If we vote for Brexit what happens

wotsthat

buglawton wrote: »

"In Britain, rationing created the best-nourished generation of pregnant women in history, as poor people received enough nutrients to maintain their health."
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/75-years-on-from-rationing-what-did-we-learn-9963115.html

People who aren't getting sufficient nutrition benefit when they're given more nutrition. Hold the front page.

buglawton wrote: »

Another thing to think about is, should eating out-of-season vegetables and fruit be considered a human right in the UK?

No but what sort of dreary sepia toned place would it be?

michaels

I'm not sure food is a great example as it is one of the areas where the EU has the highest protection of local producers so it is hardly a surprise that most of our food currently comes form the EU. Who knows where most of it would come form now if it hadn't been for EU protectionism towards a small set of producers (mostly not in the UK as we have already mentioned) at the expense of the vast majority of consumers.

I would have expected Generali to be more up to speed with Ricardo and more open to liberal free trade.

sheff6107

buglawton wrote: »

...Really?



Courtesy of:
http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/indices-land-registry-national-monthly.php
Other years have a very similar Volume of Sales distribution.

You don't put an offer in and it goes up on the Land Registry the day after. Those completed sales would have had offers accepted 3/4 months earlier. So your big August figure is actually sales completing from spring offers.

setmefree2

Cabinet aims to have trade deals in place before Brexit

Informal discussions start with Australia and other countries

Theresa May’s new government in setting in motion a number of informal trade talks with countries including Australia and is preparing to have agreements in place in time for Britain’s formal departure from the EU.
Downing Street officials said the deals would be ready up to “the point of signing” given that Britain is not meant to formally negotiate trade deals while it is still a member of the EU. A number of talks “are happening already”, the official added.
While informal discussions have got off to a speedy start, Britain’s lack of experienced trade negotiators suggests full agreement may be harder to achieve.

https://next.ft.com/content/cde1dc04-4c31-11e6-8172-e39ecd3b86fc

jimpix12

ElsieMonkey wrote: »

It's summer and the start of summer holidays for schools. Always goes quiet at this time of year.

As an agent, I'm pretty sure they'd know this already and have taken it into account.

jimpix12

MobileSaver wrote: »

This is another flaw in the HPC strategy and one that many of us have been pointing out to them for years. When there's uncertainty in the market, many home owners simply decide to stay put and wait for better times before thinking of selling their home.

People can 'sit and wait' all they want, and some will, but other factors come into play (as they have before in other periods before/during price drops): death, retirement, unemployment, kids flown the nest, moving to a new area, etc etc. Then there's affordability, I can't see IR going up but I can see credit getting more expensive.

Sitting tight and shoving your head in the sand like an ostrich doesn't prevent prices dropping.

setmefree2

Carney - The weaker pound could reduce Britain’s current account deficit by about a third.

The governor says a weaker pound should improve the current account deficit, making it smaller.
If maintained, the drop in the pound since the referendum would reduce the current account deficit by about a third, Carney estimates.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2016/jul/12/mps-to-quiz-mark-carney-on-brexit-fallout-business-live

setmefree2

Generali wrote: »

I have my doubts. The UK would find it extremely difficult to produce salad vegetables in December or tomatoes in bulk at all.

That the UK imports 90% of vegetables consumed is very revealing.

But a lot of them already come from outside the EU. My recent purchase of Tesco fresh tomatoes were grown in Morocco. My Sainsbury's tinned peaches were from South Africa and Sainsbury's tinned pineapple grown in Thailand.

I think it would be great if we started doing more trade outside the EU - maybe then we would have less people trying to cross the med to get inside a free trade area which has high barriers of trade to all outside.....

wotsthat

setmefree2 wrote: »

But a lot of them already come from outside the EU. My recent purchase of Tesco tomatoes where grown in Morocco.

I think it would be great if we started doing more trade outside the EU - maybe then we would have less people trying to cross the med to get inside a free trade area which has high barriers of trade to all outside.....

The UK is still going to have barriers to trade. We're not going to abandon food safety and biosecurity measures. The import requirements won't be any less onerous than now and it seems likely we'll adopt EU import requirement for the sake of practicality.

Southern Spain will remain the main source of our produce for 8 months of the year. If there's a chance of this not being the case something has gone badly wrong in the negotiations.

setmefree2

wotsthat wrote: »

Southern Spain will remain the main source of our produce for 8 months of the year. If there's a chance of this not being the case something has gone badly wrong in the negotiations.

Clearly Morocco is capable of producing anything that Italy can - it's not even that much further away.