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I'm not familiar with the matter at all, but wouldn't there be a flip side, that his company has now a lot less competition from EU cheese makers in the UK?
by Gravityloss 5y ago
I'm not familiar with the matter at all, but wouldn't there be a flip side, that his company has now a lot less competition from EU cheese makers in the UK?
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- skywhopper 5y agoDepends on whether the UK was a net exporter of such products.
- Gravityloss 5y agoI vaguely remember a story where, shortly after the Soviet Union collapsed, someone managed to take over a factory making erasers and made a fortune. Maybe it was the only functioning one and imports didn't work for some reason...
- halpert 5y ago“Russian oligarchs” you hear about so often in the news are essentially gangsters that pilfered the valuable assets from the collapsed USSR. Many different types of factories were taken and profited from.
- hunglee2 5y agohe deals with this question at the end of the interview, when he says marketing costs have gone through the roof as all other UK (ex)exporters now are forced to focus on (much smaller) domestic UK market
- zarzavat 5y agoThe UK is too densely populated to be agriculturally self-sufficient, thus all major parties believe in free market principles when applied to food imports, because attempts at protectionism would lead to huge inflation and would doom any party that tried it. The only debate is whether food should be imported from the US or from the EU.