Franglais:
tmcassett:
Franglais:
Pull up the drawbridge? What does that mean?
Just stop (or heavily tax) foreign holidays for UK citizens? Or put higher taxes on all UK trade?
So:
Increase the price of all imports for UK consumers.
Increase the price of foreign hols for UK citizens.
Increase the price of exports so we sell less and balance of payments get worse?
Or stop all imports?
We import 45% of our food…
Pull up the drawbridge = Insanity
Recruit more Customs etc.
Well we already have. Maybe we should recruit more. And the private sector should recruit more clerks to process the documents needed. That has happened, so even more?
More taxes to pay for all these extra civil servants.
More overheads for companies to employ more clerks, who actually produce nothing extra, means everything costs more.
So, we take home less pay and pay more for goods = Insanity
Why is all the world looking for free trade deals?
Why does this gov shout when they get a new one? (no matter how dud it really is)
Why is leaving a massive free trade zone on our doorstep a good thing? Insanity
Make free speech and the right to speak against the Gov of the day a criminal offence?
It is going that way already. People are being arrested for being in possession of a piece of string!
Creeping totalitarianism.
Insanity.
You get yourself ■■■■■■■ in knots and seriously wound up and angry with all this stuff and that’s fine, you can do as you please. But you fail to understand that most people aren’t interested in a lot of the above such as trade deals, customs protocols etc, largely because at ground level most of those things won’t actually have a “noticeable” difference or affect in their day to lives in the way that say, uncontrolled mass immigration has or the ability to govern and manage our own rules and laws that put the people of “this” country first. Those are the sort of things people care about and were hoping for when voting for Brexit, I said it on one of the other threads (possibly the Immigration one) but there has been a narrative out there for along time now that putting the interests of the UK and it’s people first is seen as a bad thing for some reason and it baffles me. The word patriotic is seen as a dirty word.
I get “■■■■■■■ in knots and angry” Really?
Can you see me on a spy camera?
Or are you yet another expert psychiatrist who can diagnose patients remotely?
I don`t believe the first, but suspect you might actually believe the second!
Are people interested in the details of trade deals? I agree they aren`t.
They are interested in the results of those deals. And the suggestions of Winseer and agreed by you, is to increase the taxes they pay and increase the costs of their food, holidays etc. Looks to me like those are things in everyday life.
Brexit was sold to do away with Brussels red tape. It has meant increased red tape and costs. Increased transport delays and transport costs.
Do you reckon that is all worth it to somehow rule ourselves better?
How so?
Up until 2016 the UK voted contrary to EU on 2% of occasions…Two per cent.
fullfact.org/europe/eu-facts-be … influence/
Since 2016 we voted contrary to the EU once that I can find. And that was to oppose extra safety rules for workers against carcinogens.
publications.parliament.uk/pa/c … 0grid%20(1%20(1)%20(002).pdf
We just had to be forced by those nasty foreigners to look after the workers didn`t we? What a disaster! (p 19)
As part of the EU we had a say in their standards for foods and goods. Now we have none. Does that matter?
Well, anyone wanting to sell in the EU still has to comply to those rules. Which is just about all the major food companies.
They could set up two production lines, one for UK one for EU, but why would they increase their costs? Nope, we are no longer law makers, now we are law takers.
What of the new deals? Aus and NZ? We accept their goods on their terms. Their farmers can produce meat with lower welfare standards, and so lower costs than UK farmers. Not everyone in the UK works on a farm, and maybe none of your mates do so you don`t care, but that is bad news for the UK. Unfair competition means less food produced here and more dependence on suppliers we have no influence over.
Insanity.
The current UK points system for immigration ensures that only well paid jobs go to foreigners. No immigrants can come in to do cheap manual work.
Why educate or train someone from here to do a job, when you can import a ready to go immigrant? Hey, good business sense.
The whole point of Brexit was to wean ourselves OFF Foreign Imports outright, including importing cheap labour.
Go to any FARM in this country - and tell me that the people living in the “Sheds with Beds” are not mostly EEs doing what conveniently counts as “Skilled Work” when it suits the EU, and it being “Unskilled Work” when it comes to UK citizens not being arsed to do such work themselves…
I spent 15 months carting Produce out of farms during the lockdown, and the only UK-born people I saw there - were the Farmer/Landowner and the immediate family thereof…
The EU has been quick to remove our presence in the EU parliament (seeing as Farage had a majority there at the time…) but have been very slow to release us from EU laws, EU rules, and of course the ECHR which ties BOTH proverbial hands behind our backs, compared to only having one such hand tied behind our back before Brexit…
Our Establishment have gone to every length possible - to make us poorer, to regret Brexit. All it is doing though, is making Remainers hate Brexiteers (because they believe this big lie) and making Brexiteers more the angrier for denying us a proper brexit that we originally voted for.
Drawbridge UP