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Another gloomy Brexit forecast. If you're a Remnant.

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    #91
    Originally posted by northernladyuk View Post
    Hear hear! And the Charlemagne Division will be able to break through Soviet lines and relieve the city! IF ONLY THERE WAS MORE TIME!
    So are you seriously claiming that gdp growth figures for the year have been cut by 75% to 0.5%?

    By all means continue to make a muppet of yourself.

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      #92
      Originally posted by sasguru View Post
      I agree with you on this. Post referendum QE and drop in interest rates to 0.25% + excessive borrowing is stoking a consumer boom.
      A GDP rise due to consumerism as opposed to exports or investment is unsustainable.
      Stop trying to avoid the point . The article is bollox. You lot are desperate.

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        #93
        Originally posted by sasguru View Post
        Don't confuse him. He's not the sharpest tool in the box and your historical allusions and analogies are wasted.
        The stupid have to suffer - its the only way ...
        Originally posted by GB9 View Post
        So are you seriously claiming that gdp growth figures for the year have been cut by 75% to 0.5%?

        By all means continue to make a muppet of yourself.
        QED.

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          #94
          Originally posted by northernladyuk View Post
          QED.
          New film out this weekend. Muppets vs Unicorns.

          You lot star.

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            #95
            Originally posted by GB9 View Post
            New film out this weekend. Muppets vs Unicorns.

            You lot star.
            I do admire your spirit.

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              #96
              OK. Enough already.

              This is going nowhere. One side pulls up a fake news article predicting one outcome, the other side pulls out another fake news article predicting the opposite.

              We've got at least two years of this ahead of us .... and frankly it's getting tedious. When the negotiations actually start we are going to get a huge deluge of even more fake-news arguing that the negotiations are close to collapse, that they are proceeding really well, that nothing is agreed and that everything is close to agreement.

              Do we even know what "Good" or "Bad" looks like?

              Surely we can figure out a set of "KPI's" to monitor ( exchange rate, employment rate, GDP, FDI, consumer spending, imports / exports ) over the coming months so we can actually get real, accurate view of what is really happening, rather than having to rely on bias news sources, written by vested-interest groups with an axe to grind.

              Obviously I am too busy to do such a thing but I am sure SASGuru could knock up a simple website over the weekend. Or if that's too complicated for an Excel spreadsheet.

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                #97
                Originally posted by tomtomagain View Post
                OK. Enough already.

                This is going nowhere. One side pulls up a fake news article predicting one outcome, the other side pulls out another fake news article predicting the opposite.

                We've got at least two years of this ahead of us .... and frankly it's getting tedious. When the negotiations actually start we are going to get a huge deluge of even more fake-news arguing that the negotiations are close to collapse, that they are proceeding really well, that nothing is agreed and that everything is close to agreement.

                Do we even know what "Good" or "Bad" looks like?

                Surely we can figure out a set of "KPI's" to monitor ( exchange rate, employment rate, GDP, FDI, consumer spending, imports / exports ) over the coming months so we can actually get real, accurate view of what is really happening, rather than having to rely on bias news sources, written by vested-interest groups with an axe to grind.

                Obviously I am too busy to do such a thing but I am sure SASGuru could knock up a simple website over the weekend. Or if that's too complicated for an Excel spreadsheet.
                Don't be bringing common sense to this argument!

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                  #98
                  In Q4, British exports to non-EU countries rose by 17.3%

                  Doooooom.

                  Exports to the EU rose by 3.5%

                  Doooooom.

                  Construction grew by 1.8% in December

                  Doooooom.

                  Industrial output grew by 1.1% in December

                  Doooooom.

                  Manufacturing grew by 1.2% in Q4

                  Doooooom.


                  And as for all the bolleaux about tariff free access to the EU? In 2015, the UK's net contribution was £8.5bn. The total value of UK exports to the EU was £223.3bn. That equates to the government paying a 3.8% tariff to the European Union on behalf of our exporters.
                  Taking a break from contracting

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                    #99
                    Another gloomy Brexit forecast. If you're a Remnant.

                    Originally posted by chopper View Post
                    In Q4, British exports to non-EU countries rose by 17.3%

                    Doooooom.

                    Exports to the EU rose by 3.5%

                    Doooooom.

                    Construction grew by 1.8% in December

                    Doooooom.

                    Industrial output grew by 1.1% in December

                    Doooooom.

                    Manufacturing grew by 1.2% in Q4

                    Doooooom.


                    And as for all the bolleaux about tariff free access to the EU? In 2015, the UK's net contribution was £8.5bn. The total value of UK exports to the EU was £223.3bn. That equates to the government paying a 3.8% tariff to the European Union on behalf of our exporters.
                    Source?
                    Also what was the value (and % change) for imports and the amount of foreign debt?
                    …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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                      Originally posted by WTFH View Post
                      Source?
                      Andrew Neil's Twitter feed ( www.twitter.com/afneil )

                      Also what was the value (and % change) for imports and the amount of foreign debt?
                      https://www.gov.uk/government/statis...-december-2016
                      Taking a break from contracting

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