Sigh - and again ... eu threatens to block vaccine to the uk and others who got their finger out

[zouzounaki]

... cos nothing else happened over the last year that might effect that slightly.

I would guess my own personal economic activity has been down 75% over the last year too.

what does that mean anyway? we've been buying less German made cars during a pandemic? ... who cares?

but trade with non eu countries has not dropped by anything like 75%. i think it is mostly a consequence of brexit. have you not seen all the stuff about fish etc.? the government would be happy for you to think otherwise, of course.

 

[zouzounaki]

I absolutely get that's how you see it.

i know it’s not for you, but i think it is for some of the others.

 

[crustyfolker]

Back to Vaccines and the EU etc. Would those Scots who wished to remain be happy to find themselves without a vaccine?. Because that's what would have happened. Scots would then be a source for covid which would then leave them open to all sorts of problems just like other EU countries and there would more than likely be even worse rules as England attemted to keep covid out
Do folks really still want to be ruled by unelected idiots, and a bunch of selfish, bullying fools who make themselves look bad and refuse to listen, but then have no testicles to carry out their threats. EU= Germany ruling Europe without having world war 3.
Who will be the next fish to be SNP leader, theres been a Salmon(d) and a Sturgeon, my guess is either Trout , Bass or a Pollock.

 

[scrumpox]

Any and all dealings between UK govt and EU leaders is tainted by the EU's primary objective to ensure that the UK not only does not benefit from leaving but suffers ... and must be seen to suffer. It's the federalists' nightmare if the UK is not suffering.

 

[Simon G]

but trade with non eu countries has not dropped by anything like 75%.

That's good news then.

i think it is mostly a consequence of brexit. have you not seen all the stuff about fish etc.? the government would be happy for you to think otherwise, of course.

No mate, you know I don't eat fish. ... if it was down to me commercial fishing would be made illegal and fuck the economics of that.

 

[zouzounaki]

No mate, you know I don't eat fish. ... if it was down to me commercial fishing would be made illegal and fuck the economics of that.

here is what i was looking at. food and drink exports to eu down 75%.

 

[Simon G]

why are we exporting beef to the EU doesn't the EU have cows? .. and why do we import beef when we are exporting ours?

honestly mate .. economics largely seems like a racket to me. I don't understand it.

 

[zouzounaki]

why are we exporting beef to the EU doesn't the EU have cows? .. and why do we import beef when we are exporting ours?

honestly mate .. economics largely seems like a racket to me. I don't understand it.

i don’t either. but it is how the world works. so it seems to me that excluding ourselves from participating in it with our closest neighbours is a bit stupid.

 

[mick brown]

While England did, Scotland did not!

Yeah, but it was a uk vote NOT an individual country vote.

 

[Simon G]

i don’t either. but it is how the world works. so it seems to me that excluding ourselves from participating in it with our closest neighbours is a bit stupid.

I read that as "i don’t either. but it is how the world works. so it seems we should just shut up and accept it, so they can continue to make lots of money"