hands up if know you what your company is transitioning to and the changes it needs to be implementing…?
My employer is global and does a lot of R&D in the UK, so I imagine they're looking forward to being able to slash those costs and keep the skills in what might end up a low value economy.
can't see a link?
Don't forget that we are going to "take back control" so everything will be fine and dandy!
I assumed that the lack of the link was because the article doesn't actally exist.
It does exist, Cummings is just finishing it off and Johnson will publish it after the Russian Report has been released.
sorry forgot to post link
p.s. why does the forum log me out when i go to the last post of a converstation? makes posting really hard...
But BLUE FEKKIN PASSPORTS people.
https://twitter.com/jayrayner1/status/1270617688931434496
So as fish will be hard to come by the government are encouragning everyone to change. Next they'll push fodder beet and maize.
But BLUE FEKKIN PASSPORTS people.
I have ended up with one, its more black then blue!
Looks like it says EUROPRAM UNION! (I realise it doesn't, btw...)
Just great.
https://news.sky.com/story/brexit-uk-formally-confirms-to-eu-that-it-wont-extend-transition-period-12005296
I can't wait for the awesome trade deals to be announced. No doubt Boris will blame Corona virus for us not reaping the huge economic benefits...
The formal confirmation changes nothing. The door is stil open until 31/12 unless the EU shuts it and they won't.
Who knows there might be a revolution by then. Wishful thinking... .
The door is stil open until 31/12 unless the EU shuts it and they won’t.
It closes six months before that. To extend after the date that is laid down the in the withdrawal agreement requires a trade deal, with all that requires… votes in national parliaments etc.
Perhaps its yet again time to deluge local MPs, especially Conservative MPs, with emails about this issue?
This is the reality of the situation. They only need to brazen this out for another couple of weeks and they get what they've wanted all along. A no deal brexit.
https://twitter.com/michaelgove/status/1271398188621193222?s=20
This is old apparently but I have only just seen it. It is the only Brexit related thing that has made me smile recently (or at all thinking about it)
The US trade envoy not feeling the special relationship too much in the Congress last night........
Back when "we" were the poor man of Europe, the dirty man of Europe, we had a choice - stick with our current trading agreements and partners or shaft them and join the EU.
The generation that was shafted are still around. Farmers have long memories.
Back then we were a "significant market percentage" to some countries. We are not now.
This link perfectly describes what our new, "Take back control" "Let the lion cough" trade negotiation strategy will have to be: Linky
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MemberReferences ARM – Remember them? Sold by the pound to Japan’s SoftBank due to brexit.
Which they declared to be proof of how succesful and competitive Britain is on the world stage. Like patting yourself on the back for selling your car for a fiver, then the next day getting a taxi for a tenner.
The ARM thing made me sad, ‘they‘ bang on about How great GB companies are then flog them off to foreign buyers as soon as they get a whiff Of profit, the patriotism and pride that is stoked in the public never seems to extend to the owner's 🙂
Anyway a few yachts and Austin Powers jet will get us back on track.
Opting out of the EU’s data protection rules has turned Hoxton into the software capital of the world.
Silicon Valley best watch it's back.
What a clown.
It's uncanny just how accurate his 2016 vision for how the next few years would pan out is.
The problem is that the idiots peddling this preposterous nonsense are presently in government and galloping headlong towards a no deal Brexit
I see we are taking the same world beating approach to Brexit as we are to Covid.
Just ****ing wing it lads, it will all work out in the end.
The government outlined its proposals for the border with the EU in an 89-page consultation document circulated to the industry. The section setting out how lorries will navigate the new customs processes consists of a blank page.
It's not even surprising anymore, is it.
Again… no one is surprised…
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252485180/HMRC-yet-to-begin-building-UK-border-IT-system
The French have built and tested their IT system… it’s ready to go. And we haven’t even started building ours… we asked for Brexit, and then sat back and watched other countries prepare for it… so many examples of this over the last four wasted years.
From Kelvin's linked article:
"The French customs have tested their system. They’ve done it a couple of times and established that the data flow worked. The challenge is to make sure the lorries go where they’re told to go, but there are ways of achieving that. I am certain that the GVMS system will similarly be tested, but it needs to be built before it can be tested,” he said.
However, Reardon added that if “HMRC were to buy a licence for the French system, that would be a very simple thing to do and traders would like it”.
I laughed so hard a bit of wee came out.
I laughed so hard a bit of wee came out.
But we'll get mate's rates, yeah?
What with us being a member of......oh bugger, what are we a member of again? The League of Tinpot Populist States?
Have we done UK spaffing upto £500mill on it's own unworkable GPS system by investing in a failed US company?
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jun/26/satellite-experts-oneweb-investment-uk-galileo-brexit
Midnight last night was the deadline to extend transition.
So I guess that's it, were crashing out on 31st December with or without whatever deals are given to us. 😢
2020 hasn't been the best year ever but it's going to end on a real low note, even by the standards set so far!
Midnight last night was the deadline to extend transition.
So I guess that’s it, were crashing out on 31st December with
or without whatever deals are given to usno deal.
We are ****ed. The totally unnecessary economic damage on top of that caused by covid-19 is going to make this country a much worse place.
I foresee either real (and I mean real) civil unrest or, more likely, a totally cowed and subservient population taking out its frustrations on itself along predictable lines (race, class etc)
And all the while a rising kleptocracy as spiv developers get to run riot and outsourcing companies gut public services then hand the smoke-blackened shell back to the public purse. After creaming off a nice payout in the short term.
Next year is going to consist entirely of stony-faced, Brexiteer half-wirs government ministers staring straight into camera and beginning every statement with:
“unfortunately, we have no option but to....”
As they tear up the post-war settlement piece by piece. A lot of the things we presently take for granted as part of a civilised society will soon be gone once this lot are ‘free from the shackles of the EU’
Heading for United Ireland and independent Scotland. Next may holyrood election should be fun.
There's a long, ongoing (and possibly entirely made-up) thread here which is quite entertaining:
https://twitter.com/archer_rs/status/1277505330885386240
Saw that twitter thread yesterday, it's a gift that keeps on giving. Hoping for pictures on Thursday.
Mr Archer isn't being very helpful. I know people of various Non EU nationalities living in France and the general rule is that if you can afford it you can. If you can provide health insurance and proof of adequate resources to provide for yourself you'll almost certainly be given a long term visa:
https://france-visas.gouv.fr/fr_FR/web/france-visas/visa-de-long-sejour
Brexit means more paperwork, less rights and financial constraints but doesn't banish Mr Archers "friends" from France.
Well it does if they aren't rich, as you said at the beginning of your post. If it raises the money required to live in France then it is banishing those below that level.
Which was already the case after 3 months under EU rules.
Well it does if they aren’t rich
Indeed, and you don’t need to be “poor” to be excluded… the income thresholds are similar to ours.
Brexit screws all but the rich.
