Reeve an unstoppable force or a puppet?

James Cleverly was halfway through doing that in July.

I honestly can't decide if she's ploughing her own furrow

Dear lady, she ploughs nothing. We tell her what she's going to do.

@Bromptotoo Giving away the Chagos Islands without getting any opinions from Islanders. It will help China destabilise more Ocean.

Why?

Which of the men Starmer has put in place is out of their depth?
David Lammy should resign.

UK inflation’s dropped to 1.7% from 2.2%, below 2% target for the first time in more than three years.

I think you’ll find it’s scaremongering by the Tory press. £40bn what for the budget?

R4 now talking about £40bn for budget. Be good if Reeves would get on with it so we can get away from all the Labour doom expectation management. Feels links sinking.

Small business will be screwed by increased employers NI contributions, CGT alterations when a business is sold and corporation tax.

The loophole was fully exposed regarding COVID payments to self employed. No income tax paid, no help. Thats a loophole that needs closing but we all need businesses to be successful and employ people. Skills shortages are very real though and just punishing employers is folly right now.

As for all this new investment? Let’s see. Other countries are courting the business too. We might get a few crumbs. Other countries are better placed to access the EU market. We are not in pole position. The last time I looked, stupid voters voted for Brexit. Many MPs were against it on all sides of the House. Stupid voters believed Farage and noisy euro sceptics. All those promises!!! Just like jam tomorrow new business and a stupid transport secretary!

She needs to get the Halloween budget practically bang on. There is a lot riding on it.

If all this doom and gloom continues it will be a downward spiral. The danger is too much pain will make the UK unattractive. My son wants to go overseas like a number of his friends already have. They are the type of people we want to stay in order to boost economy.

The point of using AI is that is should be less biased and access multiple sources.

How do they think Labour is going to 'dump on them' ?

Somebody messaged Times Radio with a similar threat to dump his employees etc. if his 'ordinary working man' stuff was interfered with.

Complained that the Tories had screwed him over by taxing the dividends he'd paid himself as though they were earnings!!

Ireland is in the EU

Quite a few multinationals HQ in Ireland due to low CT

It’s been good for their surplus

You can't rely on AI hamster arse.

A recent study found that exports of clothing and footwear sold to EU countries has fallen from over 7bn in 2018 to 2.7bn in 2023. There's been an 18% slump in the sale of all non food exports covered by the single market.

The worst affected businesses are small and medium sized which have the most red tape. Many businesses have moved offices to the single market in order to avoid border regulations. This means that the UK is missing out on jobs. Post Brexit border checks have been forecast to cost the UK nearly 5bn.

“Trading with the EU tends to have higher regulatory compliance costs and potentially higher customs and tariff-related expenses, but offers a much larger market.

Trading with the UK may have slightly lower administrative costs post-Brexit in some areas, but the market is smaller, and new customs requirements add complexities.

In general, the cost difference depends heavily on the specific industry and product being traded, but the overall trend is that trading with the EU could involve higher regulatory and compliance costs, while trading with the UK might be simpler in some aspects, especially for smaller-scale trade.“

Chat GPT conclusion

Yes hamster arse, I'm seriously telling you that there's less red tape and expense primarily regarding supply chains.

Members of the EU have integrated supply chains where trade can flow freely with no additional paperwork. With Brexit, British businesses have a lot more paperwork in order to move goods between the two trading blocks.

Musk has said he would be interested in investing in the UK.....yet they deliberately snubbed him cos of his hurty words.

Are you seriously telling me that the EU has less red tape and expense?

Tell you what overrides common sense, expecting to be competitive after voting Brexit. Who wants all the expense and red tape? Tell you who overrode common sense. The Tories for holding the referendum. Reeves and Co are having to pick up the pieces of disastrous Tory policies and catastrophic errors - I don't envy them trying to attract investment.

As for Musk, did you read his comments during the Farage riots?

It doesn't really matter what Musk said (I happen to agree that Two Tier Kier is true) it is beside the point, we either want investors or not. No one can seriously tell me we wouldn't want Musk's businesses in the UK (Boring, Tesla, SpaceX Starlink etc) and if you do tell me that, you tell me your ideology overrides common sense.

Controversy with P&O and Musk?

Are you in favour of fire and rehire?

As for Musk, did you read his comments during the Farage riots?

Really? Sleaze, cronyism, lies, attacking the most vulnerable, utter ineffectiveness, tanking in the polls. Even the investment event was riddled with controversy eg P&O and Musk. Every day it's something new.