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I suspect we buy components from Germany and integrate them into our products before selling on. After brexit, there will be a little more incentive to make some of it in the UK or buy elsewhere (Korean?).

that's an exaggeration and you know it. Of course we have the same customers, same products. Brexit will hit direct inward investment in the short term when businesses have to work out positives and negatives and that is reflected in the exchange rate, currently at 1GBP = 1.39 USD, to me, that's...

I suspect that many MPs know that there is a cost to brexit which may be higher if we end up with no deal but on the other hand, there are also opportunities, not so much in more trade in the immediate future but the chance to fix the long term decline of our industries and excessive reliance on...

That was pre-referendum. The latest poll (Ipsos Mori): "Half (50%) of MPs say they will vote for the UK to remain a member of the EU regardless of any re-negotiated terms of membership, while just over a third (35%) say it depends on the terms of the negotiations. However, there are clear party...

the second softest brexit, (by a large margin, 80% of MPs have actually a favourable opinion on it) is outside the SM and in the CU. We continue trading on current terms on goods, except on services where we will have to negotiate with the EU. There will be non tariff barriers on goods though.

there are plenty of polls. If you are interested, read their results and post here. I challenge you to find a poll that contradicts that post. Read my post about Ipsos Mori's poll of MPs.

you can't just exclude these things. We don't know what percentage attributable to brexit, I suspect it will relate to the relative extra cost for paperwork on imports and exports. As these costs come down over time, the effect will diminish and the natural gravity will come back to where it...

Ipsos Mori poll: When offered a choice of four varieties of Brexit, ranging from single market membership to no deal, 80% of Tory MPs backed the second-softest option of a comprehensive trade deal, aligning with EU rules – 40% supported this on the Labour side, with 56% seeking single market...

we have a trade surplus outside the EU27 and defitcit with the EU27. If we have some non tariff barriers with EU27, it will even out.

No, we are more competitive outside the EU. Inside the EU, Germany, France, Italy etc do better on productivity than us. Just look at the strength of the Euro, and even after devaluation, they still sell more goods to us than us to them. We need some non tariff barriers really to even up.

we are not competitive in most areas inside the single market. If we don't get out of the SM, it'll be slow drowning, the only thing that may still survive 50 years from now may just be the casinos.

most of our industrial base is now owned by multinationals and we still don't have a plan (free market is not a valid plan). We are just a vehicle for American, Japanese, Korean companies to export to the EU. I'd be happy that we buy them out after brexit.

there is still life in the old dog.

for once I agree with Mr Corbyn on the single market. We have to get out of the single market for now and rejoin at a later date, possibly in the next generation. The British industrial base has been too eroded during our time in the EU. We'll need the freedom to buy back the old silvers...

we have a very strange situation: - majority in Parliament are remainers - majority in HOL are remainers - all top 3 leaders would vote to remain if asked to vote again - the electorate would vote to remain if asked to vote again The right thing to do is a soft brexit. and yet, MPs are too...

that's about the worst place to have connectors. You need to change your JST connectors to waterproof system and place the connectors much higher, at least a foot from the ground.If you post a picture of the whole bike, people may suggest where to move your controller to.

a centrist team would still leave (otherwise, brexit will continue bugging the next generation) but would stay very close to membership.

they try to minimize the impact of another story about tory's sleaze. Giving advice or 'consultancy' on something you can read everyday in the newspapers if you don't watch the news for £6,000 a day is another way of taking bungs.

possibly. Email andy, he is like me, switching between PCs.and e-bikes.

it's a good parallel though. When a product becomes comoditised, the big boys will get the volume discount and free delivery, the smaller guys have to get out of the way to survive. I reckon we lose 6% of bike shops year on year just because of online purchases. If anyone reading this and...