Comments by "Mack Starr" (@stonehengemaca) on "" video.

We could all cancel our BBC subscription.
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@DavidCampbell-w4u Aww bless. What has triggered you?
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And the people will cheer.. 🤡🤡🙄🙄
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@BENTWOONEZERO Reality.
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@koolerking440 The BBC will not be allowed to fail, as it is the "national media platform" and so will be subsidised if forced to compete in the subscription market, they can be as far right as they like.
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@BENTWOONEZERO A report commissioned by the Mayor of London and conducted by Cambridge Econometrics estimates that, as of 2023, the UK's economy is approximately £140 billion smaller than it would have been had the UK remained in the EU's Single Market and Customs Union.
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@BENTWOONEZERO Brexit has led to a significant reduction in trade openness, with the UK's trade-to-GDP ratio falling by 8 percentage points between 2019 and 2021. This decline is more pronounced than in comparable economies. Exports to the EU have decreased by 17%, and imports by 23% between 2021 and 2023. Notably, sectors like agrifood, textiles, and material-based manufacturing have been among the hardest hit.
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@BENTWOONEZERO Investment has also suffered, with the Centre for European Reform estimating that Brexit has led to an 11% reduction in investment and a 5.5% decrease in GDP
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@BENTWOONEZERO The end of free movement for EU citizens has exacerbated labour shortages, particularly in sectors reliant on lower-skilled workers. This has contributed to a decline in the UK's labour force participation and may have long-term implications for productivity.
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@BENTWOONEZERO That reality.
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@BENTWOONEZERO Again reality. It's facts and figures based on the market. You'll just have to put your big boy pants on or Cry harder.
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@lordstov8592 Yes that's fair. I mean it is classed as unskilled work, but there are definitely skills involved. Obviously.
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@BENTWOONEZERO Did you think leaving the largest trade group on Earth and yet still relying on it for imports for a vast majority of our fresh produce was going to create a golden age where the UK suddenly makes up the surplus for all migration? 🤷‍♂
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@BENTWOONEZERO Maybe you should listen to experts in the field that highlight the real affects of brexit. You just present questions. I showed you figures from studies and how. The EU is the second largest economy to the USA but to suggest the EU isn't a trading group is playing semantics. It's a group of nations working as a group to stabilise standards, protects workers and lower the cost of trade. They have much more leverage in negotiating a trade deal than if they were approached one by one in isolation. But if we still trade with the EU as before and also have saved vast amounts of membership fee, than what is YOUR explanation for a report commissioned by the Mayor of London and conducted by Cambridge Econometrics estimating that, as of 2023, the UK's economy is approximately £140 billion smaller than it would have been had the UK remained in the EU's Single Market and Customs Union?
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@BENTWOONEZERO How do YOU explain why the UK exports to the EU dropped by 17%? Or why we imported 23% less from the EU?
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@BENTWOONEZERO How did such a financially water tight decision lead to a 5.5% drop in GDP? And why did investments drop by 11%?
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@BENTWOONEZERO Well of course it's going to grow. Like grass when you cut it. But the grass would be much higher if you didn't cut it. The economy was so damaged by brexit it can only grow now. But Even the OECDs projection of 1.1% wasn't reached and we only grew by 0.8%.. I guess when we finally recover in another decade, and get BACK to pre-brexit growth you'll cheer and claim brexit has been a success?
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@BENTWOONEZERO You don't hear how stupid you are.
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@BENTWOONEZERO I wonder whet they based those "guesses" on.. But we wouldn't have to if you were right, there wouldn't be anything to explain. We'd all have loads more money, we'd be dictating trade deals instead of accepting what ever we can scrape from them, and our economy would never have dipped and we'd now be better off.
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@BENTWOONEZERO What trade were you unable to get? What was it that you couldn't do/get that you can now? Why aren't we better off, now we CAN make trade deals?
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@BENTWOONEZERO And you were asked, "What trade were you unable to get? What was it that you couldn't do/get that you can now? Why aren't we better off, now we CAN make trade deals?"
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@BENTWOONEZERO Germany is doing better than the uk. German GDP $55,521 UK GDP $54,214.
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@BENTWOONEZERO So if we both have 100 apples and you stupidly throw away 20 apples. I grow mine by 1% and yours by 2%, I still have more apples than you. And when you get closer to the 100 apples you started with a decade ago.. Your growth will then match, (I doubt it as the German economy is bigger and more robust than the UK) my growth. Imagine how many apples you'd gave if you continued to grow and didn't stupidly throw away some apples for no reason.
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@BENTWOONEZERO And it's GDP is still larger than the UK. You keep trying to make Germany into this struggling economic failure of a country that proves leaving the EU is some sort of success story and yet it is still out performing brexit Britain. 🤣🤣 You still haven't answered what trade you wanted that was worth leaving the EU. What is your favourite trade item you can now buy? What is your favourite brexit benefit?
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@BENTWOONEZERO I knew you'd go there so I used GDP. GDP is higher. You know what that is right? And what is it you want to trade? With who? You keep repeating the same vague talking points, I keep proving them to be garbage and you keep repeating them. Are you OK? Just tell us all who you want to trade with and for what? 🤷‍♂
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@BENTWOONEZERO Gross domestic product per capita is a country’s economic output per person. Germany $48,000 vs UK $43,000. It has nothing to do with population size and in fact, countries with a higher GDP per capita tend to be those that are industrial and developed and have smaller populations compared to others.
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@BENTWOONEZERO And once again: What item are EU countries prevented from buying? What is it you are so desperate to purchase and from who?
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@BENTWOONEZERO "Perhaps if you get your points across better with figures to back it up I may get your point. All I have got so far is EU trade good , UK trade bad. !!!!!!!!!!" - Such as all the figures I've supplied.. 🤷‍♂🤦‍♂🤡
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@BENTWOONEZERO You use Germany as a low bar to compare to and you still lose. Very little difference? Then give me £1000 every year.
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@BENTWOONEZERO Pure copium
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@BENTWOONEZERO Why aren't we doing better than every country in the EU? According to you, they're all throwing billions away every year on membership, and yet they're still doing better then the UK. 🤣🤣
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@BENTWOONEZERO You said 18 countries have a greater GDP per capita. That's better. You're now saying a lower GDP per capita is better 🤣🤣 What a stupid hill to die on! It shouldn't be a contest. The UK has shed the shackles of membership and is now free to trade with the golden uplands... And yet.. Where is the golden era? Why isn't the UK now doing better on every scale and every measurement?
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@BENTWOONEZERO They're all doing better, but the UK certainly hasn't done "better" after leaving the EU.
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@BENTWOONEZERO German isn't struggling as much as the UK. Their GDP per capita is still higher. Their worst day is still better than our best day. Even mogg admitted brexit would make some items 71% more expensive. I kind of feel sorry for you. Trying to convince others they can't see what they are seeing. I'll ask one last time. Who did you want to trade with and for what?
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@BENTWOONEZERO Germany has and will always be doing better than the UK. You are stuck on "growth" when it isn't an indicator of a country's wealth. The German population has over £1000 more per person to spend on services. I'll take that, and you can keep your growth. I already explained the growth in a simple child's example using apples. But you keep repeating it, so I can only assume it was too complicated for you. You have your sovereignty now, so what is it you can now BUY that you couldn't in the EU. What is it you can now DO that you couldn't in the EU? 🤣🤣 You're so stupid. Tell us all again that you don't understand growth.
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