catiomiles.bsky.social
Liberal. Economics.
Surrey, UK.
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Whatever works for people in that area should be welcome.
San Marino for example is an independent country, UN member, not an EU country… and is not (yet) even part of the EU single market.
But it has a customs union with the EU, de facto part of Schengen and its currency is the Euro.
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Fun fact: there are separate customs rules for certain EU proper territories with difficult geography (such as Livigno, Italy, on the border with Switzerland); or even part of other countries (such as Switzerland for German and Italian exclaves) customs areas.
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I suspect Reform would top this one…
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It was tactical voting from LibDems to Labour, not from Greens to Labour, on the contrary.
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The social security taxes will probably mirror the scheme Switzerland has with Italy for example for Italian workers in Switzerland but who live in Italy (going to Italian hospitals and kids in Italian schools).
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And is a very good deal for Spain.
Gibraltar will enter into a customs union with the EU and in this process will apply proper taxes and VAT on cigarettes for example (which was always a big smuggling issue) and will transfer social security taxes to Spain for Spanish workers.
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I forgot about Cleverly, is he still in politics?
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Indeed, very good.
But it looks like it’s so much to do!
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Sure
But as a data point, U.K. was producing more cars in 1997 than China
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That’s salary inflation most likely.
But Netherlands is a good example of real worker productivity increase as it became the leading the facto economic capital of the EU post Brexit with many pan EU companies conducting pan EU business from the Netherlands
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There are two ways to have growth:
1. Grow the productivity per worker: so more infrastructure investment, more investments in skills and better access to other markets (and yes, joining the EU will boost productivity by 4%
2. Increase number of workers… but we are losing jobs due to higher taxes
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There are two ways to have growth:
1. Grow the productivity per worker: so more infrastructure investment, more investments in skills and better access to other markets (and yes, joining the EU will boost productivity by 4%
2. Increase number of workers… but we are losing jobs due to higher taxes
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That’s that
But also the decline is due to much lower activity in the real estate sector as stamp duties went up on 1st April
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True
But it is an own goal as companies need to reduce costs and office costs is a non essential cost.
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Farage already did.
These hate crimes are a consequence of Farage’s racism that he doesn’t want Romanian neighbours.
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There are maybe 7,000 Romanians in Northern Ireland, the vast majority working in factories and fields where local workforce doesn’t want to.
Many are returning home anyway as there are good job opportunities there.
As a fact: the economy of Bucharest, the Romanian capital, is twice as big as NI
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Also remember the right wing in Northern Ireland is funded by extremist US based organisations.
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This is an open goal!
Very good
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75% of U.K. gambling industry is conducted from Gibraltar.
You don’t see an issue with this?
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You are aware the U.K. gambling industry is basically located in Gibraltar due to lower taxes and lax regulations, right?
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That has value.
For Spain they should be able to reduce smuggling and unfair competition and it removes a sore in relations with UK
For Europe, this is about tidying up loose ends. Effectively the A50 process is finished. Next on the list is ensuring that the WA and TCA are applied correctly
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It’s not going to happen because of our racism, xenophobia and provincialism, which predate Brexit by the way.
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And yet every U.K. government does bribe them on a massive scale with the gambling industry, whilst hundreds of men in Britain commit suicide due to this addiction.
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We will solve the small boat crossings and we will smash the gangs in just 1 minute however.
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Is Andrew Neil just 66?
He looks a lot older.
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This is the way.
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Sure, it’s the Telegraph.
But I still think we need to make the case for U.K. joining the Schengen area so we can save billions in border costs and billions more in increased productivity.
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The truth
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Peanuts.
Paid for by increasing the debt ie to be paid by those who are young today.
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She’s in the Labour tax straight jacket so can’t move too much.
Pretty average to be honest, nothing sticks to mind.
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UK government readout on Gibraltar. Another illustration of how Ministers have recently prioritised getting international agreements over the line, sorting out the mess left by predecessors. www.gov.uk/government/n...
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I know, all U.K. governments of any political colour continue to bribe the people of Gibraltar with dirty money coming from gambling to buy their loyalty.
It’s disgusting to be honest.
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In the same time, we have thrown away with Brexit access to the cheap money and expertise from the European Investment Bank
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Fake news.
It was 96%