The Burnham Years - Can the new(ish) broom sweep clean?

[Farmer Saint]

34 minutes ago, iansums said:

Excellent GDP figures announced this morning +0.7% for Q3.

Agreed, with a strengthening pound and the promise of discussions with Europe on the table it is very positive. If it weren't for the war in the Middle East causing us inflation and interest rate issues we'd be in a very good position.

[iansums]

3 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

Agreed, with a strengthening pound and the promise of discussions with Europe on the table it is very positive. If it weren't for the war in the Middle East causing us inflation and interest rate issues we'd be in a very good position.

Growth fuelled in part by AI where we are miles ahead of the EU, do we really want to be cosying up to a declining Europe?

[egg]

10 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

Agreed, with a strengthening pound and the promise of discussions with Europe on the table it is very positive. If it weren't for the war in the Middle East causing us inflation and interest rate issues we'd be in a very good position.

I think your last sentence is a little ott.  Increasing debt is very much our achilles heel. 

[badgerx16]

32 minutes ago, iansums said:

Growth fuelled in part by AI where we are miles ahead of the EU, do we really want to be cosying up to a declining Europe?

Still our biggest trading partner by far. The EU is critically important for the UK economy.

Edited 6 hours ago by badgerx16

[Farmer Saint]

3 hours ago, iansums said:

Growth fuelled in part by AI where we are miles ahead of the EU, do we really want to be cosying up to a declining Europe?

Yes, it's a huge market.

[iansums]

49 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

Yes, it's a huge market.

My point being if we rejoin the EU then we would have to follow the EU AI regulations, the same regulations that are holding back AI growth in the EU.