Pro tip. Australians are humans just like us.
Brexit thread - what happens next
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Pro tip. Australians are humans just like us.
That's not strictly true. Some fruits really need to be airfreighted, as just chilling them isn't sufficient for them to survive a long sea transit. There are controlled atmosphere containers, which can prolong the lifespan of the fruit, but airfreight will generally offer better condition and yield a better price.
Which is not that simple in itself. Being out of the country severely restricts your job hunting ability, then there would be questions as to why employ an immigrant and aquire a visa (most countries require the company to show they cannot employ locally). Then the fees the company would have to pay. It still takes months and lots of money on those types of visas as people who have been through that process can attest to.
So yes, months of waiting and needless be autocracy. It can also mean that if you quit your job/are made redundant/fired then you have a very short period to leave the country unless you can stay on another visa/citizenship (which usually takes lots of time and money).
Out of interest dowie have you ever actually been through an immigration process?
Who will want the best deal possible, so again, why trade if we bring nothing to the table?
Edit: Actually, what does that even mean?
Of course they're humans, we are too. Yet we, as a whole, voted to leave the EU possibly against our own best interests let alone other members of the EU.
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What about the people without jobs/ made bankrupt during those intervening years? How many graduates thrown on the scrap heap because there aren't skilled jobs for them when they graduate (because companies left)?
All for the possibility of a more positive future in 10 years.
That would largely depend on what powers each had. "President" doesn't mean specific powers. One countries president can have vastly different powers to another.
What powers do the EU presidents have compared to the British prime minister for example? It's not like the power of the US president is comparable to an EU president is it.
But the local greengrocer usually gets better deals from farmers and distributors than Tesco, right?
Actually the do. It's just not needed much in the UK as most of our fruit and veg comes from the EU...
Then look how many people are in each and what their main industries are...
well for Switzerland, by GDP, the economy is very broadly broken down into:
agriculture (1.3%) industry (27.7%) services (71.0%)
like us they've got a fairly large finance industry
You forgot 8.1m population
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The native Aussies are great. Just watch out for the white ones though, they're all descended from criminals.
For things like apples that last months. Not so much most fruit that goes off in days. That's flown in if it isn't sourced from close by (like Europe).
And a significantly smaller population.
Norway is basically an oil rich state, with a small population
Lichtenstein is basically a tax haven with a few tens of thousand
Iceland was bankrupt a couple of years ago because its economy was essentially banking and it has a couple of hundred thousand people.
The UK is not like any of them.
What about the European countries most similar to us? France and Germany? Both of who are in the EU and benefit from free trade.
Germany & France are also net contributors to the EU and contribute more in funding than the UK does.
I thought this was really cool and shows what a transparent organisation the EU is unlike our own.
Lichtenstein only gets to restrict residency not movement in or out of the country or the right to seek work. About 53% of its workforce commutes in from outside the country.
Its basically like total war. You just click on the country you want to trade with, see how good a chance you have , if it's rubbish offer some money and then boom, trade deal.
Only takes a few clicks and a minute at most. Don't know what everyones worried about.
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Switzerland's deal with China gives the Chinese tariff-free access to the Swiss market today on the basis of a promise that they'll grant the Swiss tariff-free access in fifteen years time. Is this the kind of "good" deal you'd like to see the UK negotiate outside of the EU?
It's true the EU can be slow negotiating trade deals, on the other hand they don't accept bad deals and have the market value with which to negotiate for better.
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