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The Brexit effect: how leaving the EU hit the UK | FT Film

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Between 2021 and 2023, monthly data showed a 27% drop in UK exports and a 32% drop in imports to and from the EU, compared to how things would have been had Brexit not happened, according to the Aston report.

Jamaica's Pandemic Panic, Fear and Incompetence

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As of 05/03/2020 As of 04/22/2020 10 March 2020: Jamaica got its first coronavirus case after an infected British woman flies to the island to attend a funeral.   Fear and Panic has been part of this pandemic since it started. We watched people all over the globe panicked in fear once news broke that a deadly virus was spreading around the planet. As the number of people infected and dying started to grow so too did fear and panic. We saw people in some of the worlds riches first world countries lose their damn minds as they run around panic buying, hoarding things like toilet paper and fighting each other for various goods in supermarkets. We were in shock and awe as the space-age healthcare system in some of the worlds riches countries buckle and collapse under the strain to keep up with the vast number of sick and dying.  Which is why I am at a lost trying to understand why people are shocked that people in Jamaica are also panicking when faced w...

Brexit! An Independence for Idiots

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One would think the European Union had invaded the UK, slaughtered anyone who resisted their occupation and enslaved the rest of the population for the next 200 years. Extracting all their wealth then finally leaving them poor, living in ignorance and causing great human suffering. The way the UK is carrying on, one would never know that the UK joined the European Union by choice, after multiple years of trying to join that union. Being a member of the European Union, the UK sat at the head of table as a major power-broker, mover and shaker. The UK Voted yes on 95% of EU laws but they are now talking rubbish about being independent from the EU, like slaves being released from bondage. They are a bunch of Damn fools. The fact is they were begging to become a member The UK was the first country to establish a Delegation to the ECSC in 1952 and the first country to sign an Association Agreement with the Community in 1954. The UK's applications to join the EEC in 1963 was vet...