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[k38] 01/2/2021 13:33

Rule Britannia!

[minerve 2] 01/2/2021 13:30

Fly the flag Boris. The grandpas are still behind you with new vigour now they are all vaccined up!

ROFLMAO!

[utrickytrees] 01/2/2021 13:20

Ironically Charles Ewart iwas a famous scots grey at Waterloo. 😡

[freddie01] 01/2/2021 13:17

NEW FACILITY: American aerospace giant Spirit AeroSystems, the world’s largest tier-one manufacturer of aerostructures, has built a new £28 million innovation centre in Prestwick. #UKmfgFlag of United Kingdom


UPDATE: British manufacturers' order books have continued to grow over the past month, despite lockdown restrictions. The IHS Markit/CIPS manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) recorded 54.1 in January - a score above 50 indicates growth. #UKmfgFlag of United Kingdom

[minerve 2] 01/2/2021 13:15

Myanmar coup: Boris Johnson condemns 'unlawful imprisonment' of Aung San Suu Kyi

Virtual signalling to buy more votes and look as if you have decent values, eh Boris?

He would stage a coup if he had to and could get away with it. He could recruit Mark Thatcher, I hear he is experienced in these matters!

ROFLMAO!

[xxxxxy] 01/2/2021 13:13

SNP = Yellow Labour.And Labour is BAD

[maxk] 01/2/2021 13:12

Suck it up Min ..

[minerve 2] 01/2/2021 13:11

I read an interesting article that basically concluded that won't come to much. But have the photo, wave the flag if it makes you feel better.

[xxxxxy] 01/2/2021 13:11

William Hulse1 Feb 2021 1:05PMI can see that it will be a long long time before the communist EU will forget and forgive the U.K. for exposing the incompetence and duplicity of the EU.The U.K. has demonstrated that enterprise and energy will succeed over a slow and bureaucratic monolithic monster.I wonder what those devout Remainers are thinking  or feeling at this moment in time. I am so pleased that this Country escaped the EU. You know what escaped is the right word. The treachery in the U.K. since the referendum has been a disgrace to democracy.... Daily Telegraph

[maxk] 01/2/2021 13:07

Liz Truss
@trussliz
I have just formally notified #CPTPP nations of our intent to join. 🇬🇧🌏

Membership will:

👉position 🇬🇧 at the heart of some of the world’s fastest-growing economies
👉create high value #jobs across the UK
👉help us build back a better global trading system

[utrickytrees] 01/2/2021 13:04

Fought in the same wars as each other Hahaha dont talk billicks, Scottish nationalists want to ban servicemen from voting in indy referendums. The lunatics have taken over the asylum in Scotland.

[freddie01] 01/2/2021 13:02

New production facility for Valentine Clays


Nearly four years since completing its HQ, distribution and ceramics centre in Fenton Stoke-on-Trent, Valentine Clays is set to start building a new production facility as part of a wider £4m expansion programme.

The 18,000 sq ft facility will enable the company to bring its business onto one site and will be operational in late summer.

Intium Construction has been appointed for the build with project management support from Prosurv Consult, architects Hulme Upright, services engineer Hopkins Coats, and structural engineer C2C Consulting.

Hannah Ault, director of Valentine Clays, said: “We have worked extremely hard over the past few year’s focusing upon our business growth and it’s exciting to be in a position to complete our next stage of our expansion plans that are aimed at helping our industry to grow.

“Valentine Clays has an ambitious expansion plan, and the continued development of the Fenton site is vital to our aims to increase sales, production and storage capacity and to create new processes to help develop new products.

“Our new production facility will enable us to fulfil the demands that we are currently seeing from our customers worldwide.

“Although COVID has proved challenging for our business we have also seen positive sale increases over previous months, everyone seems to be making from home, and it has also enabled us to focus on restructure and growth.”

The family-run manufacturer has been supplying clay bodies and raw materials in Stoke-on-Trent for the past 40 years and expects the new factory to boost production capacity and create a number of new jobs.

[minerve 2] 01/2/2021 12:35

Devolution would be enough for the Scots with a decent Labour government. Never with the Tories and with this current bunch, well, less said the better.

[joestalin] 01/2/2021 11:56

Actually, devolution would be a good idea for parts of Scotland. Shetlands, Orkneys, and Hebrides would all benefit from adopting the same status as Jersey or IoM.

[patientcapital] 01/2/2021 11:39

Blair started it! Devolution was the thin end of the wedge.

[xxxxxy] 01/2/2021 11:34

NIGEL DODDS1 February 2021 • 10:08amThe EU has behaved atrociously in recent days in seeking to ban Covid vaccines coming to the UK. But this hostile nationalistic approach has exposed more than the EU Commission's nasty side. It has exposed its hypocrisy: the legalistic rules based principle lies in tatters.Since the 2016 referendum, unionists have been lectured about no hard border in Ireland under any circumstances and that overriding the provisions of the Protocol is a terrible thing - just remember the outcry against the Internal Market Bill.  Yet the EU27 turned everything on its head at the first opportunity when it suited their agenda. They did not consult with London, Dublin or Belfast before invoking Article 16 (only to peddle back later).  The actions in Brussels were about putting Germany and France first. Northern Ireland was once again turned into a bargaining chip. It's little wonder people are outraged. It's one rule for us and a different rule for the EU.What the EU has done is to set a precedent. They have demonstrated that it is quite legitimate according to their own standards to invoke Article 16  for reasons of societal difficulties to protect their single market and to do so immediately. Note that in their statement backing away from immediate invocation of Article 16 they reserved the right in paragraph 3 to invoke it at any time in the future saying that they will consider using all instruments at their disposal.There can now be no excuse for the UK Government not to use the very same argument to eradicate the far worse societal  difficulties being caused by the daily disruptions caused entirely by the Protocol within the UK internal market. Indeed the UK government has the added ground of economic difficulties as allowed for in Article 16. So the UK government has an even stronger case to take action.The UK government has a solemn duty to protect everyone in Northern Ireland from the economic damage being inflicted on our business and consumers and the growing societal difficulties as referenced the PSNI evidence to the Northern Ireland Select Committee last week.The events of the weekend cannot simply be swept aside and a pretence that everything just carries on as normal. The EU has shown it can and will act to defend its internal market using the Protocol to do so. It still remains ready to do what it takes using all instruments at its disposal as it says in its own words. Will our government show the same willingness to stand up for our own internal market? ... Daily Telegraph

[stansmith3] 01/2/2021 10:52

minerveonly half the tories started it

[xxxxxy] 01/2/2021 10:37

UK to join trading bloc which has 63 million more consumers than the EUUnlike EU this bloc doesn't want to rule over our laws, borders, vaccines, or money?© Brexit Facts4EU.Org 2020Today UK celebrates 1 year of Brexit, applies to join most populous trade bloc in worldThe great Brexit news just keeps on coming. With Brexit Britain far out in front of the EU on its vaccine strategy and programme, today we report on another area of excellence which the UK has been developing since freeing itself from the EU's shackles.This morning the Rt Hon Liz Truss MP, Secretary of State for International Trade, will make a conference call to her counterparts in Japan and New Zealand. In this call she will formally start the UK's application to join the most populous trading bloc in the world: the Pacific free trade area known as the CPTPP.BREXIT FACTS4EU.ORG SUMMARYThe CPTPP compared to the EU27The population of the CPTPP countries is 508 millionThe population of the EU27 is 445 millionWhen the UK joins the CPTPP, the combined population will rise to 575 millionThat will be 29% more than that of the EU27?© Brexit Facts4EU.Org - click to enlargeOn the road to joining the most populous trading bloc in the World"Joining CPTPP will create enormous opportunities for UK businesses that simply weren't there as part of the EU and deepen our ties with some of the fastest-growing markets in the world."We're at the front of the queue and look forward to starting formal negotiations in the coming months.- Liz Truss, UK International Trade Secretary, Singapore, 10 Dec 2020?Joining this Pacific £8.5 trillion partnership will cut tariffs for UK industries, for example:Whisky (down from 165% to 0% in Malaysia)Cars (reducing to 0% in Canada by 2022, two years earlier than through the UK-Canada trade deal)It will also create new opportunities for modern industries like tech and services, ultimately supporting and creating high-value jobs across the UK. Crucially, unlike EU membership, the CPTPP are not demanding control over our laws, borders, territorial waters, vaccines, or money.According to the ONS, UK trade with the CPTPP was worth £111 billion in 2019, and has grown on average by 8% a year since 2016 – several times faster than the growth in UK trade with the EU.What precisely is the CPTPP?The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) is a free trade agreement between 11 countries in the Asia-Pacific region: Australia, Brunei, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. Seven of these countries are already parties to the agreement, with the others going through domestic ratification processes.Brexit Facts4EU.Org analysed the economic opportunity for the United Kingdom. Our research shows :-The 11 current signatories accounted for 12.9% of global GDP in 2019This would rise to 16.2% if the UK were to joinIf South Korea joins, the CPTPP would have 18.0% of global GDPThe EU27's share is 17.9% and fallingAs can be seen above, if the UK joins, the CPTPP will be snapping at the heels of the EU in terms of share of the global economy. Given the much faster growth rates in the CPTPP than in the EU, it is very likely that the EU will fall into third place (after the US-Canada-Mexico trading bloc and the CPTPP) in short order. In addition, several more countries are in the wings.The United Kingdom formally declared its interest in 2018, and this has already been welcomed by several members including Japan who currently holds the presidency. The other countries which have made formal announcements include China, Colombia, Indonesia, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. If the UK and, say, South Korea joined, the CPTTP's combined economies would exceed those of the EU27.OBSERVATIONSIn the last five years Brexit Facts4EU.Org has reported many times on the range of opportunities for an independent and free-trading United Kingdom, once it was no longer under the suffocating control of the unelected bureaucrats of Brussels.In recent years we have reported on the UK's trading possibilities with countries in the Pacific region, including Commonwealth friends such as Australia and New Zealand. In particular we covered the UK's expression of interest in 2018 to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), as well as subsequent positive developments with the countries involved.Going forwardWe continue to research and publish reassuring reports based on the EU's own data and on data such as that above from the Dept for International Trade, the UN and the IMF, debunking the Remainer myths and urging heads to be held high. The country was right in 2016 to vote to leave the European Union. The subsequent hostility and bad faith from the EU since that time has shown just how right voters were.With our donations having fallen due to the Covid measures, we urgently need some generous readers to help to keep us going. Quick, secure, and confidential donation links are below this article or you can use our donations page here. A member of our team will send you a warm 'thank you' note and you can sit back in the knowledge that you've done something to help to ensure progress towards a fully free, independent, and sovereign United Kingdom. Less than 1% of our readers have made a donation. Can you help to increase this to 2%, 3%, 5%...?[ Sources: UK Department for International Trade | CPTPP Commission | UN population data | IMF GDP data ] Politicians and journalists can contact us for details, as ever.Brexit Facts4EU.Org, Mon 01 Feb 2021

[minerve 2] 01/2/2021 10:13

Says the skint, working class chump!

LOL!