The Port of Dover today declared a “critical incident”. A shortage of French passport police caused six-hour queues and tailbacks through Dover and up the motorways. The government blames France. Lookatme Truss, UK Foreign Secretary, is concentrating on vowel adjectives: “appalling”, “awful”, “entirely avoidable and is unacceptable”. This is the same government that caused the …
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Brexicide Boosts Balance of Trade
A cheer for escaping the Euro-yoke! The UK’s balance of trade with the EU has seriously improved. The value of UK goods imports from the EU fell by £6.6bn in January, while exports to them fell only £5.6bn. That’s good, isn’t it? Anyway Covid will have caused some dips, and since our newly sovereign nation …
Pacific Trading
This week the UK formally applied to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (formerly known as the TPP). Excellent. The UK is showing its commitment to free trade and international co-operation. I thoroughly look forward to expanding this approach to include our major trading partners.