Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "Brexit has hit UK's position as a gateway to Europe for imports, say freight firms" video.

Oh dear, the UK foreign owned air travel industry is having problems. The EU companies that purchased these UK assets must be wondering why they did.
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With luck we will be able to buy them back for a song.
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@andrew30m you are forgetting the drop in fixed asset value, where they have purchased fixed assets in the uk, such as airports etc.
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@andrew30m but the asset value will have dropped, making it a loss and potentially subject to takeover. An ideal time for the UK to regain control of its fixed assets. More importantly, it will be eu policies that will be harming the profits of the owner companies, who happen to be based in the eu.
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@andrew30m Ferivoil is a Spanish company.
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@andrew30m not my plan, the effects of eu policy. Its unlikely to destroy the UK economy, but such a failure of the air transport infra structure will see an opportunity to taken it back into public ownership. And before you say that cannot happen, you should take w look at what is happening to the eu air transport industry, which is also in trouble, with government bailouts and takeovers planned.
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@andrew30m the UK will simply be making best use of, and responding to, the conditions that eu policy produces. When better to buy back an asset, but when its value is lower than that at which it was sold. If the EU creates the opportunity, the UK should take advantage of it.
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@kingdingaling8709 the uk has been hemorrhaging money since it joined the EU.
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@gloin10 their is no doubt that the UK has been been hemorrhaging money, it has done so by the sale of assets to foreign buyers.
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@gloin10 the size of the economy is not really relevant as it is a poor measure of a countries wealth. Inflation would ensure the apparent growth over a forty year period. If you measure growth by how many expensive imports we sell each other, or how many houses that have been built, you will not get a true value of wealth. The simple growth in the size of the population would be sufficient to ensure an exaggerated measurement. The uk has financed the last forty years of apparent growth with the sale of assets, and debt. It would s possible to sustain an apparently wealthy life style if you are prepared to sell off the family silver to finance daily expenses. The problem comes when there is no more silver antiques to sell. It helps if you have relations who are happy to tune a blind eye to the above process, because they are benefiting from it. It suited the EU to ignore the state of the uk economy when it joined, because it allowed it to make the UK a large net contributor to the EU budget.
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@gloin10 you cannot have it both ways. If the UK was the sick man of Europe when it joined, why was it second or third in the list of contributors to the EU budget. Surely it should have been a net beneficiary from the budget from day one.
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@gloin10 you failed to explain why the uk was always a major contributor to the eu budget, if its economy was in such a poor condition. It is true that successive uk governments have been incompetent and self serving. But the eu was always complicity in their activities. Evidence of the duplicity of the political class was made clear in the declassified foreign office report FCO 30/1048. Which explained a plot to bind the UK into the EU. The UK should never have joined the EU precursor. Then maybe successive uk governments would not have been able to hide its borrow and sell policy that continued the UK decline. The EU was never a friend to the UK, the relationship was more like that of an addict and a drug dealer. The EU is a parasite, an organisation that operates like the Mafia. I am glad we are free of its grip.
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