Reply to: Britain to become a 21st century exporting super power

[WTFH]

Have you been to Wallonia? They make Norfolk look like the cutting edge...

I've done a lot of work for clients in Wallonia. They have good infrastructure, plenty of multi-national businesses and a few speed cameras . Apart from Charleroi in the south, which is a bit tulip, the rest of it is pretty good.

[Mordac]

Well you will because when the UK crashes out without any agreements, they're going to have to start negotiating from scratch with the EU and Wallonia are going to take notes of the comments you've made and veto it all

Have you been to Wallonia? They make Norfolk look like the cutting edge...

[vetran]

Jam today and Jam tomorrow!

[darmstadt]

Also British manufacturers pursue quantity not quality, following the American model. With blue workers striking as soon as someone blinks.

If UK was an export power to begin with Rover would be still strong with or without the EU. Blame whoever you like, UK workers are just not productive despite record lows level of unemployment.

And that Brexiteer and Secretary of State for International Trade, Liam Fox, agrees with that exact sentiment:


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37324491

[scooterscot]

Also British manufacturers pursue quantity not quality, following the American model. With blue workers striking as soon as someone blinks.

If UK was an export power to begin with Rover would be still strong with or without the EU. Blame whoever you like, UK workers are just not productive despite record lows level of unemployment.

[darmstadt]

At least we won't have to wait for permission from Wallonia (which isn't even a sodding country)

Well you will because when the UK crashes out without any agreements, they're going to have to start negotiating from scratch with the EU and Wallonia are going to take notes of the comments you've made and veto it all

[Mordac]

But.....but......but........we will be free to make trade agreements with the world and they're queuing up to sign instant trade deals on favourable terms. Is that not how Boris and JRM are going to arrange it ???

At least we won't have to wait for permission from Wallonia (which isn't even a sodding country)

[TestMangler]

Well, if the pound collapses (Brexit take: adjusts to the correct level compared with the overly high rate it has been at for years), then British products would, theoretically, be cheaper abroad.
Of course, that's reliant on there being British products to sell abroad and favourable trading agreements to make the sales.

But.....but......but........we will be free to make trade agreements with the world and they're queuing up to sign instant trade deals on favourable terms. Is that not how Boris and JRM are going to arrange it ???

[Eirikur]

Well, if the pound collapses (Brexit take: adjusts to the correct level compared with the overly high rate it has been at for years), then British products would, theoretically, be cheaper abroad.
Of course, that's reliant on there being British products to sell abroad and favourable trading agreements to make the sales.

You forget to mention people wanting to buy British products abroad. They don't have a very good reputation of quality and durability.

[WTFH]

Well, if the pound collapses (Brexit take: adjusts to the correct level compared with the overly high rate it has been at for years), then British products would, theoretically, be cheaper abroad.
Of course, that's reliant on there being British products to sell abroad and favourable trading agreements to make the sales.

[Eirikur]

The UK is going back to Victorian times.

Not in the sense of being a world power. But in the sense of a handful of people having all the money while the majority live in poverty.

Let's hope chimney sweeps work outside IR35

[Cirrus]

Always Look On The Bright Side of Life (aka Death)

Once again all we get from Brexiteers is vacuous, pie-in-the-sky, nothing-is-a-cheap-as-fine-words abstract nouns. When did ambition pay the mortgage?. Instead of saying "When are you going to face realities? , the CBI just say "Fantastic: can we have some big subsidies; as quickly as possible?" (Sound of rubbing of hands and the rustling of Bentley catalogues)

It's so sad that we are so dangerously near to the economic rapids that you can smell the spume, yet they are still merrily singing and knocking back the cocktails.

[GreenMirror]

The UK is going back to Victorian times.

Not in the sense of being a world power. But in the sense of a handful of people having all the money while the majority live in poverty.

[darmstadt]

The powerful combination of the Daily Mail and Disgraced Former Defence Secretary Liam Fox means that no further proof is required!

Precisely, as someone else put it more succinctly:

He plans to increase UK exports from 30% of GDP to 35% and he wants to do this by leaving the largest single market in the planet and by making it more costly, more complex and more difficult for UK companies to export out of the UK.

Genius...

[meridian]

There you go, if you need further proof, here's a link to this fact in the Daily Mail

Britain will become a '21st century exporting superpower' after Brexit | Daily Mail Online

The powerful combination of the Daily Mail and Disgraced Former Defence Secretary Liam Fox means that no further proof is required!