01-03-2021, 21:59
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Re: Britain outside the EU
Another classic from the Br'Express:
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Italy Brexit DISASTER: Historic collapse of Made in Italy exports to UK 'It's a tragedy!'
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Then you read the article.
Italian exports to the UK have fallen by 38.3% but UK exports to Italy have fallen by 70.3%!
https://www.express.co.uk/news/polit...-de-castro-mep
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01-03-2021, 22:33
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by Pierre
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No comment on UK exports to Italy falling by more than double the reduction in Italian exports to the UK though?
(I'm aware that Italy changes its Prime Ministers more often than we change our sheets. )
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01-03-2021, 22:44
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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No comment on UK exports to Italy falling by more than double the reduction in Italian exports to the UK though?
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Because given the current state of the Italian economy, and it’s borrowing, that story is an irrelevance and distraction of little importance.
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01-03-2021, 23:20
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by Pierre
Because given the current state of the Italian economy, and it’s borrowing, that story is an irrelevance and distraction of little importance.
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70.3% > 38.3% so the headline without Brexit-coloured glasses would be around the larger figure.
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01-03-2021, 23:31
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by nomadking
The reason it was banned in the EU WASN'T because it wasn't safe, but because it WAS TOO safe. How is washing with JUST air and water, safer than washing with air AND water AND chlorinated wash? If a method is found that is even more effective than a chlorinated wash(M&S did trials using liquid air), then automatically the EU would ban it.
If the chicken plants in Poland had been allowed to use a chlorinated wash, then the food poisoning there might not have existed or been a lot less.
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The real reason for the EU ban.
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I don't recall mentioning the EUs ban I remember saying I'd watched a programme on American food standards and was disgusted by what I saw and that if we let them into our market our standards would suffer or we couldn't compete
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Originally Posted by Hom3r
This is a red herring.
I buy all the food in my house, and I won't buy US chicken even it was 99% cheaper than British.
Consumers rule when it comes to buying, look at the sale of EU items which IIRC has plummeted by 50%+.
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How is it a red herring if the food isn't labled which iirc is part of America's terms, that the stuff isn't labled
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Because given the current state of the Italian economy, and it’s borrowing, that story is an irrelevance and distraction of little importance.
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It always seems to be an irrelevance, a distraction or of little importance though...
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01-03-2021, 23:32
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Re: Britain outside the EU
I don't see the importance of a trade deal with the USA. They need it more than we do but won't behave appropriately, it seems.
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02-03-2021, 07:40
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
70.3% > 38.3% so the headline without Brexit-coloured glasses would be around the larger figure.
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Are you the trumpet player in the EU brass band?
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02-03-2021, 08:04
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Are you the trumpet player in the EU brass band?
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We don't need VAR to see you're playing the man and not the ball. Try again!
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02-03-2021, 09:34
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Re: Britain outside the EU
Let's just keep to topic
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02-03-2021, 12:47
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
I don't see the importance of a trade deal with the USA. They need it more than we do but won't behave appropriately, it seems.
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The US is our biggest individual country for exports - wouldn't a trade deal help?
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02-03-2021, 13:02
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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The US is our biggest individual country for exports - wouldn't a trade deal help?
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Depends on the deal. I'm sure they'll flex muscles in a direction of which the public disapproves.
If we're trading with them now, what's the problem? What do we need from them?
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02-03-2021, 13:20
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Depends on the deal. I'm sure they'll flex muscles in a direction of which the public disapproves.
If we're trading with them now, what's the problem? What do we need from them?
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The US is quite a low-tariff country so a free trade deal that some promoted was never going to deliver too much extra value. The US is just discretely protectionist in other areas like airline ownership where it cites national security to keep overseas companies out.
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02-03-2021, 17:28
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
70.3% > 38.3% so the headline without Brexit-coloured glasses would be around the larger figure.
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Well, I suppose one explanation is that it cannot afford the imports.
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03-03-2021, 16:15
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Re: Britain outside the EU
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-56262527
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The UK government is to unilaterally extend grace periods for Irish Sea border checks.
Northern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods so products arriving from GB undergo EU import procedures.
The grace periods mean procedures and checks are not yet fully applied.
The first of these periods is set to expire at the end of March, but the UK says they will now be extended until October.
The EU has not yet commented on the move.
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