Who could have guessed that the biggest Brexit jobs dividend would be the 50,000 extra people it will take to fill in all the new customs and other paperwork, and check everything is in order?
We're facing immense trade friction, like superglue-and-sandpaper!
We're facing immense trade friction, like superglue-and-sandpaper!
Annual wage bill: well over £1 billion.
That's money that might as well be set fire to, for all the good it's doing anyone...
(HMRC anticipates the burden of new paperwork will cost UK firms £7.5 billion a year, EU firms the same.)
We're already over the cost of EU membership!
That's money that might as well be set fire to, for all the good it's doing anyone...
(HMRC anticipates the burden of new paperwork will cost UK firms £7.5 billion a year, EU firms the same.)
We're already over the cost of EU membership!
In an economic downturn, who do the rest of the EU and the rest of the world prioritise trade with? The countries where nothing has changed, where there's either no friction or a known tried-and-tested process? Or the newly minted Neo North Korea, cowering across the Channel?
"Brexit: let's rid ourselves of EU bureaucracy... and engineer 10x as much good old British bureaucracy. None of that foreign muck, thank you very much!"
