mrharvest wrote:On an unrelated note, the Irish Sea Border enhanced checks are going to make drug smuggling from GB to NI a lot harder. Edited by frightlever at 09:30:15 04-03-2021 |
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frightlever 1,522 posts
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Registered 8 years agoPsychotext wrote:
Kicking it down the line isn't going to help. It'll be like doing all the work on your year long assignment the night before you have to hand it in.
Unlit Sumplands!
The government's plan to introduce checks on food and drink from the European Union this summer risks hampering the re-opening of pubs and restaurants, industry bodies have warned.
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/brexit-import-checks-april-july-hospitality
Cheese, wine, vegetables and other imports from the continent are at risk of being delayed.
“There would have been a full-blown crisis in Northern Ireland in January had restaurants been open and the same sort of thinking could play out for EU-UK flows,” said Shane Brennan, Chief Executive of The Cold Chain Federation.
“It is unprecedented in terms of what we are going to experience”.
Unlike the EU, which implemented post-Brexit checks on goods coming from the UK on January 1st, the government has opted for a phased approach in order to give businesses time to prepare.
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On April 1st UK border officials will begin requesting Sanitary & Phytosanitary paperwork for animal and plant imports like meat and eggs. Three months later, on July 1st, all goods arriving into Britain from EU member states will face a full range of customs, security and health checks. -
muddyyfunster 1,058 posts
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Registered 10 years agofrightlever wrote:
Please stop foreseeing these unforeseeable problems.
Psychotext wrote:
Kicking it down the line isn't going to help. It'll be like doing all the work on your year long assignment the night before you have to hand it in.
Unlit Sumplands!
The government's plan to introduce checks on food and drink from the European Union this summer risks hampering the re-opening of pubs and restaurants, industry bodies have warned.
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/brexit-import-checks-april-july-hospitality
Cheese, wine, vegetables and other imports from the continent are at risk of being delayed.
“There would have been a full-blown crisis in Northern Ireland in January had restaurants been open and the same sort of thinking could play out for EU-UK flows,” said Shane Brennan, Chief Executive of The Cold Chain Federation.
“It is unprecedented in terms of what we are going to experience”.
Unlike the EU, which implemented post-Brexit checks on goods coming from the UK on January 1st, the government has opted for a phased approach in order to give businesses time to prepare.
Related
On April 1st UK border officials will begin requesting Sanitary & Phytosanitary paperwork for animal and plant imports like meat and eggs. Three months later, on July 1st, all goods arriving into Britain from EU member states will face a full range of customs, security and health checks. -
IRWATWO 1,124 posts
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Registered 1 year ago@frightlever
"It'll be like doing all the work on your year long assignment the night before you have to hand it in."
That is the Johnson approach to everything. Leave it to the last minute, then dress it up as being decisive under pressure, having created the pressure in the first place. Then blame someone else if there are any problems. And it really works. -
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Registered 19 years ago“ The government's plan to introduce checks on food and drink from the European Union this summer risks hampering the re-opening of pubs and restaurants, industry bodies have warned.”
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DaM 17,671 posts
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Registered 19 years agoKicking it back a few months would also put it passed the Scottish Parliament elections in May. Any clear evidence that Brexit is a shitshow makes independence easier to plug.
Of course it also raises post-independence issues with the Scottish-English border, but if the Tories raise that, it just adds to the Brexit is shit narrative, and reminds people that they've forced it on us.
Their main goal is to deny the SNP an outright majority in a parliament system designed to be impossible to get a majority in. -
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Registered 15 years agoLooks like the Americans might be paying attention...
This is now the second time... that this UK government has signed up to an international agreement and then immediately decided to go back on what it agreed to.
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nickthegun 86,026 posts
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Registered 15 years agoIt needs america to properly pull our pants down for anyone to take notice. -
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Registered 5 years agoConsequences are required. -
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IRWATWO 1,124 posts
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Registered 1 year agoA spokesman will be wheeled out to explain why these figures are actually good, they would have been worse if anyone but Johnson was in charge, it's the EUs intransigence that is the problem, and Liz Truss has just signed a multi pound trade deal with Paraguay.
Cleverley perhaps, he's just sort of cretinous parrot for this one. -
Psychotext 69,978 posts
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Registered 15 years agoThis is just... woof.
Billions lost. -
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Registered 15 years agoThe original story on the BBC news website on this only actually mentioned Brexit once. In fairness, though it has since been updated to make it clear that is the main reason.
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nickthegun 86,026 posts
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Registered 15 years agoThats a lot of winning -
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Registered 16 years agoBoris or some tory MP: we've had enough of exports! (probably) -
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Registered 9 years agoI find it interesting to read comments on the BBC. Previously it was people being rather pro Brexit but ever since it happened and mostly since Boris took over it's flipped and is almost uniformly anti Brexit -
Always found it weird how people refused to hear the experts out on this, but were willing to do what Kev down the pub said. Experts that have spent years of their lives working in trade etc. Kev's credentials are his collection of beer mats. -
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Registered 16 years agoShamble wrote:
half eaten ones I have no doubt
Always found it weird how people refused to hear the experts out on this, but were willing to do what Kev down the pub said. Experts that have spent years of their lives working in trade etc. Kev's credentials are his collection of beer mats. -
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Registered 16 years agoexporters are having a great time
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/mar/13/uk-exporters-brexit-damage-costs-customs-paperwork -
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Registered 13 years agoRemember, guys, we were trading without issues before we joined the EU so we won't have any problems after we leave..... -
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Registered 16 years agoHow's our trade with Ulaanbaatar going? -
Psychotext 69,978 posts
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Registered 15 years agoMore info on those sunlit uplands: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/22/data-shows-collapse-of-uk-food-and-drink-exports-post-brexit -
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Registered 8 years agoPsychotext wrote:
I mean obviously it isn't good news but there is the caveat as the article that restaurants and hotels are closed which obviously has had a knock on effect things being bought. But yes, it ain't great, I remember Boris saying the Indians would be buying our whisky.
More info on those sunlit uplands: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/22/data-shows-collapse-of-uk-food-and-drink-exports-post-brexit -
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Registered 16 years agoYou can just see it all unravelling before our eyes. Give it another year or so for all this to really sink in just how much of cluster fuck its going to be. Of course, it will all be blamed on COVID and those damn Europeans and their import tax. -
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Registered 8 years agoGibroon wrote:
Those reasons have all seemed to work in some people's eyes. However you've forgotten the biggest excuse is businesses not being prepared to work harder to make things work. It's baffling how the Tories have coasted on the lie that they are the party of business.
You can just see it all unravelling before our eyes. Give it another year or so for all this to really sink in just how much of cluster fuck its going to be. Of course, it will all be blamed on COVID and those damn Europeans and their import tax. -
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Registered 15 years agoJamboWayOh wrote:
In the same timeframe, Ireland's imports from the UK have dropped around 45% and UK exports have dropped only 14%.
Psychotext wrote:
I mean obviously it isn't good news but there is the caveat as the article that restaurants and hotels are closed which obviously has had a knock on effect things being bought. But yes, it ain't great, I remember Boris saying the Indians would be buying our whisky.
More info on those sunlit uplands: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/22/data-shows-collapse-of-uk-food-and-drink-exports-post-brexit
Total goods exported is down 12%. I would suggest that the biggest factor in the article above is not Covid. -
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Registered 15 years agoPsychotext wrote:
I'm assuming the 75% drop doesn't include the food items that arrived in the EU and were destroyed due to incorrect paperwork? Were these food items classed as a successful exports even though they weren't?
More info on those sunlit uplands: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/22/data-shows-collapse-of-uk-food-and-drink-exports-post-brexit -
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Registered 19 years agoJamboWayOh wrote:
Maybe, but look at the drop in breakfast cerial. I know London used to have restaurant that sold only that, but I can't believe as a product it's that dependent on the hotel industry - people eat breakfast at home?
Psychotext wrote:
I mean obviously it isn't good news but there is the caveat as the article that restaurants and hotels are closed which obviously has had a knock on effect things being bought. But yes, it ain't great, I remember Boris saying the Indians would be buying our whisky.
More info on those sunlit uplands: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/22/data-shows-collapse-of-uk-food-and-drink-exports-post-brexit -
Of course, but there must be some impact. However I do think the effect of Covid is a smokescreen and the country will still be fucked even after we've got a hold on the virus.
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