SDLP call for joint authority in absence of Stormont agreement?

[magpie seanie]

The UK is a large country with many indigenous businesses. They have problems but not insurmountable ones. They control their own currency. They need to get a bit more self sufficient in the short term.

Bottom line though is that it's in no one's interest that there is a so called "hard" Brexit in terms of trade. People might want to "teach them a lesson" but when the reality is viewed they'll see it's not in the EU's interests. More goods enter the UK from the EU than vice versa. Common sense will prevail.

[seafoid]

The UK is a large country with many indigenous businesses. They have problems but not insurmountable ones. They control their own currency. They need to get a bit more self sufficient in the short term.

Bottom line though is that it's in no one's interest that there is a so called "hard" Brexit in terms of trade. People might want to "teach them a lesson" but when the reality is viewed they'll see it's not in the EU's interests. More goods enter the UK from the EU than vice versa. Common sense will prevail.

People haven't been getting payrises above inflation for 10 years.
That is the main issue and Brexit will not address it. The UK needs a new economic system.

[Minder]

Published the other day Seafoid

@FraserNelson: So the Cameron/IDS reforms left Britain with employment higher and inequality lower than any point in the Blair/Brown years. Quite a legacy.


https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/incomeandwealth/bulletins/householddisposableincomeandinequality/financialyearending2016

[Rossfan]

How many food banks had they in the Blair years?

[magpie seanie]

Blair was a Tory anyway.

[seafoid]

Published the other day Seafoid

@FraserNelson: So the Cameron/IDS reforms left Britain with employment higher and inequality lower than any point in the Blair/Brown years. Quite a legacy.


https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/incomeandwealth/bulletins/householddisposableincomeandinequality/financialyearending2016

Wages are still lower than in 2007
Lots of new jobs but many of them are crap
The lack of payrises is one reason behind the Brexit vote and the subsequent collapse of sterling with implications for Marmite and Mr Kipling which are exceedingly expensive now for British wallets

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/jan/13/low-paid-men-in-uk-four-times-more-likely-to-be-working-part-time-than-in-1990s