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FredClogs said:
Jinx said:
FredClogs said:
It's not a question of whether or not they would sell us things, more a question of whether or not they would buy our things.
Who cares - EU is a mature market in rapid decline. India and China is where the growth is.
If you spent just a couple of minutes on Google, you would realise that the EU only accounts for 44% of our exports. Furthermore, you would also discover that this figure is dropping like a stone. The EU economies are in decline, whilst the rest of the world's markets are growing. So, our exports to the EU are declining.
As part of the EU, we are not at liberty to make trade agreements with these growing markets. If we leave, then we can ramp up our exports to the growing markets by doing trade deals.
It's funny, but all the eejits who told us that we needed to join the Euro are now telling us that we need to remain in the EU. Even funnier, is that the same gullible idiots who believed them about the Euro, are willing to believe them again. Actually it isn't funny. It is tragic.
Christ on a bike, when you get taken for a sucker once, why would you come back for more?
You Europhiles seem to take some sort of weird pleasure in seeing your country harmed. I don't understand it. Why would you vote for something that would see your kids worse off?
By the way, the EU only represents 44% of our exports. Please check your facts in future. You will have much more credibility if you do not get a reputation for telling lies.
austinsmirk said:
Isn't 44% actually a massive amount though.
4% and you have a point. 44% you don't.
56% is more massive than 44%.4% and you have a point. 44% you don't.
We do not have the ability to conduct trade negotiations with countries that account for 56% of our exports.
Do you really believe that it is important to have a 1/28th vote in how our trade is conducted with a minority of our export markets. That is what we have. We could have a 100% say in our trade with countries that account for 56% of our exports.
Our exports to the EU are shrinking, the rest of the world is where our future lies. Unless, of course, you want to see Britain damaged.
Halb said:
I've been looking for the latest import/export figures.
Anyone have a link to them?
If you Google "ons exports eu" you will find this page:-Anyone have a link to them?
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/international-transa...
Office of National Statistics said:
The UK has traditionally had strong trade links with the EU. Despite changes in the composition of the global economy, the EU in 2014 accounted for 44.6% of UK exports of goods and services, and 53.2% of UK imports of goods and services. However, strong economic growth in many developing economies outside the EU has resulted in non-EU economies growing in importance to UK trade, with the proportion accounted for by the EU falling consistently since 1999, despite the value of EU trade increasing.
So, it is clear that the EU is rapidly becoming an irrelevance as far as our prosperity is concerned.
Scuffers said:
Hundreds?
Really?
Cameras did not show that, did show a handful at the doors.
That's what was being reported by certain journalists - Kate McCann from the Telegraph for example.Really?
Cameras did not show that, did show a handful at the doors.
"Hundreds of people are leaving, all very angry. "It's a disgrace" says one man. Very annoyed about Galloway "
https://twitter.com/KateEMcCann
Harry Cole of the Sun said at least 20 walked out and then minutes later said "now dozens more are walking out".
.Scuffers said:
Shecwas greeting about helium earlier...
Real heavyweight jurno - NOT!
also, notvsure she's on the payroll? She was at the sun?
She's a nob.Real heavyweight jurno - NOT!
also, notvsure she's on the payroll? She was at the sun?
I've always like Galloway, some negativity on Twitter right now but it's all hot air (as is usually directed at Farage). Great speech by GG too as you would expect.
Esseesse said:
She's a nob.
I've always like Galloway, some negativity on Twitter right now but it's all hot air (as is usually directed at Farage). Great speech by GG too as you would expect.
+1I've always like Galloway, some negativity on Twitter right now but it's all hot air (as is usually directed at Farage). Great speech by GG too as you would expect.
I watched the complete livestream and was very surprised to see Galloway be presented. He's a real Marmite character who at times has not done himself too many favours...whether folk like him or not, he is very well read and has a far greater ability in understanding the crucial importance of why we must leave the near despot clutches of the EU than the majority of folk and certainly the majority of our politicians. I did not notice those who left as he made his speech...but of far more importance was what he said and, above all, how he said...from the heart and with absolute conviction; the same as Cash, Davis, Hoey and Farage.
Also, hats off to some of the humour shared with the audience, Davis's quip quoting Napoleon, "Belgium, a country invented by the English to embarrass the French!" Though I always thought this was a quote from de Gaulle.
I've watched bits of previous GO events, and one thing I've always thought could be a problem is that they seemed so biased to Farage. I.e. He was the loudest and most excitable on the stage, doing his typical UKIP routine speech/jokes. Galloway may work well because he is one of the few able to wrestle some of that energy/attention from Farage.
Title looks like precognition and not ignorance in predicting a rout of the grassroot campaign.
How I laughed this morning when I read "Mass walkouts as George Galloway speaks at anti-EU Grassroots Out rally"
How I laughed this morning when I read "Mass walkouts as George Galloway speaks at anti-EU Grassroots Out rally"
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