Current Affairs The benefits of Brexit Page

[Khalekan]

I did the same mate. Went through the profile looking for clever wording to give away that it was a parody, but nope, he's just an absolute toolbag

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

I am loving this story.

And seemingly that was just a test run.

This time next year herds of gammon will be singing the same lament at airports throughout Europe.

Haha, the kind of numpties who probably still think that the loss of FoM only applies to dem forins.

 

[Amw79]

Thought this must be a parody. Quick look at his twitter feed. Hates cyclists, women’s sport, ‘wokeness’ and is from Leicester. Christ almighty. What happened to him to make him so angry? I’m thinking it’s something penis related

i did the same, and one of his recent tweets is about “god made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve”, so is likely an angry closeted gay fella.

 

[Moomin]

Forgot to add that mark Francois or whatever his name is , winds me up no end that fella.
Needs a good putting down him.
Like a pub bore on steroids.

 

[Catfish Blues]

Overall, the following won't be a benefit, because other companies will plainly be negatively affected by Brexit, but, just in case anyone, rather than just throw insults around, anyone actually wants to talk about benefits ...

I was speaking to someone the other day that I used to work with nigh on 30 years ago. We still have some crossover in what we do, but not much. He's now high up in a high-tech, fairly specialised, engineering firm ( based in Stoke, but someone has to be ) which, as well as doing a fair amount of work for UK clients, also exports all over the world.

The majority of their exports are to countries outside the EU, so, for a variety of reasons ( including the weakness of the pound ) they're now, literally, tooling up to cope with an increase in orders which almost certainly wouldn't have happened without Brexit. It's a relatively small company ( turns over a bit over 100 million ), but, while they'll be many losers associated with Brexit, there'll be a few winners as well.

In time, companies will adapt, but plainly there'll be a fair amount of pain associated with those changes.

 

[bluejim95]

Overall, the following won't be a benefit, because other companies will plainly be negatively affected by Brexit, but, just in case anyone, rather than just throw insults around, anyone actually wants to talk about benefits ...

I was speaking to someone the other day that I used to work with nigh on 30 years ago. We still have some crossover in what we do, but not much. He's now high up in a high-tech, fairly specialised, engineering firm ( based in Stoke, but someone has to be ) which, as well as doing a fair amount of work for UK clients, also exports all over the world.

The majority of their exports are to countries outside the EU, so, for a variety of reasons ( including the weakness of the pound ) they're now, literally, tooling up to cope with an increase in orders which almost certainly wouldn't have happened without Brexit. It's a relatively small company ( turns over a bit over 100 million ), but, while they'll be many losers associated with Brexit, there'll be a few winners as well.

In time, companies will adapt, but plainly there'll be a fair amount of pain associated with those changes.

Great post and I have no doubt there will be some winners. Though currently, wouldn't they be trading outside the EU as if they are in the EU? Therefore on the current EU arrangements with said countries.

Once the cut over periods end, no deal would then exist and would be reliant on the government putting a deal in place. And all the tariffs to go with it. Maybe I'm wrong but that would be my feel.

As you mention, I would guess the value of the pound has a lot to do with it and really, that's a negative effect of Brexit.

For sure, will be interesting to see how all that pans out.

 

[DanEFC92]

#Rattled

 

[Bishop Thumpety-Thump]

i did the same, and one of his recent tweets is about “god made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve”, so is likely an angry closeted gay fella.

He's gone full Partridge.

 

[Toffeeslam]

1.
Britain will have almost complete control of its laws and regulations, without having to have policies imposed as part of the collective decisions of a political Union (sort of).

2. We can grow our fishing industry by exercising our right to exclusively fish our territorial waters. We will of course need to invest heavily in our fishing fleet and will have no guaranteed access to EU markets where we sell most of our catch.

Fishing industry is less than 1% of our economy so I’m glad Brexiteers have their priorities straight. As long as the fish is British we can risk the whole economy for some fish

 

[Catfish Blues]

Great post and I have no doubt there will be some winners. Though currently, wouldn't they be trading outside the EU as if they are in the EU? Therefore on the current EU arrangements with said countries.

Once the cut over periods end, no deal would then exist and would be reliant on the government putting a deal in place. And all the tariffs to go with it. Maybe I'm wrong but that would be my feel.

As you mention, I would guess the value of the pound has a lot to do with it and really, that's a negative effect of Brexit.

For sure, will be interesting to see how all that pans out.

Their main export areas are the States and Japan, so the risk mainly lies with how / if / when the current deal with Japan is rolled over. Worst case scenario would be they'd go back to the situation as it was a couple of years ago.

 

[Blue 1]

Prefer the remix of that:

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Fishing industry is less than 1% of our economy so I’m glad Brexiteers have their priorities straight. As long as the fish is British we can risk the whole economy for some fish

It’s actually around 0.1% of our GDP, but it was used a symbol of our island nation being supposedly goosed by the EU. Only the cod wars killed most of our deep sea fishing and we’ve sold large portions of our quotas to EU vessels. But hey, since when did facts matter anymore........

 

[Bruce Wayne]

It’s actually around 0.1% of our GDP, but it was used a symbol of our island nation being supposedly goosed by the EU. Only the cod wars killed most of our deep sea fishing and we’ve sold large portions of our quotas to EU vessels. But hey, since when did facts matter anymore........

I enjoyed a nice bit of Norwegian salmon yesterday and am being stoned by Priti Patel tomorrow. All I said was that piece of salmon was good enough for King Otto ffs.

 

[JammyP]

I enjoyed a nice bit of Norwegian salmon yesterday and am being stoned by Priti Patel tomorrow. All I said was that piece of salmon was good enough for King Otto ffs.

The EU and Norway have signed three fisheries arrangements for 2020 making this the largest fishing agreement in the north of Europe. ... In the North Sea, 5 out of 6 stocks jointly-managed with Norway have been set in line with the ICES scientific advices, at maximum sustainable yield (MSY) levels.

... These agreed arrangements will ensure continuation of fishing operations for both Parties in each other's waters from 1 January 2020.

Oceans and fisheries

EU policies on oceans, fisheries and aquaculture.

ec.europa.eu

 

[Methuselah]

On another website, an airline pilot also quotes the above and says its a load of rubbish as Schiphol airport is notorious for its delays.