OT Cummings Press Statement

[Ram59]

Negotiations will go down to the last minute, but there is no last minute.

If the deal isn't done in time for Jan 1st, it could another 3,6,9 months or more. There's no rule saying that the deal has to be done this year or never.

What does no deal mean anyway? It means that an average of around 5% will be added to the cost of uk goods in the EU, but our goods are already 10% cheaper than 2016 because of the devaluation of the pound. It means that EU goods will be more expensive here, maybe people will buy British more. The government will gain more income through these tariffs, which because we're not subject to EU rules, can be used to subsidise British companies exporting to the EU.

Much is made of the seamless supplies we get from the EU and how this will fall apart. This will be overcome by planning, we currently get supplies from all over the world without any problems and they take weeks to be shipped here.

This is typical of the scaremongering crap we constantly get through the media. Take this weekend for example, we told that the R number has gone above 1 in the North West and we've got to close everything down.

Let's take a balanced look at the facts, ONE agency out of TEN has estimated the R to be 1.01 in the North West. Have you ever seen the R figure estimated to an accuracy of 0.01 before? Anyway, are we ignoring the other 9 agencies who say that it is lower than 1?

[Trickytreesreds]

Negotiations will go down to the last minute, but there is no last minute.

If the deal isn't done in time for Jan 1st, it could another 3,6,9 months or more. There's no rule saying that the deal has to be done this year or never.

What does no deal mean anyway? It means that an average of around 5% will be added to the cost of uk goods in the EU, but our goods are already 10% cheaper than 2016 because of the devaluation of the pound. It means that EU goods will be more expensive here, maybe people will buy British more. The government will gain more income through these tariffs, which because we're not subject to EU rules, can be used to subsidise British companies exporting to the EU.

Much is made of the seamless supplies we get from the EU and how this will fall apart. This will be overcome by planning, we currently get supplies from all over the world without any problems and they take weeks to be shipped here.

This is typical of the scaremongering crap we constantly get through the media. Take this weekend for example, we told that the R number has gone above 1 in the North West and we've got to close everything down.

Let's take a balanced look at the facts, ONE agency out of TEN has estimated the R to be 1.01 in the North West. Have you ever seen the R figure estimated to an accuracy of 0.01 before? Anyway, are we ignoring the other 9 agencies who say that it is lower than 1?

It's just hot air scare mongering again.
Switzerland isn't in the EU. Yet it exports five times more per capita to the EU than the UK.
America, Canada, Autralia all managed to increase their exports to the EU without giving an inch, to the demands the EU is trying to con us into.
There are no tariffs on Iceland and Turkey. They are extremes in geography.
The lying and posturing never stops.

[ramAnag]

This is typical of the scaremongering crap we constantly get through the media. Take this weekend for example, we told that the R number has gone above 1 in the North West and we've got to close everything down.

Have to agree with much of that, Ram. The media repeatedly exaggerate, while politicians lie - typified unfortunately by the PM and his chief aide - and the result is that the public no longer have a clue about matters from Brexit to the need for social distancing to the truth about the ‘R’ number and testing.

Truth and trust have been sacrificed on the altar of expediency.

I’m sure scientists hold the answers as far as the pandemic is concerned, but it is interesting that more and more of them seem to be distancing themselves from the ‘daily briefing’.