Brexit, the economy and house prices part 5

Thrugelmir

Rinoa wrote: »

We had a manufacturing industry back then. 1972 was the peak year for car production - 46 years ago.

Then the Japanese arrived and showed how cars could be built. Hardly surprising that British Leyland rapidly fell into decline. Not helped by the likes of Red Robbo. Who if he was around today would be a close ally of Corbyn.

Thrugelmir

gfplux wrote: »

A free trade deal will sadly not stop the que of lorrys.
Even on the Calais side.

Then the UK will import food by other means. Or change it's eating habits by cutting back on imported product. UK supermarkets offering a far greater variety than found on mainland Europe in my personal experience.

BobQ

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Then the UK will import food by other means. Or change it's eating habits by cutting back on imported product. UK supermarkets offering a far greater variety than found on mainland Europe in my personal experience.

What other means? Do we have the port capacity or the airport capacity?

Thrugelmir

BobQ wrote: »

What other means? Do we have the port capacity or the airport capacity?

Running currently at around 30% capacity.

http://www.londongateway.com/

Huge investment has gone into the faclity.

Has rail as well as road access.

Calais is upgrading for good reason.

Arklight

Support the European citizens' initiative and complete this form to register your support for retaining EU citizenship post Brexit.

https://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/31/public/#/

Ideally there would be some mechanism for Brexit voters to be excluded if it goes through...

Moby

Arklight wrote: »

Would you like to just go back to 1973?

What do you mean....most Brexiteers still live in the fifties;)

Herzlos

Rinoa wrote: »

We'll do whatever we did before 1973. Don't recall any problems back then.

What bits of the 70's do you want to re-introduce?

I wasn't born then so I have no direct experience, but I'm pretty confident we have it better today within the eu.

Rinoa

Herzlos wrote: »

What bits of the 70's do you want to re-introduce?

I wasn't born then so I have no direct experience, but I'm pretty confident we have it better today within the eu.

Is it?

The vast majority of those who never experienced life before the EU voted remain.

Those of us who did overwhelmingly voted to leave.

How curious.

vivatifosi

Apologies this has been posted already, haven't kept up much over the past few days.

An amusing look at life before Brexit, from the FT:
https://www.ft.com/content/c60e01bc-2199-11e8-a895-1ba1f72c2c11

Rough_Justice

A survey carried out for the Telegraph says that voting intention is "largely unchanged since the referendum" but continues:

67 per cent of individuals, regardless of their voting preference, agreed that "the EU is trying to bully the UK" in its approach to the talks.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/03/10/two-three-people-believe-eu-trying-bully-uk-brexit/
If you have access it goes on to discuss the DWP data showing that eastern EU migrants receive more in welfare than UK citizens as well as paying less tax, a brief summary of which can be seen below.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5776790/eu-migrants-in-britain-claimed-more-than-4bn-of-handouts-in-a-year/