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Can I have some of what you're smoking?
Plenty of financial/economic specialists have come out recently to say that they consider Brexit will be infinitely worse for the economy than a Labour government.
Indeed - in fact lots of specialists have been saying the UK should have already disappeared up it's own arse and should have done that moment we voted for brexit
Indeed - in fact lots of specialists have been saying the UK should have already disappeared up it's own arse and should have done that moment we voted for brexit
and yet here we are..
Brexit hasn't even happened and all I can see in the news is a raft of established big businesses going into administration and manufacturing plants closures. Not a single major investment.
No, the record level of "employment" is not an indicator of booming economy, when the incomes are falling in real terms across the board. It's the same amount (or less) of work divided more ways.
GDP is stagnating and even going down in the last Qs
Every respected economist is saying that Brexit in any way or shape will be damaging for the economy in short-mid term with no real real prospects of outperforming even in the long run.
The only people claiming otherwise are populist politicians gunning for votes - keep drinking the kool aid, just excuse us if we don't share your unfounded optimism about the post-Brexit future of the UK.
Brexit hasn't even happened and all I can see in the news is a raft of established big businesses going into administration and manufacturing plants closures. Not a single major investment.
No, the record level of "employment" is not an indicator of booming economy, when the incomes are falling in real terms across the board. It's the same amount (or less) of work divided more ways.
GDP is stagnating and even going down in the last Qs
Every respected economist is saying that Brexit in any way or shape will be damaging for the economy in short-mid term with no real real prospects of outperforming even in the long run.
The only people claiming otherwise are populist politicians gunning for votes - keep drinking the kool aid, just excuse us if we don't share your unfounded optimism about the post-Brexit future of the UK.
The issue since March has been uncertainty. A50 should never have been extended. Once the UK leaves, certainty will return.
According to UNCTAD figures, the UK is currently ranked 2nd in world for FDI, with $65.5 billion of FDI coming into the UK in the first half of 2018 alone, just behind China on $70.2 billion.
WHS. ANd I agree this is about uncertaintty more than anything else. Once a final decsision is made about Brexit and it is acted up on, then the money will start rolling again.
As for the High Street, that is more about internet shopping and the total mess that is business rates than anything more international.
WHS. ANd I agree this is about uncertaintty more than anything else. Once a final decsision is made about Brexit and it is acted up on, then the money will start rolling again.
As for the High Street, that is more about internet shopping and the total mess that is business rates than anything more international.
Doubtless true, but other EU countries are also currently stagnating to some extent - Only last week I heard on the radio that Germany was practically in recession.
Doubtless true, but other EU countries are also currently stagnating to some extent - Only last week I heard on the radio that Germany was practically in recession.
Must be me putting my hourly rate up by another €10 per hour for the new contract causing that
“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”
According to UNCTAD figures, the UK is currently ranked 2nd in world for FDI, with $65.5 billion of FDI coming into the UK in the first half of 2018 alone, just behind China on $70.2 billion.
Many more mentioned but link-searching is too time-consuming when I'm supposed to be working!
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In spite of Brexit, the country is actually not doing too badly.
I am not a usual Tory voter, I lean towards more liberal politics. However, I am old enough to remember the shambles before Thatcher got into power, then the complete incompetence of Brown and Balls with the economy after the 1997 election, I still don't forgive them for dipping into our pension funds.
Please remember, it was Brown who introduced IR35 and as much as I hate the fact that Hammond and co pushed forward with the reforms, we still don't know what the future holds.
Will BJ and SJ keep with the IR35 reforms? Probably, but we know the Tories generally run a good economy, the dilema is knowing how badly Korbyn would destroy it all again. What we do know is that Korbyn would raise taxes significantly and probably tighten the IR35 noose around our necks even more.
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