That's half the problem with the DUP, you see it in terms of victory, and you shouldn't play politics with peoples jobs and aspirationsJunco Partner wrote: ↑Mon Feb 27, 2023 6:58 pm If that's the case George it's a remarkable victory for the DUP, because the Protocol could NEVER be changed and withholding consent in Stormont wouldn't change anything......yet they've got 27 nations and the UK government to change it
Brexit referendum result aftermath
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As previously mentioned on here. Generally supermarket prices fluctuate across most of the EU. They seem to accept for the availability.
We benefit and generally the relatively stable prices suit most, until we struggle to source. Again, as mentioned, as in tomatoes now, it's easier ( no checks/ paperwork/ delays) and more profitable to move around the EU.
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So it's more expensive?Essexmaniac wrote: ↑Mon Feb 27, 2023 10:21 pm As previously mentioned on here. Generally supermarket prices fluctuate across most of the EU. They seem to accept for the availability.
We benefit and generally the relatively stable prices suit most, until we struggle to source. Again, as mentioned, as in tomatoes now, it's easier ( no checks/ paperwork/ delays) and more profitable to move around the EU.
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Not always but can be. At least it's more reliably available.
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Stella Creasey & Naomi Long ( Alliance Party leader) both put Baker in his place when he attempted to put the Windsor Agreement on par with the Good Friday Agreement.
Highlighting the division and mess created by Brexit and how good faith can lead to deals and compromise.
Highlighting the division and mess created by Brexit and how good faith can lead to deals and compromise.
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I'd say around double, but then bear in mind the minimum wage, in cantons where it exists, is around £20 per hour and salaries in general are much higher than the UK if you look at the £ equivalent (for example average nurses salary is around £100k per year although all healthcare is private so bound to be higher, but most salaries in general would be around double the UK)bubbles1966 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 27, 2023 6:00 pm A loaf of bread costs approximately three times as much as the UK according to a quick google. :shock:
Also the chf is very strong at the moment @ 1.13 chf/£....not that long ago it was over 2 chf/£ so things look at lot more expensive from a UK perspective than they are if you live here and are paid in chf. Its taken me 13 years but I've just about stopped working out what the £-equivalent of things is in my head.
Anyway, given all this, given the higher salaries but higher cost of living I don't particularly feel any better/worse off financially than when I lived in the UK
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Bible bashing prick. Must have been so hard on him spending 7 years removing my rights.
Re: Brexit referendum result aftermath
Words from our own PM - the penny is so close to dropping for these guysIf we get this right, if we get this framework implemented, if we get the executive back up and running here, Northern Ireland is in the unbelievably special position – unique position in the entire world, European continent – in having privileged access, not just to the UK home market, which is enormous, the fifth biggest in the world, but also the European Union single market. Nobody else has that. No one. Only you guys. Only here. And that is the prize.
I can tell you, when I go around the world and talk to businesses, they know. They’re like, ‘That’s interesting, if you guys get this sorted, then we want to invest in Northern Ireland.’
Because nowhere else does that that exist. That’s like the world’s most exciting economic zone.
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Northern Ireland can trade freely in the EU and into, for example, Australia via the UK Trade Portfolio. How many members of 'the single market' can do that?
Sooner or later, the penny will drop that the aim is a broader range of free trade deals specifically tailored to our domestic needs and free of any of the social encumbrances.
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Would Sunak be brave enough to try and take us back into the single market, now that he is preaching the value of what he took away from us all?
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Sounds great - I'd certainly agree to rejoining the single market and also being in the CPTPP. Wouldn't you?
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I don't believe that NI has effectively rejoined the SM. It has rejoined the SM for goods. I believe that is different.
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When will the 'aim' become actual reality for the rest of the UK?bubbles1966 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 28, 2023 2:15 pm Northern Ireland can trade freely in the EU and into, for example, Australia via the UK Trade Portfolio. How many members of 'the single market' can do that?
'The Single Market', continually devastated at total lack of boomerang-buying opportunities..
Sooner or later, the penny will drop that the aim is a broader range of free trade deals specifically tailored to our domestic needs and free of any of the social encumbrances.
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Well...
CPTPP is close, apparently.
Australia, New Zealand and enhanced Japan done. Canada upgrade in motion along with India.
The need to stop fixating on Europe is gaining increased traction in Europe.
CPTPP is close, apparently.
Australia, New Zealand and enhanced Japan done. Canada upgrade in motion along with India.
The need to stop fixating on Europe is gaining increased traction in Europe.
Sabine Weyand EC Trade lead, today wrote:“The west against the rest” would not be a solution, she said, as the “club of liberal democracies is just too small” – there would simply not be enough trading partners.
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He probably read some of the tweets on that bloke's account...