Ian McLennan
@irjmclennan
Professional & private investor, part-Scot-part-EuroBrit, reader, wine drinker, weak tennis enthusiast, Toon supporter. Views my own.
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17-04-2009 11:47:22
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We will be lost if we panic at every Covid mutation: my latest Financial Times on.ft.com/3f6Nm02
“That the British PM feels the need to court this illiberal leader of a small EU member state illustrates a central dilemma of post-Brexit Britain. It is the dilemma of self-inflicted weakness”. Conservatives #Orban’s visit ft.com/content/098f8d… via @financialtimes
“loss of £2bn of exports to EU is a disaster for our industry, a clear indication of the scale of losses that UK manufacturers face in the longer term due to new trade barriers with the EU.” #Brexit food & drink exports to EU fall by almost half ft.com/content/e93a65… via Financial Times
Steve Matthews 🇪🇺🇬🇧🦊 EU businesses who export to the UK face a mountain of UK red tape from Jan 1st. UK prices of imports will go up. It's weird how "free market" Libertarian ideologues have introduced all these significat barriers to trade and dumped masses of red tape on EU trade
I just donated to the Liberal Democrats - can you give £25 (or whatever you can afford!) too? Give here: libdems.org.uk/donate
The Conservatives disastrous trade policy: the U.K. staked its future on free trade in 2016, the exact historical moment it fell out of favour as an idea in the USA - the country that Tories & Farage promised the UK would do a quick trade deal on.ft.com/3VgMICe
Iain Martin The Times and The Sunday Times I am puzzled, Iain. Brexit is working because … now we can blame the UK government, not Brussels, for our immigration policy? But likely Labour voters don’t seem all that concerned about immigration, without which inflation would clearly be higher, while Brexit has blown up the
New findings from Financial Times's Jamie Smyth, Anastasia Stognei, Chris Cook reveal 🇺🇸 SLB expands in Russia as rivals exit. The technology and expertise SLB provides to Russia play a critical role in enabling 🇷🇺 operators to develop oil & gas projects at lower cost and with less risk.