Can you imagine the hue and cry we’d have heard from the airlines and holidaymakers if we had closed everything down before it was obvious to even the thickest in society just how bad things were getting last year?
Early last summer, I was questioned by a friend worried by the ‘good figure’ of 20,000 deaths; I said “Add a zero”.
Isn’t hindsight perfect!
Re: Brexit
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2021 9:06 am
by tuffers#1
Orient_Man_And_Boy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 13, 2021 6:03 am
Can you imagine the hue and cry we’d have heard from the airlines and holidaymakers if we had closed everything down before it was obvious to even the thickest in society just how bad things were getting last year?
Early last summer, I was questioned by a friend worried by the ‘good figure’ of 20,000 deaths; I said “Add a zero”.
Orient_Man_And_Boy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 13, 2021 6:03 am
Can you imagine the hue and cry we’d have heard from the airlines and holidaymakers if we had closed everything down before it was obvious to even the thickest in society just how bad things were getting last year?
Early last summer, I was questioned by a friend worried by the ‘good figure’ of 20,000 deaths; I said “Add a zero”.
Isn’t hindsight perfect!
Brexit caused 200k deaths ?
I must have missed that one
Yer, sorry about the 'Fake News'. Had paged over from a C-19 conversation that was making my blood boil. Good to see someone's awake.
all being russhed through before the next Northern irish
assembly election no doubt , as its pretty much going to be the
close to being a non unionist leader of the assembly .
But Johnson won't like it. He does not want peace/ co-operation. He needs to keep the EU haters and racists (devotees of the SUN, DT, DE, etc) engaged and fuming in order to keep himself in the job and cultivate his ego glory.
Re: Brexit
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 8:51 am
by Long slender neck
Looks like the eu rolled over for us.
Re: Brexit
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 9:28 am
by Ronnie Hotdogs
Prestige Worldwide wrote: ↑Thu Oct 14, 2021 8:51 am
Looks like the eu rolled over for us.
Not likely, they’ve been needlessly difficult and the troublemakers throughout negotiations. Haven’t they?
But Johnson won't like it. He does not want peace/ co-operation. He needs to keep the EU haters and racists (devotees of the SUN, DT, DE, etc) engaged and fuming in order to keep himself in the job and cultivate his ego glory.
Johnson has no control of Peace over there .
If he thinks he does there will be a loud bang near him very soon .
The impact of Brexit on the UK economy will be worse in the long run compared to the coronavirus pandemic, the chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility has said.
Richard Hughes said leaving the EU will reduce the UK's potential GDP by about 4% in the long term.
He said forecasts showed the pandemic would reduce GDP "by a further 2%".
"In the long term it is the case that Brexit has a bigger impact than the pandemic", he told the BBC.
His comments come after the OBR said the cost of living could rise at its fastest rate for 30 years, with suggestions inflation could hit almost 5%.
Speaking after Wednesday's Budget, Mr Hughes said recent data showed the impact of Brexit was "broadly consistent" with the OBR's assumption that the leaving the EU would "reduce our long run GDP by around 4%".
Re: Brexit
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2021 9:24 pm
by Max B Gold
This can't be right we were promised prosperity and sunlit uplands not a shrinking economy and seas full of sh*t.
Re: Brexit
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2021 9:45 pm
by tuffers#1
Project away with fadge & the fairies maxy
Re: Brexit
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2021 11:39 pm
by Long slender neck
Why don't you live in Ireland? You clearly are unhappy here.
Re: Brexit
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2021 12:32 am
by Max B Gold
Prestige Worldwide wrote: ↑Wed Oct 27, 2021 11:39 pm
Why don't you live in Ireland? You clearly are unhappy here.
Wow. Blatant racism in the "Paddies go home the famine is over" style.
Admin needs to relieve you of your duties. Totally unacceptable
Re: Brexit
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2021 1:31 am
by Adz
Surely a 4% drop in GDP is worth it for all the other benefits of brexit
Re: Brexit
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2021 8:32 am
by Give it to Jabo
Adz wrote: ↑Thu Oct 28, 2021 1:31 am
Surely a 4% drop in GDP is worth it for all the other benefits of brexit
Please remind of these…..
Re: Brexit
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2021 11:05 am
by tuffers#1
Prestige Worldwide wrote: ↑Wed Oct 27, 2021 11:39 pm
Why don't you live in Ireland? You clearly are unhappy here.
Im awaiting a 50k re-settlement fee.
if you want you can always set up a go fund me page
Adz wrote: ↑Thu Oct 28, 2021 1:31 am
Surely a 4% drop in GDP is worth it for all the other benefits of brexit
Please remind of these…..
Tory MP types getting incredibly rich ?
Re: Brexit
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2021 12:53 pm
by BoniO
Hey-ho, it's going to get worse ..........
"The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) had assumed leaving the EU would “reduce our long run gross domestic product by around 4 per cent”, adding: “We think that the effect of the pandemic will reduce that (GDP) output by a further 2 per cent,” its chief Richard Hughes said.
OBR chief Richard Hughes
Hughes’ comments to the BBC came only hours after the OBR responded to Rishi Sunak’s latest Budget by saying it expected inflation to reach 4.4 per cent while warning it could hit “the highest rate seen in the UK for three decades”.
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