Yep, that's explicitly accepted in the source article explaining that both Brexit & Covid have impacted adversely on the numbers. What's not so easy for Brexit fans to explain away is the marked difference between the EU & non-EU data, given that the pandemic and its impacts have been global.
I'm trying to find some sort of equivalent figures to see how food imported into the UK from the EU has changed in a similar period, but most of the focus appears to be on how exports are down.
I know when I looked into dairy, we ended up a net exporter off the back of a fall in imports
Interesting, thanks
Reading that article, it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that these proposals are motivated by a combination of protectionism and spite on the part of whoever in the EU has come up with them.
i took you to be pro-protectionism?
other languages media shown in foreign countries still needs subtitling no?
Reclaiming nos TV, airwaves, le Netfix etc.....
I'm certainly not pro protectionism in all circumstances.Grumpy contrarian post incoming
i took you to be pro-protectionism?
personally anything that helps diminish the british period drama / top gear industry is welcome - anglophone media in general tbh - soft power is another word for propaganda really.
according to this link analysts "crowned the UK as the world’s leading soft power in 2018"
The UK’s soft power challenge | British Council
The UK’s soft power pre-eminence is vital for its post-Brexit future, but increasingly being challenged. Insight looks at the latest evidence.www.britishcouncil.org
again from the link the point of such power is for the UK to be seen "as open and welcoming, with a free and fair justice system and world-leading arts and culture, and with a government that treats everyone in the country fairly, contributes its fair share to aid, works constructively with others around the world." so painting rosy pictures over the much grimmer reality is basically the point of it
British TV, especially bbc output, is increasingly small c and big C conservative, un-innovative, twee, pap. The fact it sells so well is pretty depressing. The myth of it being stuff like Python (mentioned in that British Council link) is 40 years out of date
anyway i expect this story is being over-egged - as the article says at present the UK is still considered part of Europe, even if those dastardly french people take over the presidency next year. Will they ditch other European non-EU content too?
other languages media shown in foreign countries still needs subtitling no?
Afaict, it's a story about someone in Brussels being asked to write a report about something the EU doesn't actually have powers to do anything about (because the relevant rules fall under the Council of Europe, which the UK is still a member of), and which would probably just end up hurting EU broadcasters if they did.
Not really "most", but of those expressing a response either way, it's 38% badly : 25% well.
Only a quarter of the public think it's gone well.
No not most. You are extrapolating too hard and throwing shit like right wingers about. Try harder.
wavellroom.com
Oh, the denial. The only people who think it's gone 'really well' are Tories.
Yes, but that "71% of LD voters" in the 2 'badly' categories equates very closely to the roughly 5% of the (GE 2019) electorate that are the Tory voters who think it's gone very well.
It is a slightly odd question. Lots of it appears to have gone quite badly, and a fair bit to have gone very badly indeed, though it's a little too early to know how things will work out in the long run.
Yes. Or vice versa. Some of us are a little tickled that wages have gone up and we aren't treating Romanians like our slaves anymore. Especially because it probably pisses the Tories off. But on the other hand it depends what you thought Brexit was in the first place. And the bad stuff has been masked by Covid. So who knows whether it's 'gone well.'
Just to come back to this, it does appear that the original article and the post linking to it are pretty much uncritical of the way in which the British film and TV industry has increasingly become a way for the projection of soft power, largely nostalgia for the days when the aristocracy was still in charge and the rest of us knew our place.personally anything that helps diminish the british period drama / top gear industry is welcome - anglophone media in general tbh - soft power is another word for propaganda really.
according to this link analysts "crowned the UK as the world’s leading soft power in 2018"
The UK’s soft power challenge | British Council
The UK’s soft power pre-eminence is vital for its post-Brexit future, but increasingly being challenged. Insight looks at the latest evidence.
again from the link the point of such power is for the UK to be seen "as open and welcoming, with a free and fair justice system and world-leading arts and culture, and with a government that treats everyone in the country fairly, contributes its fair share to aid, works constructively with others around the world." so painting rosy pictures over the much grimmer reality is basically the point of it
British TV, especially bbc output, is increasingly small c and big C conservative, un-innovative, twee, pap. The fact it sells so well is pretty depressing. The myth of it being stuff like Python (mentioned in that British Council link) is 40 years out of date
anyway i expect this story is being over-egged - as the article says at present the UK is still considered part of Europe, even if those dastardly french people take over the presidency next year. Will they ditch other European non-EU content too?
other languages media shown in foreign countries still needs subtitling no?
UK facing summer of food shortages due to lack of lorry drivers
Loss of 100,000 hauliers due to Covid and Brexit will cause food ‘rolling power cuts’, experts warnwww.theguardian.com
No mention that in the UK one has to pay oneself all the costs of becoming an HGV driver and when qualified being grateful to barely make minimum wage.
They could of course pay drivers to train then pay enough to retain them but this would lessen profits so can’t happen.
Redwood is either the greatest or the worst troll to have ever lived.
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