27-12-2018, 08:30 PM
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Re: Why are people so surprised?
Originally Posted by swimfeeders
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HiAbolish cheap labour and costs go up, making goods more expensive.
The only way to counter this is increased productivity.
We are not very good at that in many cases.
How to do that? Well, it doesn't take much working out!
27-12-2018, 08:43 PM
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Re: Why are people so surprised?
Originally Posted by JBR
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Quite right.We'll share some of our secrets if they share some of their trade deals!
We are the ones leaving those trade Deals, not the EU.
It is not for the EU to share, they can't, it is for the UK to renegotiate them with the Countries we had them with as part of the EU.
The EU is not stopping us, they have raised no objections at the WTO.
Liam Fox has upset some of the Countries, hence the complaints to the WTO.
He did not negotiate, he told them what we would give them.
Other Countries have also objected to the WTO, in particular the USA.
https://iegpolicy.agribusinessintell...ate-quota-plan
27-12-2018, 08:56 PM
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Re: Why are people so surprised?
Originally Posted by swimfeeders
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HiIndia is the fastest growing economy, will overtake us within two years.
The EU and India spent years negotiating a Free Trade Deal with India.
It was vetoed by the UK over import duties on Scotch Whiskey and increased Immigration from India.
Now we are leaving shortly the deal is back on.
Being a huge economy is not the be all and end all of things. quality of life is much more important.
Would you want to live in India where hundreds of millions do not even have a toilet, or China where the pollution is so bad you need to wear a mask?
If we stopped insisting on being a Tier One Military Power and sticking our noses in where they are not wanted and slashed our Foreign Aid Budget we could make life much better here.
Hope you can enlighten me without any jbr type comments which you seem far above.
27-12-2018, 08:58 PM
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Re: Why are people so surprised?
Originally Posted by JBR
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I suspect that we could increase productivity by encouraging many of our people, who prefer to sit at home living on benefits, to actually work for their money.How to do that? Well, it doesn't take much working out!
Employing more people to produce a set quantity of goods decreases the productivity quotient but is good for society.
Employing fewer people and investing in better machinery is better for productivity and probably secureslonger term employment for the lesser number of workers but means higher unemployment.
It's a dilemma!
27-12-2018, 09:11 PM
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Re: Why are people so surprised?
Originally Posted by itsme
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SF in the financial year 17-18 India bought $8.83B from the UK and we bought $5.19 B from them. The UK being their 18th largest trading partner. As we trade with these countries at present, I fail to see the argument for doing our own trade deals.Hope you can enlighten me without any jbr type comments which you seem far above.
India has a fast growing middle class which has money to spend.
It is an expanding market for our high end goods which are subject to both Tariffs and Non Tariff Barriers.
We will never be able to compete with SE Asia, China etc on cost, electronics, TV's etc.
We can gain on high end goods.
I would much rather we were selling them Aston Martins than the Italians selling them Ferraris.
27-12-2018, 09:25 PM
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Re: Why are people so surprised?
Originally Posted by JBR
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They're the ones leaving our security agreement! 
No, wrong way round.
We are the ones leaving.
We are part of Five Eyes, the EU is not.
We do not share everything with them.
You need to look up what the No Deal lot are saying about leaving the EU Arrest Warrant.
27-12-2018, 09:37 PM
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Re: Why are people so surprised?
Originally Posted by JBR
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They're the ones leaving our security agreement!
We won't let them in.
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