Brexit DOOM™: Parts of UK that voted for Brexit may be hardest hit

[AtW]

Anything else is pure conjecture

Pure conjecture is exactly how bad it's going to be, there is general consensus that things won't be better (any time soon).

[shaunbhoy]

there is general consensus that things won't be better (any time soon).

Only at your village idiots self-help group though.

[vetran]

Anything else is pure bluster

well that is what we have seen from the EU so far.

[squarepeg]

Meanwhile British companies are moving jobs abroad...

"Microlase, it turns out, employs 428 and sells software for transport fleets, among them DHL and JCB, importing and exporting to the EU. They have now set up a subsidiary to move some staff and their headquarters to Paris to stay in the single market: France will take the £6m a year in tax that now goes to the UK exchequer."

from Now the battle line is drawn before Theresa May’s car-crash Brexit

One of my clients is moving ~100 IT jobs to Spain. These things add up, and this is just the IT sector.

[sasguru]

Never ceases to amaze me that scooterscot, sasguru and atw believe we are actually heading for an ultra hard Brexit.

We are getting a transitional deal from 2019 (BAU ahead of a Free Trade Agreement), we are paying the money for that (of course we are)...

And then there will be a General Election in 2020. Thereafter, the transitional arrangement will become a permanent arrangement, probably via an EFTA/EEA agreement.

There will be no hard Brexit. We will be EU members in all but name.

The political posturing right now is nothing other than that.

But it is quite funny watching scooterscot, sasguru and atw squirm, to be honest.

I'm hoping for a hard Brexit, as I think it'll benefit me.

HTH, BIKIW.

[scooterscot]

Qatar announces £5bn UK investment - BBC News


Boomed I tell ya!!!

Making some real friends here aren't we? Selling our souls to Turkey's Erdoğan aka would-be dictator in the making on our door step with assistance from UK arm's manufactures. And now you jeer at a country exploiting the lives of many Indians who've died constructing a football stadium in a hot country where it makes no sense. All be FIFA officials could be bribed.

I'll get out the bunting.

[scooterscot]

PS: on that point on Turkey..

Becoming increasingly unstable. Greece is even feeling the heat more than usual. The EU currently celebrate the peace enjoyed for many years. And here we are, stirring the pot by leaving whilst selling weapons to the protagonists.

What more evidence do we need. Governments like ours are evil.

[The_Equalizer]

Making some real friends here aren't we? Selling our souls to Turkey's Erdoğan aka would-be dictator in the making on our door step with assistance from UK arm's manufactures. And now you jeer at a country exploiting the lives of many Indians who've died constructing a football stadium in a hot country where it makes no sense. All be FIFA officials could be bribed.

I'll get out the bunting.

What's with the 'we'? You pay no tax here, don't live here and want to smash up the Union.

[northernladyuk]

What's with the 'we'? You pay no tax here, don't live here and want to smash up the Union.

Wouldn't he pay tax on his BTL flat above that Paisley bookies?

[scooterscot]

What's with the 'we'? You pay no tax here, don't live here and want to smash up the Union.

Got you a new t-shirt...