@steveflatman@eveningperson@Jim_Cornelius@ByronEdwards9@Baddiel Well, Steve, since you're telling everyone what happened, while simultaneously proving that you don't know what happened and you don't have the self awareness to know you don't know what happened, the initiative was put on hold.
@steveflatman@eveningperson@Jim_Cornelius@ByronEdwards9@Baddiel And the initiative was put on hold because things were a bit ropey financially in the 1970s and the report that was put together was rejected, because it opened up an argument that we thought we'd got past in 1972.
I still remember the referendum talking about how the £ might drop and being told "That's good for exporters".
And it was good for exporting labour.
It was also bad for importing labour.
Having a strong £ was a really good thing when it came to solving this crisis, and I've yet to hear someone making this connection, but it's not one that wasn't made at the time.
Claiming you know it wasn't after 2 minutes of research is just ridiculously stupid.
Germany has a problem. One the big drivers was the loss of national service. 10 years ago 20% of their drivers had got their qualifications in the army.
Personally, I don’t agree with a lot of this by @julianHjessop. There is a whole question that has to be answered with regard the state of the transport industry going into the pandemic, and so far I have not seen it asked or answered.
Please take note, Julian is my favourite Brexit economist who makes his arguments on proper economic principles, and therefore, please do not abuse him. I am, as he has done at other times before to other people, simply scrutinising his work.
Firstly, the article asks if Remainers can say they were right, and so I looked into what we actually said.
THE reason that CPTPP has digital provisions is because Japan wanted to ensure that other countries in its region didn't adopt the digital protectionism of China.
Cue a lot of people getting excited about digital provisions and how new trade deals are better with them, despite the fact they largely involve promising to not do something that nobody was going to do.
I don't know about you, but I'm beginning to see a pattern here. (Thread)
Boris Johnson admitted at college he did cocaine, and then said he wasn't sure what it was, and the said he didn't actually inhale.
Which is well known politician language for "I snorted my tits off".
Michael Gove has admitted he has taken it on several occasions, which in Gove language could mean anything from doing it s few time to heading a drug cartel and trying to push kids into taking smack.