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Post by oracle75 on Jan 25, 2023 8:39:35 GMT
It is very easy to show a large percentage of a smaller figure. And still have the lowest growth in the group of the wealthiest countries. Beware statistics and bias confirmation. Well our growth rate was the result of 4 decades of EU membership - if you are saying that wasnt good enough, I would agree. seems that tying ourselves to the slowest growing economic bloc on the planet and thus having EU levels of growth was not good enough.  Your graph has nothing to do with what I wrote. The fact that the UK used to be the fifth largest economy in the world had everything to do with the only countries it traded with had trade agreements negotiated and operated by the EU. And why the UK rolled them over when it left. |
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Post by Toreador on Jan 25, 2023 11:01:39 GMT
Well our growth rate was the result of 4 decades of EU membership - if you are saying that wasnt good enough, I would agree. seems that tying ourselves to the slowest growing economic bloc on the planet and thus having EU levels of growth was not good enough. Your graph has nothing to do with what I wrote. The fact that the UK used to be the fifth largest economy in the world had everything to do with the only countries it traded with had trade agreements negotiated and operated by the EU. And why the UK rolled them over when it left. So far as I know, we're still fifth. |
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Post by Pacifico on Jan 25, 2023 11:18:10 GMT
Your graph has nothing to do with what I wrote. The fact that the UK used to be the fifth largest economy in the world had everything to do with the only countries it traded with had trade agreements negotiated and operated by the EU. And why the UK rolled them over when it left. So far as I know, we're still fifth. Haven't we been overtaken by India? |
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Post by Toreador on Jan 25, 2023 11:23:46 GMT
So far as I know, we're still fifth. Haven't we been overtaken by India? Maybe but that would still only drop us one place where ||I think we've previously been. Maybe we're sending India too much of our international aid money. |
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Post by Vinny on Jan 25, 2023 11:45:15 GMT
I know you disagree, I know you believe in it. But having watched first the EEC and then the EU, I don't think it's helped at all, in fact, considering all the crime taking place in France and some other member states now, Free Movement has made the EU countries more dangerous. Free movement of crime was never considered when the aspiration became a policy, but it happened. IMO the EU is almost like a young country in the making, it has plenty of time to mature. The real benefits from the EU should come in time, it is the architect of its own future. Maybe I'm just a natural optimist, who knows. Yes, the EU is like a country in the making. And I voted to be independent from it. |
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