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I meant to say that a lot of brexiters think we live in a rich country but when actually coming down to purchasing power, we are not much better off than the average Southern EU citizens. We drink cheap plonk like they do. We should realise that Thatcherism brought us a false sense of feeling...

the 'yellow vests' get support from all sorts of interest groups, left, right, centre, old, young, anarchists, marxists, football hooligans etc. Macron is asking for troubles recently. He cuts taxes for the rich and put up taxes for the JAMs. Among their demands: - zero SDF (sans domicile...

did you watch 'food and drink' on BBC2 today? Apparently, from their analysis, on a bottle that costs £5.50: - £2 duty. - £0.92 VAT - £1.15 profit for the importer and retailer - 85p for the wine, bottling and transport The producers for the wine itself won't get more than 50p for growing the...

Leave won partly because of the internet, more specifically, Facebook's technology. The tech does not particularly favour any political party nor take side, what it does is to create echo chambers where members of a group is fed what the group likes best thus re-enforcing the effectiveness of...

a typo there. Thatcher's economics was a short term fix. Close government owned loss making businesses, sell state monopolies, welcome foreign money (no question asked where the money came from) during the 'big bang' years and use planning law to push up property price. If you own a 5-bed house...

the referendum in 2016 won't be the last.

The Pound will be priced to take into account the cost of brexit. I think a 10% devaluation of the Pound is likely. It does not affect importers like myself much because we simply put up our prices but these increases will feed through as additional inflation which will be compensated for by...

I see the battle of brexit as a proper existential test for both the UK and the EU. It is a test because it can be cancelled or reversed in a short time. There are plenty of people who dream of a US of E and equally as many who see that as the wrong destination.

the BoE and other experts did that after the referendum and expected inflation to peak at 3%. A WTO brexit would cause about 3% inflation for 2-3 years.

talk of fresh food shortages in case of no deal brexit lacks credibility. Would the EU stop exporting fresh food to the UK? Totally unlikely. It's up to HMRC to stop those lorries bringing in fresh food into Dover, Portsmouth etc. and they are not going to do that. As far as food price is...

I don't think trade will increase much faster in or out of the EU. Growth inside or outside the EU benefits trade in the same way, whether we leave or remain. Most of our trade with countries outside the EU are already on more favourable terms than general WTO tariffs. Going to WTO in the...

it may happen even if we remain in the EU. Nationalism rises all over Europe and brexit does not help curbing that rise. Sooner or later, Merkel will retire from European politics, AKK may continue with Merkel's 'not Germany first' but will she have the staying power of Angela Merkel? I reckon...

where to? it's up to John Bercow. TM will come back after she meets other EU leaders then the MPs will vote again. If they reject her deal a second time, it will be chaos.

if TM's deal goes through, there won't be much change in our economy. If we leave on WTO, trade will continue like before, there will be contraction due to the predicted lower value of the Pound. Over time, some large manufacturers will move out, some new specialist manufacturers will invest...

There is TV channel 232 Parliament - it'll keep my brexit withdrawal symptom at bay for a few hours. I am usually quite busy on Mondays anyway.

the new/different opportunity to trade with other economic spheres (Trans Pacific, North and South America, Common Wealth etc) do not need to rely on any particular new factor other than our well known legal system, we are much smaller than the EU, more flexible, more practical than the average...

totally.

I don't know if TM's plan would allow only a breathing space, I would have thought that the plan is workable given the future direction of brexit. Brexit needs to manage regulation divergence. Even if the UK stays in the CU in the short term, over time, opportunities outside the EU will arise...

Hello Crambie, hiding the controller is easy, there are plenty of kits where the controller is placed inside the battery's cradle or the motor's housing. the difficulty is how to hide the battery. Perhaps a bespoke battery made with 3500mAH 18650 cells or 5000mAH 21700 cells would solve this...

May's deal is a version of Norway, she swaps membership of the SM for membership of the CU. May's deal does not stop JC to negotiate his if he wins the next GE. The best way for May to salvage the situation is to offer JC a GE in May if he supports her deal. She should step down in April then...