Brexit, the economy and house prices (Part 3)

setmefree2

Britain talks new trade deals with Peru, Ecuador and Colombia

LIMA (Reuters) - British officials are in talks with Peru, Colombia and Ecuador to use the three countries’ existing trade agreement with the European Union as the basis for forming new deals after Brexit, the British embassy in Lima said on Wednesday.

Trade between Britain and South American countries totalled 12.4 billion pounds in 2015, the embassy said.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-trade-latam/britain-talks-new-trade-deals-with-peru-ecuador-and-colombia-idUKKCN1C300H

setmefree2

Why UK exporters are set for a sugar rush

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41412717

A_Medium_Size_Jock

An interesting report of European demographics from Citylab:
"Mapping Where Europe's Population Is Moving, Aging, and Finding Work"

For example:

A quick look at the European employment map explainswhyNorthwestern Europe (and especially Germany) are attractive destinations.
Employment rates for 2016 were far higher in Germany, Scandinavia, and the U.K. than elsewhere, with notably low employment levels in Southern Spain, Southern Italy, and Greece. If you were looking for a job, the south was not the place to go.

https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/09/european-demographics-aging-employment-migration/540084/

setmefree2

'Statesman' Tony Abbott to advise new British Brexit free trade think tank

Tony Abbott is to advise a new free trade think tank established by a leading Brexiteer and conservative British member of the European Parliament. The Institute for Free Trade is being in launched at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on Wednesday night by Daniel Hannan and two of the other Leave campaign's prominent faces - Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Trade Secretary Liam Fox.

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/europe/statesman-tony-abbotts-to-advise-new-british-brexit-free-trade-think-tank-20170927-gyq2xd.html

setmefree2

Opinion
How Far-Right AfD Stoked Germans’ Fears and Made History

http://observer.com/2017/09/how-far-right-alternative-for-germany-stoked-germans-fears-and-made-history/

setmefree2

Fear Not, U.K. Tax Authority Is Ready for No-Deal Brexit in 2019

(Bloomberg) -- The U.K.’s tax authority will be ready if Britain crashes out of the European Union in 2019 without a deal.

So says Edward Troup, the outgoing executive chair of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. In an interview in Oslo on Wednesday, he said new customs arrangements will be needed if Prime Minister Theresa May and her Brexit Secretary David Davis fail to secure a transitional period that replicates the status-quo of tariff-free trade with the 27 other members of the EU.

“We’ll be ready for whatever option agreed,” said Troup.“If there is no implementation period then from the end of March 2019 we would have to apply customs rules, which is quite soon. But we’ve done implementation of projects in shorter periods of time.”

Troup, due to retire at the end of the year, said there are about 130,000 British businesses that trade with the EU. “We would need to make sure they were registered and were able to do business with us if they had to apply customs duties,” he said.

https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/2017/09/27/fear-not-u-k-tax-authority-is-ready-for-no-deal-brexit-in-2019

mayonnaise

Post after post after post with just a link and some quoted bits.
I thought this was a debate forum.
Oh well.

Arklight

mayonnaise wrote: »

Post after post after post with just a link and some quoted bits.
I thought this was a debate forum.
Oh well.

Yeah I noticed that as well. It's just a lot of pointless links without context you have to scroll through.


Sadly he won't see us complaining about this as he's put everyone who's ever disagreed with him on Ignore.


Maybe someone can Quote this.

A_Medium_Size_Jock

Post after post of relevant subject matter ripe for debate, in a forum with "debate" in the title.
And yet it seems that some are unhappy with all this potential; I wonder why?
:whistle:


This from the Brexit talks - though they seem to have finished early, no?

"Decisive steps forward" have been made in the latest round of UK-EU talks, Brexit Secretary David Davis has said.
Mr Davis was speaking at the end of the first talks since Theresa May's speech in Italy last week, in which she said the UK wanted a two-year transition.
But EU negotiator Michel Barnier said there were still "big gaps" between the sides on some of the withdrawal issues.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41426620

In other words .......... there's nothing much to say.
Yet.
Still.
Ho hum.

System

A_Medium_Size_Jock wrote: »

Post after post of relevant subject matter ripe for debate, in a forum with "debate" in the title.
And yet it seems that some are unhappy with all this potential; I wonder why?

The regular dumping of someone's google alert list so there's three pages of spam between discussion points isn't debate. It's just a very strange hobby.