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[xxxxxy] 12/6/2019 16:51

Brexit Britain’s exports reach record high
USA continues to be UK’s biggest export market – by a long way


© Brexit Facts4EU.Org - larger, clickable version is below / Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox negotiating in the USA

Mr Corbyn, before you snub a state dinner with the US President again, please read this
Yesterday the BBC reported that: “Dramatic fall in car output hits UK economy.” (This didn’t stop UK from growing again in the last quarter, but this wasn’t headline news.) What the BBC failed to report were the latest official ONS figures released yesterday, showing that British exports reached a new record high in the last 12 months.

The BBC failed to report the jump in exports in their main news on their website. They failed to report it in their Business News. And they even failed to report it in their Global Trade section.

Accordingly, Brexit Facts4EU.Org are bringing readers a summary of the good news.

BREXIT FACTS4EU.ORG SUMMARY
Latest export figures up to April 2019

UK exports of goods and services in the 12 months to April 2019 increased by 4.0% to £645.8 billion
Goods exports worldwide increased by 4.7% to £356.6 billion
Goods exports to the USA increased by 11.9% to £57.6 billion, largest increase for any major partner
Total trade between the UK and USA in 2018 was worth £190.5 billion
This chart shows the UK’s top 3 goods export markets in 2018 (excluding the latest figures for Q1 2019)



© Brexit Facts4EU.Org - click to enlarge

Note: Technically the Netherlands comes third, just ahead of France, but these figures are distorted by the fact that a great deal of UK exports to the world pass through Rotterdam and other Dutch ports first. They are then simply trans-shipped globally, but are bizarrely still recorded as being exports to the Netherlands.

[xxxxxy] 12/6/2019 16:50

Bob Bayliss 12 Jun 2019 8:54AM

It's Boris day! Suddenly the clouds we've been experiencing all week seem to be lifting. Let the Remainers do their worst to try to sabotage Brexit. Boris will find a way. General election? Bring it on.

[ladeside] 12/6/2019 16:47

Situations change and the greater good must always come first, hence the reason that Brexit should have been stopped, however there's too many on some sort of personal kamikaze mission which will take us all down with them.......

[xxxxxy] 12/6/2019 16:47

Don’t forget the middle

By JOHNREDWOOD | Published: JUNE 12, 2019

Labour claims to stands up for the poor, the dispossessed, the unemployed and the unfortunate. The Conservatives seek to show that many Labour policies would in practice damage them, as they would damage the economy as they memorably did in 1975-9, and in 2007-9. Fewer jobs, less growth and more unemployment as they produced do not cut poverty. Conservatives have sought to show that they too want to help those most in need, promoting work whilst supporting welfare. In government Conservatives have pursued higher minimum wages, less tax on those on lowest incomes and a range of other measures. In the leadership election there are furious bids by various candidates to set out what more can be done for the poorest in our community.

Amidst all this politics someone needs to stand up for the many who are not on higher incomes but who earn enough to get little or no benefit help and who have to pay substantial tax bills. Mrs May seemed to understand this in her early comments as PM about the “just managing”, though there was a danger this language was a bit patronising and downbeat. What we need is a vision of how the many who work to provide for themselves and their families can aspire to higher incomes and better lifestyles feeling the government is on their side rather than seeing them as an audience to tax and regulate in pursuit of wider social goals.

I want the next government to take the taxes off aspiration. Why do we face such high taxes on buying a better home or on moving to a different location? Why do we have to pay such large taxes if we want to buy a new or better car? Why does the government charge VAT on various home improvements? Why does the government want to reduce the number of people working for themselves by claiming they are not truly self employed for tax reasons?

There are limited ways out of low income and no assets. To do it people usually have to buy a home of their own and spend time and money on improvement. The range of tv programmes about moving and home improvement point to the interest in this opportunity. People do need to keep a decent proportion of their work income, to reach the point where they can afford to save. Building your own business is one route to a better lifestyle with assets in your business. It should be feasible for the average person, not needing super human skills to run the gauntlet of regulatory compliance and tax challenge.

I would like the next government to make it easier for people with aspirations to achieve their aims, and for more of the freedoms and lifestyles of the better off to be available for the many. Instead of government seeking to regulate our conduct more and tax success wherever it finds it as if it were a problem, I want a government that rewards those who want to do more for themselves and their families, and who given the chance will do the right thing.

[excell1] 12/6/2019 16:44

Great posts Shy Tott and Willoicc 261232 & 261233.
No wonder Nigel Farage is doing so well...Have a referendum where the Prime Minister says we will implement the outcome of the vote and then completely ignore it.Sorry guys this simply will not be tolerated.

[ladeside] 12/6/2019 16:22

Best they get rid of us then and give us our country back............

[minerve 2] 12/6/2019 15:49

I don't know about any of you, but I would like to see the government get on with real life. Not pandering to a bunch of 17.4m life losers, ignoramuses and charlatans, some of which are already bones in the old church yard.

[hernando2] 12/6/2019 15:42

Yep- the SNp are very worrying as a faction within the UK parliament, populism at its worst.

We need the opposition to step their game up

[maxk] 12/6/2019 15:40

Alp.

imo we should leave, then start the trade negotiation.

One thing at a time, as this gov seem incapable of anything more sophisticated.

[ladeside] 12/6/2019 15:39

The EU can't back down even if they wanted to, as that would then set a very dangerous precedent especially in the current climate of rampant populism.

[alphorn] 12/6/2019 15:37

Max - is that what you hope?

[maxk] 12/6/2019 15:34

With all the useful fools the in the HoC, the €uro's have no need to change anything.


Until it is too late.

[minerve 2] 12/6/2019 15:33

Sign the deal or Remain.

Let's face the stark truth - most ardent Little Englander Brexiters will be dead within a decade.

[mikemichael2] 12/6/2019 15:24

He did say that, but that's all he will get. Do you think the EU will 'change' the deal??Very much doubt it.

[careful] 12/6/2019 15:19

Listening to the debate in parliament.
We are no further forward.
how do we break this endless stalemate?

46m voters.

[minerve 2] 12/6/2019 15:14

Project Fear

[alphorn] 12/6/2019 15:03

Fake news or did Boris say this today?

He said: “Let me be clear: I am not aiming for a no-deal outcome"...………...

[jordaggy] 12/6/2019 14:20

I love Tulsi...if she ever became president...they'd kill her!

[minerve 2] 12/6/2019 14:19

bili1

Yes, completely agree.

Just can't see him being voted in by the Little Englander Wetherspoon capitalists.

[ladeside] 12/6/2019 14:17

Why would ANY country trust the UK if they screwed over Europe ??

We would be finished, a complete pariah out in the wilderness, realistically of course it would never be allowed to happen, as thankfully our real power brokers don't have the same childlike outlook of some on this chatboard.........

[diku] 12/6/2019 14:02

Gove backing Bojo and Bojo giving a cabinet job to Gove is 2 different things...Bojo could play it the smart way having the final laugh stringing along with Gove and then not giving Gove the job....

[grahamite2] 12/6/2019 13:58

You can't be serious, diku. It seems obvious to me there's real hatred there.

[diku] 12/6/2019 13:56

When Gove knows his chances are dwindling he will step down and start backing Bojo...in hope Bojo gives him a cabinet job...

[shy tott] 12/6/2019 13:52

'forget the referendum'

Lesson 2 is even harder than lesson 1!

So astute political thought is to have a referendum then ignore it.

I have a terrible feeling that I'm going to fail this political course of yours Careful. I'm resigned to always being politically naïve, believing in democracy and old fashioned things like that.