(https://twitter.com/admcollingwood/status/1375340017846005763)
(1/7) Thoughts on the threatened #EU export ban and war against #AstraZeneca. Many Brexiteers suggest that it proves we were right to Leave, and in a way they are right. Free of the stultifying effect of EU bureaucracy, we have been able to move quickly and efficiently…
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(2/6)… but this is more important than that. It shows us what happens when the EU ‘loses’, and when they see Britain is doing something better than them. If #Brexit is to mean anything, it is to mean Britain making different choices to the EU and those choices being ‘right’…
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(3/6) Therefore, every time we take a different path to the EU, we can expect a similar response. They will use all the leverage they possibly can to (1) scupper any advantage we might have & (2) attack targets that might offer them a patsy to take the blame for EU failures...
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(4/6) Thus, we must reduce our vulnerabilities to this. The Thatcherite/Free Trade wing of the UK Twitterati won’t like it, but we’re going to need to make more things in Britain if we’re going to avoid being open to these sorts of attacks. Imagine if our vaccine policy was...
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(5/6) …run like our trade policy. We’d be miles behind, begging for vaccines as other nations horded them. But isn’t food important? Aren’t medical supplies? Isn’t the ability to make tanks, guns and warships? Isn’t our ability to make steel and concrete? The pandemic has…
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(6/6)…been a warning, and we would be foolish not to heed its lessons. Meantime, we need to create more varied trade linkages. It’s silly to be reliant on one, increasingly hostile bloc for >50% of our imports. If Macron wants to play silly buggers at Calais, we should…
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Collingwood@admcollingwood
(7/7)…reciprocate at Dover. Give companies time to prepare for this, of close, but eventually, we need to move beyond the EU, which has told us as clearly as it can that it intends to use every measure it can to make life difficult — even during a pandemic.
Gehigarrriak Brexit dela eta:
Segida:
Brexit eta geroko politika ekonomikoa eta Covid-19
Brexit,…, beraz, zertan geratu da?
Brexit, Zorionak, Congratulations!
Brexit: eskuinetik ala ezkerretik?
Brexit eta gero behar den erreminta ekonomikoa: DTM
