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The politician that destroyed UK manufacturing was pro EU and resisted the idea of an exit referendum.
She can be forgiven for not anticipating that her successors in her party would be moronic enough to run an exit referendum.It really is quite difficult to build an ugly wooden boat.
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The EU share went from £6.25bn (H1 2017) to £6.71bn (H1 2018) to £6.4bn (H1 2022) – something of a decline.
Interestingly, the non- EU share went from £3.90bn (H1 2017) to £3.96bn (H1 2018) to £5.0bn (H1 2022) – a rather substantial increase. I did not bother to look at what is going where.
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) is the voice of the UK food and drink industry, the largest manufacturing sector in the country.
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) is the voice of the UK food and drink industry, the largest manufacturing sector in the country.
Any figures comparing early 2021 with early 2020 would have been affected by the pandemic. This is what the FDF said about Q1 2021.................
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) is the voice of the UK food and drink industry, the largest manufacturing sector in the country.
The ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the change in trading relationship with the EU, led to a 28% fall in UK food and drink exports in Q1 2021 when compared to 2020, and a 36% fall when compared with pre-COVID Q1 2019 figures.
Exports to the EU fell by 47% compared to Q1 2020, whereas food and drink industry sales to non-EU countries were up by 0.3% in Q1 2021.
For the first time in the FDF’s reporting, exports to non-EU markets exceeded those to the EU, making up 55% of all UK food and drink exports.
Exports to the Republic of Ireland, traditionally the sector’s biggest export market, were down 71% at just £281m, compared to £961m in Q1 2020.Comment
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This indicates what went where for the first 1/4: https://www.fdf.org.uk/globalassets/...ot-q1-2022.pdf
This for all of 2021: https://www.fdf.org.uk/globalassets/...rts-report.pdfIt really is quite difficult to build an ugly wooden boat.
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Second thoughts?The boss of retailer Next is urging the government to let more foreign workers into the UK to ease labour shortages.
Lord Wolfson, who was a prominent advocate of Brexit, said the UK's current immigration policy was crippling economic growth.
He said firms should pay a tax to employ foreign workers, to encourage them to recruit from the UK first.
The government said it had delivered on its promise to "take back control of our immigration system".
"Unemployment is at record lows and it's vital we continue to bring in excellent key workers the UK needs, including thousands of NHS doctors and nurses through the Health and Care Visa and the Seasonal Workers scheme which brings in the workforce our farmers and growers need," a government spokesperson said.
Free trade?
Lord Wolfson, a Conservative peer, told the BBC: "We have got people queuing up to come to this country to pick crops that are rotting in fields, to work in warehouses that otherwise wouldn't be operable, and we're not letting them in.
"And we have to take a different approach to economically productive migration."
He said that the government needed to decide whether the UK was an open free trading nation, or whether post-Brexit it wanted to be "fortress Britain", pulling up the drawbridge to foreign workers at significant cost to the economy.
"I think in respect of immigration, it's definitely not the Brexit that I wanted, or indeed, many of people who voted Brexit wanted," he said.
"And we have to remember, you know, we're all stuck in this Brexit argument, we have to remember that what post-Brexit Britain looks like, is not the preserve of those people that voted Brexit, it's for all of us to decide."
He added that the majority of people in Britain have a "very pragmatic view" of immigration.
"Yes, control it, where it's damaging to society, but let people in who can who can contribute," Lord Wolfson said.
He suggested a market-based solution to fix current labour shortages, which have affected sectors including healthcare, hospitality and logistics.It really is quite difficult to build an ugly wooden boat.
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Businesses know how to handle political decisions. I expect some chose to bury their heads in the sand as it were. We have a lot of businesses in the US that follow that path.Life is complex.Comment
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The politician in question hated our traditional manufacturing industries, steel, automotive, shipbuilding and coal. She dubbed them "Sunset Industries" and where they were nationalised ran them down or closed them.
She hoped to replace them with "Sunrise industries", by encouraging, but not investing in startups that she hoped could compete with the established Silicon Valley.
She really was not the sharpest knife in the box.
Meanwhile, the oil revenue promoted growth in our finance industries based in The City, which kept the economy humming, until Brexit caused the finance houses to move their main operations into other EU countries.It really is quite difficult to build an ugly wooden boat.
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Not really in this case.
The politician in question hated our traditional manufacturing industries, steel, automotive, shipbuilding and coal. She dubbed them "Sunset Industries" and where they were nationalised ran them down or closed them.
She hoped to replace them with "Sunrise industries", by encouraging, but not investing in startups that she hoped could compete with the established Silicon Valley.
She really was not the sharpest knife in the box.
Meanwhile, the oil revenue promoted growth in our finance industries based in The City, which kept the economy humming, until Brexit caused the finance houses to move their main operations into other EU countries.Life is complex.Comment
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It really is quite difficult to build an ugly wooden boat.
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That is just it. I do know. That is why I made the business/work choices I have made for the last 30 years. It took a while to understand.Life is complex.Comment
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It really is quite difficult to build an ugly wooden boat.
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