Food Shortages and Business Bankruptcies in Post Brexit Britain
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- Опубліковано 26 січ 2024
- As we hear about the return of Rickets and Scurvy and children having to wear overcoats and gloves in school because of the cold there is more bad news for the UK following #brexit
From 1st February the UK will have to begin imposing #import controls on goods arriving in the UK from the #europeanunion . These have previously been delayed five times since 2021. These controls will result in shortages and price increases. EU suppliers will be less likely to want to send goods to the #uk if this involves uncertain delays. They are also likely to increase prices to cover the increased delays. Gaps on the supermarket shelves are likely to become normal.
More than 500,000 businesses are said to be in financial difficulty and at least 57,000 are expected to close in the coming weeks. The highest #taxes ever, increased cost of living and energy price increases have all contributed to a reduction in spending.
Hi from Scotland 🏴 we need to leave this sinking ship
Welcome to the EU family. ❤
I moved permanently to my home in Portugal in 2013. Life here has just got better and better year after year. We were notified in December that our state owned electricity will increase by 4.1% from January 1st and stay at that price for a year. Bottled gas has fallen from it's high of 21 euros during the pandemic to 13 euros today. Again, state owned. We buy our gas in nearby Spain and move freely across the border daily, to shop, to eat or just to walk the dogs. I look at Britain with absolute horror. A country run solely for the rich, revelling in bigotry. A government deliberately cultivating hatred of 'others', with no care whatsoever for ordinary people. Every single day, I thank God I bought my house in 2003 and made plans to leave the UK from then onwards. Brexit came long after I left and has been a very predictable, but deeply sad disaster for Britain and its standing here in mainland Europe. It breaks my heart to think of what Britain is becoming.
I have a friend from Los Angeles who has retired to Lisbon. He loves it.
We got out in 1987,had a self employed business each, bought a property for £50,000 over 10yrs, now worth 500,000€. Our life in Andalucia is idyllic, living well but frugally mainly on pensions, we'll never go back.All our mulitcultural friends only talk about Brexit if we mention it, and they are totally befuddled and sad as to why our ex country did it!
Very happy immigrants we are.
Electric and gas prices in the u.k. are on average 41% higher than on mainland Europe. I agree with everything you have just said. Britain is in a shit state we are becoming poorer year on year. Our health service is in a state of perpetual crisis. We have amongst the lowest state pensions in Europe and one of the highest costs of living. I have by a querk of fate found that because I was born in N.Ireland because of the Dublin Agreement I can and have got an E.U. passport. My daughter lives in Spain because I was born in Belfast she too has an E.U. passport and her own place out there and my wife's British passport is running out too. Her father was born in southern Ireland so she too will soon have an E.U. passport. We applied for our EHIC cards renewal but we can only get a GHIC. The " G " stands for global. So I can now get limited medical cover in the E.U. but here's the joke also in Ascension Island, St Helena and Triston de Kuna. I served 9 years in the RAF but I no longer feel proud of our national flag. The Tories have total trashed our standing in the world and companies are leaving for the E.U. in significant numbers. If it gets much worse I might join you soon. Others in the U.K. without dual nationalship will have to grin and bare it.
Brexiters like Andrew Neil and Nigel Lawson hated the EU and public ownership of utilities ( common in France) so much that they actually moved to France 😂
I would have turned them back at the border or deported them
They are shills for the Anglican proper gander musheen ( fed up of being cen sud .. nudge nudge ). They only want the best for themselves, not the British people. Along with Mr Furidge, they are complete froo-auds
Whereas Churchill said, 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few', today it is that never in the field of human greed and corruption was so much taken from so many by so few.
Geoff from Fremantle, Western Australia 🇦🇺
Thatcherism....
@@djmarti7773- ...better known as "Reaganomics" .
Another fantastic video Michael.,The Tories have deliberately destroyed britian and turned it into a Victorian era slum.
Thanks Lokischildren 😊
@@MichaelLambert1 my pleasure please keep the great work up and have a fantastic week
A man of intelligence and honour.
I'm a 77 year old white male and I'm bloody glad I wont be around in the years to come, sorry for all the youngsters growing up in this country.
Ditto but the years to come are not in the distant future. When we two were little we saw only steam trains, in our early teens we saw them sometimes and when we hit 20 they had gone. That was a quick change but sadly slow compared to these changes. Anyway, heres wishing you a happy weekend young man.
My boss just spent three days trying to sort the paperwork out to ship a very large machine into Europe, the machine had to go 4 separate trucks... it was a nightmare, he talked to customs, the truck companies, the agents and the customer... loads of paperwork sent here, there and everywhere, e-mails and phone calls constantly, we still don't know if it's right, we'll find out on Monday. It wasn't even this bad before Schengen! Before brexit I was involved in shipping machinery to the EU, it was a doddle, plus I could jump on a plane and, with my EU passport, go wherever I needed to to sort any issues out, it was so much easier to do business. The company I worked for shut their UK operations down Christmas before last, our American owners shipped all of our machines to Madrid, it was much easier for them.
Brexit is just a slow haemorrhage. It's slow because our Brexiter spivs + liars didn't want us to feel the full damage all at once - that's why the EU was ready on day 1 of Brexit but incompetent Britain still not ready 4 years later. If we wanted to show the world how bloody useless we are, we couldn't have done better than with our Brexit - unplanned, unprepared, inefficient and essentially nasty, selfish and stupid. No wonder Aus, NZ + Canada are queuing up to rip us off - bet they can't believe their luck! Britain wants to turn its back on the best food in the world and import intensively reared and medicated animals from 15000 miles away instead and at a time of increased transport costs and risks - hahaha and bringing veggies 15000 miles past the Houthis - hahahaha....... you really can't get stupider than that 😂🤣😂.
Did you see the new Brexit imports computer system is called BTOM - I guess that's fitting coz Britain is certainly at the BTOM of the pile now and still sinking. Ah well, that's where bigotry, arrogance and ridiculous delusion gets a country.
Britain - not nice to know anymore, steer clear.
It's a bloody tragedy my friend. We need to get mainstream media to show all the jobs and business we are loosing post Brexit but how is the question
The people “at the top” do not care about others as long as they get richer.
Dear Michael, as always, my wife and I enjoy your podcast. Your messages go hand in hand with James O'Brien's book, "How they broke Britain". If I had not lived through the 40 years in Britain, commencing from 1969, I would not have witnessed the gradual decline of Britain starting with the Thatcher years and the equally gradual increase of xenophobia in the 90s. I witnessed the increase of anti EU diatribe in the UK media, notably TIMES and TELEGRAPH following the Maastricht Treaty.
As a former Tory supporter, who became disillusioned I metamorphed to a Tony Blair supporter and finally, disliking Brown thoroughly, I threw my lot in with the SNP, living in Scotland.
By definition I am still centre right (Christian Democrat) and vote the ÖVP in Austria but just like Rory Stewart I despise this right wing bunch masquerading as (British) Conservatives. They are identical to the neo-nazi parties like FPÖ (Austria), AfD (Germany) and all the other proto-fascist parties that poison the political climate in Europe.
I wish you well with your campaign and may you be blessed with success.
It is bad. Really bad.
Well said I agree with all we now live in 1873
Not forgetting "Snippets...How Boris Beggared Britain" from which J O'B got his title...Nat Boot saw it all coming...
Thanks for your important information about how the anti-democratic right wing is progressing in Europe, its not good that they have some support!!
Excellent post, Sir.
Thank you 😊
What I cannot understand, considering the dire straights the country is in, is how anyone can still be intending, or even considering, voting Conservative.
They're considering Reform instead ..... 🙄
The standard of some of these responses reinforces my belief that we're truly fckd
Jailtime for the tories..they have committed grave offences in public offices
In medieval times the damage that they have inflicted on the population would have considered to be treasonous & they have faced the full consequences for their actions.
When ideology meets reality....
Michael we need you as an MP, better still as a PM, go on !
Your country needs you
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Brexiteers should now be called 'Denialists' because, despite the country deteriorating around their ears, they simply dismiss Brexit is to blame.
Pure utter ignorance on their behalf...
For your point to be valid, you would need to link each aspect of that deterioration to Brexit while also showing that no other events could have caused the same issue.
Or you could just continue to think you are right based on gut feeling and a dislike of Nigel Farage.
@@T0NYD1CK I never mentioned Farage but, as you have mentioned him let's see what he scared the nation with.
One of his claims "If we vote to remain we will lose the steel industry in this country"
And here we are today.....
Now, how much did Farage make for peddling Brexit?
@@Dylanesque Were the Remainers scares more accurate?
If it was merely a "Free trade group".
(Which it isn't because you pay billions in contributions.) It wouldn't be an issue.
It's a bureaucratic Ponzi scheme that is in decline.
The Eurozone (including Germany) has been in recession for almost a year.
It's a political project with delusions of grandeur
I'm surprised you put it down to incompetence, I think it's worse than that.
Thanks Michael.
I don't regret emigrating to Germany 2 decades ago.
Brexiteers love the ˋWhat about Germanyˋs economy…? Pointing fingers…..but let‘s all be honest, we‘re not as bad as the UK….yet!
I live in what is called the Forth Green Freeport, never asked whether I wanted this (which I do not). Reading the book Silent Coup - How Corporations Overthrew Democracy - this describes how this has been happening in other countries. Everyone needs to be aware of this tactic which takes away from local governments the services they have provided to the population for ages and hands it to private companies. How anyone in government can agree to this and without asking the population first is beyond belief. Private companies will run down what services there are and our most disadvantaged will become even more so.
Hello Michael, I lived in Thailand for 30 years before returning to the UK for family reasons. What a huge mistake I made. UK is 3rd World compared to Thailand. I have had waits in A&E for over 12 hours in agony due to falls and my faulty bladder being blocked. In Thailand I never waited more than an hour and if it were an emergency like I had here minutes.
Google the Khrung Thai bank scandal. Illegal loans were made by that bank and just about the entire board of directors and the chairman were thrown in jail. That would never happen in the UK. In the UK they would get an OBE or a lordship. What a joke the UK is. The UK embassy on Wireless Road used to be on a par with the US embassy now it is in an office block as it was sold off to pay for the aircraft carriers that sit around doing nothing. Enjoy your time there. I recommend you move there or you will go insane if you stay here. As soon as I can I am moving back. I can honestly say that the UK government is more corrupt than the Thai one. Look at Cameron's £10 million gig with Greensill Bank. In the UK you get paid after office in Thailand it's cash as you go. That's the difference. All the best from Broken Britain.
Import the third world, become the third world.
Thank you Robert - I am tempted to stay! 😊
It’s ghastly and unfortunately true. The Tories must go.
We are a small company based in the United States. We ship products all over the world without difficulties. However, if a customer in UK orders an item via our website, we ask them to reorder It via Amazon so we don't have to fill out the large amount of paperwork that UK requires Recently we sent an order to Scotland and the cost of import duties was literally close to the cost of the product thus doubling the price. This money could have been used productively in so many other ways.
I am a EU citizen living in uk. In all my 39 years I ordered from USA once, but I ordered from EU and inside EU hundreds of times. So I don’t really care how difficult it is for US products to get here ( with food I’m actually glad that the regulations are still in place), but I do miss EU single market where I could send a birthday gift for my sister in Denmark without her paying customs tax. Now I send her money instead, so she spends it in Denmark.
@crochetomania My comment was not to illustrate problems on our end in the US but to point out: 1. Shipping to UK is more trouble than shipping anywhere else in the world, including to countries like India or Macao making it difficult for UK citizens to participate in the world economy and (2) The UK consumer is personally out-of-pocket for the high cost of their country's trade restrictions. This money would be better spent on UK health services, education, infrastructure etc. . (Although I am willing to deliver in person to your door if the price is right 😊)
The Sky interview with an ex-general of the army taught us that the money spent on failed Test & Trace was 50% more than it would cost to set up and run a double-sized British Army.
Fail, fail, fail. CAN'T do better. 😮
Food isn't required when you have all that Sovereignty to eat.
You are a voice crying in the wilderness.It's sometimes hard to listen to but keep it up.
What I really don't understand is why the British public doesn't protest. They wouldn't get-away anywhere else but the UK. Because they are sick of talking about brexit? Are you kidding me?
Protest against what exactly?
Britain being out of the EU?
The europeans dont want us back anyway.
No as it says on their cups and aprons in the corner shops. “KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON” and they are so thick and dumb that’s exactly what they do. Love from Ireland 🇮🇪
thank you for telling the truth your a breathe of fresh sir 👍
Criminal what's happened and prison time should await the scammers
The big problem is that voters don't think critically about the information presented to them. Therefore they manage to vote against their own best interests.
I blame our government and the EU 😊
@@ashjitsu For what? The fact that half of the people have a below average IQ?
And the same people who voted for Brexit are now considering voting Reform, which is more if the same.
According to a report last week, Britain is less prepared to deal with an epidemic now than before Covid. Less hospital beds, less PPE, fewer doctors and nurses. 😢😢
The people wouldnt comply with governmental directions anyway after the last farce.
And WHO was Health Minister? The millionaire Jeremy Hunt!
One day the British people may wake up and see that the Tories actually don't care about damn what happens to the people or the country as long as their dividends and bonuses keep coming in to make them feel better than us. Only one God ....... profit at others expense. Nothing else matters. The Johnson's and Farages of this world sold us out to Russia for personal profit over Brexit - the only benefits to breaking up the EU was for Russia who wanted to damage European solidarity and security before the long-planned war in Ukraine started. And they call us traitors!
Thank you Michael. A good talk.
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Sadly Michael, I agree with your expectations.
Keep it up Michael, we need more people speaking up for the poorest its called empathy ,something that the right wing press hate ,how they manipulate their readership is despicable.
One of your best videos yet. Chilling to think it may have all been purposeful.
Thank you 😊
What Michael says is quite true and is not loughing matter. And some of the sarcastic comments underneth show that the Brexit lesson has no yet been fully understood by many.
I think the trolls here are desperately trying not to admit to themselves that they were completely hoodwinked by the dark money men and their puppets.
Lucky for the EU that Britland is out - such a badly run country would be a huge drag on the 27 members.
Like Hungary Slovakia ...?
@@stevejones2310 you forgot to include Poland! Oh no wait! The Polish electorate elected a pro EU progressive government whilst dumping a conservative right wing party. And when Orban and Fico are gone the UK will still be voting first past the post , have an unelected upper chamber with life membership, and will be observing trade regulations that you have no control over. Good luck. You’ll need it 🤨
@@stevejones2310The stupid reprimand doesn't help any British child to fill their stomach or heat up the school.
@@Oluinneachain only a question of time til the UK dumps the incompetent corrupt Tories
Best irony in all of this is that the governing party right now are the party of economics/business
Shortages of food is a clear sign your gov't has failed, and failed badly.
Medical supplies will also be a major problem, I've already had problems getting mine.had to tour round 5 pharmacies to get a vital antipsychotic plus a recent ex girlfriend who has epilepsy is in the same boat.this is the Tories Nero decree, not as a policy just as you say Michael,a complete dearth of talent, total incompetence and stupid people allowed to be MPs simply by virtue of being able to talk a question out of time in an interview,the last one regarding interviews is genuinely part of Tory candidate selection.🤮🤮🤮🤮
Impose import controls on your main food suppliers 😂😂😂 insanity
The greatest culprit is Johnson, a charlatan. Remember Oven Ready?
Remember ‘let the bodies pile up?’ My husband was one. His survival to date makes me wonder about the existence of a God.
Sad but very true Michael. Already seeing shortages in certain items and price hikes on others. Still some don't see it. I worry what be coming next.
Now in Ireland and business is thriving, can't really see much hope for UK. Become a Republic and change to PR. It is only Belarus and UK using FPTP.
A dictator in Belarus who falsifies the vote count uses FPTP?
We're about the same age, Michael, and thank you for airing my own thoughts on UA-cam. I couldn't do it.
Oh joy of joys. Isn't it?
Roll up, roll up, come and have a piece of Broken Brexit Britain. You wanted it.
It is not only Brexit, though.😢
@@awpetersen5909
Ha, as if.
Thank you Michael , for your work , ìts so true ! Tbh , they , Westminster ì actually think ,should all be in prison ,for treason against us àll, the people they represented
Chillingly accurate, I'm afraid
I get more and more despairing listening to the you Michael. But am grateful nevertheless. If your words were on the front pages of every newspaper and on all the broadcast media l would have hope.
it's kinda insane the uk can still be called rich/developed when there's so much suffering this day an age
UK may have the 6th highest GDP, but on GDP per person basis, it is below 9 EU countries, sitting at 22nd. That's 20 places below Ireland.
It very sad Micheal...more than sad really. I haven't renewed my British passport, for the first time in my life.
Thank heavens I have my Italian one...but I never thought this day would come ...
How fortunate you are to be able to remove yourself from the wreckage
Lucky you.
Are you a prisoner there ?@@susanwaite1187
he BBC are complicit because they're not shouting about these things from the roof tops
Reality is, that the BBC is merely a government mouthpiece.
I feel the same frustration as you do and I am not even British!
Luckely for me I live within the EU!
You probably still have s steel making industry which the UK is about to lose!
@@davidcarrol110 IJmuiden is doing well! They make very high quality steel.
Most countries would fall over themselves to become part of a large free trade group.
Like the CPTPP do you mean. ?
...and sadly a huge poisoned chalice to be handed to a Labour government.
Hi Michael, you get your weekly uptick from me but by god this is bleak and un-entertaining stuff.
I so look forward to some day when the news will be happy, a joy to share and a joy to hear. This is a chronicle of things that have been broken rotting, and the things that were not directly broken beginning to collapse into the voids. It is so deeply sad that, in an election year, there isn't such a thing as a main party (Plaid and SNP don't have much of a chance in England) that has the integrity to be honest about this heartbreaking national tragedy.
Warmest regards.
I totally agree.
Thanks 😊
I had an astonishing argument with an English person recently, during which he actually said: 'Well, Germany has accumulated the same amount of national debt as the UK. $2.7 trillion. You're just as screwed as we are.'
I tried to explain to him that this amount paints a very different picture for each country, since it's 102% of GDP in case of the UK and only 68% of GDP in the case of Germany.
' 2.7 trillion is 2.7 trillion. What difference does it make?' was his response. I was truly stunned. I felt as if I had talked to a child.😂🤦
For the next argument:
1.5 trillion of the German national debt was used to rebuild the GDR. Perhaps you need to explain to the British the history of the division after the Second World War.
@@ichbinbluna3504I actually was to bring that up, but after his response I just couldn't be bothered. He was so clearly out of his depth. If I had told him that, his head would probably have exploded...
The most astonishing thing is, that he seemed to be a fairly well educated man.
I remember just thinking 'Wow. Woooow.'
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@@Iain1962 Your source for your claims re German debt is?
@@ichbinbluna3504 Do you think he has the time? And that Brits would care? I think the eyes will glaze over...you could tell them they let Volkswagen still work and even helped them after the war...but the whole complicated history? I don't think I would do even a summary....
@@RealMash Oh, many Brits seem to care when being compared to Germany. In fact, they get very invested. A lot of them simply can't wrap their head around the fact, that Germany is so much more successful than the UK.
' Wtf? We bombed their whole bloody country into oblivion, and yet they managed to buzz past us with ease. Even their neighbors like them more than they like us, after all the horrible shit that was done to them by these bloody huns. They even managed to win 3 more world cups than we did, for fks sake...😡😡😡'
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Brexit Britain is closed for business.
Right you are again, Mr Lambert. Let's hope the general election gets called for early May. Keep sharing your thoughts in these videos.
Bon courage, monsieur! 🎉
But do remember that you won’t have to disclose your overseas bank accounts!
That is the reason for Brexit, crooks hiding their money 9:01
Thanks once again for the honest insight showing the state of the UK and what is to come it's certainly a gloomy outcome .
Thank you once again for your insight
Gove is my local MP , I will confront him on the freeport issue at his next local QandA session.
And yet Michael there are some who will still. vote tory, like the three monkeys see not hear not say not
I voted for Brexit. I used to vote for Tories, but not any more - the only possible good party now is REFORM. The Tories stuffed up the opportunity to make the most of leaving the EU cabal. It's time to get back on track.
Our problems go far deeper than you seem to realise.
@@ElsieM365Have you read Reform policies? I did. Basically Liz Truss's mini budget on steroids. You obviously don't value your pension.
People at the top know it but don't care because they're getting filthy rich with it.
Wouldnt it be great if we could sue the government for gross negligence
They should be jailed for life, ALL of them!!
Don't forget you now have a blue passport!!
And brown sea's and river's, win win 😢😢.
Thanks Micheal. Enjoy your family time.
Thank you Chiccababy 😊
There is a Brexit success !
The demise of the Tory party 🤣
Demise? They've all gotten rich. It's only a success if all these thieves are made personally accountable and they're made to pay it all back.
Thank you , another exact and sobering commentary on a failed state.
Thanks Michael for another 1st class video .. Hope you are still enjoying good weather and amazing food . Best wishes from Berlin .
Thank you very much Helena. Yes, I am really enjoying Bangkok 😊
@@MichaelLambert1 Another world with a different outlook. Some time since I was there It must be wonderful seeing your family 🙂
Michael: great video.The Port Talbot steel making decision probably came too late for your broadcast. Looking forward to your take on that next Saturday...👍
Thanks Steve 😊
Great job Michael
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But, if things are so bad, isn't It up to the British to start protesting? I still see loads of Brits holidaying in Spain.
I'm pretty sure it was intentional. Putin working everywhere. I'm american and he wasn't just happy about the UK, he added to our already flailing politics as well.
Brexshiteers, Farage, Cummings and Banks all had nefarious links with Russia and probably still do. Farage is crawling up trump's ass hoping to get him re-elected and that is exactly what putin's banking on since trump will then pull the carpet from underneath Ukraine and stop supplying them with weapons and military intelligence and know how.
Scurvy and Rabies coming back!
A damming indictment on the Government.
My Irish wife sent important documents from the U.K. to Ireland. They were stopped at the Border amd no one seemed to know where they were.. After many phone calls and e-mails to top management, the reason given was inadequate documentation. They were sent back. Becasue these methods of freight transportation can no longer be trusted, to secure the safe passage of this VIP (Very Important Package), at coniderable cost, I am now booked to go by train, plane and bus to Dublin, just for the day to deliver this package personally by hand.Undoubtedly, the reason for this blockage of goods between the U.K. and its neighbouring state of the Republic of Irleand is BREXIT.
Alternatively you could ask Jacob Reese-Mogg to get it delivered as he moved one of his business HQ's to Dublin at the time Brexit was taking place?
Not all Britons get poorer .. there is this small group in power which is earning its ass off ... millions and millions ... lets pray for them ...
Absolutely spot on as usual. Thanks Michael for putting meat on what we feel.
Thanks Mike 😊
Oh God Michael....this is so worrying...the prices are so high already...and they ve got the cheek to ask people to defend the country....brexit is a complete disaster.
Thank you for explaining clearly what it is all about xx😊
If you say Brexit is a disaster without looking at the current state of many EU countries, particularly Germany then I have to ask which of your two brain cells are active at the moment.
Let's see what happens in the election? How many people will vote for the Tories, Reform UK, UKIP. The people ignoring the evidence that right wing politicians are bad for us all are the real problem.
We've only had left wing governments and here we are 😂
A honest look at the UK Michael your absolutely right, but we'll never recover until truths are faced up too, i also firmly blame the media for covering up and hiding these serious problems, and they as we know are where most people get to know about issues. Quality post as usual Michael.
Thanks Martin 😊
The UK is a poor country, growing unemployment, zero opportunity however hard you work, irrespective of how many qualifications you get. Forget going for being an astronautics engineer, proper title for Rocket Scientist, I can't afford to keep my motorbike on the road, it's just survival, making ends meet in the UK, no fun, no hobbies, no holidays, just working flat out and making enough to get by, food and shelter.
Who are the 21% who are going to vote for the Tories? I wonder about their sanity.
In 1971 I picked apples on a farm in East Sussex. These apples were in perfect condition and were sent for export. 14 days later they were returned to the farm as no longer suitable. They had remained in storage awaiting inspection until they were no longer of sufficient quality for export..
Another interesting vlog highlighting the disastrous state of our country after fourteen years of Tory government.
I hope you are having a wonderful time with your son and family.
Thanks very much 😊
Speaking of post-Brexit trade problems, the Tories this past week also walked away from negotiations that would were aiming to finalize the transitional free trade agreement with Canada that was implemented after the UK left the EU.
Exports and imports to the eu and the rest of the world are at record highs.
you just made that up! Attributions please.
@@Curryking32000 you better show us your source...
America definitively refused a trade deal with the UK & Badenoch pulled out of the negotiations with Canada (ongoing since march 2022), because Canada refused the same tariff free trade deals the UK had when a member of the EU. The UK's tariff free trade concerning cheese ended on Dec 2023 & the car deal will end in april of this year.
It's not all the UK's fault though, Canada has been pushing the UK to drop it's ban on hormone treated beef & so is less inclined to be charitable.
@@LowPlainsDrifter60 Wasn't that part of remainer project fear that we would get hormone treated beef and chlorinated chicken if we had a deal with the North American continent? You can't have it both ways you know. Pulling out of the Canadian FTA is part of the negotiation tactic and this will be reopened in the future as long as Canada complies with UK food standards. The UK is a valuable trading partner for Canada so these negotiations will commence once they've been brought into line.
So depressing Michael. But thank you for your articulate commentary. Knowledge of the hell we're in is at least a start when it comes to addressing it. I hope you're enjoying life in Thailand. It sounds like you very much deserve it.
Thanks. very much 😊
It's ok, in a few months one set of hopeless incompetents are going to be replaced by another set of hopeless incompetents.
No one could be as incompetent as the grifters and spivs that enacted Brexit. No plan, no preparation, no anything to make this huge change a smooth one - nothing but but unremitting BS, delay and incompetence from Britain.
The ONLY thing that keeps any politicians in any sort of check is the fear they can lose their cushy jobs next election - you don't have to particularly like any of them them - but they always need changing every few years or the power drives them crazy. Mind you, the Brexiters were crazy to start with so no wonder we're in such a mess.
Only if people are stupid enough to vote toxic Tory or loony Labour, and a vote for either of them is pure stupidity.
Had a business employing 7 British men working around Europe, sadly I had to make all redundant, I've relocated to Germany now employing Germany Labour... I'll never return, removed most every penny I own except for 60k... I'm selling all properties in the UK, it's taken me 3 years to relocate... how ugly the UK has become, I was proud now I'm ashamed to be called English.. reading Uk newspapers running down EU is a criminal use of their intelligence
All Lies. Remoaners dive to some depths.
@@paulgibbons2320keep on ruminating your fixings.
@@lorenagonzalez71eh?
Good morning Mr Lambert 👍. And I agree 💯% with you. Thanks very much for your great analysis 👍. Have a nice weekend 👍👍👍
Thanks Candida 😊
Not on the mark. What actually happens is that the UK continues it's relative decline against other leading economies, but because it's gradually happening anyway the politicians get away with it. The best measure is one or all:
Working harder for the same pay? Tories say the problem is productivity.
Seek promotion to increase your income? Tories say we lack ambition.
Go abroad and wish you lived there? Tories say we have it better.
Pay more taxes but can't get treated? Tories say they're spending record amounts on the NHS.
Want your children to have a better future? Tories say we can't afford it but all our wind farms are foreign owned.
Wish your voice was actively listened to? The unelected Tory leader says be proud of your democracy.
Want to feel proud of our country? Tories say our values matter but let's bomb Yemen because we know we won't win that one. Again.
ML, this is the reality. We swallowed the Brexit lie so all other lies just roll over.
Why should he care about the country's economy, he'll be off to another country asap with his ill gotten gains 🙄
Happy weekend Michael, I hope you are getting some great food and plenty of sunshine down there. You have painted a sad picture of the UK, rickets and scurvy, not something that will make repairing the damage caused in the last 14 years any easier. I see a lot of comments today telling us that there are problems in the other developed nations, but honestly, rickets, scurvy and 11, 000 poor souls having to be hospitalized in 2023 with malnutrician should tell tham that something has gone dreadfully wrong in the UK. I saw one little sweetie telling us that most of you will be gone within two years, well done, you now have one of the immortals in your fan club.
Rickets? Import the third world, become the third world.
@@EllieMaes-Grandad Rickets is a vitamine D and calcium deficiancy, not a contagiouse diceace. Care to explain the meaning behind your comment?
The damage started in 1973 with Margaret Thatcher 'the milk snatcher' takin school milk off the bairns.
As Britain and her people became richer and better fed (although in WW2 were healthy), free food was no longer necessary. Did you enjoy her tax cuts? @@therealrobertbirchall
@EllieMaes-Grandad no I didn't enjoy her tax cuts because along with them our children lost their milk and I had to start paying for the dentist. I also, being a Midlands lad, didn't enjoy her class war and decimation of British industry and destruction of our working class communities and culture. But I'm not a millionaire, so like most of the population of these islands, I never vote tory but still suffer from tory greed and corruption.
mortified disbelief and anger.
Good benefit off Brexit, the rotten corrupt British political scandals coming to light and not talking about the square mile, that we keep for the best parts
We already have less choice and higher prices. Food goes off quickly as well.
These days I consider Brexiteers as trolls. No sound argument. Lots of "whataboutism" and finger-pointing.
Hello Michael, the visit to your family has done you good. You look well and full of energy; i'm afraid you will need it for your fight...
Keep up the good work! 👍
_"You look well and full of energy"_
The guy looks like death warmed up FFS.
@@DaveLongcock Well, you can only hope to look as well when you reach his age!
Especially important is to keep a mind as sharp as his, but for that you need to have a mind as sharp in one point of your life to begin with...
Thank you very much Uwe 😊
I agree 💯 with all you say, with regard to the state the country is in.. My question is WHY are the Public allowing this to continue. The hundreds of people marching in opposition of the situation in Israel & Palestine. WHY is no - one marching to Downing Street to get this unelected Prime Minster out of Office. The 2.5 billion going to Ukraine should be put into repairing the crumbling schools due to the RAC concrete debacle. Children are our future, they need to be educated to high standards. WHY are people unable to obtain NHS dentistry, WHY are people dying in the back of Ambulances as A&E Departments are unable to cope with the unprecedented demand.
Social Care in crisis. It seems money is available, Sunack like the Tory rogues before him choose to fritter Tax Payers money to assist other countries. Are they still shelling out 6 - 8 million a day on hotels for Asylum seekers. Many of these people are working under the radar, CASH in HAND jobs. I've never seen so many workers in hand car washes. The amount of hand car washes you'd think the country had the growth it desperately needs!!