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She doesn't seem to realise how difficult it is going to be to extricate our WTO schedules from the EU and how it will be even more difficult to then change them.
Amazed she managed to say that with a straight face. Well, what passes for her straight face anyway.Oh the delicious irony in talking about how they wouldn't want to make people poorer to make a political point.![]()
Some months back, we were hosting a conference on fighting tax-avaidance. Now, we want to become a tax haven.
Plus there's basically a (corporate) tax haven right beside them that is in the EU.Such a blatant sabre-rattle. It's an empty threat too. There's a reason tax havens are usually in the middle of fecking nowhere. No major business will want to relocate to the UK for tax breaks, in the knowledge that the marketplace of 500 million people right beside the UK will do everything in its power to punish them for that decision.
Plus there's basically a (corporate) tax haven right beside them that is in the EU.
take back control.. maybe, kinda."might try" "some sort"
What a plan!
Such a blatant sabre-rattle. It's an empty threat too. There's a reason tax havens are usually in the middle of fecking nowhere. No major business will want to relocate to the UK for tax breaks, in the knowledge that the marketplace of 500 million people right beside the UK will do everything in its power to punish them for that decision.
depends if I interpret you waving goodbye as a slapNo. But if I slapped you in the face and then asked you to give me a tenner you'd be less inclined to give it to me than if I wasn't being a dick to you.
It's not that, the Remain camp want the UK to do well, but every time someone from the government say something another nail goes into the coffin of the UK
depends if I interpret you waving goodbye as a slap
Good, make the most of life outside the eu then
who knows, you want it to work out. Or did you mean you wanted the best for the uk by staying in the sigle market? which wasn't on the tableAnd how will they do that, seems like May wants to lose the main thing the UK cherishes, which is the City and services sector
No deal is better than a bad deal ? We'll walk out of the talks ? So, is no plan better than a bad plan ? Is it better not even to walk into the talks ? Maintain the current Irish border arrangement ? So, could people fly into Dublín, take the train to Belfast and a ferry to England ?
who knows, you want it to work out. Or did you mean you wanted the best for the uk by staying in the sigle market? which wasn't on the table
How will the EU respond to that and when ?
It is bull. The biggest impact on services is austerity and don't let anyone convince you otherwise.I have no problems with the idea that a population influx puts pressure on services, which is why Labour created the Migration Impact Fund, miserably low though it was. But why did the Tories get rid of it all together instead of increasing it to cope with the deficiencies ?
I'm not saying it's the biggest or the only impact, only that it is one. If you have 5 doctors for 200 people, then it goes up to 1000 people, there's an impact. The answer is more funding, not less. But also people were able to blame immigration for things they could see happening.He speech was full of ifs, but, hopefully, maybe
It is bull. The biggest impact on services is austerity and don't let anyone convince you otherwise.