Are you doing this after your posts?
It not an insult, but if it’s hitting close to home, don’t take it personal.
Why do you always question comment that seem to oppose you, with explanation and say nothing about the school yard name calling that brush stroke groups of people. One I don’t understand why the attempt to degrade an African American?
Lady I do it all day long. And yes I do it in my sleep. Anymore questions
How did that ruin ruin Britain?
It didn’t Robin, it was never executed to it’s full potential by the people in charge who never wanted to leave in the first place.
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People were not happy about Europeans coming here to do the jobs we didn’t want to do. At least they could leave their families at home and were close enough to pop back to see them instead of bringing their child and partner. Our economy was thriving before Brexit. There were plenty of jobs and people could afford food and holidays.
We now have to get workers from the other side of the world and they are bringing their families. Net migration was 900k the last counted year to June 2023. Brexit hasn’t stopped the boats, we have more and more people coming here from non-EU countries. Yet still not enough people to staff our hospitals or farms. Since Brexit our migration from non EU has exploded. The total opposite of what many voted for. Most of the people coming here aren’t planning to leave any time soon and they just keep coming. In the meantime the government have been building tower blocks everywhere without the infrastructure to support this incoming population. So we have poo in the sea because even our creaking sewer system can’t cope. We also have a resurgence of long-forgotten illnesses such as polio.
There is no zero feelgood factor in Britain. Politics have gone haywire. We have had x number of leaders in a handful of years. Still no clear economic policy and experimental approaches which have cost us £xxxbillions. We apparently have a “black hole” in our finances.
Supply chains are a mess. You used to be able to buy anything here. Now it’s a case of empty shelves half the time or just getting used to the fact that goods are no longer available. The report below is just about London and is just up to 2023. Since 2023 things have gotten much worse. It’s now like living in a developing economy. Even my most pro Brexit friends are no longer saying this has worked out.
The new government is trying to create closer ties with the EU because nobody benefits from this mess. You don’t put such shoddy arrangements through without a plan.
Does Trump have a plan for his tariff proposals? Given his track record I doubt it. My impression is that this is a bluff as I’ve already said. If he does go ahead then he is stupider than I thought. He likes to play these games to make people jump up and down, but he is in danger of crying wolf too many times and that’s why the financial markets aren’t swaying too much with his announcement.
Nonsense!
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you will have to do better than that OGF!
UK economy has grown faster than Germany, Italy, and Japan and at a similar rate to France (end-Q2 2016 – Q3 2023)04
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excuses, excuses. Brexit has totally failed. We have record net migration - population was 65m in 2016 it’s now nearly 70m. We do not even have the latest figures. There’s zero feelgood factor and it’s down to the economic and political mess of the last 8 years.
I thought it was asylum seekers
99,790 people claimed asylum in the UK in the year ending September 2024, which was 1% more than in the year ending September 2023. Of these, 77,066 were main applicants and 22,724 were dependants.
We have zero feelgood factor here Robin and the economy is a mess. Comparative economics are worthless when looking at EU countries because they will have been affected by Brexit too. It’s lose:lose. Japan - we have nothing in common with.
Whatever growth there is in being frittered away by multi billionaire foreign investors. Ordinary people are being fleeced for the highest taxes ever (admitted by our chancellor). Ordinary people are suffering in a way they haven’t since the worst times of the 1970s. It is starting to feel like those dark days.
most of the migration to the UK is not via the asylum seeking route. People come here legally and then “disappear”. I’m sure the same happens in the US.
Just on my way out to the seaside Annie…Catch yer later…
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I don’t see how any of this has to do with BritEx
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Your fish and chips may get a bit soggy today.
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what’s britex? Sounds like shoe polish or toothpaste
Ok but the context in which you applied it was not two kids in a playground - which the level of mentality we have here. Childish tit for tat. However the context you referred to was a US President making a decision and subsequent UIS President using that as rational and justification for something much bigger, greater consequences and much more wrong. This would truly pathetic behaviour - typical of Trump. What is also pathetic is any support or admiration for such behaviour.
Net migration is the number of people coming to the UK minus the number leaving. It has been a major component of population growth in the UK over the past two decades, making up 60% of population growth from 2004 to 2022.
When was BritEx? 2004
Give some examples to justify this claim. Or is it more empty name calling…