St Mary's Winter Quiz 11 January 2025
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Damn That Brexit!
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//Romanians joined the EU in 2013, but many chosen to come and work here until last year.//
You are choosing to ignore all the other factors being given to you. Why? Doesnt suit your agenda perhaps?
The two biggest causes last year were the IR35 changes and Covid restrictions.
Foreign drivers are allowed here if they apply, they dont want to come anymore because there is no financial attraction for them anymore.
You are choosing to ignore all the other factors being given to you. Why? Doesnt suit your agenda perhaps?
The two biggest causes last year were the IR35 changes and Covid restrictions.
Foreign drivers are allowed here if they apply, they dont want to come anymore because there is no financial attraction for them anymore.
//EU money that goes to countries like Romania is spent on infrastructure projects - improving transport, improving housing, it does not subsidise lorry drivers’ wages.//
It subsidises everybody's wages.
If you look at the Greek economy before they joined the EU (and particularly before they adopted the euro) you will find its GDP was a fraction of what it is today (even allowing for inflation). The Greek economy (and hence all its people) benefitted enormously from the injection of vast sums of EU cash. Take a look at this graph, particularly for the years 2001 to 2008:
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That meteoric rise in GDP coincides precisely with Greece adopting the euro in 2001 (and the subsequent drop with the financial crisis). Greece should never have been permitted to adopt the euro. They did not meet the criteria and they were given too many euros for their drachmas. But it enabled them to spend enormous sums on foreign goods. But eventually the chickens come home to roost.
It subsidises everybody's wages.
If you look at the Greek economy before they joined the EU (and particularly before they adopted the euro) you will find its GDP was a fraction of what it is today (even allowing for inflation). The Greek economy (and hence all its people) benefitted enormously from the injection of vast sums of EU cash. Take a look at this graph, particularly for the years 2001 to 2008:
https:/
That meteoric rise in GDP coincides precisely with Greece adopting the euro in 2001 (and the subsequent drop with the financial crisis). Greece should never have been permitted to adopt the euro. They did not meet the criteria and they were given too many euros for their drachmas. But it enabled them to spend enormous sums on foreign goods. But eventually the chickens come home to roost.
yes gromit it is no 9 out of 195 which is in the top 5% of the world: https:/
Old data.^^ Have you seen the lates output growyh figures for the UK? Now we are removing the suffocating shroud of EUSSR bureaucracy our manufacturing output has taken wings. An increase of 4.1% year-on-year in August of 2021, with a rise of 3.9% in the manufacture of transport equipment. Meanwhile in Germany, France, and Italy the alarm bells are ringing in panic. They keep sending us requests for monetary aid and insist on sending all the refugees here because they can no longer afford to feed and house them.
Regarding the rise of 3.9% in the manufacture of transport equipment,
"The 0.5% rise in manufacturing was driven by an increase in 9 of the 13 manufacturing subsectors and was led by a rise of 3.9% in the manufacture of transport equipment, although output in this subsector remains 24.2% below its February 2020 level; this was offset by a fall of 5.1% in the manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations."
"The 0.5% rise in manufacturing was driven by an increase in 9 of the 13 manufacturing subsectors and was led by a rise of 3.9% in the manufacture of transport equipment, although output in this subsector remains 24.2% below its February 2020 level; this was offset by a fall of 5.1% in the manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations."
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