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Thread #165570 Message #3976536
Posted By: Steve Shaw
13-Feb-19 - 01:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Brexit #3: A futile gesture?
Subject: RE: BS: Brexit #3: A futile gesture?
You want some good brexit news? Well yertis, courtesy of a chap posting a comment to a Guardian piece (the one about Theresa May's policy on mouldy jam):
As Rome burns by a Tory flame thrower; and Ian Blackford’s laser like critique of May’s rhetorical guff, Brexit pain is clearly for the little people only while the elite ship off and ship out: - UK has rolled over just £16bn out of £117bn trade deals – 13% success rate, nice one Foxy, Geeza job, a’can do that…. - Anti-terror checks deliver fresh Brexit threat for UK hauliers. - Targeted no-deal Brexit ads are funded opaquely, yet the government has failed to bring in new laws – I wonder why? - The Dutch government has said it is in talks with more than 250 companies about moving their operations from the UK to the Netherlands before Brexit. - As the GB pound tanks on the international currency markets exiting Europe with a no deal Disaster Capitalist are set to swoop on Brexit Britain and seize assets of indebted UK companies and Public Sector organisations. - The UK’s trade with Japan will revert to World Trade Organisation tariffs in the case of a no-deal Brexit. - The Department for International Trade (DIT) told business leaders this week that time was running out for Britain to roll-over trade deals with about 60 countries the EU has free trade arrangements with, - Boris Johnson suggests that leaving the EU will allow us to dismantle green standards for electrical goods and environmental impact assessments. - Iain Duncan Smith asks for the removal after Brexit of the carbon floor price, which has more or less stopped coal-burning in the UK. - With Liam Fox is demanding the destruction of food and environmental standards as the price of the trade deal he desperately seeks with the US. - Jacob Rees-Mogg has proposed that we accept “emission standards from India”. “We could say, if it’s good enough in India, it’s good enough for here.” - Brexit Snowflakes melt in huge numbers causing widespread gushing of crocodile tears due to the heat from Donald Tusk. - UK financial sector has shifted at least £800 billion ($1 trillion) worth of assets out of UK into the EU because of Brexit, with consequential losses in tax receipts to HMT. - Britain’s economy is contracting – James Knightly of IGN. - Brexit's vice-like grip is hurting services industry -Duncan Brock at the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply. - Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) plunges to a 2 ½ year low due to Tory Brexit shambles. - 200 000 British applied for Irish passports in 2018 to retain EU citizenship. - Tory refused six times to answer a question about what was on offer to Nissan. - Cold war plans revived to move Queen to safe location away if unrest follows no deal. - Nissan shelving plans to build new X-Trail in UK. - Government officials are preparing to deal with “putrefying stockpiles” of rubbish. - One in three UK firms plan for no-deal Brexit relocation – IOD. - More than one in 10 British businesses have already set up operations outside the UK. - British car manufacturing investment plunges by 50% - Food retailers now tell us we are 9 meals away from anarchy. - Royal Bank of Scotland to transfer a third of clients and assets worth billions to Amsterdam. - Barclays to move £170bn to Dublin over no-deal Brexit fears. - Media companies (Discovery; Comcast; NBC) have moved staff and broadcast licenses out of the UK. - Five of the largest banks transferring 750 billion euros ($857 billion) of assets to Frankfurt. - Unilever to consolidate its headquarters in Rotterdam, and not in London. - HSBC moving 1000 jobs from London to Paris, where it will set up its EU headquarters. - UBS to move 1000 jobs from London to EU offices, including Frankfurt. - 'May can no longer be trusted': Heavyweight European press condemns PM - NHS trusts 'could run out of medical supplies' without Brexit deal. – Birmingham Hospital Chief - British retirees in EU will lose free healthcare under no-deal Brexit. – DoH Select Committee - UK personal insolvencies hit seven-year high. – Insolvency Service - Corporate insolvencies are likely to continue to rise in 2019. – Menzies LLP - European Banking Authority from London to Paris. - European Medicines Agency relocates from London to Amsterdam. - Moneygram will move its EU headquarters from London to Brussels. - Dyson to Singapore. - Rees-Mogg to Dublin with two portfolios. - Farage to Germany with passports for his sons. - Lawson holed up in France. - Airbus UK about to fly out from UK. - Jim Ratcliffe, Britain’s richest man, reportedly moving to Monaco for tax purposes. - Panasonic moving its European HQ from the UK to The Netherlands. - Sony moving its European HQ from London to The Netherlands.