Brexit, the economy and house prices part 5

Herzlos

westernpromise wrote: »

Can you give an example of any reduction in regulation since say 2015? Or indeed 2010?

Does it need to be comprehensive or is 30 seconds of google enough?

http://metro.co.uk/2017/06/16/government-ministers-congratulated-themselves-for-cutting-fire-regulations-6713967/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/24/the-9-green-policies-killed-off-by-tory-government
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1560100/Tories-plan-14bn-cuts-to-red-tape.html
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/20/deadlier-than-terrorism-right-fatal-obsession-red-tape-deregulation-grenfell-tower

I'm sure Cameron made a promise to remove 2 regulations for every new one introduced, and even opened a consulation on red tape to remove, but I can't find it.

cogito

Herzlos wrote: »

And why would they? They've given us more opt-outs, rebates and exclusions than anyone else.

We still had a veto and still had the option of suggesting things in parliament. We didn't use that, and have now given it up.

What could we veto, exactly? Not very much since the EU are replacing it with QMV for nearly everything.

gfplux

A story that is probably off topic as it is not about anything except jobs

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2018/01/11/london-suffers-alarming-drop-in-city-vacancies-as-brexit-concerns-hit-home_n_18976698.html?1515656296
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“London’s financial services industry suffered an “alarming” drop in vacancies last month with firms holding back on hiring plans as they mulled over relocation post-Brexit.

A report by Morgan McKinley has shown the number of jobs available in December fell 52% month-on-month – a much deeper decline compared to the near-30% drop experienced over the same periods in 2016 and 2015.

Year-on-year, the market experienced a 37% fall in vacancies which was a stark reversal of the 16% increase in job openings between 2015 and 2016.”
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gfplux

Another off topic story about jobs.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-12/goldman-sachs-morgan-stanley-step-up-pre-brexit-frankfurt-hires?cmpid=BBBXT011218_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=180112&utm_campaign=brexit
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“Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley are on a hiring drive in Frankfurt as global investment banks race to establish new headquarters inside the European Union in time for Brexit.

The biggest Wall Street firms have recently started advertising for scores of staff ranging from risk managers to compliance officers and information-technology specialists, according to internet listings. They need their offices to be up and running by April 2019, headhunters and people familiar with their firm’s hiring plans said.

Banks want to fill as many positions as they can locally to limit the disruption caused by relocating London-based employees and their families, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the plans aren’t public. With only about 14 months to go until Britain formally departs the EU, banks have reached what one executive called the point of no return, and have decided they need to trigger their contingency plans.

“Many banks are hiring now to meet at least the minimum staffing requirements" by the time Brexit happens, said Tim Zuehlke, a partner at FRED Executive Search.”
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Is it anything to do with getting ready for a no deal.

gfplux

Snappy slogan that.
A no deal is better than a bad deal

In tha last page the phrase “good deal” has occurred in many posts.

Is anyone prepared to list the things that would be in a “good deal”

gfplux

Here is one definition of a bad deal. It is definitely NOT fraud.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/12/nigel-farage-eu-salary-docked-claim-misspent-public-funds
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“Nigel Farage is being docked half his monthly MEP salary after a European parliament investigation alleged he had misspent public funds intended for staffing his office.

The former Ukip leader, who recently bemoaned being “53, separated and skint”, will lose €40,000 (£35,500) in total, the Guardian has learned, after European parliament auditors concluded he had misspent that amount of EU funds.

Financial controllers have been investigating the role of Christopher Adams, who was hired by Farage to work in the European parliament as his assistant.

Auditors suspended Adams’ contract last year, because they were not convinced he was working for Farage on European parliamentary matters. Although paid as Farage’s assistant, Adams was also the national nominating officer for Ukip, where he was described as one of the party’s “key people”.

“Since 1 January [2018] the European parliament has withheld 50% in order to recoup the €40,000 due in salary that was paid to Christopher Adams and which cannot be proved by Farage,” a parliamentary source told the Guardian.

Docking Farage’s pre-tax MEP salary of €8,484 a month would mean he would have repaid what officials call his “debt to the EU” by October 2018.

MEPs earn €101,808 a year before tax and receive thousands more in expenses for staff, travel and office costs. Farage’s pension is understood to be worth £73,000 a year and he will also be entitled to a transitional allowance worth £117,000 when he steps down as an MEP in 2019, as the UK leaves the EU.”
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System

cogito wrote: »

What could we veto, exactly? Not very much since the EU are replacing it with QMV for nearly everything.

When it comes to voting the EU28 generally all vote the same way even on QMV matters.

You make it sound like the UK has been a lone voice of dissent against everything EU for forty years.

chris_m

Andy_L wrote: »

I for one welcome the return of lead-based paint and asbestos roofing post-brexit

And proper creosote for us mere non-professional mortals, please.

tracey3596

It's good to see you so concerned about UK city jobs gfplux, so here's another of those reports for you.

No Brexit exodus from London, Page Group says as it chalks up record profit

Mr Ingham added that while there may have been concerns that Brexit would make recruitment progressively harder, the contrary was true.
“Things aren’t getting worse,” he said. “In 2016 we were minus 3.5pc, in 2017 we were minus 3.8pc, so we’re roughly travelling at between three and four percent down in the UK, which isn’t a disaster, and I think that reassures them that we’re perhaps flat in terms of how we’re travelling, rather than it getting worse.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/01/10/no-brexit-exodus-london-page-group-says-chalks-record-profit/

tracey3596

To continue with city news:

Sterling surges after report Spain, Netherlands open to softer Brexit

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-markets-sterling/sterling-surges-after-report-spain-netherlands-open-to-softer-brexit-idUKKBN1F11PQ

Spanish and Dutch Agree to Seek Soft Brexit Deal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-12/spanish-and-dutch-are-said-to-agree-to-seek-soft-brexit-deal