It was all lies but the sad thing is many people in Briton knew that but didn't care. All they were concerned about was having fewer foreigners here and everything else was a price worth paying. Now we are beginning to see we can't cope without having EU citizens in our workforce forcing the government to issue visas to encourage EU workers to come here to help us out. The whole thing is a farce,
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You could choose to eat organic. I believe that the catch all term has a free from pesticides thingy going on. Grow your own produce or stop eating whatever the pesticides are used on.Thanks to everyone who voted for Brexit, we might soon be eating pesticides that have been banned by the EU. Brexit, has given us the freedom to poison ourselves.
UK considers using Brexit ‘freedom’ to allow pesticides banned in EU on food
American agricultural lobby groups had criticised some of the import bans
Organic food is more expensive and so is not an option for everyone. Maybe people who voted for Brexit should pay more to compensate the food bills of those who didn't vote to have our food poisoned with pesticides.
Of course you can choose... if you can read the fine-print on the products. I look at the products very closely to read what is important to me. Takes a while but it's okay because I'm single an in early-retirement - doesn't stress me, I have enough time and shop early 7-8 in the morning in an empty supermarket. How about people who come after work or parents with kids - how much time do they have to focus on reading the stuff? Consumers have the right to buy decent food without spending half their time reading about risks. This should be clear as clean water from a tap.
I seldom read the product information on food items I buy. But I am aware that the food industry as a whole employ practices that might raise some eyebrows but are within regulations. But I really don't believe that the agriculture sector or any other sector is going out of their way to poison their customers. Pesticides, keeping in mind I'm not a farmer or agricultural engineer, probably do more good in terms of crop yield and affordability than do harm. Of course there will always be people that will be adversely affected directly or indirectly by there use, but I'm suggesting more people benefit.
This is one of the lies that people were told to get them to vote for Brexit.
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In the years to come I have a feeling that the UK be less prosperous outside the EU.
It's already happening. The UK government's own figures from the Office of Budget Responsibility has calculated that Brexit will cause a 4% long-term reduction to the UK’s GDP which is equivalent to £80 billion a year. Because of Brexit, the UK is getting poorer every year.
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From my first hand experiences I've noticed that many pro-Brexit people never really comprehended how the EU worked and how membership worked.It's already happening. The UK government's own figures from the Office of Budget Responsibility has calculated that Brexit will cause a 4% long-term reduction to the UK’s GDP which is equivalent to £80 billion a year. Because of Brexit, the UK is getting poorer every year.
Overview of the October 2021 Economic and fiscal outlook - Office for Budget Responsibility
The successful vaccine rollout has allowed the economy to reopen largely on schedule, despite continuing high numbers of coronavirus cases. The vaccines’ high degree of effectiveness, combined with consumers’ and businesses’ surprising degree of adaptability to public health restrictions, has...
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Ed Davey said:
The only connection between Brexit and the Russian invasion of Ukraine is that Putin paid for both of them.Johnson has now likened Ukranians' fight to save their homeland from devastation (and become part of the EU) to the UK's vote to leave the EU.
It's so incredibly ugly. No wonder there's been such a backlash.
Fury greets Boris Johnson’s claim Ukraine fight is like Brexit
Prime minister says vote is ‘famous recent example’ of ‘instinct of the people … to choose freedom’
If European employment law is so great how come British companies were allowed to employ people on zero hours contracts and such like long before we’d even left the European Union ?
Brexit was sold to the public as a way of protecting British jobs and to stop those nasty Europeans from driving down wages. P&O have shown that was a lie.
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Let's see the prosecutions and convictions. Instead of explaining their actions to Parliament, these people should be explaining their actions to the police.It’s now been confirmed that P & O’s failure to consult the unions over the large scale redundancies did indeed contravene UK employment law.
P&O Ferries: Not consulting on job cuts broke law, boss admits
Peter Hebblethwaite admits P&O should have consulted unions before sacking 800 ferry workers.
Fair point but P&O are likely to have thought they were more likely to get away with their actions when dealing with a favourable Tory Government than defending their actions under European law. The test is whether the Department of Transport will take out a prosecution against P&O which is why I said "Let's see the prosecutions and convictions".
