Absolutely. Lack of support beyond Watford.
I was going to delete it but I’ll leave it now and take the flak.
Do you do a lot of work outside of the UK?
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No, not me personally but many a major UK contractor / consultant are actually firms from Europe etc.
For me it is no change other than having to pay a monstrous annual fee for a qualification that actually carries less weight than it used to.
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Tesco’s is a public limited company. What do you honestly expect it’s chairman to say? Panic sell your shares everyone! Food prices are going through the roof.
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So what was he doing last month when he was warning of food prices rising by 3-5% if there was no deal?
What’s in (or not in) the trade deal that makes you think food prices are going to go through the roof?
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I was expecting an increase simply because of the bureaucracy we were getting rid of appearing in the fact that every import / export to and from the UK needs to have. At least there’s relatively few tariffs.
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He was probably pressuring the government to secure a deal, as his main priority is to Tesco’s share price and and at that point in time the biggest threat to Tesco’s was a no deal Brexit. The biggest threat today is people thinking it might be a good idea to dump their shares because food prices are going up.
We’ll have to see what happens with food prices. I think it’s inevitable they’ll go up, probably a bit more than he suggests, but a lot less than if we’d had no deal.
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Or, he could say prices are not going through the roof, and wait for shoppers to attend his store and discover they have, which would be commercial ruination. Its right. Perhaps there might be some slippage in the metric of ‘roof’.
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I think the direct price increase is unlikely to be that large with this deal - no tariffs, so just some transaction costs that were not there before, perhaps some spoilage.
The exchange rate effect won’t be as immediate, but is the one that really bears watching.
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Remember me repeatedly saying it will be OK, we’ll get a deal? Food prices won’t go through the roof either.
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That is certainly my thinking. We’ve succeeded in voting for less bureaucracy but actually got more.
Hurrah. UK for the win.
NATO has always been a tool for US interests. It was set up for that very purpose, just like the UN.
Yes but you would have to bend over and take it every Thuraday 
Yes. But that is a grand simplification where you look at it only from a US pov. UN and NATO was and is, in the interest of many, and not just the US. It is new though, the trend where NATO is primarily being used as a geopolitical tool that has little to do with what was going on in the Cold War. Clashes with Iran etc., not in NATOs interests, only the US as an example and we all remember Iraq.
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I also found this thread while reading the one @redfanman posted above
https://mobile.twitter.com/AntonSpisak/status/1343519072416362498
I chuckled at the title of this one but it is true. Hailing a massive success for this is just sad in reality.
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Yeah saw that and just had facepalm meh moment; the utmost stupity from the opposition. Wonder if these are loyal Corbynites.