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Topic History of: £40 billion Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Wyot
Ron wrote: Brexit didn't help. Apart from making us more autonomous.
No it didn't Barney. You are confusing sovereignty with autonomy; de jure with de facto sovereignty.
Wyot
Bonzo wrote: UK left EU Feb 2020
Covid hit March 2020
Remoaners : Just blame Brexit for everything
This Remoaner, Bonzo, is nothing but balanced in attributing equal stupidity to Brexiteers and Lockdown enthusiasts respectively.
Should you be short of reading material over the festive season, there is a rich archive of my "lockdown posts" on this site available to you for free.
Bonzo
UK left EU Feb 2020
Covid hit March 2020
Remoaners : Just blame Brexit for everything
Wyot
Jo wrote: On Question Time of 15 December an audience member asked what benefits of Brexit he should console himself with when waiting for hours at passport control in Spain and another, a wine importer who said he'd been a lifelong Tory voter, said that his business had been turned upside down by all the new red tape, paperwork and delays. Rees-Mogg was on the panel and his answer to the first guy was that he should visit Portugal rather than Spain and to the second that the import of Australian and New Zealand wine had been made easier, which the wine merchant said wasn't true.
I always find it difficult with Rees-Mogg to decide whether he is an expensively educated idiot or a clever uber-cynic amusing himself...
Ron
Brexit didn't help. Apart from making us more autonomous.
However, the inherent weaknesses were already there - undressed.
Our £2,500 billion National Debt is therefore a heavy weight to carry.
Consider that - in Blair's time - it was about 20% of that. With Budget Surpluses!
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