OT: Yanks want to buy BP!

I am also reminded/amused that (on a completely unscientific, small-scale, unrepresentative) straw poll when travelling in US amongst friends how many people were mostly unaware that the "B" in "BP" stood for British, but when the gulf spill happened, US politicians were only too happy to remember what the "B" stands for.

Another story of how prices will change and things will get more expensive post-Brexit

FT: Sat 11 Mar 2017 Mars warns chocolate prices could rise after Brexit

"Mars, the US manufacturer of the eponymous bar, warned on Friday of a rise in chocolate prices in the UK unless Britain secures a favourable trade deal with the EU once it quits the regional bloc."

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Is this what those who voted for Brexit envisaged...

One that used to surprise people reading about and tut tutting the American gun culture while eating their toast and marmalade was that the British company who owned the company that may have made the bread for the toast also owned the Firearms manufacturer Smith and Wesson . But that point was a few years ago , it remains to be seen if the present administrations America First policy will allow foreign investors as much freedom as that period or make things so difficult that it may not be worth hassle, especially if conditions imposed on British investments could mean that investor(s) find themselves infringing American laws if they also wish to invest elsewhere but the US wants to influence things through sanctions that they alone want. Won't apply to special friends of the US of course, they may prosecute British business men supplying batteries to Iran, but those Iranian airforce Phantoms keep on getting spares via Israel.

G.Harman

I doubt you'll find many who think that the manufacture of guns should be banned.

Which is a different argument from saying how readily they should be available to all and sundry.

My point, which you obviously misundersood, was that I was referring to views expressed by others who may or may not share your interest in accounting definitions. Obviously too subtle for you to follow.

And how does 'tut tutting the American gun culture' equate to a call for manufacture of guns to be banned? Is English your first language?

Are you actually incapable of reading and understanding more than one simple sentence at a time?

Point me to the sentence that suggests manufacture of guns should be banned then.

How do they work that out?

A Mars Bar made with sugar from either East Anglia, or the tropics; cocoa from the tropics; maybe a few other things like rice or wheat.

It's manufactured in the UK.

Where will the 30% EU tariff apply?

Andy

Also note where the report originates: the FT.

I would expect so...

Most of the people who I know who voted leave, actually accepted that many of the predictions of project fear were likely to come true at some point - but they decided in their view it was a price worth paying.

Just as long as they didn't have to pay it ...

They probably don't think they will pay it and that others will do all the paying. Its the poor that will pay most but the right wing never care about the poor, as harry says they only have themselves to blame. 8-(

Provided Dennis pays, I'm happy!