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@badapple | 11 June 20 | |
@ obi_jon - 11.06.20 - 04:50am http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53002961 British business is not ready to withstand the additional disruption of leaving the EU without a trade deal, according to the outgoing boss of the UK's most influential business group. Dame Carolyn Fairbairn told the BBC that any buffers to cope with the additional cost and planning of an exit from the EU without a deal had been exhausted by the Covid-19 pandemic. ''The resilience of British business is absolutely on the floor.'' ''Every penny of cash that had been stored up, all the stockpiles prepared have been run down.'' ''The firms that I speak to have not a spare moment to plan for a no trade deal Brexit at the end of the year - that is the common sense voice that needs to find its way into these negotiations.'' Those negotiations are not going well. They broke up last week with the EU's chief negotiator saying that very little progress had been made on key sticking points, including future fishing rights in UK waters, and commitments to maintain a ''level playing field'' over regulation and competition. The devastating impact of Covid-19 and the fight for business survival has diverted management attention away from any Brexit contingency planning, according to Dame Fairbairn, who worries that a political commitment to abandon the current transitional trading arrangements - come what may - will add to the burden on business at a critical moment. ''As one member put it to me - just because the house is on fire, it doesn't make it ok to set fire to the garden shed.'' ''If we have a political timescale that takes us to a brinksmanship deal in December that will be catastrophic for British business - they will not be ready.'' all that says to me is the UK are playing hard ball on our fishing rights, and we have decided to ditch the level playing field. Its all the EU crying over it, so fk em ! When every industry through out the world is on its knees with the botty hanging off thier pants then, it dont really matter, if we get a deal or not. |
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@mikeymk | 11 June 20 | |
Everyone around the world has suffered financial hardship, not least EU countries.
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@obi_jon | 11 June 20 | |
@ badapple - 11.06.20 - 08:57am all that says to me is the UK are playing hard ball on our fishing rights, and we have decided to ditch the level playing field. Its all the EU crying over it, so fk em ! When every industry through out the world is on its knees with the botty hanging off thier pants then, it dont really matter, if we get a deal or not. |
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@bambi60 | 11 June 20 | |
Talking of trade deals ...the Conservative manifesto clearly promised any trade talks would uphold environmental issues , animal welfare and food standards .... 6/7 months later that's dumped and chlorinated chicken , hormonally enhanced beef and pork are on their way from America (along with giving disaster capitalists a foot in the door ) Also dumped ...the millions for the NHS |
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@obi_jon | 16 June 20 | |
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2020/06/how-uk-has-been-left-worst-all-worlds-over-covid-19 Four-and-a-half months after the first Covid-19 cases were confirmed, the UK has recorded the highest excess death rate of any country, with 64,000 more deaths in the period to 29 May (or 955 deaths per million people). This alone would be a matter of shame for the government of the world's sixth-largest economy. But Britain is also forecast by the OECD to suffer the worst recession of any developed country, with a projected fall in GDP of 11.5 per cent this year. In short, the UK may achieve the worst of both worlds. ''If we come out of this with the worst death rate and the worst economic crash, thats a pretty terrible double header,'' a senior Conservative told the Sunday Times yesterday. (Chancellor Rishi Sunak has riposted that the UK is also forecast to have the strongest recovery of any major developed countries.) |
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@obi_jon | 16 June 20 | |
These are not the only ignominious honours the UK has earned. Voter approval in the government has fallen to the joint-lowest level of any country (alongside Mexico), having plummeted from a peak of 72 per cent on 27 March to 41 per cent.
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@3mel | 16 June 20 | |
@ bambi60 - 11.06.20 - 01:08pm Talking of trade deals ...the Conservative manifesto clearly promised any trade talks would uphold environmental issues , animal welfare and food standards .... 6/7 months later that's dumped and chlorinated chicken , hormonally enhanced beef and pork are on their way from America (along with giving disaster capitalists a foot in the door ) Also dumped ...the millions for the NHS as far as food goes it's time for another buy British campaign. let's supermarkets know this crap will rot on the shelves and then the dumpster. |
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@recurve16 | 17 June 20 | |
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