last autumn. I welcome your input on what the outcome of this review was.
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He is at least right about that. The Eu will ensure we are negotiating on something forever, but really we do that today anyway....
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I never said it would be matched. As regards the highlighted bit, you've just made that up. The article actually says
"The Conservative manifesto for the 2017 General Election pledged to create a “United Kingdom Shared Prosperity Fund” to replace Structural Funds with a UK funding system. This Fund would be intended to reduce inequality between communities across the four nations and to deliver sustainable, inclusive growth."
I only ever claimed that the tweet you posted was comparing the £1.6b being paid out under the Stronger Towns Fund, with the E13b that we would have received under the EU structural fund, strongly implying that one is to directly replace the other. This is both misleading and inaccurate, but for some reason you seem unwilling to agree to this. Why? .
As regards the public consultation, I admire your attempt to deflect the question. I don't know is the honest answer. I assume that when they made that statement they expected to be a lot further along with the Brexit negotiations. Even now we have no idea what is going to happen so any discussions held last Autumn would have been futile anyway. Plus they had better things to do with their time.
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Because those are the two figures we know for certain are in place as of today. There 'might' be more money going to those places via an as yet illusory Shared Prosperity Fund that neither exists or has anything close to 13bn in it. There's an admirable attempt to defend a government that is largely indefensible. They clearly didn't have better things to do than to create this Stronger Towns Fund, yet when the bung has had its affect, maybe they will find the time in their busy schedule to do something they pledged to do several months ago. Or maybe not. After all, why support places that never vote Tory anyway.
Indeed, we should just stick our fingers in our ears and pretend the world doesn't exist
I was joking. There's nothing in that link that I'd disagree with.Sorry mate.
I thought you were recommending it to me as good reading. My bad
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