Comments by "Henry Law" (@henrybn14ar) on "Brexit is an economic accident waiting to happen, Harvard professor says | Street Signs Europe" video.

  1. The decline of Liverpool was directly due to the EU. It was a major port on what had become the wrong side of the country.
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  2. The EU most suits the Tory grandees who own large tracts of Britain and who get their pocket money from the CAP, while the rest of us have to pay through the nose for all our food. The real extremists are the power behind the remainers.
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  3.  @yummyfuzz1  Magna Carta was a power grab by the landowning barons, and they have kept the power ever since.
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  4.  @fraterdeusestveritas2022  And it was sabotaged by the ERG and Minford's outfit who failed to present the economic case. The dukes and lords cannot be without the pocket money they get from the CAP. Once Gove and May had announced they would continue with the EU's terrible policies, the point of Brexit evaporated.
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  5. The EU's trade and economic policies are a disaster. However, since the Tory government was determined to perpetuate the same policies in home grown form, and there was no opposition from Labour, the point of Brexit disappeared. It is now all pain and no gain. Part of the blame must lie with the ERG and Minford and his cronies for failing to present the economic case. Behind this, one wonders what was the role of the Tory landowning grandees, who would not want to lose the pocket money they have been getting from the CAP for the past 40 years.
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  6.  @ChristianIce  CAP, VAT, a tariff wall and the Euro. Short of full blown communism, you could not think of a more damaging set of trade and economic policies than those which are central to the EU project. They benefit the geographical core at the expense of the periphery.
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  7.  @ChristianIce  nobody will import anything unless they are almost certain that there are people who will buy it.
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  8.  @ChristianIce  Nobody will import 'shit from the third world' unless people want to buy it in preference to the internal production. It's the customers' choice.
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  9.  @ChristianIce  What gives you the right to stop them from buying what they want to buy? They are not trying to buy weapons.
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  10.  @ChristianIce  You seem to be wanting to decide what other people can, and can not, buy.
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  11.  @You-are-right-but  If carried out properly, Brexit could have freed the UK from the burden of the EU's dreadful trade and economic policies. But the case was never presented, let alone alternative policies. Besides which those policies would not have been good for the dukes and lords who have been getting their pocket money from the CAP for the past 40 years, and who are the power behind the Tory throne. And Labour had its mind on other things and was in no position to oppose.
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  12.  @You-are-right-but  There was a case but the leading advocates of Brexit screwed up with their analysis of the economics. Then the dukes and lords who enjoy their pocket money from the CAP would have been unhappy. Now we see that the Tories will keep them in their pocket money by running a UK version of the CAP, and they have no intention of dealing with other damaging EU policies, in particular, VAT, which is mandatory for EU members. Brexit then becomes completely pointless. The UK might as well stew in the EU's juice.
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  13. How much does the Duke of Buccleugh get from the CAP?
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  14.  @greattobeadub  You mean that Liverpool is on the right side of the country for shipping to an EU port?
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  15.  @GorinRedspear  Because the effect of joining the then EEC was, as intended, to focus on trade within the block. If imports are not coming into a country, then it cannot export. The countries to which the exports are to be sold do not have the foreign exchange. So there was a decline in the volume of trade passing through those ports on the wrong side of the country.
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