In other news the OBR report the Gov’t keeps quoting from says Brexit is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15% - for some reason this part of the report never gets mentioned youtu.be/jvo1JM6xZqQ?... - ThreadSky

peterstefanovic.bsky.social • 92 days ago

In other news the OBR report the Gov’t keeps quoting from says Brexit is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15% - for some reason this part of the report never gets mentioned

https://youtu.be/jvo1JM6xZqQ?si=XKnWM-NzhTdWzpgf

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plasticscouser.bsky.social•92 days ago

Don’t mention the elephant the room Prime Minister. Everything will be fine 🤦‍♂️

plasticscouser.bsky.social•92 days ago

Looks like our Prime Minister does not want to mention the elephant in the room

https://i.imgur.com/5BeOyYv.gif

kenbar.bsky.social•92 days ago

If Starmer were stupid enough (spoiler alert, he isn't) to allow the Brexit wars to flare up again on his watch, it would engulf his Premiership. He isn't that stupid, but many demanding that he does, are. It is going to be years, not months, before we can submit a NEW application. Message ends.

jonathanmlewis.bsky.social•91 days ago

I would frame this as a national security issue.

jenny-johnny.bsky.social•92 days ago

I suspect 15% is too conservative an estimate.

grahambarber.bsky.social•92 days ago

Thankfully at least you continue to mention it. It's ludicrous for the Government to ignore (wilfully?) a significant element of the OBR, and it will do itself no favours in the long run if it continues to do so.

riverroadband.bsky.social•91 days ago

Gee, no kidding.

alexverycalm.bsky.social•91 days ago

It used to be an excuse for a failure or inaction to say;
“We couldn’t see the wood for the trees”.

In Brexit’s case it seems we can’t see the wood for the wood is now more appropriate

timash.bsky.social•91 days ago

But...but...Starmer is going to make Brexit work. He says so.

He just doesn't say how he's going to achieve it. 🤦‍♂️

angharadhafod.bsky.social•86 days ago

Where have I heard that before? 🤔

biancoin.bsky.social•91 days ago

For some reason... 💙

fitzkop.bsky.social•91 days ago

And no one envisaged this at all, except the ones who didn't want to leave the EU. In the meantime, the country is awash with people on boats turning up seeking asylum. Isn't it time this was stopped.

slotmachines.bsky.social•91 days ago

Non-EU migrants are the problem. European migration was never an issue.

The government is actively allowing them to come in our airports while pointing at dinghys full of people fleeing from Western wars!

fitzkop.bsky.social•91 days ago

I know. I was informed by a friend this a.m that a number of local new builds had been used to accommodate a significant number of non EU migrants

slotmachines.bsky.social•91 days ago

National & local politicians know/knew this so why use this issue to demonise the EU?

fitzkop.bsky.social•91 days ago

Not demonising the EU

buyshirts.bsky.social•91 days ago

We have voted for something and it has made us poorer at a time when our public services are on their knees and they money The people are poorer than they were Why would a government be open to pulling all the levers available?

samnlong.bsky.social•92 days ago

Brexit and trump are manifestations of the same dysfunction in our societies. At least the UK have been able to quantify the consequences of their stupid policy decisions....I'm waiting with bated breath to see what the US does

pippy67.bsky.social•92 days ago

If only brexiteers had been informed of the ensuing carnage that would follow after leaving the EU. What the public got was lies and misinformation.

slotmachines.bsky.social•91 days ago

No shit Sherlock.

Posh idiots have made successive schoolboy economic errors but the media doesn't report this as long as it's the British public that gets shafted.

Seen this coming a mile off.

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