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For the many UK politicians @UKLabour and journalists @BBC who don't know anything about UK trade, here are the highlights:
1. The UK is now predominantly a service exporter. 57% of UK exports are services, which are not affected by EU 'red tape'.
2. UK goods exports have dropped from almost 70% of our total exports in 1997 to just 43% in 2025. This trend began long before Brexit and is tied to Net Zero mandates, high UK energy prices, and EV mandates.
3. Machinery and transport goods, such as cars and aircraft parts, are 42% of all UK goods exports. This is by far the UK's largest export sector, although it is also falling. It was 50% of UK exports in 2000. But if the UK joins the EU's CBAM, companies in this sector will see their imported material costs rise, making their exports even less competitive.
4. Chemicals are the UK's second-largest export sector. They account for 19% of UK goods exports, but this share is shrinking due to UK and EU energy costs and Net Zero regulations. These will increase if the UK joins the EU ETS.
5. Miscellaneous Manufactures account for 11% of UK goods exports. This is still the UK's third-largest export sector, even though it includes many goods the UK no longer makes because of our high Carbon taxes, which will increase if the UK signs up to the EU's even higher ETS on November 20th.
6. Fuels account for 9% of UK exports. This is still the UK's 4th largest goods export sector, even though the current and previous governments are/were trying to destroy it with bans on new exploration and ultra-high taxes.
7. Material Manufactures account for 8% of UK goods exports. This sector includes iron, steel, aluminium, ceramics, and glass manufacturing - industries that have gone, or are going, out of business in the UK because of high UK energy costs, which will rise if the UK joins the EU ETS.
8. These five sectors make up almost 90% of UK exports. The other 5 industry sectors are insignificant. But the government and our journalists think the UK is New Zealand and that the only goods we export are food and live animals to the EU. We don't! UK food and live animal exports to the EU were just 1.3% of the UK's total exports.
9. The government is about to sacrifice all of the export industries listed above to slightly reduce the IMPORT costs of a handful of Supermarkets, at least two of which are privately owned German companies.
These savings will not be passed on to UK shoppers because the government has also increased wages again, and supermarket energy costs will increase if we join the EU's ETS.
10. UK exports of food and live animals will not increase because we are paying farmers to not produce them, this has nothing to do with EU red tape. Instead we are paying farmers to plant trees and wildflowers or plaster their farmland with solar panels. (54% of UK electricity is coming from gas today, 12% from solar and 3% from wind.)
11. Write to your MP and tell him to #StoptheReset.
If you don't stop this, don't complain when all of our goods export industries have closed because of EU higher carbon taxes, EU higher carbon import tariffs, and the cost of complying with the EU's new packaging and process regulations.
This imbecile just gurns reductive platitudes, that have no bearing in reality, over and over and somehow believes themselves to be making coherent arguments
It is simply NOT NORMAL to get this angry and upset over the fact that
A) trans people EXIST
B) they're normal human people
C) you don't get to excommunicate them from society because they make you feel some kind of way.
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Good to see @SarahHelm1 was always this grotesque
In August 1999, Jonathan Powell (then Blair’s chief of staff) and partner Sarah Helm left their eight-week-old daughter Rosamund in the Groucho Club cloakroom while they dined, unable to find a babysitter. The attendant minded her among coats and bags. She later said she only agreed expecting a decent tip, but none was left (Downing Street claimed a cash mix-up with a cheque to follow). The Guardian reported it. Helm complained to the Press Complaints Commission over privacy intrusion; the complaint was not upheld. The facts were not disputed.
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NAZA, le documentaire de Yuval Abraham et Rachel Szor produit par The Guardian, a reçu le Prix spécial du jury à Venise et vingt-cinq minutes d’ovation. Il sort en France depuis le 12 octobre. Sa thèse tient en un mot : génocide.
J’ai regardé ce film en juriste. Vingt-quatre témoins sans visage, sans grade, sans rien. Aucune frappe datée, aucune cible nommée, aucun document. Un chiffre, 500 morts civils anticipés pour une cible, lancé par une seule voix et démenti catégoriquement par l’armée. Des sous-titres qui ajoutent aux témoins ce qu’ils ne disent pas. Pas un juriste à l’écran, pas une règle citée, pas un mot sur le Hamas.
Surtout, le film porte dans son titre la réfutation de sa thèse. Nezek agavi, dommage collatéral, désigne l’estimation préalable des pertes civiles d’une attaque dirigée contre un objectif militaire. C’est l’article 57 du Protocole additionnel I.
Une armée qui compte les civils avant de frapper, qui avertit, qui évacue, puis qui compte ceux qui restent, ne décrit pas une entreprise d’extermination. Elle décrit un processus de ciblage, que l’on peut critiquer frappe par frappe, mais qui exclut la seule déduction raisonnable d’une intention de détruire un peuple, selon le critère fixé par la Cour internationale de Justice.
Distinction, proportionnalité, précautions, outils d’aide à la décision, intention génocidaire : j’ai repris chaque point avec les textes et la jurisprudence, de la CIJ au TPIY, de la Cour suprême d’Israël à la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme.
En voulant prouver un génocide, « NAZA » filme le contraire. sarahscialom.substack.com/p/…
Imagine! This from the NSA’s wife?!?
Hamas won power in fair 2006 elections in Palestine, then blackballed a terrorist entity by Israel, blockaded with 2 million people in Gaza, a diplomatic pariah in the West. In 2021 we are about to recognise the "terrorist" Taliban which swept to power in Afghanistan by force.
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Maybe the bigger scandal is creeps like this ever held the ability to influence policy.
This is not a grand statement, as I'm not a fan of when non-Ministers/MPs do those, but just to say that tomorrow I'll be resigning from @NHSEngland's LGBT+ Sounding Board over the NHS's announcement that all trans staff and patients must use facilities of their biological birth.
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Liberals Prepare For Anniversary Of October 8, The Day Israel Attacked Gaza For No Reason buff.ly/gXYIrmJ
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"It's always been one of the more ludicrous claims of the age, that growth could be rekindled by throwing our lot in with the slowest-growing group of economies on the planet"
"It doesn't pass logic, much less economics"
-- Andrew Neil in the Daily Mail this morning.
Grubs like this are what’s wrong with education the world over. Low achiever who never made senior leadership teams or held key posts in 25 years, doesn’t care about standards or the children; just wants to avoid accountability and oversight of standards. Every school has them
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I've taught in Australian schools for 25 years, been on curriculum committees and exam boards, worked in both public and private, and have experienced every attempt at oversight over that time. Your experience from the inside would be...?
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