what you may not realise is if EU produce becomes more expensive the UK cn say well we can accept the higher price but we want higher standard. EG we only really grab champagne because its a higher quality. the other vinegar fruit stuff we dont care about
yes we would accept less quality stuff. but it would only be accepted if cheaper. so dont expect high price low quality. expect high price high quality low price low quality.. much like what we currently have with supermarkets 'basics' range and 'luxury range'... and everything else in between
our shelves will not go empty
by the way. EU accepts horse meat. but as a few year ago proved. we just said no. so we do have higher standards
Yes that's true. A lot of the meat we already buy comes from biritish farmers and as long as they're well funded I won't see any difference there (or even if the prices go up as they're classed as a higher quality).
I'd be happier to pay higher for good quality and potentialy lower for low quality (for certain people who can't afford the higher quality of product).
The basics and luxury producrt range is a good analogy like we have at the moment it definitely means consumers are trying to demand a higher quality in products if they can feel the differece (like me).
boris didnt really have a fist of power before. he was just a stand-in actor after T Mays resignation. but now as a elected leader he doesnt have to just be a speaker but a pusher.
(i am very much anti tory. but my mindset is outside of the tory drama and about the reality of economic change no matter who is in charge)
we already know worse case scenarios. and they aint that bad. its all just been drama of making it all sound bad just to make other countries not want to follow suit, enmasse
No the worst case scenario wasn't so bad, I think the BoE predicted a loss of 7% to our gdp if we had no deal at all so it probably sin't too catastrophic (I wouldn't like to be living paycheck to paycheck though in these times).
I think the three to four years of stagnation has led me to ignore the reasons I would have liked to leave iin the first place (i.e different labour sources since we would have more immigration from asia and africa and a few other places rather than just the EEA). There's also a bit of protection on better customs checks.
In the past we've always been on the same page with a lot of Europe (at least in the recent past) and it would be good for that to continue, I notice a lot of legislation is shared and copied between countries and I assume that will still be a thing since the UK was driving for privacy controls with Germany, Finland on its animal welfare and farming practises, France on it's stances against the US on certain issues.
Most people are probably in denial/disappointed by the vote for tory (since they only got 44% - not exactly the landslide predicted).
these days all political party lack any credible pledges/promises. so it just become a 'just get on with it' vote
I was really hoping for a hung parliament of probably 300 conservative, 250 labour and 50 snp, it was the only way I could see a good decision come of this because now the conservatives may be able to get a really bad deal through parliament without much resistance. (I had given up on assuming that the conservatives wouldn't have some sort of majority as they convinced the working class literally everyone else was the enimy and it was only them who could stop them)...
we trade with loads of countries. yes we will have extra favour with america but that doesnt make them our sole puppet master of produce supply. we will still trade with other countries. we are not trading an eu puppet master for a us puppet master. we are basically.. using a analogy even teenagers would understand.. leaving our parents home and setting up our own bachelors pad and letting more random girls come over and offer their services instead of being spoon fed by mommy and daddy EU.
Yep again, as long as our standards remain particularly high and as you mentioned with the horse meat issue the government was fairly fast to find it in supermarkets.
And as someone mentioned above, the worst that can happen is we pay 12% extra for food. Also, if you look into certain products, I think the shippers make a huge cut on some of them (I have a contact from spain who said a lot of the fruit and veg there was a lot cheaper than it is here - I forget the speciifics - shippers and truck drivers certainly amount to the extra costs of imported food, I did a case study on it with a few economists a while back and it was a very profitible industry).
Also coroporation tax is going down to 17% (I think it's 19) so that might allow for some losses due to a bad departure.
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