Comments by "Black Cat Dungeon Master\x27s Familiar" (@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311) on "What impact is Brexit having on importing food? | LBC" video.

There'd have to be a massive cut in spending for Scotland to go independent without suffering a bond crisis like what destroyed Greece.
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Don't you realise the whole of the EU has the same cost of living and inflation problems?
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@joeduffy3309 Can you demonstrate why import costs would be lower if we'd stayed in the EU? Just asking because Germany has exactly the same worrying about inflation and cost of living and last I heard they're still in the EU.
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@fergusdenoon1255 Non sequitur - an independent Scotland would have to fund itself through borrowing and taxation. The gap between what's spent in Scotland and what's raised in taxation is huge. Exactly which parts of government spending right now are controlled by Westminster and which parts by Holyrood are irrelevant as soon as Scotland becomes independent (obviously). BTW I stay in Scotland and voted to leave in the indie referendum but have changed my mind since partly because of economics, partly because Scottish politics is just so irretrievably corrupt and broken it's obvious the current clownshow would destroy the country for at least two generations if they had the chance...
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Don't you realise the whole of the EU has the same cost of living and inflation problems?
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@p_1945 Scotland is way too rich for EU aid, the EU is close to broke. If Scotland really wants back in the EU the price will be very high. The EU will want a slice of the oil and fisheries. And then trade with Scotland's biggest trading partner by far (England) will be harder. Realiistically it'll never happen.
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@sjd7810 But other industries are doing better because they're not subject to EU import duties. If you don't like import duties in principle because you want truly free trade then you can't be a Remainer because the whole point of the EU is that it's a trade cartel.
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@sjd7810 Yes of course I understand basic economics. Justify food duty - sure. take away the food duty and British farmers will get paid even less - and they're struggling to make a living already other than the really huge farms. Closing down British farming for slightly cheaper foreign food prices is a really bad idea. It means when we really need it in an emergency, it's too late. And millions starve. Also understand tariffs bring in revenue, take away the tariffs and you have to raise taxes on something else - which is pretty much impossible now because taxes are already too high across the board. either that or cut spending which the voters will never stomach nowadays. Should all be blatantly obvious if you understood the first thing about economics yourself.
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@allip4226 "right wing governments" - are you on drugs pal? We've got the highest peace time taxes since directly after the Second World War and immigration is several times higher than under Blair. Government spending just keeps increasing, it's now higher than any level of taxation could justify. When did we last vote in a right wing government?
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@sjd7810 Half of all EU spending went to farmers so yes farmers had a particular incentive to love the EU but here's the thing - EU subsidies didn't encourage productivity. They went on all kinds of ridiculous schemes. How do I know? I'm not a farmer myself but family members were and are - and I currently live in the countryside. I have personal knowledge of claiming EU farming subsidies. Look at what's actually happening to farmers now in the EU. It's French, German and Dutch farmers in the vanguard of anti-EU protests - literally spraying manure on Eu buildings in Brussels. Didn't you know that? Perhaps you don't know as much as you think.
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@sjd7810 You're making the school boy mistake of confusing causation with correlation. Yes of course living standards are plummeting but you're determined to blame Brexit as if nothing else has changed since. Long before Brexit we were living beyond our means, QE was storing up an inflation reckoning which affects all Western countries. In case you don't know Germany, USA and France are all fretting about inflation. Studies by globalist organisations trying to pick out the effect of Brexit specifically are laughable. Aren't you aware the Bank of England warned there'd be an immediate collapse if we voted for Brexit? In the weeks following the economy boomed. You call these studies "factual". No economics is not factual. All economic studies are politically informed. It's not called the dismal science for nothing.
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@joshuaogle7367 Can you demonstrate why import costs would be lower if we'd stayed in the EU? Just asking because Germany has exactly the same worrying about inflation and cost of living and last I heard they're still in the EU.
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@joshuaogle7367 Read your question again and stop applying the double standard. The obvious point is British exporters are doing really well post Brexit, the exact opposite of your Remainder narrative.
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@joshuaogle7367 Alright I didn't realise you genuinely didn't understand something so obvious so I'll spell it out. You asked a rhetorical question to push your narrative which is impossible to answer - because counter factuals are impossible to answer with anything except speculation. So asked one in return. Since basic things are not obvious to you, the narrative that Britain is doing badly because of Brexit is blatantly wrong for two reasons. Firstly, Britain isn't doing badly compared to other vaguely similar countries like Germany. Secondly, there's so much else going on even bigger than Brexit like covid and the Ukraine war that you can't pick out an effect of Brexit on the economy overall.
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Don't you realise the whole of the EU has the same cost of living and inflation problems?
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@tobos8909 Sorry, our moronic energy market has nothing to do with Brexit and neither do our self sabotage sanctions on Russian energy.
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@ManGoatHamburger Look at the details, UK manufacturing was doing really well after the 2016 referendum right up to the point where we sabotaged ourselves by sanctioning Russian energy. The EU did the same - at EU level. The problem is self inflicted and nothing to do with Brexit.
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@josephturner7569 Cool. So you know how much EU farmers hate the EU
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@Flaggyt Why don't you clowns spend a few seconds to fact check what you're writing? No UK inflation is nowhere near worst in the world. 30 seconds Google can show that.
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Don't believe it, these clowns blame everything on Brexit which is BS. Did you know we've just overtaken France and Japan to be the world's 4th biggest exporter? You're never going to hear it on this channel.
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@joeduffy3309 British inflation is mostly due to the same reason - self imposed energy sanctions on Russia. Plus our moronically designed electricity market and incompetent government determined to explode the size of the public sector even though their voters want the opposite. The point is Brexit has nothing to do with it. Our manufacturing actually benefits from the weaker pound and is gradually expanding despite the unnecessarily high energy costs..
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