Research will always happen here. It is something we are very good at. But we continue to lose jobs to the EU in manufacturing where wages are much lower and business rates are lower. Yet some say they should go up to raise more tax.
Future of GSK in Ulverston in doubt as firm scraps plans for new £350m plant | The Mail
We already have the skills for research. That is why so much research is done here already.which is why we need to invest in training to upskill, (is that a word), the workforce but at a time when the purse strings are tight where would the money come from?
It would also be a medium to long term payback so the benefits wouldn't be instantly recognisable.
Isn't it amazing how numbers can be fiddled.
Isn't it amazing how we are supposed to have the smallest growth in the EU but we are doing the second best when needed.
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From the country doing the best in the EU. 1 in 6 lives in poverty. Tax rules make the rich richer and the poor poorer. 40% of Germans don't have any savings. Worse than countries like Hungary and Cyprus. Poverty has gone up in the last year in 11 of the 16 states. Nearly 50% of single parent families live in poverty. Yet we hear the excuses on why the top parties in Germany have lost millions of votes.
Some on here say we should help the poor countries of the EU. I say charity begins at home. Yes do help others. But not at the expense of your own people. French farmers became rich because of the EU. That is how Maggie got our rebate that we still have now. Billions each year goes missing in Italy and has dine for years. What has been dine about it? Yet the countries pumping billions in each year to this have their own poverty that is kept hidden. Look at the Tories. They try to make out that it doesn't exist.
We already have the skills for research. That is why so much research is done here already.
Even the Germans do motorsport research here
Britain’s Motorsport Valley – the home of Formula 1
I'd be interested to know what percentage in the UK have savings and the difference between Germany and UK when it comes to credit cards. I know in Italy that hardly anyone gets anything on credit and they have thousands piled up in bank accounts. Much less consumeristic than here!
Most people don’t have credit cards in Germany and prefer paying by cash. The taxman hates that and is having a war on cash businesses. 500,00€ notes are being phased out next year to make large payments a bit more complicated.
My German credit cards are in fact charge cards and get cleared monthly- this is normal here. I don’t know anyone who has what we call a credit card whereby you can leave it in minus.
Research will always happen here. It is something we are very good at. But we continue to lose jobs to the EU in manufacturing where wages are much lower and business rates are lower. Yet some say they should go up to raise more tax.
Future of GSK in Ulverston in doubt as firm scraps plans for new £350m plant | The Mail
Supposedly with the six original Common Market member states.
Am I indeed? I assume you never watched financial shows such as The Money Programme or the televised debates of the period and professor James Bellini's famous comment that "The Common Market is not a clinic you take your financial problems to to have them fixed".
I can smell the reply before it happens.Given the level of mortgage borrowing is much lower in Germany why is household debt still pushing 60% of GDP - given the GDP is very high in Germany?
Neither am I. I am saying that membership of the EU has failed to stop Britain from falling behind other nations despite claims at the time of joining that it would.
Given the level of mortgage borrowing is much lower in Germany why is household debt still pushing 60% of GDP - given the GDP is very high in Germany?
The trade was all one way. Britain was happy to buy goods made in the EU whereas EU countries were very reluctant to buy goods made in the UK. That resulted in the UK now having a trade deficit of £80billion a year with the EU in manufactured goods.
Factories which one made goods in the UK such as Peugeot, Cadbury's and HP Sauce have been
and production moved to EU countries.
Given the level of mortgage borrowing is much lower in Germany why is household debt still pushing 60% of GDP - given the GDP is very high in Germany?
I doubt if anyone who once worked in the manufacturing sector would agree.
So jobs in manufacturing rose after membership then did they?
No. Never said they did. Making it up again.
I don't know anyone who wanted to be part of any 'project', least of all a fully integrated EU superstate with no national boundaries. The referendum was held solely on the basis of whether voters approved of the new terms of membership as negotiated by Harold Wilson's government.
You didn’t know me or my friends. I voted for Europe.
Britain had outdated manufacturing industries and modern efficient agriculture whereas the six common market founding countries all had modern manufacturing industries and inefficient farmers. The two sets of national interests were totally incompatible with each other and still are.
The national interests are the same for everyone. A stable, prosperous, peaceful Europe.
Agriculture in France way different to agriculture in Holland as an example. You just made it up that all agriculture in the common market was not as efficient as in the UK. Food, especially meat, was cheaper in the UK.
So 'successful' that Juncker was able to reject every demand for EU reform made by David Cameron without even batting an eyelid.
I don’t believe he did reject every demand. I think that is made up.
You are trying to measure success by stopping free movement. One of the main principles of the EU.
It looks to me that it's the EU which is moving into unknown territory and throwing away everything it has built up.
No. The EU is in a better position to reform because of Brexit.
That's a pretty good description of the people running the EU in my experience.
I can smell the reply before it happens.
Just read an article that says people are buying things more in pump rather than saving as interest rates are low and interest on savings is virtually nil. The tendency to buy on pump is growing. This is not through creditcards, but through cheap bank loans. I have been offered another loan against property at 1,18% over 10 years. Over 100000, so I will sign up for it this week. Inflation is between 1,5 and 2.
Still far worse a problem in many other Eu countries than the uk.
bit of good news at last:
Pharma deals 'show confidence' in strategy
doesn't quite compensate for all the negative stuff of last week but it's something.
For future reference, when I'm asking Brexiteers for examples of reasons to be positive this is the sort of thing I'm on about not rhetoric and bluster like they need us more than we need them or Spain needs tourists!!
Actual, real good economic news. Hopefully more will follow these two in and not the EBA and EMA out though I'm still sceptical and concerned at the moment.
No. I didn’t. There wasn’t the same coverage of things those days and there was no internet where you could be influenced one way or the other.
I never heard that angle and didn’t vote because of the UK financial position. I voted for more jobs, more exports and a future in Europe. I am happy with the way things have turned out. I don’t regret voting for a future in Europe in the slightest and have in fact made my life in Europe.
This was in 1972, there was no popular vote. Ted Heath signed up without any referendum.
And that is after many years of them getting billions of our money each year.Still far worse a problem in many other Eu countries than the uk.
Yes, but when there was a referendum it was 67% remain. The people spoke.
And that is after many years of them getting billions of our money each year.
And that is after many years of them getting billions of our money each year.
He’s not interested apparently.
He will be saying that we take billions more out than we put in each year next.He’s not interested apparently.
1 in 6 votes went to the racist lot. But it was insignificant if you believe a certain person on here.Blatantly a lot of Germans were/are not happy with old Ang !!
Merkel 'agrees migrant deal' in talks
I still say her policies had a major influence on the Brexit vote !
I am interested who ‚they‘ are. Not in your vague statement.
Luxembourg is richer than us although I can't work out where the money came from.......Switzerland, Denmark, Netherlands and Norway and Sweden and Portugal are about the same as us
Blatantly a lot of Germans were/are not happy with old Ang !!
Merkel 'agrees migrant deal' in talks
I still say her policies had a major influence on the Brexit vote !
1 in 6 votes went to the racist lot. But it was insignificant if you believe a certain person on here.
Absolutely, it did.
Luxembourg is richer than us although I can't work out where the money came from.......
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