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The new import checks are only needed if we dont recognise eu standards so an incoming government could avoid them.iirc
They also start in April, and the election won’t be before then. If Labour have time travellers in their midst, they need to get busy. Probably need to start at least 6 months ago, if not in 2019, if they want the agreements in place. No, you can’t just undo things by wishing the UK hadn’t done them.
The EU required that we provided clear labelling, that’s all. I bought a 568ml bottle of milk this morning.
Incorrect. Specified quantities act.
https://www.gov.uk/weights-measures-and-packaging-the-law/specified-quantities
Yeah, milk, or whatever, isn’t the same as strong alcohol. And still isn’t. More serving sizes for wine might get added, for headlines, but will still be controlled. Not really an EU thing.
Incorrect. Specified quantities act.
I didn't know that, thanks for the correction. It's still pretty academic though:
Packaged in bottles, boxes or similar
Volume by millilitre (ml)
Still wine 100, 187, 250, 375, 500, 750, 1000, 1500
The point there being, I assume, to ensure that consumers understand what they're buying (so you couldn't buy a 70cl bottle of wine thinking it was a regular 75cl).
Kelvin - I thought this one was fairly easy to deal with - basically just stating that we are not going to diverge from EU standards. Its already been delayed 3 times IIRC? I'll bet its not in place for april as we have not got the staff or infrastructure
^^Decent chance it will be delayed again as the last thing the Tories want is shop shortages as they head into an election. I bet they aren't even close to having the staff etc ready for such checks as tj says.
If it comes in on the date currently planned, the impact won’t be felt ‘till after a 2nd May vote, and stocks already in the UK are burnt through. If they delay the election ‘till the Autumn, they’ll delay the introduction ‘till the autumn. And, no TJ, it’s not easy to reverse once in place, it needs the T&CA seriously upgrading if we’re to comply with WTO rules and fulfil our obligation to other partners. It’s not a unilateral decision to remove checks (well, not without serious implications). Trade is based on multiple interacting rules based systems. Something I hope is now more understood.
TBH you could always buy a four pack of babyCham 🙂
Does this legitimise the manky mixing of metric and imperial for bike wheels / tyres / frames etc?
I've pondered and puzzled since WCA's post several months ago.
Asked family, friends, neighbours, random strangers.
Answer came there none.
It's possible I/we aren't sufficiently perceptive to see and understand the tremendous benefits which have, undoubtedly, accrued to the UK.
The problem is all mine.
Mouth tobacco products are back. Previously banned in the EU, Britain has introduced them now they are out.
Any links to the change in law? Pretty sure snus etc is still illegal to buy/sell in UK, but legal to use, just as before we left the EU. Unlike Sweden (in) and Norway (out) where sales are legal (but controlled). Imports are different (confusingly) but always have been.
Chewing tobacco has been in shops for some time now. I hadn't realised that it was ever restricted, just not overly popular in the UK.
Yet more crap to avoid treading/riding in along with the discarded fag ends, gum, dog eggs and grob.
Well… I’ve found no change in law… the same “mouth tobacco” products are still banned from sale (snus) or restricted (chewing tobacco). We copy and pasted the “EU laws” across.
739 posts to date and no real, serious and tangible benefit.
Give it time...
I've discovered a brexit benefit!
Less/fewer English chavs are allowed to go to Spain!
Invalid or damaged passports are no longer allowed!
**** off back to butlins.
There was a very clear example of a Brexit Benefit just a couple of days ago - as of 1 Jan 2024 the UK has joined the EU Horizon program.
There's no way we could have done that if we hadn't left it in 2020.
So stop your whinging and get busy, those union jacks won't wave themselves.
I would also like to announce that I and a colleague are today confirmed as consultants on a couple of Erasmus+ projects, worth about £9k over the next couple of years.
All this would not have been possible before as we were partners for Erasmus+ programme. We were suffering having to deal with a full time member of staff to manage, about £200k of income annually and about 500 teachers taking part or learning from the UK.
Oh goody.
The only benefit I've seen so far was on our flight to Spain this Christmas, we were almost last to leave the plane, when we arrived at the passport checkpoint the queue was huge, I thought: "This is no less than a 90 min queue", then a lady asks: "Españoles? please come this way", the EU queue was non existant.
When we came back from Geneva into Edinburgh last year the European passport queue was tiny so cleared way before the UK passport one. I shall make sure both options are at the top of my bag for a quick decision.
This is so funny.. it's an hour long and there are some boring bits, but there are some real gems in there...
UK is no longer the most obese country in the EU.....!
Hopefully the Dup will get wiped out at the GE after their pathetic actions in refusing to power share.
Here's the full article which the Observer link is based on... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/04/brexit-trade-perks-firms-business-department-leaving-eu-companies
Are you ready?
Brexit benefits here we come!
Among the top achievements listed were booming sales of honey to Saudi Arabia, surging pet food exports to India, a rush of UK pork, worth £18m over five years, heading into Mexico’s restaurants and homes, and UK beauty products sales leaping in China, thanks to barriers being smashed
The full article includes comment from sector specialists who are openly questioning of even the miniscule benefits touted by badenoch - basically saying...bollocks.
Brexit benefits? My arse.
Booming, surging, a rush of, leaping...all sound fantastic but even 100% growth of not very much is still not very much.
Year-on-year reductions in GDP is the truth of it; can't see many people queueing up to say...yep, I'll have a slice of that but that's exactly what too many people did.
I can get Bisto and salad cream in the IGA. Had a Wispa too, but they are tiny now.
Probably the only Brexit benefit is the Tories wanted it and got it then made a pigs ear of it (to be fair it was always going to be a pigs ear) and hopefully the electorate will thank them accordingly over the next few elections (plus with the added side show of the tories infighting over their personal views of their perfect Brexit)
The only Brexit benefit the brexiteers ever cared about was to avoid anti tax avoidance legislation coming into the Uk. That has succeeded very well so all those wh9 can avoid tax cans till carry on as before
Brexiteer Bruce Dickinson
Wait, what?
Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson? That Bruce Dickinson?
The only Brexit benefit the brexiteers ever cared about was to avoid anti tax avoidance legislation coming into the Uk.
Aside from the puppet-masters, the only Brexit benefit the brexiteers ever cared about was fewer brown people.
Which is exactly the opposite of what Brexit actually brought........
Unintended consequences are a bitch, eh?
And exactly what we predicted would happen.
The uncomfortable truth in Brexiteerland is that the UK needs immigration. If we restrict immigration from one source then ipso facto it has to increase from another. This surely should have been blindingly obvious.
I used to live in an area with a large Asian population, if anything white people were a minority. They were great. Aside from a handful of teenage lads who thought they were gangstas from the hood there was a really strong sense of community, of neighbourly spirit and I miss it. But if your end goal was "fewer ****stanis" then a vote for Leave was a truly stupid choice from the outset.
Hey, wait. Is that the first real, actual brexit benefit?
It's well documented that ladies and gentlemen (and others) of a swarthy complexion are over-represented in the NHS. Does that mean more Indian doctors, more ****stani nurses, more Bangladeshi consultants, more Nepalese porters, etc etc?