It’s ignorance but more than that it’s a sure sign of no viable argument .
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My post wasn’t a comment on the poster but on the way in which the posts came across to the reader - quick fired one liners with no context. I apologise if I offended you, that wasn’t my intention it was just a light hearted comment as far as I was concerned.
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I’ve never read more opinions from both sides of the debate anywhere else. People do like to keep reiterating them over and over, so the debate probably will keep going and going and going. Me? I enjoyed a sunny day, ate lunch that consisted of a couple of cheese rolls, radishes, best quality baby tomatoes, black grapes, a stick of celery and a few dried apricots. All bought from our local supermarket where they were in plentiful supply.
Said goodbye to our Son and Grandson today. They have been staying with us for ten days but have now gone home to Germany. They had no trouble getting here. If my Son was typing this, he would tell you that Thursday’s delays were definitely not due to Brexit but more down to the sheer number of people wanting to get away to the Continent via Dover. I think we should be using a few different ports in order to overcome that. Passports are not a problem ordinarily at non-peak times of the year.
He just sent me a video of his approach to the ferry at Dover on (Friday 7.00 p,m). There were NO cars at all queuing. Just goes to show that if you don’t worry so much about this Brexit business and don’t blame everything on it, normal life is completely possible. Things aren’t too bad here all in all. Our Son has lived 35 years in Germany. So long that Germans can’t detect his English roots when he talks.
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Yup, it can and will
Or until we put right the huge stupidity that is Brexit and rejoin the EU.
Thank you for clarifying that your post was not a comment on me.
Last person standing? 
Still trying to come up with a benefit 
difficult!
Nope can’t think of one .
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Hi
It was nothing to do with the EU, we had destroyed our manufacturing entirely on out own
A unique combination of bad management, badly led Unions and lazy politicians.
One of my hopes was that leaving would force our Politicians to accept their failings, they could no longer blame the EU, but they still do.
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Another Brexit benefit - not having to pay billions in covid recovery funding.
Winner !
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The UK’s economy is now around 15% larger than that of France.
Another Brexit win !
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The EU broke the GFA and the TCA agreements by putting a hard border down the island of Ireland
The EU basically nationalised vaccines while the UK were the first to introduce and vaccinate the population.
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We have an FTA with the EU through the TCA.
We also have way more FTAs with the rest of the world than we ever did as EU members. Leaving the single market made this possible, while the EU remains a declining market forecast to reduce its world trade to about 10% in the next few years. The UK is increasing year on year since leaving, also beating the EU on inflation, unemployment levels and just about everything else.
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That has never been the case, the EU’s trade with the rest of the world has been restricted by single market rules on imports which has held back the UK in global trade.
The UKs biggest trading partner is the USA which was the case as an EU member.
Correct - inflation in the UK is lower than the EU.
Sunak and Hunt are kicking this down the road because they are remainers, this is not what Brexit was to deliver. However, the EU was months and months behind the UK in vaccine approvals, all because the MHRA unlinked from the EMA and binned the red tape to deliver the vaccines quicker.
It is not saving British fishing because we are still under the CFA. British fishing is being destroyed because of the EU, not the other way around.
There is no shortage of fresh veg. The UK imports of produce have increased from around the world, outside the EU. Shortages remain within the EU.
There you are mate.
Some facts
Happy Easter.
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Both the US and the EU are investing billions into their post-Covid recovery programme. These are very much along the lines of the Roosevelt’s ‘New Deal’. That is, investment by the state in key projects or key industry sectors can stimulate growth. This was very successful in 1930’s America. The EU has broad range of such investments underway and in planning.
By contrast, the UK is focusing on more austerity. And if it can afford it, some tax cuts. Naturally, the UK will receive none of the EU’s investment programme. So far this does not look like a Brexit benefit.
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Kind of low on facts though. PS no veg shortages here in the EU. Got that one wrong, along with all the others. Clothing and food prices have not gone down. Red tape is because of Brexit. The UK was not months ahead of the EU with the vaccine deployment (and could have approved the AZ vaccine early whilst in the EU). You need to get out more…
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“Now”?
2015 - UK GDP was $2.9 trillion, France GDP was $2.4 trillion (UK was 21% higher)
2022 - UK GDP was $3.3 trillion, France GDP was $2.9 trillion (UK was 14% higher)
And this is meant to be a benefit of Brexit? I think you need to check some facts before you make such posts.
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You have absolutely no idea do you.
Austerity in the UK was brought about by voting in a labour government. Everyone knows, a vote for labour is a vote for austerity further down the line.
The EU isn’t investing anything, the EU is nothing like the USA or the UK because it has no centralised treasury or a single EU taxation system and it can’t adjust its interest rates like we can. The EU has to pay back the trillion euros of debt to the ECB and with inflation so high now in the EU that trillion of debt is getting exponentially bigger. As a consequence expect more raids on pensions and mass unemployment as taxation will go through the roof to try and pay it off.
Socialism eh 
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I work with the Pharma regulators. Stop talking shite.
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UK GDP is 3.13 Trillion USD and growing
Get your facts right
P.S. the UK isn’t on fire either like Paris.
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