Impact of no-deal Brexit on grocery prices

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Re: Impact of no-deal Brexit on grocery prices

Post by sanity clause » Tue Mar 02 2021 9:23am

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
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Re: Impact of no-deal Brexit on grocery prices

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Re: Impact of no-deal Brexit on grocery prices

Post by Richard Frost » Mon Mar 08 2021 9:07am

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?
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Re: Impact of no-deal Brexit on grocery prices

Post by blythburgh » Mon Mar 08 2021 9:42am

Richard Frost wrote:
Mon Mar 08 2021 9:07am
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
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Re: Impact of no-deal Brexit on grocery prices

Post by Sarah » Thu Mar 11 2021 4:37am

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
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Re: Impact of no-deal Brexit on grocery prices

Post by blythburgh » Thu Mar 11 2021 9:19am

We remainers have been asked not to gloat. I am not gloating just weeping over this news
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Re: Impact of no-deal Brexit on grocery prices

Post by pabenny » Thu Mar 11 2021 10:12am

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.
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Re: Impact of no-deal Brexit on grocery prices

Post by blythburgh » Fri Mar 12 2021 9:46am

pabenny wrote:
Thu Mar 11 2021 10:12am
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
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Re: Impact of no-deal Brexit on grocery prices

Post by Sarah » Fri Mar 12 2021 11:28am

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
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Re: Impact of no-deal Brexit on grocery prices

Post by blythburgh » Sat Mar 13 2021 9:12am

Sarah wrote:
Fri Mar 12 2021 11:28am
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.
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