Balanced Question Time panel tonight - of course not! VOL 2
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uk66fastback said:
Someone should have asked the black women and her mate in the audience who went off on a rant, what have they done over the years ... cos it hasn't worked has it, and they're your kids & grandkids ...
It would take her weeks, she has 14 !I have had a st day....thank you A Niel, Two suicides, Barry Gardener.....Pissed myself...off to be happy
Edited by Le Controleur Horizontal on Thursday 20th June 23:45
Le Controleur Horizontal said:
uk66fastback said:
Someone should have asked the black women and her mate in the audience who went off on a rant, what have they done over the years ... cos it hasn't worked has it, and they're your kids & grandkids ...
It would take her weeks, she has 14 !I have had a st day....thank you A Niel, Two suicides, Barry Gardener.....Pissed myself...off to be happy
Edited by Le Controleur Horizontal on Thursday 20th June 23:45
Wiccan of Darkness said:
<edit> Tim Martin has hit on a very important point, regarding tariffs. Within the EU we enjoy tariff free, frictionless trade. Goods from outside the EU attract gopping great tariffs.
If anyone remembers about 12 years ago the price of chocolate went through the roof; we were 'told' it was due to poor cocoa harvests. Prices didn't drop.
It was due to EU tariffs. Compare a bag of Tate and Lyle sugar to a bag of sugar from Lidl. T&L is about £1.60; the lidl sugar from Latvian sugar beet is 64p.
Er... isn’t the price difference predominantly because T&L is a brand and Lidl is a discount supermarket with its own brand?If anyone remembers about 12 years ago the price of chocolate went through the roof; we were 'told' it was due to poor cocoa harvests. Prices didn't drop.
It was due to EU tariffs. Compare a bag of Tate and Lyle sugar to a bag of sugar from Lidl. T&L is about £1.60; the lidl sugar from Latvian sugar beet is 64p.
simoid said:
Wiccan of Darkness said:
<edit> Tim Martin has hit on a very important point, regarding tariffs. Within the EU we enjoy tariff free, frictionless trade. Goods from outside the EU attract gopping great tariffs.
If anyone remembers about 12 years ago the price of chocolate went through the roof; we were 'told' it was due to poor cocoa harvests. Prices didn't drop.
It was due to EU tariffs. Compare a bag of Tate and Lyle sugar to a bag of sugar from Lidl. T&L is about £1.60; the lidl sugar from Latvian sugar beet is 64p.
Er... isn’t the price difference predominantly because T&L is a brand and Lidl is a discount supermarket with its own brand?If anyone remembers about 12 years ago the price of chocolate went through the roof; we were 'told' it was due to poor cocoa harvests. Prices didn't drop.
It was due to EU tariffs. Compare a bag of Tate and Lyle sugar to a bag of sugar from Lidl. T&L is about £1.60; the lidl sugar from Latvian sugar beet is 64p.
Not-The-Messiah said:
With vaccinations my view is if you choose to not have your child vaccinated and then if your kid then dies from something preventable you go to prison for child neglect.
Yeah,'cause living with the guilt that your own stupidity killed your child just isn't enough.Wiccan of Darkness said:
We send billions of pounds of aid to Africa, we raise millions through comic relief. The only way those communities will improve is through trade; if we buy their cocoa, buy their sugar cane and not have whopping great import tariffs so we can sell at a reasonable price and buy at a reasonable price, then their communities will improve. That is how the UK can help impoverished nations. But we can't, because the EU actively prohibits free trade with developing nations by imposing massive tariffs.
How would this work, no deal Brexit? if so it is complete nonsense, under WTO terms if we allowed african nations zero tariffs on their sugar cane we would have to allow the same to every other country so the US would flood the UK with their sugar cane, how would that help the african nations?berlintaxi said:
Wiccan of Darkness said:
We send billions of pounds of aid to Africa, we raise millions through comic relief. The only way those communities will improve is through trade; if we buy their cocoa, buy their sugar cane and not have whopping great import tariffs so we can sell at a reasonable price and buy at a reasonable price, then their communities will improve. That is how the UK can help impoverished nations. But we can't, because the EU actively prohibits free trade with developing nations by imposing massive tariffs.
How would this work, no deal Brexit? if so it is complete nonsense, under WTO terms if we allowed african nations zero tariffs on their sugar cane we would have to allow the same to every other country so the US would flood the UK with their sugar cane, how would that help the african nations?Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff