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So there you have a great example of what I was talking about. Do one thing, talk as if doing the opposite. Make it harder to move goods and people… but have a three word catch phrase that ends in a nice dynamic Go to sound progressive and as if opening up opportunities to move you or your products.
Citation needed? Look at the people posting. TJ and Binners are... emotive but dannyh has been a rational voice of reason for as long as I can remember on this forum.
They know full-well that Brexit on top of Covid will deliver an economic collapse that will make the banking crisis look like a minor hiccup.
Eh, it's more insidious than that.
They're faced with a global pandemic and it's played into their hands. Just when it seemed like brexit was about to have an excrement / air conditioning interface, all this broke and now they get to ignore it for a year before going "yeah, coronavirus" when it all goes to custard.
have a three word catch phrase that ends in a nice dynamic
It's not like they don't have previous.
red white and blue brexit
brexit means brexit
no deal is better than a bad deal
get brexit done
And many, many more.
Let’s get going!
…as they apply the brakes.
Cougar - yes I am emotive about this but that does not alter the truth - the tory corruption ( and in other parties to a lessor extent) is huge and hidden in plain sight
I am emotive because this causes huge suffering
Let's get going on spending £93 million on telling everyone to get ready.
yes I am emotive about this but that does not alter the truth
Have to agree. Here is a past Conservative PM being emotive about the truth… and the people now calling the shots…
“The NHS is about as safe with them as a pet hamster would be with a hungry python”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/05/john-major-nhs-risk-brexit-pythons-johnson-and-gove
but dannyh has been a rational voice of reason for as long as I can remember on this forum
<Blushes>
I've had my ranty moments too, but I like to think they have been OTT in terms of language rather than hyperbole in content.
In any case, I still haven't really come to terms with how many people were swayed by populist bullshit to vote massively against their own interests in 2016. I still, almost literally, cannot believe it.
This disbelief, though, is outweighed by the realisation that was immediately apparent in 2016. Horrible, petty, nationalist, racist and xenophobic attitudes that I hoped had been mostly irradicated in all but a few nasty pieces of work, were in fact just below the surface in millions of people in this country. It still gives me a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach.
That Leave harnessed these feeling to their own ends by manipulation of social media should come as no surprise. What surprised and dismayed me was the number of people who held hidden prejudices that were able to be exploited so easily.
We, as a country, are going to get tossed about like driftwood after 31st Dec. There are going to be casualties aplenty, but not amongst the architects of this disaster.
Brexit, for the few, is the heist of a lifetime.
^^^^^
And, I should mention, it is now too late to do anything about it.
Deadlines have passed, patience in europe is at an end.
Too late now.
And, I should mention, it is now too late to do anything about it.
Played for and got. C19 just enabled them a bit.
Pretty much everything about the current administration stinks. I'm constantly amazed that either (a) loads of people can't see what's going on in plain sight, or (b) they can see but don't care, think it won't affect them, or even think it's a reasonable way to 'run' a country.
Were so far down the Trumpian rabbit hole...
EHIC going away, and roaming charges coming back.
Both were previously promised not to be impacted.
What DannyH said (again)
Colournoise, there's a massive swathe of people who can see what's going on, or are at least willing to listen and look when it's pointed out to them, but are powerless to do anything about it.
Let's be honest - there's f all we can do about this shower of ba5tards for the next 4 years. I wouldn't be all that surprised if enough former Labour voters doubled down in the next election and they get another 5. 😟
Does anyone envisage the EU hardening its position after a no-deal?
I ask as my eldest will hopefully be starting uni in the autumn. She's an Irish passport holder so I had casually always thought that would make working in the EU a non issue. I'm a little concerned that the EU may change the rules to residence rather than citizenship given the large numbers of UK residents applying for Irish and other EU passports.
Mulling if she would be better studying at an Irish or UK university.
No - holding an irish passport will mean you get treated as an irish citizen
Cheers TJ.
She’s an Irish passport holder so I had casually always thought that would make working in the EU a non issue
Mulling if she would be better studying at an Irish or UK university.
Is she looking at working outside the UK as part of a year abroad coordinated by the Uni? If so, in practical terms (having asked a few people involved in organising this stuff for Unis), far more is open to Irish Unis for the 2020/21 year, never mind in future, so she’d probably be better off there.
She’s an Irish passport holder so I had casually always thought that would make working in the EU a non issue.
Working may be fine but it may be concern that reciprocal health care is normal country of residence based so Irish citizenship won’t help on that.
Having both passports will help her employment wise though… in many ways she’ll have an advantage employment wise that she didn’t have before (or looking at it the other way around, that we all had before, but she isn’t losing) if looking to work somewhere other than Europe.
Oh, Christ! Gove is babbling away in parliament. We've got yet another 3 word Brexit slogan
Let's get going!
I wish he ****ing would!
To summarise what he's saying:
Everything we promised you definitely wouldn't be happening, now is. Everything we promised you would continue uninterrupted and unchanged, now isn't.
Clear?
Makes you wonder why Boris would come out with something controversial and headline grabbing about face masks on such an important day in the evolution of Brexit. Surely he'd want that triumph given the full attention of the national media and not have it sidelined by an argument over what to wear in Waitrose?
Arguing with someone on the internet who said he voted for Brexit so we could have control over our interest rates and laws, when challenged he admitted we did have control over our own interest rates and laws but we had to fight to get them. Also he seems to think that the EU are going to offer us a better import/export trade deal than we have now.
I know don't argue with people but I honestly don't get the level of denial and stupidity inherent in almost every leave voter.
Mandatory reading of 1984 by everyone over 60 …
Let’s get going… in Newspeak means… we’re doing everything we can to stop you going… including all the things we said we wouldn’t… you’d better act quick to minimise the disruption to you… we don’t know what that action could be… ask a customs facilitator, insurance company, vet… and don’t count how many times the word “may” still appears in any document we issue… we keep them in to taunt the previous PM, and her talk of frictionless trade and reciprocal deals on health and security… we want to see her squirm as we burn down everything.
Prepare for your irony filter to explode.
Brexiteer Tory Damian Green, MP for a constituency that voted massively for Brexit is complaining that all the new, previously unneccessary, border infrastructure now being added in his constituency will turn it into a lorry park
https://twitter.com/KentishExpress/status/1281913410960138240?s=20
You really couldn't make it up
Richard Tice on Radio4 talking up British kids picking fruit and veg... because they won't have to pay the farmers to live on site the pay will effectively be more... jobs for thousands of young people who can't get work... but where does he think they all live... ?
In 4 years time, none of the present Tory cabinet will still be ministers.
If this goes the way I think it will, I wouldn't bet on >50% of them still living in the UK. And none of their nest eggs will be anywhere near the reach of any UK financial jurisdiction.
The money's gone and there is no way they will risk any of their ill-gotten gains being taxed to pay for all the covid handouts.
The heist of a lifetime.
Richard Tice on Radio4 talking up British kids picking fruit and veg
I've just heard that. The detachment from reality of these clowns is so total, its terrifying.
He seriously thinks that all the people who've lost their jobs in all the industries that have been devastated by Covid are all just going to go and pick fruit in Norfolk instead
Unbelievable! No logistics issues you can envisage there then, Richard?
binners
He seriously thinks that all the people who’ve lost their jobs in all the industries that have been devastated by Covid are all just going to go and pick fruit in Norfolk instead
Unbelievable! No logistics issues you can envisage there then, Richard?
Maybe this is the real reason they dualled the A11 from the Barton Mills roundabout a few years back!? It was forward planning for the streams of British work for British Kids in Brexit Britain! #makesyouthink
Considering there had just been an article on about all the thousands of redundancies expected for staff serving the airline industry in Luton.
I take it he'll be 'doing a Tebbit' advising them to 'get on their bikes'. Luton to Norfolk really isn't that far, is it? And like you said... with the A11 now being duel carriageway. Is there a cycle lane?
It wouldn't surprise me if this time next year they're doing exactly that. Telling unemployed people to move to Norfolk to pick fruit or lose their benefits
Richard Tice on Radio4 talking up British kids picking fruit and veg… because they won’t have to pay the farmers to live on site the pay will effectively be more… jobs for thousands of young people who can’t get work… but where does he think they all live… ?
Dotted around the villages of Lincolnshire of course, brexit supporting* mums n dads will love getting up at 3.30am and navigating the narrow country roads to drop their little uns off for their 5am start. It's what take back control is all about. And only has to last a week as the kids will soon get bored (sorry for the lazy generational stereotyping)
*Statistically more likely
They could all camp. It'd be like a sort of festival. They'd love it
They could all camp. It’d be like a sort of festival. They’d love it
Foodstock
Glastonberry
Monsters of Rocket
Cabbage Patch Kids.
Also heard Tice on R4 blathering on about fruit picking.
When asked about the impact of Patel's statement on the care sector he was completely incapable of commenting rationally; attempting to draw comparisons with 150 years of industrialisation - wtf?
This will be much more economically destructive than any of us could have imagined.
I hope someone is keeping a record of all the statements, promises and commitments made by johnson and the clown circus for comparison with the actuality; to include anticipated/forecast costs and the real out-turn.
Would hate to be in first half of my life staring into the economic abyss which I would have to endure for decades to come.
UK is a fading ex-colonial power but still had considerable soft power influence; are becoming the US' poodle.
Now...no influence, no status, increasingly seen as a non-entity in most regards with intelligence gathering being a notable exception.
"Let's get going"
Means "when you have to work yourself to a standstill to get your employer out of the shit post-covid (and your oppo has been made redundant but there is still as much work to do) then get used to it because it will have to continue indefinitely due to the totally unnecessary bollocks that is Brexit".
"But I'm alright Jack because I'm being bonussed on this by my future employers".
They're going to use 'getting the economy back on its feet post-covid' as a catch-all for dismantling standards, protections and workers' rights. Their hope is that the populace is too busy fighting like rats in a sack for the decreasing number of jobs to notice the actual 'why' of that is happening.
UK is a fading ex-colonial power but still had considerable soft power influence
Yep, and the key to it was to insulate ourselves from full-world market influences by being in 'clubs' like the EU - seeking to keep standards up and avoid a race to the bottom against countries that have populations who will work for far less because they have to.
Does anyone envisage the EU hardening its position after a no-deal?
Yes, after much provocation, they'll have to.
Remember that after 31st Dec this bunch of clowns have less and less room for manoeuvre, so they will start to take the piss. I reckon they'll use the Irish Republic like Khrushchev bragged about using West Berlin as the 'testicles' of the west. "When I want something I just squeeze" type of thing.
There'll be issues all over, smuggling, chaos at ports and they're going to try to make out that EU intransigence is to blame.
Eventually the rabble will make us so impossible to deal with that the EU will just say "oh just piss off then".
Barnier is constantly ratcheting up his willingness to publicly show disdain for the UK. He has to, he has to look after the interests of the EU. We're the ones who kicked our friends in the balls.
The EU will now begin to treat the UK like a piece of shit on the sole of their shoe; something to get rid of quickly and without ceremony but the smell will linger for a while.
Does anyone envisage the EU hardening its position after a no-deal?
It’s already happening. They’ve had enough of our shit. And who can blame them.
They know that this lot want to establish the UK as a tax haven off the shores of the EU and drive down costs by jettisoning all EU. legislation to create a filthy, polluting, unregulated sweatshop to undercut its neighbours
Why the hell should they help us do that?
There will be zero concessions from the EU
The only hope we’ve got is that Boris, spineless bastard that he is, will bottle it (again) and fold (again) at the eleventh hour and accept regulatory alignment (while letting him call it something else) as a price for access to the single market
Otherwise we are well and truly ****ed!
The only hope we’ve got is that Boris, spineless bastard that he is, will bottle it (again) and fold (again) at the eleventh hour and accept regulatory alignment (while letting him call it something else) as a price for access to the single market
That's not what the sharks are paying them to deliver, though.
Any hint of regulatory alignment and bang go their post-politics lives of luxury.
I know it’s probably wishful thinking on my behalf but what might save us is Johnson’s ridiculous vanity and narcissism.
He’s never believed in Brexit. It was just a means to an end. He knows what damage a no deal Brexit will do.
Does he want to go down as the PM who totally ****ed the UK economy? Seeing as he imagines himself as Winston Churchill?
So his vanity and egotism is, somewhat ironically (as it’s what got us into this mess in the first place), our only hope.
The only hope we’ve got is that Boris, spineless bastard that he is, will bottle it (again) and fold (again) at the eleventh hour and accept regulatory alignment (while letting him call it something else) as a price for access to the single market
Brexit is now set in law, only a parliamentary reprieve will call it off and Boris, because he's so spineless, will never do that.
I remained hopeful that he'd call for an extension due to Covid but actually Covid and the associated wrecking of the economy in advance of Brexit (as well as the complete distraction that it's provided) has actually given added impetus to it all.
Anyway, Boris isn't in charge, it's Dominic Cummings and the Russian paymasters.
Does he want to go down as the PM who totally ****ed the UK economy? Seeing as he imagines himself as Winston Churchill?
Any and all damage to the economy can be blamed on Covid. Also the "bounceback" and the "rebuild" can be used as an excuse to rip up all the environmental protections, workers rights and checks/balances in the name of getting the economy going again.
When Boris said “**** business!” He really did mean it, didn’t he?
The whole of Kent is just going to be one enormous lorry park on January 1st
Absolutely. This is my favourite though, 'customs declarations are complicated'.
How we have fallen from 'easiest deal in history'.
https://twitter.com/MattGarrahan/status/1282764371869958146
I know it’s probably wishful thinking on my behalf but what might save us is Johnson’s ridiculous vanity and narcissism.
He’s never believed in Brexit. It was just a means to an end. He knows what damage a no deal Brexit will do.
Does he want to go down as the PM who totally ****ed the UK economy? Seeing as he imagines himself as Winston Churchill?
So his vanity and egotism is, somewhat ironically (as it’s what got us into this mess in the first place), our only hope.
He signed the contract. He knows what is up for grabs. It is too late.
Johnson, fat, oafish, ****less, lazy pillock that he is, didn't expect to bloody win. The muppet.
He wanted a narrow loss, so he could get the leadership as a 'People's Champion' who could bang the nationalist drum with a safety net of not actually having to do anything.
But he will have known who he was getting into bed with. Winning the referendum wasn't what he wanted, but there are no actual consequences for him anyway, so well.......who gives a shit?
dannyh
SubscriberHe signed the contract.
To be fair though, this is Boris Johnson, unless it was signed in his own blood on the skin of Dominic Cummings it doesn't count for a thing
To be fair though, this is Boris Johnson, unless it was signed in his own blood on the skin of Dominic Cummings it doesn’t count for a thing
Serious people a layer or two down, though.
It is the same throughout history when it comes to organised wrongdoing. Don't focus on the functionaries, don't focus on the ones who go around doing the enforcing. Concentrate on the ones raking in the cash.
When even a Brexiteer dimwit like Liz Truss is saying ‘hang on a minute chaps, this ‘no deal’ thing might actually not be that great an idea’ you know that we really are ****ed
Dom will now sack her for pointing out the emperors new clothes, obviously
https://twitter.com/richardgcorbett/status/1282072960170364929?s=21
[strong]binners[/strong] wrote:
The whole of Kent is just going to be one enormous lorry park on January 1st
currently trending on Twitter as #FarageGarage 🙂
Make them own it.
I remained hopeful that he’d call for an extension due to Covid but actually Covid and the associated wrecking of the economy in advance of Brexit
Don’t think that was going to ever happen, I think Boris’s strategy is to run The clock down and piece together a last minute deal, his own side won’t have enough time to see what he’s agreed to and will have To sell it as a great victory.(Repackaged transition anyone with extra frills).
You'd think this would be coming straight from the pages of a satirical website but no, it's The Guardian and it's all depressingly true.
together a last minute deal
There's no last minute deal. Withdrawal Agreement is signed, deadline for extension has passed. We are now negotiating an FTA as a third country.
Life comes at you fast, as the saying goes.
As a country, we are definitely oven ready now. Utterly plucked with a lemon shoved where the sun don't shine.
Will the gammons ever admit that all the talk of frictionless trade was always a blatant fallacy and that they were conned? Guess not, it will still be 'remoaners' fault somehow.
Johnson, fat, oafish, ****less, lazy pillock that he is, didn’t expect to bloody win. The muppet.
He wanted a narrow loss, so he could get the leadership as a ‘People’s Champion’ who could bang the nationalist drum with a safety net of not actually having to do anything.
Absolutely bang on! We're in this mess because that clown couldn't even get that right.
That look on his face and his opportunist partner-in-crime in the press conference the next morning said it all. While the Faragists were all going mental, waving their little flags and popping champagne corks, those looks said...
Oh shit!
^^^^^
Yep, they realised at this point that they couldn't even trust the 'great' british public to narrowly lose something.
What an epic fail this whole thing has been from start to finish.
In another lovely bit of irony (it would be funny if it was happening to someone else) the Faragists are beginning to realise they were sold a pup whilst De Pfeffel gets his shot as playing Churchill for a bit and not having to suffer any consequences.
The faragists are beginning to realise they're not getting what they wanted. This is because Brexit was always sold as what it is not, not what it could be. Not in Europe. Not under the yoke of the EU. Not.
Unfortunately the only way to deliver that is make pretty much everything else also 'not'. Not successful, not what anyone wants, unless you happen to already be very well off, thank you, and can put all your money outside this mess until the dust settles, then come back in and buy everything for peanuts.
Have the Leicester garment sweatshops given us a glimpse of the future - as envisaged by johnson and gove, his polyp.
Obviously Leicester is an extreme case but that is the direction we have to head to set ourselves apart from Europe/European laws/working practices
Its the only way it can work.
The only business model that makes any sense post-Brexit will be to become a satallite/subservient bitch of the US. So we jettison environmental standards, workers' rights, food standards, the welfare state, and universal healthcare to allow huge tax cuts for the rich which will turn us into an offshore tax haven, just with shit weather.
It's worth listening to what Gove says and assume the actual intention is the polar opposite of what that slimy little sock-puppet states.
He's said all along that Brexit will allow us to build a high skill/high wage economy, and that freedom from EU regulations will allow us to increase our food standards and environmental controls
So you can take it as read that none of that will be happening. The reverse of it most definitely will
The only business model that makes any sense post-Brexit will be to become a satallite/subservient bitch of the US. So we jettison environmental standards, workers’ rights, food standards, the welfare state, and universal healthcare to allow huge tax cuts for the rich which will turn us into an offshore tax haven, just with shit weather.
There was a documentary on this exact outcome on TV recently.
It was called The Hunger Games...
Have the Leicester garment sweatshops given us a glimpse of the future – as envisaged by johnson and gove, his polyp.
The Leicester garment sweatshops are already an illustration of extremely dodgy working practices and borderline bonded labour being legitimised.
15-20 years ago the 'underground' garment manufacturing in Leicester was renowned for producing knock-offs of designer label clothes - pretty much 100% illegal counterfeiting. Now they have been exposed by covid, it transpires they are making intentionally labelled garments for 'kosher' brands. Brands that the bigger stockists have felt the need to distance themselves from. No covid, no exposure. They would have continued producing over the counter rather than under the counter garments and hardly anyone would say a thing.
But as a working model of post-Brexit britain I think we will see some of those practices become widespread.
The working practices in Leicester will come as no surprise to anyone who's read No Logo
And hand-in-hand with those working practices always go what used to referred to as 'Export Processing Zones', now rebranded as 'Freeports'
The 'Freeports' championed by Gove and co as the saviors of our economy were once the exclusive reserve of such delightful regimes as Burma's military dictatorship
Rishi Sunak reportedly planning to open bidding for towns, cities and regions to become designated zones where UK taxes and tariffs will not apply
They're basically setting up a tax-dodging infrastructure for international corporations to take advantage of.
In other places it's been used as the thin end of the wedge too. Firstly tax and tariffs don't apply within these zones, the next thing you know all manner of other things become exempt too... workers rights, union recognition, environmental controls. That sort of thing.
I can't imagine why this shower is so keen on promoting them, can you?
If you've not read No Logo then it's worth a read. Just so you know where we're headed
I may have posted this back in 2016 but it’s worth repeating if only for the prophetic insight:
‘Heartland’ by Matt Johnson/The The (Some Bizarre/Epic Records 1986
Beneath the old iron bridges, across the Victorian parks
And all the frightened people running home before dark
Past the Saturday morning cinema that lies crumbling to the ground
And the piss stinking shopping center in the new side of town
I've come to smell the seasons change and watch the city
As the sun goes down again
Here comes another winter of long shadows and high hopes
Here comes another winter waitin' for utopia
Waitin' for hell to freeze over
This is the land where nothing changes
The land of red buses and blue blooded babies
This is the place, where pensioners are raped
And the hearts are being cut from the welfare state
Let the poor drink the milk while the rich eat the honey
Let the bums count their blessings while they count the money
So many people can't express what's on their minds
Nobody knows them and nobody ever will
Until their backs are broken and their dreams are stolen
And they can't get what they want then they're gonna get angry
Well it ain't written in the papers, but it's written on the walls
The way this country is divided to fall
So the cranes are moving on the skyline
Trying to knock down this town
But the stains on the heartland, can never be removed
From this country that's sick, sad, and confused
Here comes another winter of long shadows and high hopes
Here comes another winter waitin' for utopia
Waitin' for hell to freeze over
The ammunition's being passed and the lords been praised
But the wars on the televisions will never be explained
All the bankers gettin' sweaty beneath their white collars
As the pound in our pocket turns into a dollar
This is the 51st state of the U.S.A.
This is the 51st state of the U.S.A.
This is the 51st state of the U.S.A.
2 years ago I did ask my most Brexity chum (he almost worships Farage, even copies his emphasis and speaking style, and is obsessed with immigrants and ‘remoaners’ whom he literally sees as ‘traitors‘ to the country) what he thought about what I saw as the UK becoming more aligned with US policy/politics and the attendant selloffs. He said (paraphrase) ‘Better that than all these unelected EU officials and ****ing immigrants, so it sounds alright to me’
He’s not lived in the USA. Or ever had to face selling his home because he or his loved ones got sick. Of course. Neither does he appreciate that two of his closest-friends had to do just that (but that’s the total narcissism/short-sightedness/lack of empathy involved in such a cult-mentality?)
So where to for SS England/Britain? Only the apathy, confusion, horrified resignation and sheer dumbfoundedness of the electorate/crew remains. With such depleted skills a last-minute revolution/tack around the approaching iceberg is not on the cards because ( to further torture the nautical analogy)... that ship has sailed and anyway the crew are now either drunk or asleep or else watching it unfold slow-motion in Twittervision as infotainment.
Even if there wasn’t a nasty bug/smokescreen going around I’m pretty sure the excuses would still be ‘blame it on the EU, foreigners and remoaners‘ even as the ship goes down.
And then you won’t see those ****ers for dust, as the prime-movers all had their personal lifeboats and havens all sorted. Even as they told us remoaners ‘if you don’t like it, then leave’.
Believe me, I would, in a heartbeat but someone seems to have burned all the bridges. ‘Keep calm and carrion’
Ah… Minford on Newsnight sounding like he has not a clue how business and international trade works… it’s like 2016 again.
Minford was proper bonkers
Apparently the £7bn annual cost of all the new customs red tape won't happen because WTO rules say you don't have to pay extra costs !?!?!
I thought Patrick Minford died years ago - wrong.
Minford was proper bonkers
Apparently the £7bn annual cost of all the new customs red tape won’t happen because WTO rules say you don’t have to pay extra costs !?!?!
We're BRITAIN, and we'll pay what we bloody well want to, which is NOTHING - traitor remoaner.
We’re BRITAIN, and we’ll pay what we bloody well want to, which is NOTHING – traitor remoaner.
We don't have to pay for anything we don't want to. But then nor can we expect to have the benefits.
That some oaf is now going on Newsnight and talking this kind of shit about the WTO (which was the 'oh no, my god, we will not end up there' option about 12 months ago but now seems to be the 'go-to option' for a thrusting modern britain) has a neat symmetry to it.
Could we use the correct title please? We're heading for an 'Australian Style' Deal. Not 'No Deal'. Not a 'Crash Out'. Its an 'Australian Style' Deal.
I'm sure that before long we'll have a three word slogan to trumpet its virtues.
A spokesman for the Chinese government has just been on Radio 4 this morning, stating the bleeding obvious regarding the repercussions of our rejection of Warwai.
He described the UK (correctly) as now being a second-tier European nation, outside the EU, and that we have now completely subjegated our foreign policy to the Trump White House
Are we levelling up on an oven-ready Australian style deal?
Are we levelling up on an oven-ready Australian style deal?
"You Little Ripper"?
The cost of customs
These costs – just as regards customs declarations, before any other costs are considered – will amount to £7 billion a year (£) to UK businesses trading with the EU, rising to £13 billion (£) when EU businesses trading with the UK are included. It’s worth reflecting on these figures. They compare to the approximately £9 billion net contribution the UK made to the EU in 2018. It’s not a one-off, but a recurring annual cost. And, to repeat, it exists whether or not there is a trade deal – it is nothing to do with any tariffs that may be levied or any other trade barriers that may arise.
i particularly like:
The slogan for the information campaign is ‘Let’s Get Going’, which some businesses might reasonably take as a suggestion to relocate abroad while there’s still time.
but we can't have an Australia deal as that involves replicating agreements that exist between Australia and the EU. What we are heading for is "Australia -"
Ahh but they added the term ‘style‘
I do admire who came up with that ‘Australian Style’ Deal phrase,it’s just such a great piss take, rebranding no-deal so it sounds like they’ve actually done something as opposed to wasting 4 years.
Brexits just a jolly jape.
Let’s Get Going 🙂
In case it hasn't been mentioned the plan Is to scrap the low value exemption on imports.
So anything you buy will have VAT, duty and and handling fee applied. The days of buying tyres at sensible tyres from Germany are coming to an end. You can still do it but prepare for stupid prices. How long till the importers ramp prices because they can?