r/PoursTea • u/Timbucktwo1230 🫖 Mod ☕️ • Sep 14 '26

European Renaissance 🍾 🧀 🍻 🇬🇧The Future?

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u/TomorrowSpecial255 Sep 14 '26

I'm sure the EU will love two more net drains on there budget

Especially as leaving the UK will cripple those countries

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u/PositiveLibrary7032 Sep 15 '26

We aren’t exactly a roaring success when England pays the bills now are we? What do you think England puts up with this and the EU won’t. We will be like Ireland and actually making our own money instead of relying on Englands charity.

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u/StarNote1515 Sep 15 '26

Ireland, the tax Haven for big companies I don’t think that model will help you in the long run

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u/Stinky_Pete699 Sep 15 '26

It helps Ireland.

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u/StarNote1515 Sep 15 '26

It also isn’t something you can bases an economy on as you cannot guarantee businesses actually coming and other countries stopping loopholes

Also end of the day, you’re not really helping your own people doing that

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u/James20985 Sep 15 '26

Ireland has a currency and a decent existing economy, neither Scotland nor Wales would have even a tenth of the income Ireland does to be able to give those tax incentives.

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u/Stinky_Pete699 Sep 15 '26

Rubbish, all business income in Wales is counted as originating as coming from England. Wales has a greater GDP than many smaller nations of Europe.

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u/James20985 Sep 15 '26

Wales GDP sits at 92% of the smaller countries average in the EU. What are you talking about? It's also massively subsidised.

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u/Stinky_Pete699 Sep 15 '26

Wales has a higher total nominal GDP than roughly 8 to 14 independent EU member states (including smaller nations such as Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Malta, and Luxembourg).

What are you talking about?