And you might be more credible in your arguments if you addressed the points raised rather went off onto spurious discourses. Most often when you’ve been clearly shown to have failed to make any case at all for your claims.
Anyway, doesn’t matter. The tide of UK opinion has turned against Brexit; the only time in history a country has imposed economic sanctions on itself.
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Things ain’t changed much in this neck of the woods, pre-post Brexit, don’t think any folks round here want to work (or move) to mainland Europe.
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You’re making things up again. I’ve explained how working in the EU works it’s the same as any other country. All that free movement did was allow people over here to exploit cheap labour from the EU and in turn drive down wages and wage growth.
We haven’t actually left the EU either, we are still very much part of EU law, EU regulations and bound by the TCA, including stupid ideas like net zero which is damaging western economies all over the world as well. The sooner we bin the TCA and the Irish Protocol the better we will be, then we can start deleting licenses from the EU fishing fleet and forcing flag boats to return to UK ports. We can then begin to claim back our fisheries and repair the damage caused by factory fishing.
Diesel is much cheaper in Europe .
The interactive chart below shows how taxation on petrol and diesel (duty and VAT) has changed as a proportion of the pump price over time. Fuel duty is currently levied at a flat rate of 52.95p per litre for both petrol and diesel, while VAT at 20% is then charged on both the product price and the duty. Hover over the chart to see exact values.
I don’t know what that is supposed to prove but I can tell you diesel is much cheaper in Europe .
It’s disgraceful how diesel drivers are penalised in the U.K. .
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And I didn’t know what your post was supposed to mean, yup majority of our petrol prices are made up of tax, so what, I think that tax on petrol etc is better than tax on earnings.
Tax on fuel raises the price of everything as everything needs to be transported…
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So much has changed, how can someone post a benefit against a consistently changing Backdrop?
I thought it was you saying this. Seems not. Try harder.
But it is excellent news that our PM has never been more “optimistic”. I have high hopes. I truly want the UK to do better. Really. Truly. Not joking. My savings depend on it.
My only concern is that in my experience optimism is not the same as a plan or clarity or certainty. Optimism is a bit more like assumption. And you know what they say…
We can only hope.
We need to escalate this to “GLOBAL” discussing an individual countries progression is just stupid!!!
Well, that must lead to a biased conversation.
Fair point but surely pretty much all of us have a similar vested interest in the no-going success of the UK’s economy. So we all suffer from the same bias, do we not?
Yup and we’ve always had high petrol prices due to taxes so really can’t see why this was brought up on a thread discussing Brexit.
It’s the same with our domestic fuel prices.
Somebody brought it up
Whenever I hear this I feel a sense of impending doom.
That sense of doom won’t last that long. The PM is already starting talks with the EU to improve the trading relationship between them and the UK. This is the slow, slow turn away from the hardest possible Brexit (still longed for by a minority). When the tories are kicked out of government in the 2024 election the pace of change back to a closer relationship with the EU will pick up. It is inevitable, already understood as necessary (except for by a minority) and will mark the turnaround of the UK’s economic situation.
Note, I’m not suggesting any rejoining of the EU, that has been kicked into the long grass for many, many years.
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The post before mine was:
Diesel is much cheaper in Europe .
So no I didn’t bring it up and as I say I can’t understand what that post had to do with Brexit.
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Diesel is so expensive in the UK because of UK taxation its nothing to do with the EU, it never has been.
The cheapest diesel is outside the EU anyway, countries such as Turkey, USA South Korea etc.
I agree with Wendeey, I don’t understand what this has to do with Brexit.
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