Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "UK suffers from shortage of seasonal fruit pickers this summer" video.

  1. Our only tears are because we have not left the EU yet.
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  2. You are going to go hungry if that is what you want.
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  3. Maybe that's because UK strawberry varieties were outlawed by the EU.
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  4.  @ozzie2612  tears of joy, no doubt.
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  5.  @ozzie2612  then you are failing to take advantage of it. But it's worth it to be free of the corrupt eu parasite.
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  6.  @ozzie2612  I am so glad the eu will not let the UK back in, The danger is that Keir starmer will sell out the UK to turn it into an eu vassal state. Even as a member it was heading in that direction. Brexit is not responsible for the UK's current problems, apart for the covid pandemic, and the Ukraine war, you can blame 40 plus years of eu membership, all brexit did was show the economic weakness that eu policies and membership produced.
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  7.  @ozzie2612  and you think that the banks do not have their own agenda. A recommendation by a bank is a good reason for doing the opposite.
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  8.  @ozzie2612  freedom from the eu parasite is worth it. Brexit is not an end in itself, it is a means to and end. The UK was in the grip of this parasite for forty years, it will take sometime to recover from that.
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  9.  @ozzie2612  so you admit that joining in the first place was a bad idea.
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  10.  @ozzie2612  a corrupt government is not an argument against brexit. The eu has had forty plus years to deal with government corruption, it has not done so. It has failed to deal with its own corruption. It is decades of UK government mismanagement with the assistance of the eu, that has allowed the eu to inveigle its way into all aspects of UK political and economic life.
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  11.  @ozzie2612  wrong there are a number of benefits. The man one being the ability of setting our own standards for the home market. This build a barrier than cuts foreign imports. Our standards do not need to be worse, ideally they can be better, so long as they are different. Not being bound by eu laws and directives is an advantage. The UK parliament now defines our laws, and is accountable to the people of the UK. We need not worry about the bias built into eu law. Just in time is not important if the goal is to make the UK more self sufficient. Remainders were never honest, as in evident by the 30 year old paper produced by the foreign office, which made it clear about the one way nature of joining the eu, or the common market as it was then. It also showed that the real intention of producing a federal Europe was to be hidden from the general public, until it was considered too late to leave. The eu binds itself together, by generating codependency between states, that is why leaving after 40 years is so difficult. The eu has also insidiously taken control of many international standards, that were once agreed between independent sovereign states. These standards are designed to set up a closed shop, where none previously existed, creating an anti competitive trade barrier to those who refuse to comply with the eu four "freedoms", the most contentious of which is free movement.
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  12.  @ozzie2612  and your understanding of economics is what got us into the current economic mess. It is a fundamental principle that wealth must be manufacture, grown, or dug out of the ground, yet while in the eu, the UK was allowed to measure its economic success by how many expensive imports we could sell to each other, or how many houses we could build using expensive raw materials. Even now we measure our economic performance this way, which is why November GDP figures can be boosted by the world cup. In practice, during our eu membership, the UK economy was funded by the sale of uk assets, and by borrowing, disguise by printing funny money. If the UK economy was in such a bad situation when we joined the common market, why was the UK one of the largest contributed to the eu budget? It is a myth that what is good for one member state is good for all. The UK ended up funding its competitors. The eu is run like a microcosm of of the iniquitous globalisation system. Poor states do the manufacturing and sell to the rich states, and wealth flows across the market, making a nice profit for a rich elite, who facilitate the trade. Until the eu is federalised, their are states that get poorer and others the get richer. The UK was set up to be the diner, leaking money/wealth to the eu. Even in a federal system, the flow of wealth is reversible, as is evident from the US system. The important feature is that the flow is tapped to make a very few very rich. You are really dumb if you do not understand this, it is why the wealth gap is still growing. The UK was never going to profit from being part of this system, it was just going to get steadily poorer.
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  13.  @ozzie2612  no benefits you are willing to acknowledge. But being free of the eu parasite is a chance to rebalance our economy toward thing that make a profit. We certainly need to regain control of our critical infrastructure, industries and utilities. This can be done with suitable regulation, making foreign ownership too expensive.
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  14.  @ozzie2612  apparently you know nothing.
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  15.  @ozzie2612  I have but you refuse to acknowledge them.
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  16.  @ozzie2612  there are none so deaf as those who do not want to hear, or so blind as those who do not want to see. Fortunately, the UK has left the eu, never to return. The parasite has lost its pray.
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  17.  @ozzie2612  excellent news, as it reduces meat exports, as a vegan I am really pleased.
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  18.  @ozzie2612  true, I wonder why they voted to join the common market, as its effect was certainly to seriously weaken the UK.
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  19.  @ozzie2612  it was not forty good years, it was forty years of living on the sale of assets and debt. With the UK slowly being deskilled as the industrial sector was destroyed in favour of banking services and the consumer service sector. Any apparent boom could be traced to creative accounting, like boosting GDP by how many foreign imports we could sell to each other and how many houses we could build with imported raw materials. The bankers did well from selling off publicly owned industries, a case of take the money and run.
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  20.  @ozzie2612  you mean like all the other countries that are not eu members. As for eu laws being torn up, actually timing out, the sooner the better.
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  21.  @ozzie2612  UK laws must be under the control of parliament, not unelected eurocrates.
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  22.  @ozzie2612  but the government is elected.
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  23.  @ozzie2612  and this is not reliant as the UK is not in the eu, and will never be again.
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  24.  @ozzie2612  like the laws regarding contracts, that do not allow the uk to prioritise UK manufactures and suppliers.
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  25.  @ozzie2612  yes there is, it relates to the so called level playing field.
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  26.  @ozzie2612  you can whine as much as you like, brexit is over, the UK has left the eu.
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  27.  @ozzie2612  I am happy to wait and see. As I said it will take time to recover from the grip of the eu parasite.
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  28.  @ozzie2612  globalisation is one of the reasons for global warming. The eu binds the member states together by encouraging codependency, this involves long and inefficient supply lines stretching across the eu. A more efficient model requires all states to be as self sufficient as possible, and only exporting surplus production and importing raw materials that geography and geology deny them. This diversifies manufacturing and makes the whole world more resilient. It is also a recipe for a more politically stable world. Rather than the eu top down federal model, that has already shown its weakness in the us, a return to sovereign states cooperating is a better, more stable, solution. It is a myth that what is good for one eu state is good for all. That cannot be true while each state operates its taxation system in isolation. It is why the eu must at some point soon have a federal government. Currently eu rules and directives can impoverish one member state at the expense of an other. That is what was happening to the UK, that was actually funding its competitors. It is why local arable farmers were disadvantaged, making UK super markets stock produce shipped from the other side of Europe, rather than locally grown equivalent.
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  29.  @ozzie2612  that is certainly better than being forced to fund the competition.
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  30.  @stalinisaracist4351  being in the eu was never good for the UK.
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  31.  @ozzie2612  again if the UK was the sick man of Europe, why was it the third to second largest contributed to the eu budget. If it was so sick, should it not been a net beneficiary?
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  32.  @ozzie2612  you really are wasting your time, the UK has left the eu and is not going back. Get over it.
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  33.  @ozzie2612  must of the cost of leaving the eu, was the eu attempt to punish the UK for having the temerity to leave. The so called divorce settlement was a joke, with little rational behind it. As was the failure of the eu to repay the value of assets that were paid for by the UK, such as the Galileo Satellite system.
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  34.  @ozzie2612  it has yet to be proven that leaving the eu was a mistake, the UK was locked into this corrupt organisation for 40 plus years. There really has not been time to determine the true effects of leaving. The UK must have time to recover from the damage done by the eu, and that assumes that the UK government takes advantage of the new freedoms it has. The UK has had seventy years of government mis management. Joining the common market was just an attempt to hide the errors. You have made much of the UK being the sick man of Europe before joining, but the country was still suffering from the cost of WWII. Manufacturing was still using pre war machinery and paying back the US for lease loan war materials. The mistake was not leaving the eu, it was joining the common market in the first place.
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  35.  @stalinisaracist4351  well u less the fact and figures are derived from a crystal ball they are unlikely to say much about the future. The UK was in the eu for forty plus years, it has been oùt for less then three. Of the far as it has been out, none can be described as normal. The UK managed to survive for hundreds of years before being tricked into joining the common market. Three years is really insufficient to determine its future, or that of the eu.
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  36.  @stalinisaracist4351  no, shame we ever went in.
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  37.  @stalinisaracist4351  the UK did not leave the eu until December 2020. That is not ten years. With arithmetic like that it is not surprising you think being in the eu was a good idea. It will take a least a decade, and likely more to correct the damage done to the UK by the EU, and that assumes that the UK government does all that is necessary. The UK still has not regained full control of its coastal waters, and the Irish protocol is still not working. Some of the damage will take much longer to fix, if it is fixable at all. It is interesting that Scotland is so keen to leave the UK, only to be ruled by unelected eurocrates in Brussels. That is assuming the eu will let Scotland join, which is not certain.
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  38.  @stalinisaracist4351  EU rights are an illusion, largely intended to benefit big business. Ask the French who are about to lose their pension rights. You have to wonder why migrants are so keen to leave the EU and come to the UK. In fact if you are so keen on the EU, why are you not living there?
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  39.  @stalinisaracist4351  and what make you think the French will stop increasing the retirement age.
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  40.  @stalinisaracist4351  you poor fool the four freedoms are about facilitating the movement of money and cheap labour.
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  41.  @ozzie2612  I would remind you again the UK has left the eu, never to return. So it's a victorious brexit troll if you don't mind, and it really does not matter if you do.
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  42.  @ozzie2612  that is yet to be determined. What is certain is that the UK will not be part of a federal super state. What will be interesting to see, is how long the EU remains together.
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  43.  @ozzie2612  covid damaged the eu economy, but as it wakes from various lock downs, its previous financial problem will emerge. Eu confidence has been shaken by the war in Ukraine. The talk of eu defence forces, and going it alone without NATO and the US has had a splash of reality. Certainly the Ukrainian war is testing EU unity. One of the problems is that the potential new members lack the quality of the old, making expansion every more rickety. DW News recently described French/German relationship as that of frenemies. It is questionable how strong it is now, with signs that member states are more concerned with their own self interest. There are certainly growing political tensions between member states, and that is not taking into account the long term goal of federalisation, essential for bringing financial stability. The assessment that the eu is essentially a flock of sheep, huddled together for protection from a circling pack of wolves still stands. It is the combination of the covid pandemic, global warming, and the Russian/Ukraine war that keeps animosity between member states suppressed. The EU is not back to normal, the eurocrates are trying hard not to rock the boat, by not re-imposing their agenda.
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  44.  @ozzie2612  if the eu is currently doing better, it has a lot to do with the significant damage the eu inflected on the UK during its membership. It's easy to win a race if you are allowed to castrate, and dismember, your opponent before the race starts.
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  45.  @ozzie2612  I have already explained that the UK did not do well out of eu membership. Any apparent economic success was the result of creative accounting and the sale of assets, together with a growing debt. During the period of membership, the UK economy was distorted to provide services and banking, with the loss of significant amounts of UK agriculture and Industry.
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  46.  @ozzie2612  absolutely true. The UK was measuring its success by how many expensive imported products we could sell to each other, and how many houses we could build. The banks made a killing by facilitating the sale of uk publicly owned assets to foreign investors. The lost is long water gas, electric, airports, air traffic control, sea ports, railways, critical industries, in electronics, computers, and telecoms. To name but a few. When the UK ran out of assets to sell it printed funny money, in the form of quantitative easing. To build sufficient housing, productive farm land was sold to developers.
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  47.  @ozzie2612  much more importent to reduce eu imports. We need more trade barriers not fewer.
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  48.  @ozzie2612  no, its about the eu policy of claiming what's your is mine and what's mine is mine. The UK entered the common market with ownership of its coastal waters and the fish in them. It left with the eu claiming ownership of UK coastal waters and the fish in them.
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  49.  @ozzie2612  brexit has not yet had a chance to live up to expectations, as I have repeatedly told you. It is in the interests of the eu and its supporters, that it lives down to the conditions imposed by the eu.
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  50. You really dense, the strawberries are always picked just before they are ripe to allow time to transport them.
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  51.  @athedragonof7684  more of a joke by a low IQ troll, which may explain why it lacks anything humorous. I was not joking about French apples, in my opinion they are flavourless bags of water.
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