Who else is buying British and avoiding EU goods where possible?

[Bee]

Stop flirting with Bee. "She's" a 15 year old boy in Setubal using her mums computer

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[Bee]

Tell me snowflake, is your puddle crystal clear or does it smell of piss when you melt?

Vote's been taken, get behind us, or fook off to Germany.

[motoukenin]

The old 8% vs 50% argument [emoji57] let's translate that to money shall we? That 8% was worth £290 billion while that 50% equalled £230 billion granted these are figures from 2015 but I'll leave you to do the maths.

What you have failed to understand is that the 290 Billion Imports from EU is spread over 26 individual countries meaning that each country will suffer a loss of between 200 Million and 44 Billion, using your own chart from smallest trading country to largest (Germany) , the trade will depend on the strength of the individuals economy but Germany did 1.25 trillion of exports that year 44 Billion would be just a dip of 3.5 % to them hardly noticeable, same for the other countries.

For UK 230 Billion is still approx 50% of total world trade, very noticeable, especially to the treasury which takes about 30% of this in tax.

[DimPrawn]

Here's a graph (it's actually quite old, but can't be bothered to find a more recent one)

It's how much we import in goods minus exports.



We are haemorrhaging money on buying foreign made goods.

But if you think about it, although we might buy a brand new £150K car every few months, generally most of our money goes on food, transport and energy. If we can buy British we reduce the money vanishing from Britain, pay someone's wages, who pays tax and themselves buy more British goods.

Otherwise, it's an exponential drop in demand for British goods, meaning more debt, and low investment in the UK economy.

Ultimately we end up fooked.

HTH BIDI
(mostly because you are a thick, liberal, Guardian reading snowflake moron)

[sasguru]

Here's a graph (it's actually quite old, but can't be bothered to find a more recent one)

It's how much we import in goods minus exports.



We are haemorrhaging money on buying foreign made goods.

But if you think about it, although we might buy a brand new £150K car every few months, generally most of our money goes on food, transport and energy. If we can buy British we reduce the money vanishing from Britain, pay someone's wages, who pays tax and themselves buy more British goods.

Otherwise, it's an exponential drop in demand for British goods, meaning more debt, and low investment in the UK economy.

Ultimately we end up fooked.

HTH BIDI
(mostly because you are a thick, liberal, Guardian reading snowflake moron)

You're about to find out that your cretinous simplistic economics doesn't work.

[DimPrawn]

You're about to find out that your cretinous simplistic economics doesn't work.

Actually it works if enough people do it.

Buy the British goods, the company expands,hires more people to meet the demand, makes more profit, pays more taxes.

It's not rocket science, but it goes against your anti-British rhetoric, fed to you by the Guardian and other such liberal vomit rags.

[sasguru]

Actually it works if enough people do it.

Buy the British goods, the company expands,hires more people to meet the demand, makes more profit, pays more taxes.

It's not rocket science, but it goes against your anti-British rhetoric, fed to you by the Guardian and other such liberal vomit rags.

I don't read the Guardian you imbecile. The evidence against protectionism comes from history - it's never worked. But hey maybe you can provide one instance when it has?

[DimPrawn]

I don't read the Guardian you imbecile. The evidence against protectionism comes from history - it's never worked. But hey maybe you can provide one instance when it has?

It's not protectionism you military grade cretin.

[sasguru]

It's not protectionism you military grade cretin.

buying your own products however crap isn't protectionism? *Please tell me what is.

* yes I know it's mainly using tariffs, but the issue is you favour your own products above others. you do know this has been tried before in the UK? Or have you forgotten? Or perhaps you're an immigrant?

[Bee]

I don't read the Guardian you imbecile. The evidence against protectionism comes from history - it's never worked. But hey maybe you can provide one instance when it has?

What evidences? Give us examples.
This is very vague I was expecting more from you.