Before Brexit...
- EU Trade: super easy.
- Rest of the World Trade: hard.
Since Brexit...
- EU Trade: hard.
- Rest of the World Trade: hard.
The difficulty gap may have "narrowed", but not in a way that benefits businesses at all. Trade is on average harder than before Brexit.
- EU Trade: super easy.
- Rest of the World Trade: hard.
Since Brexit...
- EU Trade: hard.
- Rest of the World Trade: hard.
The difficulty gap may have "narrowed", but not in a way that benefits businesses at all. Trade is on average harder than before Brexit.
Does it encourage firms to consider trading more outside the EU?
Maybe - but only because they'll have a lousy experience everywhere.
It's like raising the price of apples from £10 to £20, keeping pears at £20. Sells more pears? Maybe. But overall, consumers end up paying more.
Maybe - but only because they'll have a lousy experience everywhere.
It's like raising the price of apples from £10 to £20, keeping pears at £20. Sells more pears? Maybe. But overall, consumers end up paying more.
A smart country would have tried to figure out how to make hard trade with the rest of the world easier.
A dumb country decided instead to make super easy trade with the EU as hard as trade with the rest of the world.
Welcome to Brexit Britain, where brain cells come to die.
A dumb country decided instead to make super easy trade with the EU as hard as trade with the rest of the world.
Welcome to Brexit Britain, where brain cells come to die.
What the right wing propagandists focus on is the relative increase in non-EU trade.
What they ignore completely is the absolute decline in trade.
What they ignore completely is the absolute decline in trade.
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