What is that "mate" of mine Sadiq Khan trying to achieve ?

 

You lost you demented little cretin, get over it and concentrate on your job you terrorist sympathiser.

7 minutes ago, Dimron said:

Final note, it's not about party loyalty, if the red mob were behaving as badly I would view them the same.

As it should be.

8 minutes ago, Dimron said:

I suppose i am classed as a Bum Chum but I was posting last night while the missus was watching La La Land on TV, I don't do fantasy. 

The reality is that it makes zero sense to cut trade links with one of the world's largest market places which is less than 30 miles from your doorstep. Call me a remoaner if you like, I prefer realist. 

Final note, it's not about party loyalty, if the red mob were behaving as badly I would view them the same.

We didn’t cut trade links, we still trade with the EU, if it was just a pure free trade relationship we wouldn’t have left, we left because of the rest of the baggage. 

3 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

We didn’t cut trade links, we still trade with the EU, if it was just a pure free trade relationship we wouldn’t have left, we left because of the rest of the baggage. 

😳😳😳😳😳

does he not know what trade agreements are?

 

12 minutes ago, Spider said:

I’m actually gutted that it’s the Conservative party who are dragging us all through this gigantic puddle of cowshit.

Always preferred the Tories, especially when it came to money management.

Unfortunately, this current shower are the antithesis of “conservative”.

Id much prefer to be ripping Labour to pieces over the way Brexit has been handled but they aren’t doing it, so blaming them is merely a diversion tactic for anyone asked about the positives and they simply cannot find any.

Its shit. And having Rees Mogg front and centre is unlikely to improve anything. He’s a thundering shitstack 

Isn't there a stock retort here?

Maybe it is Labour's fault for not being a strong enough opposition party

50 minutes ago, Duck Egg said:

We were told that one of the biggest benefits of leaving the EU was we'd no longer be paying £350m (Boris) or £250m (economists) every week.  

Genuine question- does anyone know whether those payments have totally stopped now? If they have, then that could be described as a benefit? 

350 million has been dwarfed by loss in exports and other trading problems, particularly in food, fishing and farming. How many small businesses have disappeared or relocated to the EU to keep afloat? Our food standards, Employee rights and environmental protections will also be at severe risk of being diluted or damaged outside the EU. 

10 hours ago, Dimron said:

Received a list of product price increases up to 25% from 1st March from CCF/Travis Perkins yesterday (in addition to the usual 1st January price increases) for 48 manufacturers, (I've just counted them). Metal studwork was 65%

Bog standard ready mix concrete has gone up 25% this month.

In addition steel stockists will currently only guarantee quotations for 24 hours.

It's relentless.

Lithium has gone up over 300% in the past 6 months, so battery prices are starting to rocket as well - it's such fun 

9 hours ago, Spider said:

24 hours is brave.

My quotes last as long as a phone message from Mission Impossible

All our quotes are now only valid for 24 hours, they used to be 30 days, but it's impossible to do that now - the biggest issue, along with a standard manufacturing lead-time now of 75-100 weeks, is that shipping costs are going through the roof

1 hour ago, Farrelli said:

350 million has been dwarfed by loss in exports and other trading problems, particularly in food, fishing and farming. How many small businesses have disappeared or relocated to the EU to keep afloat? Our food standards, Employee rights and environmental protections will also be at severe risk of being diluted or damaged outside the EU. 

To answer the original question the payments have stopped.

The drop in food/fishing was mainly down to the pandemic and trade was rebounding until December 2021, that is when many EU countries went back into lockdown, this strongly suggest that we will rebound now the EU is back open and companies have got use to the extra paperwork.

 

 

 

Edited April 1, 20224 yr by Mounts Kipper

1 hour ago, Farrelli said:

350 million has been dwarfed by loss in exports and other trading problems, particularly in food, fishing and farming. How many small businesses have disappeared or relocated to the EU to keep afloat? Our food standards, Employee rights and environmental protections will also be at severe risk of being diluted or damaged outside the EU. 

Away with your facts. I'm looking for positives here! 

12 minutes ago, Rudy said:

Pre-Brexit picture, they're much smaller now (if you can get your hands on them)

1 minute ago, Dimron said:

Pre-Brexit picture, they're much smaller now (if you can get your hands on them)

Another thing the Tories failed to mention. 

24 minutes ago, Rudy said:

I vote in! 

2 hours ago, Duck Egg said:

Away with your facts. I'm looking for positives here! 

Mounts is your man. It won’t be very specific though😂

Our local Tory MP here, before he deleted a tweet that might have made him look dense and gullible as fuck:

 

Chris Green is a prick.

I'm sure Stewart was calling Defeffal a bellend on the telly just before Christmas.

7 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said:

I'm sure Stewart was calling Defeffal a bellend on the telly just before Christmas.

His announcement today was an April Fool's joke.

28 minutes ago, Spider said:

Our local Tory MP here, before he deleted a tweet that might have made him look dense and gullible as fuck:

 

Haha, caught a few this morning that 😅 

2 minutes ago, Cheese said:

....but Labour are shit, so it's OK

You're meant to do the joke before noon. I also thought it was 31/3 today.

He also said Brexit would allow them to ditch the tampon tax but forgot to mention Ireland already did within the EU. Pity they won't do the same on heating but Rushi won't allow such a big loss.

9 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said:

You're meant to do the joke before noon. I also thought it was 31/3 today.

That was St Georges day.

Just now, deane koontz said:

That was St Georges day.

What, again? It was last month.