Overpricing oranges...

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"Can we have faith that the EU Customs Union is moving in the right direction and try to retain our membership? I would argue no and nothing better illustrates this than the latest sorry tale over oranges. Last month, the EU quietly increased eight tariffs on imported oranges from third party countries from 3.2% to 16.0% – a staggering fivefold increase..."

Writes Dan Lewis at 'The leading Hub of the UK Economics Community' (Economic Policy Centre).

"Staying in the Customs Union is emphatically not a vote for the status quo. If we must have tariffs in the post-Brexit world, supply chains need tariff level stability. But as this latest change shows, the Customs Union doesn’t give you that. Clearly with dozens of tariffs like these changing and even being added every month, that is not on the agenda. All of which make it much harder for both suppliers and importers to build a trade business case with this kind of unpredictable, ever-changing tariff wall."

Indeed. Ows opines: Out means Out. No to the EU; no to Single Market; no to Customs Union.



Hat-tip: Brexit Central

Overpricing oranges...

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"Can we have faith that the EU Customs Union is moving in the right direction and try to retain our membership? I would argue no and nothing better illustrates this than the latest sorry tale over oranges. Last month, the EU quietly increased eight tariffs on imported oranges from third party countries from 3.2% to 16.0% – a staggering fivefold increase..." Writes Dan Lewis at 'The leading Hub of the UK Economics Community' (Economic Policy Centre).

"Staying in the Customs Union is emphatically not a vote for the status quo. If we must have tariffs in the post-Brexit world, supply chains need tariff level stability. But as this latest change shows, the Customs Union doesn’t give you that. Clearly with dozens of tariffs like these changing and even being added every month, that is not on the agenda. All of which make it much harder for both suppliers and importers to build a trade business case with this kind of unpredictable, ever-changing tariff wall."

Indeed. Ows opines: Out means Out. No to the EU; no to Single Market; no to Customs Union.

Hat-tip: Brexit Central

Ongoing overt omissions...

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They are really so corrupt and bias it's getting to be a joke. Many people are just beginning to realise: the constant anti-Brexit juggernaut has opened many people's eyes to what some of us have known for years/decades: the BBC news gathering/broadcast and political content is bias, follows several agendas, omits facts, omits many stories altogether, stealth edits and lies. Every single day it breaks its Charter. How many times now have they been caught inventing news or accidentally on purpose rebroadcasting fake news. Then the story becomes obscured and the facts unnecessary. The current case in point: a commercial push by accountants becomes the news because it was reported by The Times as a government memo.* The Times can print what it likes; the BBC should be impartial (ha!)



I wish they'd have reported Theresa May's speech last night [LINK to text of speech in full]. Actions speak louder than words Theresa, get on with it. Some may be worried by her support for Liberalism and globalisation [but which Liberalism...and which globalisation! See seemingly contradictory article and comments HERE] etc but I'm not:

"When you fail to see that the liberal consensus that has held sway for decades has failed to maintain the consent of many people, you’re not the champion of liberalism but the enemy of it.

When you dismiss the very real and deeply felt concerns of ordinary people, whether here at home or abroad, you are not acting to defend your world view but to undermine it." ... ..."So let us seize the moment. And let us do so together."

Indeed, and now we have a Trump card.



 *One wonders if the memo news was an intentional distraction...

Ongoing overt omissions...

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They are really so corrupt and bias it's getting to be a joke. Many people are just beginning to realise: the constant anti-Brexit juggernaut has opened many people's eyes to what some of us have known for years/decades: the BBC news gathering/broadcast and political content is bias, follows several agendas, omits facts, omits many stories altogether, stealth edits and lies. Every single day it breaks its Charter. How many times now have they been caught inventing news or accidentally on purpose rebroadcasting fake news. Then the story becomes obscured and the facts unnecessary. The current case in point: a commercial push by accountants becomes the news because it was reported by The Times as a government memo.* The Times can print what it likes; the BBC should be impartial (ha!)

I wish they'd have reported Theresa May's speech last night [LINK to text of speech in full]. Actions speak louder than words Theresa, get on with it. Some may be worried by her support for Liberalism and globalisation [but which Liberalism...and which globalisation! See seemingly contradictory article and comments HERE] etc but I'm not:

"When you fail to see that the liberal consensus that has held sway for decades has failed to maintain the consent of many people, you’re not the champion of liberalism but the enemy of it. When you dismiss the very real and deeply felt concerns of ordinary people, whether here at home or abroad, you are not acting to defend your world view but to undermine it." ... ..."So let us seize the moment. And let us do so together."

Indeed, and now we have a Trump card.

 *One wonders if the memo news was an intentional distraction...

Orban's overture on ondoyant Oval Office occurrence...

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The USA has elected its next President. Ows delayed reaction: crazy week for me in work and play; trying to sort slight problems in Colombia, Chile and Spain.  What a job! Hardly read any news so far (reams to get through!) re the fantastic and hoped for election of a POTUS to break the mould (not mold). The Donald may not be your cup of tea but I get the feeling he will do a great job: a la Ronald Reagan. This will be VERY good for the UK and Brexit. 2016: the year the worm turned.



A message to POTUS-elect Trump and VP Pence: be all you can be. Make the USA* great again.



[edit] 2:15 pm : Highlighting and concurring with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán [in London] who said "The world has always benefited whenever it has managed to release itself from the captivity of currently dominant ideological trends"...

..."This also gives the rest of the Western world the chance to free itself from the captivity of ideologies, of political correctness, and of modes of thought and expression which are remote from reality: the chance to come back down to earth and see the world as it really is."

 [*there are others in 'America' you know]

Orban's overture on ondoyant Oval Office occurrence...

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The USA has elected its next President. Ows delayed reaction: crazy week for me in work and play; trying to sort slight problems in Colombia, Chile and Spain.  What a job! Hardly read any news so far (reams to get through!) re the fantastic and hoped for election of a POTUS to break the mould (not mold). The Donald may not be your cup of tea but I get the feeling he will do a great job: a la Ronald Reagan. This will be VERY good for the UK and Brexit. 2016: the year the worm turned.

A message to POTUS-elect Trump and VP Pence: be all you can be. Make the USA* great again.

[edit] 2:15 pm : Highlighting and concurring with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán [in London] who said "The world has always benefited whenever it has managed to release itself from the captivity of currently dominant ideological trends"...

..."This also gives the rest of the Western world the chance to free itself from the captivity of ideologies, of political correctness, and of modes of thought and expression which are remote from reality: the chance to come back down to earth and see the world as it really is."

 [*there are others in 'America' you know]