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Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sun Oct 24, 2021 10:15 pm Nice roll call of goons here. 19 Labour MPs too, including Jez and McDonnell, of course.Whenever you say Johnson is head & shoulders the worst Prime Minister of all time, first remember the strength of the competition.
There can be “no role” for the Court of Justice of the European Union as “the final arbiter of disputes” between the EU and U.K. in Northern Ireland, Britain’s David Frost said ahead of another round of talks on post-Brexit trade rules in the region. https://www.politico.eu/article/no-role ... vid-frost/
The impact of Brexit on the UK economy will be worse in the long run compared to the coronavirus pandemic, the chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility has said.
Richard Hughes said leaving the EU will reduce the UK's potential GDP by about 4% in the long term.
He said forecasts showed the pandemic would reduce GDP "by a further 2%".
"In the long term it is the case that Brexit has a bigger impact than the pandemic", he told the BBC....
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59070020.amp
Ian Perkes knows better than most the post-Brexit vision that was sold to the fishing industry by the Vote Leave team and the now prime minister, Boris Johnson.Forgot to include this little gem
Looking out over Brixham harbour from his office, the fish merchant recalls meeting Johnson in August 2019, less than six months before the UK ended its membership of the European Union. “He’s telling me we’re going to have to take on extra staff because we’re going to be so busy,” Perkes says. “With all this free trade, they’re going to want our fish.”
Asked how he now views the prime minister, he pauses. “I’m disappointed,” he replies bitterly. “He never mentioned the extra costs.”
To Perkes and others in the Brixham fishing industry, the current dispute with France over the number of licences issued to French fishermen to operate in UK waters is the latest in a long line of issues to hit business after Brexit. “If there wasn’t any Brexit, there wouldn’t be any issues,” he said. “We were getting on fine before that.”
But Perkes surprises with a key admission – he voted to leave the EU. “I’ve been trolled since I first revealed this – but I wish I had voted to stay in. I never realised we were going to incur all these costs. We were told it was going to be free trade.”
Brexit created mountains of paperwork for Perkes and his industry peers. He says sales are down and costs are up, and it’s all down to the departure from the EU. And the latest fight – with the French threatening to blockade their ports, is adding to their woes...
https://amp.theguardian.com/business/20 ... -of-brexit
But despite his regrets, he believes the way forward is for the UK to “toughen up” its stance towards France.There's nothing like punching yourself in the face really hard to make the other feller back down.
“They want to bring their wines and cheeses and delicacies into the UK? Let’s make it tougher for them,” he said. “Let’s put tariffs on it. Let’s stop Citroen and Renault bringing cars in. Let’s make it difficult, as difficult as they’re making it for us. Because it can work both ways.”
I never realised we were going to incur all these costs. We were told it was going to be free trade.
Brexit has made it easier for small boat crossings to reach UK, refugees say
Refugees living in northern France say Brexit has made it easier for them to reach the UK in small boats, as it emerged that record numbers of people crossed the Channel in one day.
Despite the worsening weather conditions and the UK government’s attempts to deter them, 1,185 people made the crossing on Thursday, according to the Home Office.
Refugees who have fled a variety of conflict zones including Sudan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Eritrea told the Guardian they believed the fact the UK was no longer part of the EU made it more appealing to risk the dangerous crossings because they could no longer be sent back to other European countries under EU legislation.
In October 2020 Boris Johnson said Brexit would enable Britain to take back “full control of our money, our borders and our laws”.
Nevertheless, while the overall number of people fleeing conflict and claiming asylum in the UK has fallen to 31,115 in the last 12 months, the number crossing from France to the UK in small boats has risen sharply since the UK parted company from the EU.
Previously, when the UK was part of the EU, under a mechanism known as Dublin the UK could ask other EU countries to take back people they could prove had passed through safe European countries before reaching the UK.
The UK could make “take charge” requests and officials were often able to prove that asylum seekers had passed through other countries thanks to the Eurodac fingerprint database. But since Brexit the UK no longer has access to that database, so it is harder to prove definitively which other European countries small boat arrivals to the UK have previously passed through.
The UK has not so far struck any bilateral agreements with other EU countries to enable it to replicate the Dublin arrangement. Instead officials have labelled many claims where they suspect people have passed through other European countries before reaching the UK as “inadmissible”...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... fugees-say
Brexit has made it easier for small boat crossings to reach UK, refugees say
Unemployed nurses and health workers from Kenya will have the chance to work in the UK under a new scheme.
An agreement between UK health secretary Sajid Javid and Kenya’s cabinet secretary for labour cooperation Simon Chelugui will see unemployed healthcare workers granted a “special route” to work in the UK. https://nursingnotes.co.uk/news/workfor ... workforce/
A post-Brexit scheme to draw the world’s most celebrated academics and other leading figures to the UK has failed to attract a single applicant in the six months since it opened, it has been reported.
The visa route open to Nobel laureates and other prestigious global prize winners in the fields of science, engineering, humanities and medicine – among others – was described as a joke by experts after ministers admitted its failure to garner any interest.
“Chances that a single Nobel or Turing laureate would move to the UK to work are zero for the next decade or so,” the Nobel prize winner Andre Geim told New Scientist magazine, which first reported the news.
The University of Manchester academic, who was awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 2010 for his work on graphene, added: “The scheme itself is a joke – it cannot be discussed seriously. The government thinks if you pump up UK science with a verbal diarrhoea of optimism – it can somehow become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”...
https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... -applicant
Under the banner “Brexit isn’t working”, a group of businesspeople, academics, journalists, and a top trade unionist have joined forces to form a Commission of inquiry aimed at finding solutions to repair the fractured UK-EU relationship.
The Independent Commission on UK-EU relations will take evidence from experts and publish its findings ahead of the planned renegotiation of the Brexit trade and co-operation deal with the EU in 2024.
Members stress that the idea is to generate a more informed debate – not to refight the 2016 Brexit referendum campaign or re-open the question of the UK membership of the EU.
Mike Clancy, co-chair and general secretary of Prospect trade union, said: “The entire services sector, including financial services which employs three million people across the UK, effectively received a No Deal Brexit.
He added: “Beyond the economy there are unresolved issues in defence, police cooperation and the outcome for Northern Ireland. This Commission is necessary for us to understand exactly what has been broken, and to propose viable solutions.”...
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/indepe ... t-working/
Van drivers will be required to get new international operating licences if they want to travel back and forth to the EU from May next year, the government has announced.Still, at least we've got blue passports.
The new red tape will come into force next year alongside a series of further checks at Dover and other ports that were delayed three times in 2021 because of lack of preparation for Brexit in Great Britain.
According to updates on the gov.uk website, anyone driving a van, a light commercial vehicle or any car towing a trailer will be required to have a “goods vehicle operator licence” to enter the EU, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein or Switzerland from May.
The new licence will cost van drivers up to £1,100, a significant burden for solo operators, industry leaders have said.
Drivers will have to fork out £257 in an application fee and a further £401 for the licence. Another £401 “continuation fee” will be payable every five years to retain the licence, according to gov.uk.
Britain has formally dropped its demand that Europe’s highest court should have no legal role in the controversial Northern Ireland protocol.
In a key concession to Brussels Lord Frost, the Brexit minister, will tell his EU counterpart today that Britain now accepts that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) must be allowed to interpret the protocol of the Brexit agreement.
The move represents a significant shift from the British side in an attempt to unblock negotiations on changes to the protocol, designed to prevent a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, which have been going on since October. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brit ... -t6f9s85dv
Farm leaders have expressed their disappointment at the official signing of the UK-Australia free-trade deal, with the NFU describing it as “one-sided” and “damaging”.I don't suppose telling the farmers "You won. Get over it" would be regarded as being particularly helpful.
The deal was agreed in principle by prime minister Boris Johnson and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison in London in June and, following final negotiations, was signed by UK trade secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan on Friday morning (17 December).
According to a government statement, the agreement will help create new opportunities for businesses and is expected to unlock £10.4bn of additional trade...
...But on agriculture, the NFU is furious that the deal will remove some trade protections for sensitive sectors with immediate effect.
For example, Australian sheepmeat will be granted an immediate tariff-rate quota (TRQ) of 25,000t, rising in instalments to 75,000t, while beef will get a TRQ of 35,000t, rising to 110,000t.
After 10 years, beef and sheep tariffs will go altogether, although a 20% tariff will be applied if volumes of imports get too big for the subsequent five years.
“Despite assurances that these sectors would be afforded some level of protection, we will see full liberalisation of dairy after just six years, sugar after eight years and beef and lamb after 15 years,” said NFU president Minette Batters.
https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/eu-referendu ... uk-farmers
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