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Wes Streeting: Britain needs to join customs union with EU (www.thetimes.com)

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Archive link for those of us in the customs union.

Uh oh 😳. It's Wes Streeting whom we all hate because of NHS. But he wants us to rejoin the Custom's Union. Fuck! How do we choose? Will it be a path to rejoining or will it be in fighting and dogma? 🫠😜.

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[–] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 9 points 1 day ago

More than half of all U.K. imports come from the EU. That’s AFTER Brexit, so lower compared to what it was before.

Only 13% of UK imports come from the US. 7% from China. Even combined it’s less than half of EU imports.

You’ve got your numbers flipped around mate.