Hard Brexit or Hard Brexit

[Alan B]

And, of course, in the 'all-electric' future, there will have to be miles and miles of charging points for the hundreds of HGVs, each with a 300kWh battery (or bigger). That extra power requirement (as a result of Brexit) would need a separate power generation facility just to keep the refrigerated HGVs going.

[laklak]

Yah but solar. And "the rich" can pay for it all.

[Rum]

We can by more power from the EU...oh wait..

[DRSB]

At least people have jobs and full-time at that!

https://www.ft.com/content/cf51e840-714 ... tlhomepage

With the unemployment rate down to 4.2 per cent between March and May — its lowest rate since the mid 1970s — the labour market has strengthened significantly since the EU referendum. This is the main exception to the disappointing data.

Not only is employment up, but most of the growth has been in full-time jobs; the number of people in part-time jobs and in self-employment has remained constant since the Brexit vote. The end of the boom in self-employment has reduced concerns that people were setting up in business because they could not find any other work.

[Scot Dutchy]

At least people have jobs and full-time at that!

https://www.ft.com/content/cf51e840-714 ... tlhomepage

With the unemployment rate down to 4.2 per cent between March and May — its lowest rate since the mid 1970s — the labour market has strengthened significantly since the EU referendum. This is the main exception to the disappointing data.

Not only is employment up, but most of the growth has been in full-time jobs; the number of people in part-time jobs and in self-employment has remained constant since the Brexit vote. The end of the boom in self-employment has reduced concerns that people were setting up in business because they could not find any other work.

More lies courtesy of ONS. ONS does not issue real data because it has none. It guestimates data by using algorithms. Just comparing the results and making claims. It does not know how many people actually live in the country.

[Brian Peacock]

Get over yourself and go and check the data. The ONS are not God - they don't deal in absolutes. All you're doing is playing the #FAKENEWS game with a different name.

[Scot Dutchy]

Get over yourself and go and check the data. The ONS are not God - they don't deal in absolutes. All you're doing is playing the #FAKENEWS game with a different name.

OOH Long toes? Read this:
Official immigration figures are known to be inaccurate – so what about the rest our national statistics?

It would be wrong to write-off all statistics as inherently dodgy, but the figures have to be subject to expert challenge – and the ONS should be more receptive to such scrutiny

UK overestimates non-EU students staying illegally, data suggests

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41030304

FT is not happy either:

UK’s official statistics cannot be trusted

It is quite a moment when a trusted national statistical agency reveals that it has lost its independence from central government. That happened last week in Britain. As of Thursday, the Office for National Statistics is no longer producing consistent and reliable estimates of the public finances. Worse, the mistakes it has made would have been easily avoidable if it had learnt a simple lesson from the financial crisis.

All fake news of course. ONS has not got a clue who lives in and out of the country. Nothing is registered.

[Scot Dutchy]

Ozzies dont miss a trick:

How Australia's meat industry plans to flood post-Brexit Britain with products banned in EU

Exclusive: Campaigners and farmers concerned by removal of 'technical barriers' to trade with Australia that could cause influx of lower quality products

[JimC]

Let them eat Kangaroo!

[Scot Dutchy]

Bloody 'orrible mate.

[Hermit]

Ozzies dont miss a trick:

How Australia's meat industry plans to flood post-Brexit Britain with products banned in EU

Exclusive: Campaigners and farmers concerned by removal of 'technical barriers' to trade with Australia that could cause influx of lower quality products

Good news for the poms. They need no longer travel half way around the globe to enjoy the greatest delicacy on earth: Live witchetty grubs.

[Scot Dutchy]

Is there anything that is not eaten in Ozland.

[Hermit]

Klompen

[Scot Dutchy]

A bit woody

[cronus]

Apparently a hard brexit would cost the EU 500bn EUs...most of the bill will land on smaller countries like the Nederlands. The EU only grows by consuming the economies of more countries. Classic pyramid scheme. First one out is the winner.