| Jamie also in trouble 16:17 - May 21 with 4616 views | aleanddale |
I ate here once and thought it was VERY over rated.
Administrators to Jamie Oliver's restaurant chain say 22 sites have closed resulting in 1,000 redundancies after the business collapsed.
KPMG said attempts to bring fresh investment into the business - at a time of rising costs and fragile consumer confidence - had failed.
The business was left without enough cash to trade while in administration, meaning that all but three of its 25 eateries have closed.
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| Jamie also in trouble on 15:08 - May 23 with 903 views | 49thseason |
No significant foreign investment since the vote
Foreign Direct Investment in the United Kingdom increased by 15947 GBP Million in the fourth quarter of 2018. Foreign Direct Investment in the United Kingdom averaged 12943.06 GBP Million from 1987 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 82539 GBP Million in the third quarter of 2005 and a record low of -44536 GBP Million in the second quarter of 2009.
A massive drop in the value of the £
In june 2016 you could buy $US1000 for £700 today it will cost you £791 hardly a massive drop but a drop which helps exporters at the expense of importers and holidaymakers
Withdrawal of many overseas companies from the UK
It is claimed that some 224,000 jobs have been lost since the referendum, many are unrelated to brexit eg 1000 at Birmingham council, 3,500 at Honda swindon (electrification), 12,500 at House of Frased, 4000 at Debenhams,
UK unemployment is currently at 20 year lows and employment at all time highs, jobs are created and lost every day the vast majority of company failures are unrelated to Brexit and more related to an inability to keep up with technological, change. If youmthink its bad now wait until autonomous vehicles hit the streets using electric vehicles with no rquirement for servicing . Thats where the brown stuff will hit the fan, drivers, garages, deliveries, etc etc will all be non- jobs. Leaving the EU and its restrictive rules and regulations will free us to make appropriate decisions for UK PLC which would otherwise be impossible. The current British Steel fiasco is related to nonsensical green laws and would cost BS over £600m . Its impossible to be competitive with China if we continue to virtue signal our own jobs down the crapper. |  | | |
| Jamie also in trouble on 08:37 - May 24 with 758 views | BigDaveMyCock |
| Jamie also in trouble on 10:17 - May 23 by D_Alien |
Your description of the economic events since the Referendum are mainly true, but i'd argue that it's far more to do with the uncertainty around Brexit than Brexit itself
If the political class had delivered on their manifesto promises, we'd be out by now and starting to shape our future economic partnerships. It's precisely that we can't, as yet, do so that's causing the problem
There is light at the end of this long, dark tunnel however
Once the EU election results give Westminster the kick up the arse it needs, and the Tories have elected a PM who believes in Brexit, we can be out by 31 October and no later. Then we'll see how we can make our way in the world, and not just in the EU. I have confidence in the ability of British companies and British talent to more than succeed |
I’m surprised at your positivity here.
A large majority of Parliament, including the Conservatives, are against a no deal. Any potential Conservative leadership candidate will be asked the question of, will you opt for a no deal? At the very least they will have to placate the majority of their MPs (whose votes they will need) by at least promising a Parliamentary vote on this (although it will likely have to go to a vote in any event). If they renege on this then Labour and anti no-dealer Conservatives will immediately mobilise and trigger a vote of no confidence which they will likely win.
Any new leader of the Conservatives will face exactly the same problem as Theresa May has. The Parliamentary arithmetic renders it extremely difficult to pass a Brexit deal, in particular a no deal deal.
That’s not a normative preference on my part, that’s the reality of the situation.
In addition, I’ve no doubt that the Brexit Party will poll the largest number of votes but if the combined ‘remain’ vote is considerably larger than that, which it is likely to be, then that doesn’t really move anything along. | |
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| Jamie also in trouble on 00:25 - May 25 with 625 views | D_Alien |
| Jamie also in trouble on 08:37 - May 24 by BigDaveMyCock |
I’m surprised at your positivity here.
A large majority of Parliament, including the Conservatives, are against a no deal. Any potential Conservative leadership candidate will be asked the question of, will you opt for a no deal? At the very least they will have to placate the majority of their MPs (whose votes they will need) by at least promising a Parliamentary vote on this (although it will likely have to go to a vote in any event). If they renege on this then Labour and anti no-dealer Conservatives will immediately mobilise and trigger a vote of no confidence which they will likely win.
Any new leader of the Conservatives will face exactly the same problem as Theresa May has. The Parliamentary arithmetic renders it extremely difficult to pass a Brexit deal, in particular a no deal deal.
That’s not a normative preference on my part, that’s the reality of the situation.
In addition, I’ve no doubt that the Brexit Party will poll the largest number of votes but if the combined ‘remain’ vote is considerably larger than that, which it is likely to be, then that doesn’t really move anything along. |
The parliamentary arithmetic will become irrelevant if, by the 31 October, a deal hasn't been renegotiated by a new PM prepared to face down the EU commission (whose personnel may well be different by that stage) in which case our membership of the EU will end
There are also various permutations of a "managed" no deal which can be considered, always bearing in mind that further negotiations once we've left the EU will take our future relationship into a more fruitful phase without the UK having to take directives which we have no control over
It just needs a little more imagination, which having a positive outlook helps foster. I think you'll be surprised further by what becomes possible once the EU gives up the ghost of trying to keep us within its bureaucratic maw
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