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You're right. No-one predicted we'd go from being just about the fastest growing economy in the G7, OECD and EU to the weakest in just two years.

This to the 'n'th degree

There are only 200 countries, and 28 of them are in the EU. The large majority of developed nations are in a trading bloc of some kind. The major point of difference between in and out of the EU is whether the economic benefits outweigh the alignment requirements.

Your post sums up Brexiteers. You think the impossible is possible. Its fairyland stuff. 1. By whose authority? You think the PM has the authority to decide unilaterally? You think you can just repeal legislation and not replace it with anything? You think you can do that in 24 hours? 2. suppose 1 happened and the UK repudiated all EU related law since 1975. What then? There would be no agreements for immigration, customs, flightpaths, etc etc. It would be the end of trade and movement of people overnight. 3. Why the **** would individual EU countries give up their access to the 27 countries just so they could deal with Britain?

One minister was quoted as saying the Brexiteers were outnumbered 20-7 - pretty conclusive. It was always obvious that economic realities of a hard Brexit would force pragmatism in the end. But the amateurish and embarrassing public posturing and big talk followed by this and subsequent climbdowns has done real and lasting damage to Britain's reputation. A good leader who really believed in Brexit would have announced immediately after the referendum we were going to stay in the customs union on the Norway model for up to 10 years whilst all the practical obstacles to full departure were ironed out. As you say May's model wont be accepted and further ground giving is coming up.

Thats 1.2% on an annualised basis you fruitloop. By far the worst of any major (and most minor) economies.

I wonder what kind of hole that would put into the tax take and public finances, which are already precarious. Might be a tinsy bit bigger and more real than the Brexit fairy dividend

Its just over 900,000 employed directly in the factories and supply chain - but doesn't include all the truck drivers, restaurants, shops, taxis, retailers etc who depend on the money that the 1m relatively highly paid workers spend.

Yep, nearly 1 million UK jobs in total rely on the car industry. f*ck em.

I've no idea how you've concluded that this new development 1. isnt being properly investigated or 2. affects the probability of Russia being involved

Nothing like a bit of drama to sex up a story. Reality is that the proposal is actually about copyright and and intellectual property protection. You wouldn't be able to steal someone else's work, like a Pepe avatar, without paying a usage fee. In secret? erm no, its in committee stage where it will get heavily amended, and if it isnt it stands no chance of getting through the European Parliament.

The primary issue isn't taxation rates per se - its the fact that many companies repatriate profits earned in one country, like Britain to a third country where tax rates are lower. There should be fewer loopholes in tax law so that companies pay tax in the same country where the revenue was earned.

Lulz. Your primary problem is that you aren't bright enough to really understand the articles you cite as evidence. That article is about accounting conventions and tax avoidance distorting Irelands GDP figures. That is very different to saying Ireland has no real industry or that it is less than the UK. If you were able to interpret this table from that article you'd realise that it actually confirms Ireland's real industrial economy is growing even after taking out the distortions.

I know, there is an issue with global companies repatriating profits to the countries with the lowest corporation tax regimes. But even if you take away IT Ireland still has more industry per capita than the UK. The potatoes comment just marks him as a bellend, as if it wasn't already clear. Smurfitt Kappa, CRH, Kerry, Kingspan, Ryanair, Guinness etc isnt a bad portfolio of companies / products for a country of 4 million.

You're such an ignorant tw at. The tw at part you can't change but ignorance is fixable if you read occasionally. FWI Ireland has twice as much industry as a share of GDP as Britain (38% compared with 19% UK) Ireland GDP - composition, by sector of origin: agriculture: 1% industry: 38.2% services: 60.7% (2017 est.) Industries: pharmaceuticals, chemicals, computer hardware and software, food products, beverages and brewing; medical devices https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ei.html

No it shows countries with growing populations are growing faster than those with static populations. Except Britain which has fallen from being growth leader to laggard in OECD, G7 and EU. Doh.

Insignias are pretty much universally company cars

Usually reps dashing from one crap appointment to another.

48% in 2019 after Brexit dontchaknow

So your argument is that its worse for Britain if Germany is on the hook for hundreds of billions than if Britain is.

Do explain how the Eurozones bond buying programme is bigger per capita or worse than the BoE's £445billion QE.

Its not far off minimum wage, but an awful lot of people are on those wages unfortunately

Thats the Brexit case I respect. There is no credible economic case for leaving but there is one for sovereignty and independence. However in practice and reality, in a globalised world, the room for independent movement by nation states is actually far more limited than most would imagine. And if most voters had realised / believed the economic costs of leaving there wouldn't have been a majority.

Ever considered that the Embassy briefing focussed on real events and politics happening now as opposed to a right wing think tank's 2014 guess as to what might happen in the future?