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Canada vows to put hormone-treated beef in UK shops, as post-Brexit trade talks start

Canada has vowed to put hormone-pumped beef on UK supermarket shelves, as the two countries opened post-Brexit trade negotiations.

At a press conference, Canada’s trade minister argued its beef – which, as in the US and Australia, is given the synthetic treatment to boost growth – is “second to none”.

Confirming she wanted “access to the British market” for that meat, Mary Ng added: “I am here to sell brand Canada, boy-oh-boy, and I’m going to keep doing that.”

The comments confirm the contents of a leaked government memo, last month, which suggested Ottawa would seek to include hormone-treated beef in any deal.

Its negotiators were asking “probing questions” about the controversial issue – despite London insisting its ban on such imports will survive leaving the EU, the document admitted.

However, in reality, the economic benefits are likely to be tiny, because 98 per cent of goods exports are already tariff-free under an existing agreement rolled over from EU membership.

The Treasury watchdog is warning that no mooted new trade deal will make any “material difference” – with the new Australia agreement adding just 0.1 per cent to GDP over 15 years.

https://www.independent.ie/business/far ... 96527.html

YEA BUT IT'S WITH WHITEY ABROAD WHO DON'T TALK FUNNY

https://nitter.net/Simon_Nixon/status/1 ... 97114636#m

Arch remainers parking lorries on the M20 to make Brexit look bad.

Sure it's nothing to do with P&O?

There were 10+ miles of 2-lane parked trucks on the M20 on March 30th when we came back from France. So likely not P&O related. Don't fall for the lies.

If I remember correctly from yesterday's James O'Brien show, Operation Stack is about twenty years old and in the 3 months since December 31st has been implemented half as many times as in the preceding 20. So it's not P&O no matter what KGB News tells you.

Operation Stack was replaced by Operation Brock. Whether they had a juvenile badger or the fireworks in mind, I do not know.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... idend.html

I assume one of the his gardeners told Jacob about this benefit, and not a S*n reader
I guess council ones have to have insurance as they can travel on the road

Golf buggies, insurance company owners, F1 teams, and some Farmer Palmer who thinks nothing of driving his lump of rusting agricultural equipment through the town and not caring if he damages anyone or anything.

Why not go the whole hog and copy NZ, where motor insurance is optional? (Yes yes, I know there are some berks who already think it is)

This is a bit of an odd one, covering passport changes since Brexit.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-h ... e-61202948

Nina Gurd was told her passport, which expires next February, was not valid for travel to Portugal.

She went to the airport, confident she had more than the required three months before the expiry date which had been extended when she renewed her passport.

But she was told the expiry date was irrelevant, she told the BBC.

"The lady at Bournemouth Airport said it needs to be within 10 years of the issue date," she explained.

We were advised of this by our travel agent when we last booked

Boiler wrote: ↑Sun Apr 24, 2022 11:16 am Why not go the whole hog and copy NZ, where motor insurance is optional? (Yes yes, I know there are some berks who already think it is)

New Zealand has the government owned Accident Compensation Corporation that from what I understand at least covers injured parties in road traffic accidents on a mostly no-fault basis, whose funding is made up from fees collected from taxes on petrol/diesel/LPG as well as the local equivalent of VED. I presume that this is part of the reason general motor insurance as we know it is optional...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accident_ ... orporation

...the UK doesn't have such an equivalent, broad ranging scheme AIUI. And then you have the situation in some Canadian provinces where motor insurance schemes are run by the government.

That's the sort of figure which belongs on the side of a bus

British universities are facing a brain drain as the row over Brexit in Northern Ireland threatens £250m in research funding from the EU, it has emerged.

The European Research Council (ERC) has written to 98 scientists and academics who were recently approved for €172m (£145m) in grants telling them that if the UK’s associate membership of the €80bn Horizon Europe programme is not ratified they will not be eligible to draw down the money...

https://amp.theguardian.com/education/2 ... ng-from-eu

Didn't Johnson say something about having got Brexit done?

Aaah...

Even the Telegraph, formerly known as "Boris Johnson's Blog".

Et Tu Evans?

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 9:10 pm Aaah...

https://www.cityam.com/uk-has-given-up- ... -eu-looms/

Trade war with the EU looming, good thing we have all those happy British fish eh?

Good to know they got Brexit done.

On the money