It’s the @BBC’s own fault they’re increasingly disliked for their facilitation of this charlatanry.
- ‘£39bn better off’ is plain false.
- Little point controlling waters if you can’t sell fish to your biggest market.
- You immediately drop out of FTAs & face outward tariffs.
- ‘£39bn better off’ is plain false.
- Little point controlling waters if you can’t sell fish to your biggest market.
- You immediately drop out of FTAs & face outward tariffs.
Key thing here is that Tim Martin is an importer, not an exporter.
All he sees is crashing out, then dropping own tariff barriers a la Minford.
Fine for getting cheaper booze in.
But we drop out of FTAs, so all our exporters suddenly face highest tariff barriers around world.
All he sees is crashing out, then dropping own tariff barriers a la Minford.
Fine for getting cheaper booze in.
But we drop out of FTAs, so all our exporters suddenly face highest tariff barriers around world.
Think of it like our country suddenly being at the bottom of a well:
Cheap stuff pours in more easily (if they meet our regs too)...
But we’re looking at the highest walls possible in order to get our stuff out.
Cheap stuff pours in more easily (if they meet our regs too)...
But we’re looking at the highest walls possible in order to get our stuff out.
Traditionally we’d do deals to lower those tariff walls of other countries
But with our own tariff barriers at zero across the board, we’d have just given up major leverage.
But with our own tariff barriers at zero across the board, we’d have just given up major leverage.
Anyway- this is when problems start knocking on for Tim Martin:
With our exporters facing massive tariff walls of other countries
And our home producers face surging competition from the inward flood...
Who is going to be still in business & making ££ to spend at his boozers?
With our exporters facing massive tariff walls of other countries
And our home producers face surging competition from the inward flood...
Who is going to be still in business & making ££ to spend at his boozers?
Oh - and finally (Gawd, Tim Martin packs so much crap into a short space)... the tariffs that we collect do in fact go "to Europe"...
Specifically, they go to the EU budget - meaning they go into our common pot -- meaning that they are finances available to all of us...
Specifically, they go to the EU budget - meaning they go into our common pot -- meaning that they are finances available to all of us...
Or put another way... tariffs collected by the Danish and Swedes might just end up being spent on UK-led science or on Welsh regional development funds.
All tariffs collected (minus the collection charge) by *all EU* countries go to the common pot to be spent on us all.
All tariffs collected (minus the collection charge) by *all EU* countries go to the common pot to be spent on us all.
