Button- Location: Dover
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Shouldn't that be t'other way round?
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Guest 3065- Registered: 10 Jan 2019
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They can't blame brexit for this
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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oh yes we can. lol
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Guest 3065- Registered: 10 Jan 2019
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Lol oh no you can't
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Let's see what happens when this wretched thing is finally overcome. The rest of the world will be frantically restoring trading links. And we'll be erecting trade barriers with our nearest neighbours and the world's biggest free trade bloc.
Have a good laugh while you can.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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ray hutstone wrote:Let's see what happens when this wretched thing is finally overcome. The rest of the world will be frantically restoring trading links. And we'll be erecting trade barriers with our nearest neighbours and the world's biggest free trade bloc.
Have a good laugh while you can.
One could argue that the EU might be the ones erecting trade barriers as they are the ones who might not
allow us to trade with them. The important word in all this is might.
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Just Sioux- Location: Kent
- Registered: 22 Aug 2013
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ray hutstone wrote:Let's see what happens when this wretched thing is finally overcome. The rest of the world will be frantically restoring trading links. And we'll be erecting trade barriers with our nearest neighbours and the world's biggest free trade bloc.
Have a good laugh while you can.
Mr Ray , in my view those on this forum are trying to raise their spirits which is a good way to proceed during these terrible times.
During calamitous times people learn to adapt and innovate, which provides valuable lessons to overcome any problems that they may presently encounter and will prove useful in the future.
This seemingly impossible situation in the universe at present dwarfs any problems that Brexit may provide. Getting over Coronavirus is more important than any silly feuds about Brexit.
Looking after your health both physically and most importantly, mentally will help you through.
Could be worth looking up ways of raising your spirits online.
https://www.elitedaily.com/life/optimistic-thoughts/1144944
Best wishes
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Jan - if our government is actually motivated to get a trade deal with the EU (which remains a matter of doubt) then it will not be as good as the one we currently enjoy. The point is that global GDP will be radically reduced by Coronavirus. There could not be a more ridiculous time to cut off our nose to spite our national face. I'll say no more. You must be delighted now that you are no longer being told what to think or what to do by Brussels.
Mr Sioux or is it Mrs? My spirits are fine thank you. I'm just a pragmatist at heart with 40 years of business experience driving that pragmatism. One way of raising the spirit is to contemplate a better post Coronavirus future. At times of crisis, people work better and achieve more if they put away ideology and dogma and concentrate on attaining their shared objectives. That is what is beginning to happen now in defeating this virus. My concern is that it must go on when the medical struggle is won and the inevitable economic one begins. Other than that, well, you could become my sexual adviser if you like.
Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
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Jan Higgins wrote:One could argue that the EU might be the ones erecting trade barriers as they are the ones who might not allow us to trade with them. The important word in all this is might.
Nothing to do with the EU. We as a nation decided to leave and erect the barrier. Yes it will be a very difficult time for all of us now economically considering how the world has dramatically changed but we will have to deal with it. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
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Off with the EU yoke and on with the English yoke. And ne'er a rest under the shady oak. Yoke after yoke.
P.S. No 'it's no yoke' jokes please. It's clearly a yoke.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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i wonderd where all the eggs went.
Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Brian Dixon wrote:i wonderd where all the eggs went.
I wish I knew Brian as I need plenty of eggshells to walk on at the moment!
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Button- Location: Dover
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ray hutstone wrote:Let's see what happens when this wretched thing is finally overcome. The rest of the world will be frantically restoring trading links. And we'll be erecting trade barriers with our nearest neighbours and the world's biggest free trade bloc.
Maybe so. On the other hand, and although I know next to nothing about the WTO, I note that some within it are calling for a reduction in (protective) tariff rates - arguably a purer form of capitalism!
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Still worth it in my view; then at least our despotism will be stamped 'made in Britain'.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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The deadline for extending the transition period is 1st July - so expect lots of noise in the coming few weeks. So far, Keir has been very clever by not requesting an extension. In doing so, he has depoliticised it and it becomes Boris's to either succeed or fail.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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#4863 Sorry Jan but there is a succession of bills due to pass through parliament in the coming weeks. The plan was to get them all on the statute book before the July 1st deadline but coronavirus has obviously delayed things. So expect more where this came from!
The agriculture bill is interesting because it has set Eustace against that half-witted sycophant Liz Truss. There were even a few Tory MPs in the newly purged party with the integrity and good sense to vote against it. Remarkable though that is in the current times, Brexit dogma has won the day leaving our farmers in something of a quandary.
The first signs of project reality having a tangible effect.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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britain to keep fishing its own waters while the rest stays out of then, may be the EU's down fall
Ross Miller- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
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Seems unlikely BD given that almost 1/5th of English fishing quotas are owned by non UK businesses (for Scotland it is only 3%)
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