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Philosothoughts

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6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - May can use Johnson to... · 1 reply · +1 points

If you clicked on the link you'd find Guido Fawkes was quoting the nation's top statistician. The NET contribution is rising to £335m/week.

Regardless of anything, the beauty of the £350m figure, which every sane person in the UK knew was the gross amount as it was endlessly discussed, is that people like you write about it endlessly, reminding everyone that whether it's £200m or £500m or £300m, it's a huge figure coming out of OUR pockets to fund a socialist empire that even the socialists in this country don't want to support.

The sooner that money is reinvested in the British Economy the sooner we can balance the books and start reducing the horrendous and disgraceful national debt which happens to come to around the same as what we've spent on the EU in the last 50 years. If we'd invested the same money on trade with the same countries the whole continent would be far wealthier.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - May can use Johnson to... · 1 reply · +1 points

It's mind boggling that Boris can write an article saying we're a great country and we should not give away tax payers money and the whole establishment goes up in fury. He is the only member of cabinet who seems to want to reduce the amount payed to Brussels, and given legally we owe them zilch that is quite incredible in itself. The fact that vast numbers of readers of a Conservative website seem to think it's a great thing to give away our money to a grandstanding, narcissistic, failing socialist project we have just left is quite extraordinary.

The lies told by Osborne and the ignominious Treasury Brexit report, which claimed the UK's productivity levels would immediately slip to those of Bulgaria just because we left the EU and all the other mindless and baseless gloom appears still to be assumed as the absolute truth by most remainers. The fact our employment and foreign direct investment is at an all time high, and we just hurtled past France to become the 8th largest manufacturing country in the world all meets with blank stares and cognitive dissonance.

What if in 2 year's time you start to realise that it's mostly bad things that are 'despite Brexit' and the whole thing is a huge success, with the only downside being that Europe without the UK's free trade influence steps up the regulation, kicks the debt pile more ignominiously down the road, and goes into deep stagnation. Are you even open to that possibility? or are you so brainwashed by Project Fear and so contemptuous of your compatriots against all the evidence before your eyes that you cannot see the potential or the proven economic value of free trade with the fastest growing nations around the world?

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - May can use Johnson to... · 0 replies · +1 points

Given how much our 'lead negotiator recently moved to no.10' idolised the Soviet Union, this is sadly not felt as a threat by Remoaners in the way one might hope.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Garvan Walshe: Economi... · 0 replies · +1 points

Garvan has been spending too much time reading the Remainer's sacred text: L Ron Osborne's Treasury Brexit report. He appears to still believe everything in it, and be blissfully unaware that it has been roundly exposed as fraud and propaganda.

The Gravity model has been completely debunked. If it had any value, why has Britain's trade with it's massive and closest neighbour grown at a big fat 0% for the last decade and more, while trade with far flung, poor developing countries has been growing at a breakneck speed of 7% per year. Nor is it about small numbers. EU trade is now down to nearly 40%, and will soon hit the 20's.

Not only is Europe in decline, it is also excessively and ever more heavily regulated making trade ever more expensive and costly. Everyone apart from Garvan Walshe seems to realise that winning business in a 0% growth market where all potential customers already have a supplier is much harder to edge into than a rapidly growing market where new customers are up for grabs.

It was reported today that the recent growth, investment and employment increases have in recent months been overwhelmingly in Leave voting areas. Is that because nobody wants to do business with whiny, moaning, bitter, negative delusional people who are so busy trying to talk themselves and their country down, they have drowned out reality with their cacophony, and failed to appreciate they are once again despite their hubris, in a minority.

Anyone who thinks a customs union with high and complex tariffs and that massive boil on the face of global trade: the Common Agricultural Policy is free trade, and states free trade is protectionism because a neighbour is trying to be as awkward as possible for emotional reasons. That is pure double think.

Who is Garvan Walshe? Maybe the zombies have taken his brain and critical faculties away.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Charlie Elphicke: Read... · 0 replies · +1 points

The EU is a customs union which imposes external tariffs on all its members. It's a fairly well established economic fact that high tariffs reduce trade.

Has being in the EU generated more trade for us than it prevented? Well exports outside the EU have grown considerably faster than exports to the EU over the time we've been a member, suggesting membership has hindered not helped trade. I've never seen anything study that showed convincing stats to back the hypothesis that being in the EU helped.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Charlie Elphicke: Read... · 0 replies · +1 points

There is not single market in services. So there's nothing to leave.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Charlie Elphicke: Read... · 0 replies · +1 points

Dover is hardly important. There are 120 ports in the UK, 60% of our trade is with countries outside the EU, with a well established IT and operational infrastructure to handle it. There are almost no inspections these days because all trade, tariffs, duty and checking is done electronically before the ships even dock. The rare incidence of actual inspection is almost always intelligence-led.

Yes there is some work to do to bring all the EU trade up to date with technology, but it's not that complicated to add new destinations to existing systems and all the port owners are working hard to be ready, it's not for the Government to do. Almost all trade bureaucracy is now electronic and completed on a desktop back at the office, not at the border point.

You have inherited the Project Fear 'Dad's Army' view of trade which is a completely outdated. It would be funny if it wasn't so serious in that by promoting that story, you turn real businesses off considering export trade.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - John Strafford: This e... · 0 replies · +1 points

My experience of CCHQ offers no hope for the future. They appear to be staffed and led by second rate people skilled at promoting themselves. They have no understanding, skill or experience of modern digital campaigning. They are focused on forcing their own third rate software on members and shutting down anyone who might have tools that would be better.

What they should be doing is opening up an API to a competitive market place allowing all constituencies to choose from other recommended tools or build their own, with the best tools being adopted in the marketplace of the different constituencies. Best practice should be promoted far and wide not supressed as it is now. Constituencies should be able to communicate freely with each other.

Labour have not only now a vast membership of 600,000, but the resources of the Unions and the highly charged Momentum crowd, able to pour resources like the Chinese army wherever they are needed. With so many paid or unemployed or students with the zealotry of idealists and plenty of time on their hands, this is hard to compete with, but compete we must, in the universities and amongst the retired. We also need an army of people with time on their hands. But it's pointless if you have a CCHQ desperate to close down all conversation, free thought, communication and networking within the party.

We need a massive change of culture and the removal of most of the heads in CCHQ to have any hope.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - John Strafford: This e... · 0 replies · +1 points

Good suggestion

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Is Gove's education le... · 0 replies · +1 points

Why don't they give the 0.7% to the Armed Forces, and let them do the global humanitarian emergencies and build infrastructure around the world (and learn from the EU - put a Union Jack on it and let people know who paid for it).