No deal is better than a bad deal

[scooterscot]

You're either in or you're out it's make up your mind time.

The Tories desperately tried to ignite the flames of populism across Europe with Brexit. People in Holland, France, Denmark, Germany, they've all rejected it.

So what now? They either double down and take the country down with them or concede defeat.

[Old Greg]

This is all very silly Project Fear 2.0.

Remember, Her Majesty's Secretary of State has already assured us:

They fear that Brexit could lead to an Anglo-Saxon race to the bottom. With Britain plunged into a Mad Max-style world borrowed from dystopian fiction. These fears about a race to the bottom are based on nothing, not our history, not our intentions, not our national interest. But while I profoundly disagree with those who spread these fears — it does remind us all that we must provide reassurance

[original PM]

You know the 'race to the bottom' is completely fuelled by inequalities in living and working conditions and the respect currency strengths.

thus Apple can get chinese kids to make an iPhone for tuppence and sell it for a grand.

so yeah you keep importing in cheaper and cheaper labour to do the jobs you guys think are beneath you - and in a generation guess what those guys want loads of cheap labour to do their menial tasks....


and so you end up breeding humans to be slaves because that is the only way to support the need....

or you could break the cycle.

[sasguru]

You know the 'race to the bottom' is completely fuelled by inequalities in living and working conditions and the respect currency strengths.

thus Apple can get chinese kids to make an iPhone for tuppence and sell it for a grand.

so yeah you keep importing in cheaper and cheaper labour to do the jobs you guys think are beneath you - and in a generation guess what those guys want loads of cheap labour to do their menial tasks....


and so you end up breeding humans to be slaves because that is the only way to support the need....

or you could break the cycle.

I do like your Joycean "stream of consciousness" brain farts from a literary point of view. The lack of punctuation is particularly modernist.
But you should have figured out at this stage in your life that you lack the intellect to say anything of intelligence.

[BlasterBates]

Trump reminds me of Robert Mugabe who thought he could control the economy with edicts. Fat lot of good that did.

On the one hand he complains that goods are too cheap and on the other hand he complains that goods are too expensive.

Trump orders OPEC to reduce the price of oil

[BlasterBates]

You know the 'race to the bottom' is completely fuelled by inequalities in living and working conditions and the respect currency strengths.

thus Apple can get chinese kids to make an iPhone for tuppence and sell it for a grand.

so yeah you keep importing in cheaper and cheaper labour to do the jobs you guys think are beneath you - and in a generation guess what those guys want loads of cheap labour to do their menial tasks....


and so you end up breeding humans to be slaves because that is the only way to support the need....

or you could break the cycle.

So if a UK manufacturer can only produce stuff at 2 or 3 times the price of everyone else how long do you think that manufacturer will be in business ?

The only way you could make that work is to install a committee at the WTO which would dictate quotas to every country and every company.

One thing I find interesting is that the EU has a set of rules to at least mitigate all that, that have been constantly undermined by Eurosceptics over the years.

[darmstadt]

Trump reminds me of Robert Mugabe who thought he could control the economy with edicts. Fat lot of good that did.

On the one hand he complains that goods are too cheap and on the other hand he complains that goods are too expensive.

Trump orders OPEC to reduce the price of oil

And now Trump is supporting the rise of the populist right wing in Europe: https://www.thelocal.de/20180605/cal...d-from-germany

[sasguru]

Trump reminds me of Robert Mugabe who thought he could control the economy with edicts. Fat lot of good that did.

On the one hand he complains that goods are too cheap and on the other hand he complains that goods are too expensive.

Trump orders OPEC to reduce the price of oil

It's called National Socialism. It works for a while.

[original PM]

So if a UK manufacturer can only produce stuff at 2 or 3 times the price of everyone else how long do you think that manufacturer will be in business ?

The only way you could make that work is to install a committee at the WTO which would dictate quotas to every country and every company.

One thing I find interesting is that the EU has a set of rules to at least mitigate all that, that have been constantly undermined by Eurosceptics over the years.

Go tell that to the migrants who have been living ten to a room in the UK so they could work as baristas for minimum wage so you could save 30p on your soy chai latte.

[BlasterBates]

Go tell that to the migrants who have been living ten to a room in the UK so they could work as baristas for minimum wage so you could save 30p on your soy chai latte.

So how do you explain rising wages in Germany then ?

I know one or two who were complaining before Germany opened up the borders to Eastern Euopeans that they didn't earn enough and now a few years later earning significantly more

That is interesting isn't it, how did they manage that then.