Brexit referendum result aftermath

[EvilC]

My bad. A pay wall.
There is no need for trade barriers. And we can arrange new trade deals else where.
This article was about how Germany was a manufacturing power house. Now it is struggling with imports and exports.

You are diverting away from the point. But:
1) There is a need for trade barriers. Every country has them.
2) If there is no need, why did we just sign up to them and why did you support doing so?

Germany is a manufacturing powerhouse. It is not doing well at present. That does not mean that Brexit has not had a negative economic impact and that the reasons for that are not obvious.

[666 hammer]

Brexit will have a impact. It was meant to. Otherwise there would be no point. Most leavers never expected it to be green all the way. No economy ever is.
The point I am obviously failing to make, is how can the OBR manage to successfully pin point the exact impact of Brexit whilst economies around the world are down. No one is importing or exporting as they once where. Inflation is not increasing on EU products alone.

[EvilC]

They have explained how they did it in their report.

[Junco Partner]

Small thing to keep an eye on from yesterday in Stormont...

A paper was put before the NI Assembly asking for consent to continue with the Protocol checks at the NI ports. Seems this is a legal requirement and requires cross-community consent as defined by MLA's designations in the assembly, and so no funds for wages, infrastructure and admin to conduct them can be released without it.

So far so mundane...

As every single unionist MLA is strangely opposed to the 'Union-Breaking' Protocol the chances of it getting consent was zero. Knowing this, SF vetoed allowing the paper on to the agenda and so it's not happened.

So far so NI politics, one says white the other says black repeat to infinity...

However the legal position now appears to be that the checks cannot continue and will eventually stop.

So far so what...

As the NIP was a part of the WA then it certainly turns up the heat on Truss' February deadline to fix the protocol problems and depending on how the EU react to this, and they have been a bit huffy recently it could bring down the whole WA.

Stay tuned....

[Big George]

Well this is stupid.
I'm 55 this year and wouldn't l know where to start

[Hummer_I_mean_Hammer]

Time to dust off those sun dial's people. No need for things like atomic clocks when you have such concise measurements.

[dasnutnock3]

After spending £55B with their friends, they’ll conclude that everything is fine right now.

[Ralph Mellish]

Can we have the old money back as well please ?

[alf git]

Never stopped using them. The metric system can f**k right off.

[Big George]

Never stopped using them. The metric system can f**k right off.

quarter of humbugs Alf?

[Clacton-ammer]

I use both systems in fairness as I work in manufacturing, I still use imperial mostly for DIY, told my son to get some 4x2's to repair his fence posts, he said what? I said around 100mm x 50mm by 6ft, oh ok, why didn't you sat that the first time - the 6' comment was irony on my part...

I did get round there though and he had 3 Jewish men in his room, so not all his upbringing has been lost..

[alf git]

quarter of humbugs Alf?

You can keep your 113g of bon bons

[Rays Rock]

I use both systems in fairness as I work in manufacturing, I still use imperial mostly for DIY, told my son to get some 4x2's to repair his fence posts, he said what? I said around 100mm x 50mm by 6ft, oh ok, why didn't you sat that the first time - the 6' comment was irony on my part...

I did get round there though and he had 3 Jewish men in his room, so not all his upbringing has been lost..

I find it so much quicker using and planning in feet and inches for jobs that require new parts to be made.
There are still many everyday manufacturing and machinery items that still use imperial measurements as its basis. For example the vast majority of drive chains in use tend to be in imperial pitch.

[Johnny Byrne's Boots]

Interesting that The Rest Of The World has kept our imperial dimensions and translated them into odd metrics

[delbert]

I use both systems in fairness as I work in manufacturing, I still use imperial mostly for DIY, told my son to get some 4x2's to repair his fence posts, he said what? I said around 100mm x 50mm by 6ft, oh ok, why didn't you sat that the first time - the 6' comment was irony on my part...

I did get round there though and he had 3 Jewish men in his room, so not all his upbringing has been lost..

We all do in one way or another. We buy our fuel in litres and then measure distance in miles, as a nation we're pretty much measurement fluid and fashionably non binary in that respect.......

[Greatest Hits Vol1]

This is how we measured things in Canada.

[Monkeybubbles]

The technological future is nanoscale. Imperial measurements are far too unwieldy, even the yanks use SI in nano applications.

[Greatest Cockney Rip Off]

So. About this claim that the EU guaranteed peace in Europe ... anybody care to elaborate on how that's working out right now?

[westham,eggyandchips]

So. About this claim that the EU guaranteed peace in Europe ... anybody care to elaborate on how that's working out right now?

Are Ukraine and Russia in Europe?

[Danny's Dyer Acting]

So. About this claim that the EU guaranteed peace in Europe ... anybody care to elaborate on how that's working out right now?

A non EU member invading another non EU member but you crack on and use it to try to boost perception of a failing experiment

Dead classy that.