John B

Shane is not British he is Irish

But without it how much trade would we lose and how many jobs depend on it Factsheet 2 - Benefits of EU membership outweigh costs >> Visit our EU referendum hub 71% of CBI member businesses report that the UK’s membership of the EU has had an overall positive impact on their business, including 67% of SME members. Only 13% said there had been a negative impact. Overall,78% said they would vote to remain in the EU in a referendum, with 77% of SME’s taking the same position. A CBI literature review suggests that the net benefit of EU membership to the UK could be in the region of 4-5% of GDP or £62bn-£78bn a year – roughly the economies of the North East and Northern Ireland taken together. Access to a $16.6 trillion a year Single Market of 500m people is the key benefit UK firms’ access to the Single Market goes beyond a standard free-trade agreement - the EU has eliminated tariff barriers and customs procedures within its borders, and has taken strides towards removing non-tariff barriers - such as different product regulations - by enforcing EU-wide competition law and coordinating product regulations. 76% of CBI members say that the ability to freely buy and sell products in the EU has had a positive impact on their business, including 74% of SMEs. It has been estimated that UK trade with some countries in Europe could have increased by as much as 50% as a result of EU membership. The Single Market also underpins access to European supply chains. In 2009 $207bn of the UK’s total of $293bn of exports to the rest of the EU27 was used as inputs to industries, rather than being consumed directly; and the UK imported $161bn of intermediates from the EU27 in 2009. Imported intermediates are important even to domestically-focused sectors: the health & social care sector used $19bn of imported intermediates (principally of pharmaceuticals and other chemicals). The EU has helped open global markets to UK firms on strong terms The EU is a springboard for trade with the rest of the world through its global clout: it accounted for 23% of the global economy in 2012 in dollar terms. Through 30 trade deals negotiated by the EU, including the Single Market itself, British firms have full access to a $24 trillion market. The recent deal with Canada and on-going discussions with Japan and the US could double this to $47 trillion - the UK would struggle to achieve the same quality of trade deals independently. 58% of CBI members think that extra-EU trade agreements have had a positive impact on their business, including 55% of SMEs, compared to 3% who thought the impact was negative. Membership has increased flows of investment into the UK Investment flows across borders inside the EU have roughly doubled following the introduction of the Single Market. As the EU’s leading investment destination, the UK was a key beneficiary: the EU accounted for 47% of the UK’s stock of inward FDI at the end of 2011, with investments worth over $1.2 trillion. Access to the EU Single Market has also helped attract investment into the UK from outside the EU. 52% of CBI members say that the ability to invest in other EU states without restriction has had a positive impact on business. Free movement of labour has broug****ht benefits to the UK economy Free movement of labour helps UK business plug skills gaps. 63% of CBI members say that the ability to recruit and transfer staff from across the EU has been positive for business, including 48% of SMEs. Overall only 1% of members said the impact had been negative – and only 2% of SMEs said it had been negative. UK citizens have also benefited from free movement of labour – at least three-quarters of a million live in other EU countries. CBI recognises that there is public debate over immigration – consideration must be given to how free movement can practically operate in an EU of 28 in a way that commands public support. Business sees the UK’s lack of unilateral control over some regulation as a downside to membership There is recognition that common rules are needed to support the Single Market. 52% of CBI members think that common product standards across the EU are a positive, including 50% of SMEs. Overall, only 15% of members said that the impact of common standards had been negative. However, firms are concerned about labour market regulation. 49% of CBI members say that the pan-EU employment rights in areas such as working hours are a negative for business. The UK’s net budgetary contribution is a small net cost relative to the benefits The UK’s net contribution to the EU budget is around €7.3bn, or 0.4% of GDP. As a comparison that’s around a quarter of what the UK spends on the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and less than an eighth of the UK’s defence spend. The £116 per person net contribution is less than that from Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany and the Netherlands.

Doing OK today 210 or so ahead with six wickets down hopefully 250 will be a winning score Another injury Topley out for three months with a stress fracture to the back. Still odds on to be relegated need a top class batsman maybe two now that Vince is away on Test Duty

PARDEW the only manager to win us silverware in the last forty years

So what

I cannot really see why Koeman would want to extend at the moment although he would get paid more as there are likely to be bigger clubs than us seeking his services next year

I think you logic is completely wrong his stas were very good in the number of games he played

A pity Pardew was not there just hope Man U get beaten in the Cup Final

I thought going to Brighton to give them a thrashing would be better than going to Hull or Sheffield

Disappointed in early January but really happy now but that is football I suppose Next season will be interesting and will be dependent of course what kind of squad we have and perhaps the state of our players after Euro 2016 I would be surprised if Leicester did well again and Chelsea and Man U did as badly again

I must admit I was critical and disappointed in early January after Palace beat us in the FA Cup and we had suffered a series of bad results in the League and I suggested that we had the players and RK should get his finger out and get them playing well. I am pleased to see that he has done that very well and our season has turned out to be one of the best I have experienced in the last 55 seasons I have been watching the Saints. Perhaps Sadio and Vic may want to stay now and I look forward to the 2016-2017 with Saints in Europe and the PL something I never thought would happen only a few years ago. I was a shame that Pardew had a bit of a thrashing today but I feel we should thank him for laying the foundations for our current position as a top PL team no longer an also ran on but a top 6 one

I was too but they do have a large fan base in East London Essex and East Anglia Apparently 10000 are childrens tickets but they may well be a force in the future http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/west-ham-confirm-season-ticket-7929789

I know but what happens if Palace win the cup and we finish 7th

But what happens if they win the cup and we finish 7th I dont think we qualify for the EL We really need Man U to lose or West Ham not to win and us to win on Saturday to Qualify for the El Otherwise we will have to support Man U in Cup final I really would like Palace to win the cup they did knock us out.

Not if Liverpool win the Europa Cup I believe

Why West Ham still have to beat Stoke and Liverpool have to beat both Chelsea and Seville everything to play for

Well said Pip look what Leicester have done I doubt whether many would have been over the moon with any of their signings in the recent past

Very true Saints never seem to be consistently good losing to Bournemouth and being awful for seven or eight weeks around Christmas cost us dear

I think we will finish 7th cannot see West Ham winning both there remaining games

What do you want out of life Wes?

do you think Labour are on the right track to win in 2020? No but there could be a coalition with the SNP Lets face it the Press totally rubbish non tory parties so the things published must have some affect on peoples perception on labour. I know lots of grass roots Labour members who think that Corbyn is not that left wing but he is certainly left wing compared to the red Tories like Khan Blair Brown Straw etc

I live in Bracknell too and agree with you but work is happening to speed up traffic at the Coral Reef junction and the M3 is currently being enhanced which is positive Bracknell is a great place to bring up kids plenty of things for them to do schools are great improving all the time good road links but slow railway to Waterloo North Bracknell is probably the best place to live but the other areas including Great Hollands which now includes Jennetts Park have good areas too Getting Back to Southampton is sometimes troublesome around Winchester as I found out attending evening games

You do not seem to be a very compassionate or rounded person but one who think they are pretty clever but to many on here you are just a Tossa. For 27 years the Hillsborough disaster was framed as a story of overwhelming loss. But it was also a marathon of injustice: a point poorly understood by people like you who wondered why the mourning never ceased. To lose a loved one in an accident is terrible enough. To lose a son, daughter, brother or sister and then see criminal negligence denied and covered up by a hostile system is a whole other level of anguish. It was this institutionalised callousness that prevented the relatives of the 96 victims from laying the dead to rest and moving on with their own lives. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/04/26/paul-hayward-hillsborough-injustice-prevented-families-moving-on/

You seem to be a particularly nasty man there was a terrible tragedy in Sheffield in 1989 when 96 football fans like you and me were killed due to the failings of the Police and Ambulance Service who should have been there to look after them. The families of the deceased were then subject to total a torrent of lies from the Establishment to cover up their numerous errors and the fans were pilloried in the Press. As View From The Top has said read http://www.theguardian.com/football/...P=share_btn_tw and the comments below Men saw their children die due to the police and then the police lied, lied again and carried on lying. You have to be an utter tossa if you think after 27 years the people of Liverpool should not 'celebrate' that the true facts have now come out and the people who lied may now be taken to task. Yesterday was a fantastic day for the way a group of ordinary people overcame the wrath of a corrupt establishment to get justice for therie loved ones I salute them

If you went off to a football match and came back dead dont you think your family would be really upset if they were told a pack of lies by the authorities I certainly would. I found the accounts of the families quite emotional some would have had their lives ruined by the incorrect actions of the police and others