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10 Nov

POST-BREXIT FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS (FTAs) A Global View.

Here is a map of the world. The countries and territories marked in blue are regarded as having an "advanced economy" according to the IMF.

Not many, are there?

The sad fact is that the majority of the world's population simply cannot afford the products & services the UK exports. The countries in blue must be our focus.

However, the EU & US have made it clear there'll be no FTAs if the UK govt doesn't change course. I'll remove them.

That leaves a handful of countries that have advanced economies but aren't the US or in the EU. Unfortunately for the UK, of those that remain, nearly all have existing FTAs with the EU, deals that cannot BY LAW be bettered by subsequent agreements. I'll remove them.

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Graham Hughes 🇪🇺 👊🤠

@EveryCountry

9 Oct

In May, the UK government promised a “world beating” Test and Trace system. Here is my experience of using that system.

I’m currently at my parent’s house in Liverpool helping my mum look after my 83-year-old dad who suffers from advanced vascular dementia.

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In August my dad stopped eating and refused to drink. At the start of September he was rushed to hospital with kidney failure. He spent two weeks on the ward before being discharged. We now have carers coming to the house four times a day in minimum PPE.

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Last Thursday (Oct 1st), my mum and I both developed coughs. Erring on the side of caution - since my dad is so high risk - my mum went for a Covid test first thing on Friday morning. So far so good, Liverpool has a drop-in testing facility at Allerton Library.

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Graham Hughes 🇪🇺 👊🤠

@EveryCountry

8 Sep

I'll give you one example of how devastating #NoDeal will be. AstraZeneca is a British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant. It accounts for a full 1% of the UK's export GDP. Just AstraZeneca. On its own. (For reference, our *entire* fishing export GDP is a mere fraction of that.)

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AstraZeneca has a huge plant in Macclesfield, a town to the south of Manchester. As of March last year, the site employed a total of around 3,500 people in a variety of operations including IT & science as well as the manufacturing arm, which accounts for around 900 workers.

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Since March last year, the site has been shedding jobs like crazy. Why? Well, it might be because every batch of human medicine that is sold to the EU needs to be tested in the EU. We could do a deal to allow testing in the UK to continue, maybe under EU supervision.

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Graham Hughes 🇪🇺 👊🤠

@EveryCountry

5 Sep

25m tonnes worth of imports come into the Port of Liverpool every year, so that's roughly 2,400 massive 40ft container-carrying lorries a day.

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Since we're leaving the EU's Customs Union, after Jan 1st they will ALL will need parking space in a secure "bonded facility" for inspection by customs officials (that don't yet exist). 100 lorries an hour. One every 36 seconds. 24 hours a day.

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The government has just granted itself permission to build this massive concrete facility, surrounded by razor wire, *anywhere* in Liverpool. Reverse alarms 24/7. Flood lights on all night. Lorries tearing up our already potholed streets.

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Graham Hughes 🇪🇺 👊🤠

@EveryCountry

20 Jul

Remainers are getting a wee bit giddy about the #RussiaReport proving what we've known for years... that 🇷🇺 interfered in the Brexit Referendum.

Why did they interfere?

Because they knew that leaving the EU would be economically and socially ruinous for 🇬🇧.

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They could get their revenge for the sanctions we helped put on them in 2014 by paying a handful of privately-educated upper class elitist millionaires -- Farage, Cummings, Johnson, Rees-Mogg, Banks, Wigmore, Gove etc -- to trick 🇬🇧 into slapping trade sanctions... on itself.

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So from Jan 1st we can look forward to pretty much everything we export having a WTO tariff slapped on it, to imports being held up at customs for days (or even weeks), the price of pretty much *everything* increasing & for the £ to be relegated to an "emerging currency".

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Graham Hughes 🇪🇺 👊🤠

@EveryCountry

27 Mar 19

Consider, for a moment, what it would be like if 51.9% of those who voted in the Scottish referendum had voted YES… off the back of Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon making utterly unrealistic promises to the Scottish people. /1

£350m extra a week for the health service, loads more trade and investment (from... somewhere!) and Edinburgh being in a position to dictate terms to London. They tell people that they “hold all the cards” and that “London needs us more than we need London”. /2

The rest of the UK (rUK) graciously accept the decision, and try not to grumble about it too much, even though it will negatively impact the British economy, everyone knowing it will negatively impact the Scottish economy a lot more. /3

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