Politics

[Cheese]

55 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/284750/united-kingdom-uk-total-eu-trade-in-goods-by-trade-value/

Hahahahaha

[Mounts Kipper]

8 minutes ago, Casino said:

I didnt realise you meant the deficit was at an historical high

Doesnt surprise me

Didn’t mention the deficit, just that exports are at record levels. However no surprise the deficit is high given we are waving imports through. 

Edited October 17, 2022 by Mounts Kipper

[mickbrown]

1 hour ago, Mounts Kipper said:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/284750/united-kingdom-uk-total-eu-trade-in-goods-by-trade-value/

Look at the graph again Mounts

[Ani]

TBF to Mounts I read that as we are doing more trade (imports and exports) with the EU than previous. Which is what he said. 

[Casino]

3 minutes ago, Ani said:

TBF to Mounts I read that as we are doing more trade (imports and exports) with the EU than previous. Which is what he said. 

Is the record deficit a brexit bonus?

[Mounts Kipper]

2 minutes ago, Ani said:

TBF to Mounts I read that as we are doing more trade (imports and exports) with the EU than previous. Which is what he said. 

I was pointing out our exports never been higher,  because someone mentioned we’d cut ourselves off from our biggest export market. That’s plainly not true.

 

https://facts4eu.org/news/2022_aug_uk_export_high

 

[mickbrown]

10 minutes ago, Ani said:

TBF to Mounts I read that as we are doing more trade (imports and exports) with the EU than previous. Which is what he said. 

Aye he did.

Soz Mounts.

[Mounts Kipper]

2 minutes ago, mickbrown said:

Aye he did.

Soz Mounts.

No problem. 👍

[Sweep]

32 minutes ago, Nowack said:

She is sending Mordaunt in to do her dirty work; she will be hiding in a fridge next.

She's already gone I reckon, no way is she rocking up to PMQs on Wednesday

[Sweep]

32 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Didn’t mention the deficit, just that exports are at record levels. However no surprise the deficit is high given we are waving imports through. 

Are we bollocks....I wish we were

[Mounts Kipper]

2 minutes ago, Sweep said:

Are we bollocks....I wish we were

In comparison to the EU … I should stress. 

[Morizio]

4 minutes ago, Sweep said:

She's already gone I reckon, no way is she rocking up to PMQs on Wednesday

That’s the speculation.

I wonder if she has imposter syndrome. 

[Sweep]

1 minute ago, Mounts Kipper said:

In comparison to the EU … I should stress. 

possibly, but no way are we just letting stuff in without checking anything, I know because I've still got stuff stuck at Felixstowe

[Mounts Kipper]

11 minutes ago, Sweep said:

possibly, but no way are we just letting stuff in without checking anything, I know because I've still got stuff stuck at Felixstowe

Could that be lack of manpower or trucks to move it?  We are seeing delays on goods coming through ports but not sure it’s customs checks. 

[Not in Crawley]

25 minutes ago, Sweep said:

She's already gone I reckon, no way is she rocking up to PMQs on Wednesday

Its the normal practice for the PM to send in someone else to answer an emergency tabled question.

The fact it's being spun against her shows how low her stock is.

[Sweep]

7 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Could that be lack of manpower or trucks to move it?  We are seeing delays on goods coming through ports but not sure it’s customs checks. 

To be honest, it's a bit of everything. Lack of manpower, strike action.....but also some of it is down to the paperwork, as we now have to jump hoops to bring battery products into the UK from the EU, so it doesn't get waved through anymore, it just seesm to sit there, doing fuck all for days/weeks at a time. We now factor in, as a leadtime, 6-8 weeks from China to Germany, and then another 4-6 weeks from Germany to our warehouse (when that used to be 3-4 days)

[Casino]

13 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Could that be lack of manpower or trucks to move it?  

either way, do you think brexit has 

 

a)  had no effect

b)  made it worse

c)  made it better

 

ps  its not c)

 

[Mounts Kipper]

5 minutes ago, Casino said:

either way, do you think brexit has 

 

a)  had no effect

b)  made it worse

c)  made it better

 

ps  its not c)

 

Some of it is down to Brexit, lots of other factors though which have nothing to do with Brexit and being experienced worldwide. .… needless to say the relationship between UK and EU needs to improve, it needn’t of been this way if we could of agreed on equivalence without having to be tied into the EU strings. 

Edited October 17, 2022 by Mounts Kipper

[Farrelli]

16 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Could that be lack of manpower or trucks to move it?  We are seeing delays on goods coming through ports but not sure it’s customs checks. 

We have to fill out additional import documentation and commercial invoice data on our imports and it adds time, costs and resource that was not required when we were part of the EU.

[Mounts Kipper]

Just now, Farrelli said:

We have to fill out additional import documentation and commercial invoice data on our imports and it adds time, costs and resource that was not required when we were part of the EU.

Yep, that’s how imports work all across the globe, standard procedure. 

[Mounts Kipper]

Regarding the truss situation anyone else think the 1922 are coming up with a plan to dispose of her and replace her with Sunak? Can see new rule where a new PM resigns short period after winning the PM election then the runner up automatically takes over… wouldn’t put it past them.  

[Farrelli]

12 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Yep, that’s how imports work all across the globe, standard procedure. 

Well you asked why things were slower at our ports and this is one reason plus lack of staff.  #brexit bonus

[Mounts Kipper]

4 minutes ago, Farrelli said:

Well you asked why things were slower at our ports and this is one reason plus lack of staff.  #brexit bonus

Im favouring lack of staff… we don’t import from EU and our goods equally held up from China & Pakistan. 

Edited October 17, 2022 by Mounts Kipper

[Farrelli]

18 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Some of it is down to Brexit, lots of other factors though which have nothing to do with Brexit and being experienced worldwide. .… needless to say the relationship between UK and EU needs to improve, it needn’t of been this way if we could of agreed on equivalence without having to be tied into the EU strings. 

Yes we could have employed some adults to constructively agree a deal with reciprocal arrangements but instead we had Lord Frosty and Bozo the clown at the helm. 

[Farrelli]

1 minute ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Im favouring lack of staff… we don’t import from EU and our goods equally held up from China & Pakistan. 

You seem to be missing the point(again)! These things were not a problem pre-brexit because we were intra-community.  Now things from France can take as long as those from Pakistan because additional checks and documentation is required. It’s not rocket science.