Comments by "" (@Iain1962) on "DW News" channel.

  1. +deschepper Indeed the UK will still have to follow the rules of the single market FOR THE GOODS it sells into the EU. This is the same as having to follow the rules for the goods it sells into the USA or anywhere else, about which we have no say on the regulations. However if we decide we want to have nice powerful vacuum cleaners in the UK we can, if we want to use incandescent light-bulbs, we can. As only about 4.5% of UK GDP actually goes to the EU, this will free up the other 95% of the country from having to follow ridiculous rules We can make our own decisions about what affects us. Do you understand sovereignty now?
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  2. deschepper Rubbish, we can choose our own light-bulbs and make our own arrangements. Norway does not apply all the rules. Only those it chooses to. And once again you fail to understand that in the EEA the UK would have to apply the rules to the goods it sells into the EU, that's all, not the goods sold domestically or exported to the US. We couldn't be in the EEA anyway because then there would have to be freedom of movement, so that option is not possible.  I don't believe freedom of movement is on the table, evidently immigration is a big issue if we end up with freedom of movement anyway after having left, there would have been no point in leaving, if there is no deal at all that would be fine with me it would harm the EU more than the UK.  
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  3. Nonsense, my goodness you are indoctrinated aren't you. I didn't say the vote was ALL about immigration, but it was a significant issue. You are wrong about Norway, they choose to apply most of the rules but they don't have to. The free movement between North and South Ireland was implemented in the 1920's, long before the EU was even dreamt of, so that will not change. The economy will not collapse if there is no agreement, first of all our goods exports to the EU is about 45% of our exports which is only about 9% of GDP so we are talking about 4% of GDP, even if we exported nothing at all to the EU that would not constitute a collapse, and tell me how those airbus planes are going to take off without the wings made in Wales and the Rolls Royce engines made in Derby? At most there would be a contraction of around 2%, and of course with all the extra trade we will be doing with the rest of the world there probably won't be any contraction at all probably in increase in growth, in the meantime, all those German and French cars (13% of French production goes to the UK) would be a lot more expensive in the UK and lose out to locally produced cars which would boost the internal economy. This would cause the stagnant EU economy to go into negative territory. It is going to hurt the EU a lot more than us. Wine from South Africa and Chile and Australia would be more competitive than French and Spanish and Italian wine, so they would lose out also. You seem to think that it is only possible to buy things from the EU, as we have our sovereignty back we can make trade deals with who we want and import from anywhere no need to be focussed on the EU any more, and we can also sell easier to the rest of the world as we are no longer bound by the extremely protectionist EU. The financial sector will not suffer, yes maybe they have to open an office in the EU somewhere with a handful of people, but the transactions will still be done through the City, just the paperwork will be done in the branch office. There are only positives from having left, if anybody has to worry it is the EU.
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  4. I suggest you look it up yourself Norway does not implement all the directives. The Irish and British PMs met two days ago and declared there would be no changes to the free movement rules. So you are wrong again. You don't need a trade agreement to trade, the EU does not have a trade agreement with China, but imports a massive amount, same with the USA. Trade agreements will not take years to negotiate because it will only be between the UK and the trading partner. It takes the EU years because they have to take into consideration the views and interests of 28 countries and the trading partner and they all have to agree, that's why they only have 31 active deals in 60 years of existence (and many of them are with such financial powers as the Faroe Isles, Jersey, and Albania). The financial sector will find a way it always does, and it won't need masses of people, as we are currently in the EU we are already applying all the rules at the moment so there is nothing new to learn or change except the address on the notepaper. As for article 50, well I agree with you on that let's invoke it straight away, or even better just repeal the 1972 European Communities Act which would mean we leave immediately.
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  5. You haven't explained anything, you've made a few sweeping wild generalisations and assumptions. Trade is not done between countries but between companies and people, yes a trade deal can make things easier but it isn't necessary. I would be more than happy with WTO rules with the EU and no deal, However it may have escaped your notice that loads of countries have lined up to establish trade deals with the UK since Brexit. (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, India, China, South Korea, Japan, Brazil, Ghana and even the USA who said we would be at the back of the queue) to name a few. By my reckoning that gives a market of some 3.5 billion people, 8 times bigger than the EU. We'll see who comes crawling to who...
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  6. Why would anybody protest tax cuts?
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  7.  @unconventionalideas5683  1000 or so deals pulled because of how they were structured. 1.5m housing transactions last year, so nearly 6000 every working day. it's hardly a panic by any measure, unless you read the Guardian in which case it's worse than Armageddon.
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  8.  @Mpl3564  Their energy bills have been frozen and they have a £400 handout to help pay for them, and the Ni tax increase has been dropped and there is a 1% tax cut for the bottom rate too. So that's pretty good really, I have no complaints. There is no recession in the UK, the problem is supply not demand. There is international chaos. Every currency tanked against the dollar last week. Now the GBP is at 1.12 higher than it was at the announcement; 1.08. So it has gone up. But you don't hear anything about it on the news....They only scream when it suits their agenda.
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  9. But it's not based on trickle down economics, it's more using the Laffer Curve. Why do you think tax cuts will result in less investments?
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  10.  @sands7779  Haha, right. Watch and see indeed, instead of having a tantrum. Changing capital gains tax (20%) would have almost no effect at all as it mostly concerns disposal of assets, you might encourage people to sell assets but that isn't going to help the economy at all, on the contrary.
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  11.  @tamsinthai  The mad harridan that turned a sinking British economy around? Indeed learning from history is a good thing.
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  12.  @GoingtoHecq  Eh? You'll have to explain that one.
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  13. There's nothing to be concerned about in the UK. The Dollar is artificially strong because it is used in trade The Euro also tanked against it, but the US economy is a basket case. As for the IMF it is nothing to do with them, what are they on about? Since when were they worried about "equality". This is just media hyped up hysteria, next week it will be forgotten and they will be screaming about something else.
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