BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[Rusty Nails]

No, just haven't bothered to look yet. Not sure what the issue is with distance as transport is easily organised for goods and services exports tend to be 'down a wire'.

Worth pointing out that we have a trade deal with the EU that allows tariff free trade and one that means they can meddle less in our internal affairs. That said, why are you preoccupied with a small and shrinking part of the global economy? We are rightly prioritising the higher growth countries a regions.

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Because the economies of countries like India are growing it does not mean that we are likely to significantly improve our trade with them in line with their growth. We are not a major manufacturing country anymore…other countries have moved on further, faster and more effectively than us, and we are not the only country trying to increase trade with the likes of India
By all means sensibly try and make the best of what we are left with after Brexit by dealing with more distant countries, but that will never make up for the reduction in well established trade with our neighbours… unless we can claw back trade relations with those countries, which will then be portrayed as “betraying Brexit” by the likes of the Telegraph, Mail and GB News.

 

[Stevo 666]

Because the economies of countries like India are growing it does not mean that we are likely to significantly improve our trade with them in line with their growth. We are not a major manufacturing country anymore…other countries have moved on further, faster and more effectively than us, and we are not the only country trying to increase trade with the likes of India
By all means sensibly try and make the best of what we are left with after Brexit by dealing with more distant countries, but that will never make up for the reduction in well established trade with our neighbours… unless we can claw back trade relations with those countries, which will then be portrayed as “betraying Brexit” by the likes of the Telegraph, Mail and GB News.

You can't say that it wouldn't improve - your statement is probably more wishful thinking than anything else. Otherwise why bother trying to improve terms with the EU?

I think you under-estimate the UK as a manufacturing nation, but in any event out services exports to the EU have grown post Brexit, something conveniently forgotten by some. So what exactly are we clawing back in that regard?

 

[briantrumpet]

Haha, "former newspaper the Telegraph". From Private Eye:

 

[Rusty Nails]

You can't say that it wouldn't improve - your statement is probably more wishful thinking than anything else. Otherwise why bother trying to improve terms with the EU?

I think you under-estimate the UK as a manufacturing nation, but in any event out services exports to the EU have grown post Brexit, something conveniently forgotten by some. So what exactly are we clawing back in that regard?

What you think or I think is irrelevant. We will see how trade goes over the next ten years.

Until then it is just wishful thinking. We know how trade suffered as a result of Brexit but have yet to anywhere near make up for that with new trade deals.

Service exports are a positive but these trade deals are not about service exports.

 

[bobzmyunkle]

I think you under-estimate the UK as a manufacturing nation

Do expand @Stevo 666

 

[Beebo]

Hang on, haven't they got heaven to look forward to? That's good, isn't it?

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The MAGA relationship with Christianity is very odd.
Jesus, if he existed, was one of the most Woke people ever. His teachings are almost entirely Woke.
And now JD Vance has been corrected publicly by two Popes, over his understanding and interpretation of Catholicism.