Comments by "Michael RCH" (@michaelrch) on "Brexit: Is stockpiling of foods and drugs reassuring?" video.

  1. MusbCrazy80 This was reported by The Sun weeks ago.
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  2. Abu When, not if.
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  3. MusbCrazy80 That’s the terrible shame of the situation mate. The people who sold Brexit to you don’t care about the working class and never have. Nigel Farage - city trader Boris Johnson - Eton and Oxford, rich from birth JRM - Eton and Oxford and son of a Baronet I have met and spent time with people just like this. They see voters as a commodity. They have an ideology that they want to advance but it really doesn’t matter to them personally whether it works or it doesn’t. They have everything they need in life whatever happens. I even know city bankers who are expecting to move to Paris because their trading desks must be in the EU. They hardly care. They will get big relocation payments and get to send their kids to the best international schools that money can buy. It’s the manufacturing and agricultural sectors that will get hit hardest and then the businesses that supply and support them. These are not in London and the South East. They are in the north, where I grew up. And they will get hammered by the tariffs and endless hassle of suddenly having to do customs on all the exports and imports. Their European customers will go to other suppliers in the EU. It will take years and years to rebuild their order books. Meanwhile many many jobs will be lost and may never come back. When towns lose their jobs, they die. That’s why mining towns that were destroyed by the miners strike of the 80s have never recovered. The same will happen to towns that Brexit kills - and they will be working an middle class towns in the north and midlands.
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  4. MusbCrazy80 I am not blindly believing anything. I said I know people in the city who are moving. I have clients who run manufacturing businesses in the north and midlands and they are terrified of a hard Brexit. I knew people like Boris Johnson at university. They are selfish, egotistical ideologues. They aren’t in politics to help people. They are in it to push their political designs on the country. And they don’t have any skin in the game if they lose. Just look at Cameron. He rolled the dice, lost and just went back to his nice life in Oxfordshire. He is made. Just like JRM, Johnson etc I don’t see why what I am saying is arrogant. I don’t underestimate the working class. Far from it. It’s just that I know that businesses can’t thrive when all their customers are put behind tariff barriers, customs checks and regulatory barriers - especially when there are 1000s of competitors in the EU queuing up to take these customers who don’t have to worry about any of these challenges. It’s just a fact of doing business. It doesn’t matter how hard the guys in the factory work. If the price to the customer is too high because of tariffs or the product is too slow to deliver because of customs checks or if the sale is not even allowed because the EU doesn’t recognise the standards for the product then your business is going to get shafted. As I said, there’s this myth that you can just replace lost customers with new ones elsewhere, but I know from experience that this is wildly wrong. Winning new customers is about the hardest thing a business has to do. It takes years to rebuild an order book, and in the meantime, the business shrinks and can even go under. This WILL happen if there is a hard Brexit. It’s inevitable.
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