Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "A Different Bias" channel.

That UK is at the back of the queue. How else could it end?
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There's a downside on better pays in sectors exposed to foreign competition. That the actual level of pay is barely enough to keep those sectors afloat. Having to pay their workers more, they can only transfer the higher costs to the price of finished products, and so they are going lose competitiveness, market share, and not being able to pay even the previous level of wages.
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Sorry to burst your bubble, but any increase in wages not driven by an increase in productivity will only end in increased inflaction. You don't became a "hig wage, high skilled" country only by doubling wages. You have to double the skill BEFORE.
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@Petal4822 Because "high wage high skill" countries are notorious for their low profit of margin, LOL! It doesn't work like that, sorry. There are no "huge profit margins" because capitals can move freely, so they are levelled internationally. Why should "greedy businesses" reduce their profit margins, if they can mantain them simply by investing elsewere? Because they are not greedy? Any increase in wages not driven by an increase in productivity will only end in increased inflaction.
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@Petal4822 Your understanding of economics is worse.
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@Petal4822 That doesn't change how wages and inflaction work.
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@anonnemo2504 Exactly because variants can appear, what counts is who first reach a share of vaccinated people high enough to make transmission virtually impossible. Not by chance, of the last two major variants of COVID in Europe, one is "English" and the other hit England before and more heavily than anyone else. Since people keep on dying for COVID in UK at an higher rate than in the EU its quite evident that UK utterly failed at "securing an adequate supply of effective vaccines as quickly as possible".
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Falsely appropriated. They know perfectly well that the President can't force private companies to reduce prices with an executive order. It's clearly illegal. The order will be challenged in court and blocked within days. The Congress can do that, and there is infact the legislative proposal of Bernie Sanders for that. But Trump and the Republicans are obviously not going to support that. All they want is the occasion to attack judges at no cost.
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If you go to the English site of Zamberlan (famous Italian manufacturer of sporting and safety boots) you'll directly read "We inform our kind customers that orders to the UK are temporarily suspended". And those are goods that cost at least 200 pounds for kg and have no expire date.
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To the EU it doesn't matter if Johnson is a serious premier or a rabid dog. Vice-President Maros Šefčovič said: “I have listened to and engaged with Northern Irish stakeholders. Today's proposals are our genuine response to their concerns. We have put a lot of hard work into them to make a tangible change on the ground, in response to the concerns raised by the people and businesses of Northern Ireland. We are looking forward to engaging earnestly and intensively with the UK government, in the interest of all communities in Northern Ireland.” Johnson is not even nominated. The EU proposals are an answer not to the UK government (that's simply a part that's needed to discuss about the solutions, not the one recognised to have indicated the problems), but to the problems that people in NI raised, because what actually matter for the EU is NI (because NI matters for the Republic of Ireland, a EU member), not UK.
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Italy has over 50% population fully vaccinated. Spain already overtook UK. The other main EU countries will this same week. France Spain and Italy currently have daily vaccination rates about three times higher than UK, and higher than those UK EVER had.
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Treated equally or differently is a UK internal affair. To the EU, Great Britain, is a third country. Since that's what they chose to be. NI is part of the single market. Since that's what had been agreed. Any item coming from a third country into the single market must be checked. If Great Britain decides to smuggle goods into the single market without cheking, retaliatory measures will be applied on Great Britain. For the EU that's not even a political-level decision. It's an automatic reflex. The EU leaves to the EU bureocracy to decide the application and the appropriate measure of retaliations in cases like that, like they did with the US.
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You already have visas for butchers, but no foreign butcher applied. Just the paperwork involved is not worth it.
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Never too much of a good thing...
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You need lorry drivers to carry gas to gas stations. They are not extracted from the North Sea.
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@rhettbutler289 WWII was kind of an emergency, you know. One aircraft more or less crashed in landing was not that important, while some hundred pilots could make the difference. Actually UK had a 100.000 truck drivers shortage. Drive schools can't train that much in two years. The army has 3000 certified truck drivers in total, and most of them are in the army reserve, so they already work everyday as lorry drivers, and can't be counted two times. Infact, hear hear, the government backpedaled and announced visas on truck drivers.
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@rhettbutler289 Maybe the people involved would have deemed otherwise. UK government decided it was not enough of an emergency to let unprepared truck drivers handle flammable chemicals.
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Simply, by withdrawing from the EU, you don't have more funds available, you have less, because UK has to do all by itself things that, before, the EU did for 27 members, and has less tax revenues to do so.
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During the war, thus constrained by shortages, British autorities tried to feed war prisoners in N.Africa reaching the prescribed amount of calories in every way possible, IE distributing those calories in form of peanuts. It can be an idea.
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Shouldn't it be: Phase 3. Abolish the monarchy, have himself made Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, Boris Winston Spencer "Horatio" Oliver Johnson...
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Brexiteers believe those problems are WORSE in the EU.
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The Commission doesn't need green light from all EU countries to start or fight a trade war. Green light had never been given for the trade war with US that was a much more serious affair.
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Can you assure that German musician wouldn't have tended a garden? Uh?
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They know perfectly well that the President can't force private companies to reduce prices with an executive order. It's clearly illegal. The order will be challenged in court and blocked within days. The Congress can do that, and there is infact a proposal of Bernie Sanders for that. But Trump and the Republicans are obviously not going to support that. All they want is the occasion to attack judges at no cost.
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@jimbob-robob You have to explain what you sell, It's not enough a fantasy name. So it will be "Fruixit, gelée de fruit", not "Fruixit confiture", and those that are looking for confiture will not even see it. At the supermarket you search for milk, not for "Milxit, some liquid that comes out of a cow".
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Eastern countries and Turkey takes ages to join mainly due to constitutional and legal issues (democracy, death penalty, indipendence of the judiciary systems, of the press, and so on).
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Alcoholics that can't drive any more in their countries.
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Following Fox News is a choice.
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@jakecolburn8946 "Potential" damage. If there's the possibility of any good to enter into the Single Market unchecked, that's a potential damage. If there's the possibility of goods for a value of, to say, 1 billion euros to enter into the Single Market unchecked, that's 1 billion Euros potential damage, and the EU can retaliate for that value.
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@jakecolburn8946 To make random inspections is common practice at every border. It means the border is controlled. To decide to not make any inspection is to say any smuggler can pass whatever he wants. So there's a potential damage. If there's the POSSIBILITY of any good to enter into the Single Market unchecked, that's a potential damage. If there's the possibility of goods for a value of, to say, 1 billion euros to enter into the Single Market unchecked, that's 1 billion Euros potential damage, and the EU can retaliate for that value.
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@jakecolburn8946 If UK doesn't perform the checks, there's no way to know what flows from GB to NI. It can be drugs or the untreated shit the Brits spill in their rivers. It's the UK that has to control what flows from GB to NI. If It fails to do so, the EU has to retailate for any potential damage to the Single Market.
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@Petal4822 You should study more the laws of the European Union before making parallels.
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They know perfectly well that the President can't force private companies to reduce prices with an executive order. It's clearly illegal. The order will be challenged in court and blocked within days. The Congress can do that, and there is infact a proposal of Bernie Sanders for that. But Trump and the Republicans are obviously not going to support that. All they want is the occasion to attack judges at no cost.
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"50 odd deaths a jab" means nothing. Is the rate that counts. 1 odd death for million doses administred is below any statistical significance.
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By imposing retaliatory tariffs for any potential damage done to the Single market by not implementing the NI protocol.
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What minister recently said UK must adapt to the end of the distortions created by being in the EU? Having the shelves full and plenty of options was a distortion. This is the natural state of things.
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"The highest standards in the world..."
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Tories.
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Why India, that has very high trade barriers to protect it's own industry, should make an exemption for UK? What UK has to offer, to those 7.5 billion potential customers, better than what the EU can offer? Nothing. Infact all the trade deals UK signed since Brexit, are or identical to those it already had as a EU member (so no replacement) or worse.
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It's time to quit with those eastern musicians who steal the job of British ones!
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"Safeguard and rebalancing measures taken in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be governed by the procedures set out in Annex 7 to this Protocol." Annex 7 1. Where the Union or the United Kingdom is considering taking safeguard measures under Article 16(1) of this Protocol, it shall, without delay, notify the Union or the United Kingdom, as the case may be, through the Joint Committee and shall provide all relevant information. 2. The Union and the United Kingdom shall immediately enter into consultations in the Joint Committee with a view to finding a commonly acceptable solution. 3. The Union or the United Kingdom, as the case may be, may not take safeguard measures until 1 month has elapsed after the date of notification under point 1, unless the consultation procedure under point 2 has been concluded before the expiration of the state limit. When exceptional circumstances requiring immediate action exclude prior examination, the Union or the United Kingdom, as the case may be, may apply forthwith the protective measures strictly necessary to remedy the situation. 4. The Union or the United Kingdom, as the case may be, shall, without delay, notify the measures taken to the Joint Committee and shall provide all relevant information. 5. The safeguard measures taken shall be the subject of consultations in the Joint Committee every 3 months from the date of their adoption with a view to their abolition before the date of expiry envisaged, or to the limitation of their scope of application. The Union or the United Kingdom, as the case may be, may at any time request the Joint Committee to review such measures. 6. Points 1 to 5 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to rebalancing measures referred to in Article 16(2) of this Protocol. So UK has to talk for one month (point 3), unless it's disonhest enough to claim "exceptional circumstances requiring immediate action exclude prior examination". In that case the EU can retailate immediately because "Points 1 to 5 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to rebalancing measures referred to in Article 16".
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Before invading, Putin recognised the indipendentist republics, that's diplomatically like burning bridges behind you. ANY solution that doesn't contemplate indipendent republics/annexation to Russia would be a defeat now. At this point the sanctions have only two purposes. 1) to persuade Putin to not invade the rest of Ukraine. 2) Since the only limit to Russia's expansionism now is its current economical inability to sustain a prolonged military campaign, sanctioning Russia automatically means to reduce its treat.
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Hilarious, in the US too until, in 1973, the FDA approved sawdust as a food additive, and now is normally contained in what Americans eat.
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UK maxed out its daily vaccination rates on Mar. 21 and declined since there. France Spain and Italy currently have 3 times the daily vaccinations rate than UK, Spain already overtook UK as rate of fully vaccinated people, and the other main EU countries will follow soon. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
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@ADifferentBias It has to be said that those "practical" issues are the fields were the EU can help even before Scotland formally joining the EU or even the single market. It's the kind of help/formation program the EU normally provide to other countries and is pretty good at.
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In the first 3 months of 2025 the marked for electric cars in Italy increased by 75.4% in respect to the year before. That's why Tesla's sales are down "only" of 6.8%. In reality it's market share plummeted.
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Just like the retaliatory tariffs on US, the decision on what to target is left to the EU bureocracy. That's why it's pretty quick. It's practically automatic. It's not a political decision, it's a reflex.
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🤣🤣 Why shouldn't they laugh? EU has a better deal than before, and EU fishermen have a competitor less. BTW, when UK was a EU member, NOTHING had been done without it's approval.
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@susancurtis1651 The EU produces less laws than any national parliament, and the process to make them is more complicate, since it's a collaboration between the parliament, the Commission and the Council. Any member state has representatives in the first two, and ministers in the third, the political majorities are different, so any law is the result of MUCH more debate than national laws. You are no more "railroaded" by the EU than by your own city, or State.
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