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Tim1960
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This is interesting:
Michael M. @vivamjm
It might be worse than "economists warned about" but not worse than we mere (ex) Freight Fowarding/Customs Agents tried to warn of....
https://eand.co/congrats-america-youre-not-the-dumbest-country-in-the-world-anymore-britain-is-badad4d64754">https://eand.co/congrats-america-youre-not-the-dumbest-country-in-the-world-anymore-britain-is-badad4d6475">https://eand.co/congrats-america-youre-not-the-dumbest-country-in-the-world-anymore-britain-is-badad4d64754
The reality of Brexit is much, much worse than we economists warned about. It goes like this. The British economy is starting to shut down like a heart attack. Europe is simply stopping sending goods to Britain, and Britain to Europe. The costs involved have soared from “nothing” to “impossible.” ... Faced with mountains of paperwork for each shipment, businesses are just giving up, throwing their hands up in despair. And that means a) mass unemployment, as they go bankrupt b) shortages and c) higher prices. Sound dire? It is.
British people are shocked, suddenly — after voting for Brexit — to discover that ordering stuff from Europe, which used to be as simple as a click, now comes with massive taxes, customs, and suspicious “handling charges,” which they have to pay, or else. Charges that easily add 25% to 50% to the cost of basic things. And while we economists warned Brexit would make Brits poorer, even we underestimated the effect. We thought tariffs would rise, but we didn’t think that trade would come to a sudden stop, which means mass unemployment and shortages and higher prices are all exploding. That’s the worst case scenario, and it’s fast becoming real.
There's more. Much more. Pointing out, with some digs at the sort of entitled twats who pushed this lunacy, the catastrophic effect of a nation imposing sanctions on itself in a fit of nationalistic delusion.
Only now it isn't Project Fear, it's Project Here and Now. |
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umm fascinating, fairly obvious in effect in some places such as here where a combo of useful idiots and easily bought politicals(also useful idiots for the most part cos they have been very cheap to buy) seem to have enacted the uk part of things.
re planning openly, another branch of the same firm(big fossil and milkit+some locals) planned redrawing the map of the middle east in shade but not darkness has had considerable success.
i dought the average "red wall new tory" or brexit voter even has the reading skills* let alone the analytical ones to see how they have been duped at a domestic level, let alone at a geopolitical one(that summat about places and rocks ? might be beyond many of them)
give them three word slogans and a flag/face colour/comforting lie or fear to follow, and they are easy meat
odd this is in shopping, but it is as relevant here as everywhere
*sun readers have an average RA expected of a 9 year old, even grauniad readers only get up to 14 year old standards, how those who get their info from facesell groups and assorted "blacksites" fit on that metric i do not know
( i cannot be bothered with uppercase on DS but i do know how to use it and punctuation etc and spellcheck is very ace, but i can write a dissertation or post for strangers in a formal way, read technical stuff and analyse smoke and mirrors to establish the most likely truths  )
the average brexit voter considers anyone with a book without 20 pictures and 40 words in the house metropolitan elite
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