Impact of no-deal Brexit on grocery prices

[sanity clause]

City firms revealed in the final months of 2020 that they planned to shift nearly £100bn in assets to the EU, taking the total value of assets lost to the bloc since the Brexit vote to £1.3 trillion, according to a new survey.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... -eu-survey

[Sarah]

Nigel Farage quits as Reform UK leader in step back from party politics


Cold War Steve

[Richard Frost]

Apparantly he annouced yesterday that he was retiring from politics. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/fa ... r-BB1ekMKW https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/n ... r-BB1ekxXI or did he?

[blythburgh]

Apparantly he annouced yesterday that he was retiring from politics. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/fa ... r-BB1ekMKW https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/n ... r-BB1ekxXI or did he?

Retiring as head of a party going nowhere. Free to make money hand over fist and keep his ego intact by talking to the media as much as possible

[Sarah]

UK trade with Germany well and truly off a cliff... the longer the UK stays out of the EU / single market, the longer and less likely the recovery...

Jan. 2021 vs Jan. 2020

German exports to:
-8.0% total
-6.0% EU
+3.1% China
-29.0% UK

German imports from:
-9.8% total
-5.9% EU
+1.1% China
-56.2% UK

https://twitter.com/DennisNovy/status/1 ... 56736?s=20

[blythburgh]

We remainers have been asked not to gloat. I am not gloating just weeping over this news

[pabenny]

To be fair, January trade may have been influenced by lockdown, unwinding of pre-Brexit stockpiling, etc. We really need more data before we can draw any conclusions.

[blythburgh]

To be fair, January trade may have been influenced by lockdown, unwinding of pre-Brexit stockpiling, etc. We really need more data before we can draw any conclusions.

I agree. I did not mentally say "told you so" when I heard the news. And "Today" programme also said amount of lorries going back to Europe has returned to pre Brexit levels. But that is like saying the sun is shining somewhere in the world. What information we need from the Govt. is not how many lorries are going to Europe but the percentage of them that are returning empty. I know this was happening at the start of January and hoping that figure has gone down dramatically. I may be a remainer but Brexit happened and I want our companies to prosper

[Sarah]

Were R4 quoting David Frost? I'd treat that claim with considerable scepticism... the stockpile argument is highly plausible, whereas "teething problems" far less so, whilst the govt does little or nothing to resolve the barriers to trade that they've erected.

https://twitter.com/DavidHenigUK/status ... 73505?s=20

[blythburgh]

Were R4 quoting David Frost? I'd treat that claim with considerable scepticism... the stockpile argument is highly plausible, whereas "teething problems" far less so, whilst the govt does little or nothing to resolve the barriers to trade that they've erected.

https://twitter.com/DavidHenigUK/status ... 73505?s=20

The quote was from "the Govt." if memory serves me right. But it is the number of empty lorries crossing the channel we need to know.