The UK splits with Europe - disaster looms

[sasguru]

Ah thats where all your 419 money goes.

Good for them, maybe they will trade with us once we are separated from the euwww.

Trade what? We've got nothing to sell, the UK manufacturing sector is tiny, and most of it is foreign-owned.

HTH! BIKIW

[shaunbhoy]

the UK manufacturing sector is tiny, and most of it is foreign-owned.

You really are weapons-grade dimwitted, truly you are.

But comedy gold for all that.

[scooterscot]

You really are weapons-grade dimwitted, truly you are.

That actually made me laugh.

Perhaps you do have something to trade after all.

[sasguru]

You really are weapons-grade dimwitted, truly you are.

But comedy gold for all that.

Why does the small uk manufacturing sector make you laugh?
Please share your insights.

[shaunbhoy]

That actually made me laugh.

Perhaps you do have something to trade after all.

Not in a currency that YOU can afford.

[shaunbhoy]

Why does the small uk manufacturing sector make you laugh?
Please share your insights.

The size of the uk manufacturing sector will not be materially altered whether or not we had opted to Remain or Leave.

So unless you were predicting dire consequences regardless of the vote, your contention makes no sense. As seems to be your default position.

[minestrone]

Trade what? We've got nothing to sell, the UK manufacturing sector is tiny, and most of it is foreign-owned.

HTH! BIKIW

[sasguru]

The size of the uk manufacturing sector will not be materially altered whether or not we had opted to Remain or Leave.

So unless you were predicting dire consequences regardless of the vote, your contention makes no sense. As seems to be your default position.

The point is that we're throwing a spoke in the wheels of trade with half a billion of the richest consumers on this planet, to whom we mainly sell services.
If services are affected by Brexit we don't make enough to compensate by selling goods to the rest of the world.
India, China and Africa would be interested in buying goods not services, but we have nothing to sell

[shaunbhoy]

If services are affected by Brexit we don't make enough to compensate by selling goods to the rest of the world.

And that is the very reason WHY our negotiations will result in our services NOT being materially affected.

The agencies that will decide upon that are not career politicos with over-developed snouts, all happily snuffling away at the EU troughs in Brussels and Strasbourg.
They are the hard-nosed pragmatic captains of industry that really call the shots.

Now for God's sake come back down to a reasonable altitude before you give yourself another nosebleed.

[sasguru]

Google countries exports per capita.