Comments by "Archangel17" (@MDP1702) on "euronews"
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@Horizon301.
350 million is obviously a theoretic statement to highlight how much we send to the EU per week
The UK sends around 171 million pounds net to the EU each week, so the 350 million is a lie. Sure the argument is that the total would be 350. However seeing the context of the bus add "350 million a week more to NHS", this isn't a valid statement, seeing that from this 350 million, the UK automatically keeps a rebate of 107 million pounds a week and it already gains back 76 million a week that is invested in the UK public sector and another 28 million per week in the UK private sector.
and it was funded partly by the taxpayer
You know that both campaigns got taxpayers money to execute their campaign, right? That's why the leave campaign had to create one "official" leave campaign (and Farage then started his own campaign with private money, because his side didn't got the grant).
Still nothing they said has happened, Sterling didn’t depreciate as much as claimed
Brexit hasn't happened yet, the markets are still waiting to see what Brexit will bring. For all they know a deal can be reached that ensures their normal operations or maybe it gets cancelled all together or .... Simply put, we won't see the real impact untill brexit actually happens.
and now we are being told about food shortages.
A lot of food in the UK comes from the european mainland. Even a slight delay (a few seconds per lorry) will cause hours of traffic. And then I am not speaking about the possible hours in delays that will happen due to paperwork that now doesn't need to be done. Food shortages are a genuine concern if huge border delays happen. Mostly because people will not be ready in the beginning. It might get streamlined eventually, but that won't happen from the start. And the reason food shortages weren't mentioned in the campaign was simple, everyone (including brexiteers) thought a deal would be reached before brexit actually happens.
As if the EU businesses don’t need us to sell their goods to
Ofcourse they will still sell goods to the UK, it will just all be more expensive due to tarrifs and delays.
and it’s not like the car industry will go kapoot in Germany.... oh wait it will
I think you also underestimate UK car industry (or atleast the German franchises there). Around half of total UK car production (1.6 million) is sold to costumers in the EU. 85% of UK car imports come from the EU and this comes down to 11% of EU's total car production, or in other words 1.8 million cars.
Yes, european car companies will get hurt, but it will not destroy them, seeing it represents only 11% of their eu production. British people that want to buy a car, will be hit even harder with price rises. Anyone that wants a new EU car in the next 2-3 years, better buys it now.
chiefs representing the unions have said this but of course the EU is too naive to admit it’s a two way road.
Oh no, they know it is a two way road, the difference is that in the EU the impact will be spread out over multiple countries, while the UK will have to take the hit on their side (at least as large, if not larger) all on its own.
Germany is about to go into recession which I suspect is guaranteed after Brexit
Maybe, but where it will be maybe 1-1;,5% in Germany it will be a 3%+ recession in the UK.
France has civil unrest
What's new? France has civil unrest every few years, just look at the popularity of the french presidents and you'll notice it always takes a dive around the same time and depending from president to president it goes back or stays there. This btw has nothing to do with brexit or the EU.
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@nigeljohnson9820
How the hell did the EU fail the UK?
Before joining the EU (or eec back then) the UK as underperforming compared to EU members, while inside the EU, the UK outperformed EU members.
And then we have all the special arrangements the UK had. The UK had a dream position in the EU, not all the "burdens"/integration parts, while still having the economic benefits and a a strong voice in the EU (only Germany has a stronger voice, France maybe equal to the UK).
It isn't the EU that failed the UK, it are the UK governments that failed both the UK and the EU.
freedom from the domination of the EU is a price worth paying
How does the EU dominate the UK precisely?
typical EU supporter, shrug and say "don't blame us"
With good reason, the richest place in western europe is london, this while the 9 poorest regions in western europe are in the UK. It seems this is more of an internal problem than an external one (uk governments favoring london's financial service above the rest). Hell, it is the EU that actually send money to improve some of these poor places, instead of the UK.
while a major portion of UK law made in Brussels.
And 95% was voted for by the UK, 3% abstained and 2% voted against and several of the laws that the UK voted against were not even instituted in the UK.
It is just a coincidence that the period of EU membership corresponds to a dramatic decline in UK productive industries.
Yes and no. During this time several european nations saw their production shrink in favor of service work. Some nations (like Germany) choose to support industry, to keep the decline at a minimum or even increase production, while others (like the UK) choose to favor the service markets (london financial services). So this was a domestic policy. However, the EU increased the consequences of this decision. Because people weren't going to buy less, so the lower production in the UK had to be replaced somewhere else, and ofcourse the nations within the EU that support production could easily fill in the gap (thanks to easy cross border trade), causing the UK to focus even more on the service sector.
In the end, it were decision by the UK governments that cause the "collapse" of UK industry, not the EU.
At the very minimum the EU is complicit in the UK goverment's actions.
What? How? In what way? Please explain further.
Outside the EU, the government will have more opportunity to renationalisation in the national interest.
That entirely depends on what party is in power after Brexit. The conservatives would rather privatise more, while labour wants to renationalise certain sectors.
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