r/tories • u/LeChevalierMal-Fait Clarksonisum with Didly Squat characteristics • 2d ago

Kemi on tariffs

https://x.com/KemiBadenoch/status/1907727780730573085
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u/Capt_Zapp_Brann1gan 2d ago

God, that comment section. You have people claiming VAT is a tarrif 🤦‍♂️

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u/OrganizationThen9115 2d ago

Its crazy how much economic illiteracy I have seen in the last 24hs

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u/mightypup1974 2d ago

24 hours? Try 10 years

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u/LobsterMountain4036 Burkean 2d ago

Are you 10?

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u/LobsterMountain4036 Burkean 2d ago

The party of Ronald Reagan is no more. It ended more abruptly than I think anyone could have expected.

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u/No_Manufacturer_1167 2d ago

On the upside Kemis finally been forced to breach from the MAGA republicans and can focus on appealing to a British audience rather than regurgitating American talking points (we can leave that to Farage).

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u/jamesovertail Enoch was right 2d ago

So what do you for any remaining industry in the west that has to compete with the labour of Vietnam, Cambodia, India, Pakistani, Bangladesh, China etc which have children working in sweatshops 14 hours a day for 0.5$?

We have an evaporating middle class and a wage squeeze while we try to fund our huge welfare states which we try to get around by importing the cheapest labour. We are on a pathway to oblivion, I think Trump will be proven right, we can't compete with these third world countries without a drive to the bottom on living standards.

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u/aviaciondecubanana 1d ago

Why would you even want to compete on low skill manufacturing? You want westerners to quit their skilled labor jobs and go work in sweatshops? And still want your clothes to cost the same? Not sure which fantasy land you live in.

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u/7952 1d ago

That says absolutely nothing about the soundness of Trumps plan. It just diagnoses a problem. And perhaps a deeper issue with America is a lack of imagination in addressing these kind of issues.

Anyway such a fast move to high tariffs could be very bad for people who still have those middle class jobs. You have suddenly made it more difficult to sell aeroplanes or consumer electronic products in Europe. And it does absolutely nothing to build the industrial expertise needed to do modern manufacturing at scale. Because there is far more complexity in some of these supply chains than just the "cheapest labour".