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Topic: Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Yet another Brexit dividend!
Posted by: Jonathan Callaway
Date/Time: 20/02/19 21:10:00

Probably not the same economists and I do seem to remember there was not much support in the City for the UK joining the euro. And I also remember the old one about there being three opinions for every two economists. And only 3 out of every 2 economists can count.  More seriously I don’t buy the argument that they’ve all got it wrong because some (not all) got in wrong in the past.

I do buy the ever louder warnings from the business world and I do buy the slow but inexorable undermining effect of our imminent separation from the EU. I think the Japanese situation is particularly telling. They’ve just signed a FTA with the EU but they’re clearly not in a rush to sign one with us. And our USP was being the gateway to Europe for the US as well as Japan.  Not any more of course. Foreign investment won’t dry up but long term we’re undermining the rationale for much of it.

Finally, where’s the real upside?  Years down the track we might have our own FTA with the EU but that won’t come easy either.


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Withdrawal Agreement Explained11/02/19 09:58:00 James Elder
   Re:Withdrawal Agreement Explained11/02/19 16:08:00 Katrina Black
      Re:Re:Withdrawal Agreement Explained11/02/19 16:12:00 James Elder
         Re:Re:Re:Withdrawal Agreement Explained11/02/19 23:38:00 Michael Ixer
   Re:Withdrawal Agreement Explained12/02/19 21:32:00 Katrina Black
      Re:Re:Withdrawal Agreement Explained16/02/19 11:49:00 Roland Willis Gilmore
         Yet another Brexit dividend!18/02/19 14:36:00 Richard Carter
            Re:Yet another Brexit dividend!18/02/19 15:04:00 David Ainsworth
               Re:Re:Yet another Brexit dividend!19/02/19 20:16:00 Ruth Pates
                  Re:Re:Re:Yet another Brexit dividend!19/02/19 20:56:00 Richard Carter
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Yet another Brexit dividend!20/02/19 09:32:00 Caroline Whitehead
            Re:Yet another Brexit dividend!19/02/19 21:26:00 Mike Warman
               Re:Re:Yet another Brexit dividend!20/02/19 08:55:00 James Elder
                  Re:Re:Re:Yet another Brexit dividend!20/02/19 14:55:00 Jonathan Callaway
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Yet another Brexit dividend!20/02/19 19:02:00 Mike Warman
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Yet another Brexit dividend!20/02/19 21:10:00 Jonathan Callaway
                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Yet another Brexit dividend!21/02/19 20:31:00 Ruth Pates

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