Snapshot of Eurozone inflation falls to 5.5% in sharp contrast to UK. Economists put reason for divergence down to Brexit and Britain’s energy price guarantee.
Snapshot of Eurozone inflation falls to 5.5% in sharp contrast to UK. Economists put reason for divergence down to Brexit and Britain’s energy price guarantee.
Thank you very much, I’ve read it, but it doesn’t support what you claim and it’s actually quite a lightweight document.
Your claim was that Brexit was a gift in the agri tech on account of the disruption and increased costs of farming associated with Brexit.
This is the only part which strikes me as relevant to this claim
Lot of ‘may’, ‘could’ heavy lifting going on there. Certainly doesn’t refute my point that all of this is/was entirely possible in the EU, and in fact the biggest vert farm companies are in the EU, not in the UK.
Sorry mate, I gave this argument every chance to prove a Brexit benefit, this one is still very much ‘not proven’ for me, unless you have something better?
Opportunities obviously have to be couched in possibilities. Or do you really expect 40 years of bad subsidy to be undone in 3 years?
Vertical farming is just one aspect of CEA, and before covid and brexit the UK didn’t need vertical farms. Now we do. Necessity is the mother of invention.
There are plenty of other areas that the UK can regulate based on science rather than feels now.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2321556-uk-to-relax-law-on-gene-edited-food-in-post-brexit-change-from-eu/
And other than agriculture, AI
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/ai-in-the-eu-and-uk-two-approaches-to-regulation-and-international-leadership/
I mean, you said it was a gift, and now you’re back tracking on that quite rapidly.
Sure, but I don’t see how they’ve made it necessary in the EU and have 2 of the biggest vert farm companies, and somehow we couldn’t?
Right, but you’ve seen the shitshow we get from Westminster right? What makes you think policy will be any better, if anything our government seems to consistently make worse decisions than the EU does in my view.
On AI, that’s just another lot of maybes, and so far I can’t see any tangible benefit you can point to in that article.
Further, the EU changes and modifies it’s legislation all the time as well, so any future ‘benefit’ over being in the EU could just as easily be undone at a future date and then whatever advantage we had will be gone.
I don’t think any of this is anywhere near justifying or mitigating the enormous damage that has been done to this country, it would be nice if there was at least something but I don’t see it.
It’s a gift to the companies I work with. The problems caused by brexit, covid and climate change are opportunities.
Border problems? Customs tech is a multi billion sized market opportunity.
Food supply chain problems? Agtech opportunities
Labour problems? Automation, robotics, AI opportunities
If all you see is problems, you’ll never make anything out of anything
I voted for lexit, as did the majority of trade unions, including people like Mick Lynch, it would be absurd to expect a right wing government to deliver lexit…
The benefits of leaving the EU will take years to realise. It hasn’t even got started yet.
Well I sort of see what you mean, my company does payment systems and I personally earned a nice tidy bonus for my work on the NI border project.
I really don’t see though, how the government paying me that money to do that thing that didn’t need to be done before is really a benefit.
Most of these opportunities you describe would have been just as availablein the EU, maybe even more so due to how much easier R + D collaboration was in the EU.
It sounds to me like you’ve kind of got the blinders on with this, vote for it by any chance?
There wasn’t a vote for that, you voted to let the Tories decide for you.
Oh yeah, I agree there :)
That’s the economic cost for a political decision.
I don’t see why people think centralising power, which is the result of ever more political union, is a benefit.
I’d like to see more decentralised government. A fediverse version if you like. Representative democracy is so last century.
Same reason you centralise anything, economies of scale. For instance, all this agri business regulation, if we just used the EU rules, then we can trade with them no problem and we don’t have to pay a load of our own people to do the exact same work.
There you go massive specific and relevant benefit that anybody can understand. It is interesting you cannot really do the same the other way.
Well I am loving feddit.uk so far, it’s smashing. The right tool for the right job is an adage as true as anything in my experience and decentralised systems are great in some places and fucking useless in others. As far as democracy goes, most people simply don’t have the time to gather all the knowledge you would need to actually govern effectively and make good decisions.
I mean could it be any worse than when we let these useless aristocrat pricks from Eton and Oxbridge who know nothing run riot? Might be less corrupt like, there is that.
But if the centralised management is flawed, as the EU’s is because of the CAP and vetoes, it causes massive problems, and then the fixes are sub optimal, which compounds the issue
Exhibit A
https://www.arc2020.eu/cap-billions-spent-on-biodiversity-with-little-impact-auditors/
And I’m not sure why you think someone in Brussels is any less likely to be corrupt
Exhibit B
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_corruption_scandal_at_the_European_Parliament
The CAP has been reformed more than once and we were big players, most of the regulation UK gov wanted they got.
Vetos have been a problem wrt to foreign policy you are right, and there are talks about moving that to QMV as well. I don’t think vetos apply to CAP though, I believe that’s all QMV and has been since Lisbon.
As far as your examples, I think those are both fantastic examples of accountability on the part of the EU, in the first case they’ve commissioned a proper audit of the spending and the effectiveness of that spending, and now know what to address to make future spending more effective. wish our government did shit like that.
In the second case, all those people were investigated and arrested and are in court now, further they were voted out of their positions too, again something I wish our government would do.
You are doing a great job of making me even more sure I am right about this than I was before tbh with you.