Political relations between UK-EU

[Vic]

The professional negotiator in action - those who hailed him as such need to hang their heads in shame - the man is a charlatan totally out of his depth - its never his fault is it?

Boris Johnson's Brexit chief blames Northern Ireland chaos on his predecessors

Tory Peer Lord Frost said the "inheritance" from the previous Tory Government was a "significant" part of the difficulty

www.mirror.co.uk

Even to a patsy question he rambled....

Lord Frost responded: "We intend to implement what we signed up to but it's the fact of implementation that's causing the problem."

 

[Vic]

Pathetic gesture politics from a govt who despises gesture politics

Home Office destroyed £8.6m worth of burgundy passports after Brexit

Britain reverted to the pre-EU colour of the flagship document in March last year as a 'symbol of our national identify'.

www.dailymail.co.uk

I'd have paid extra for my next one to be burgundy rather than boring black.

 

[bluethrunthru]

They don't like it up 'em they don't like it up 'em...........Rees Smug shown up

 

[Vic]

Today prog: Jack Ward from British Growers Association on not having the pickers, so anything not grade 1 may go unpicked.

 

[BobKowalski]

Not a fan of anecdotal evidence but I have noticed gaps appearing in supermarkets, nearest Sainsbury’s also closed the Deli and Fishmonger sections. Problem is whether that is Covid or Brexit related or a combination of the two or even other factors I have no idea.

But you don’t leave a Europe wide Single Market with its mesh of supply chains and easy access to labour without hitting problems.

 

[jaseirai]

Non-anecdotal news from the remainy economist.

Brexit has caused very few finance jobs to leave London

Early predictions of a flood of jobs disappearing have not been fulfilled

www.economist.com

Britain’s car industry is finding Brexit far less of a problem than expected

Dollops of government cash are a big part of the reason

www.economist.com

From a non-approved source no doubt but if it offends sensibilities I’ll summarise: do not buy meat sourced from the EU ever again.

Processed Animal Protein feed - what could possibly go wrong? - Briefings For Britain

While the NFU claims that the UK has world-class food standards, the Minister for Rural Affairs tells the House of Lords that we are already importing meat-fed Processed Animal Protein and so the UK should follow the EU and reintroduce it, despite the BSE disaster. But why not call the EU's...

www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk

 

[west didsblue]

Non-anecdotal news from the remainy economist.

Brexit has caused very few finance jobs to leave London

Early predictions of a flood of jobs disappearing have not been fulfilled

www.economist.com

Britain’s car industry is finding Brexit far less of a problem than expected

Dollops of government cash are a big part of the reason

www.economist.com

From a non-approved source no doubt but if it offends sensibilities I’ll summarise: do not buy meat sourced from the EU ever again.

Processed Animal Protein feed - what could possibly go wrong? - Briefings For Britain

While the NFU claims that the UK has world-class food standards, the Minister for Rural Affairs tells the House of Lords that we are already importing meat-fed Processed Animal Protein and so the UK should follow the EU and reintroduce it, despite the BSE disaster. But why not call the EU's...

www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk

I presume you're happy that the government is using dollops of your cash to subsidise an industry that never used to need it.
And whilst the net loss of finance jobs is not as bad as feared (yet), it hasn't stopped loads of businesses that used to pay UK tax change their jurisdiction to the EU with a consequent loss to the exchequer. The movement of trillions in assets out of London can't be seen as a huge Brexit benefit either.
As for your "briefings for Britain" article it didn't take long to work out that the author is fucking clueless.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

nearest Sainsbury’s also closed the Deli and Fishmonger sections

Not a brexit effect. They closed all deli and fishmongers counters across the whole chain due to reduced demand.

 

[bluethrunthru]

hey here's a novelty - a Tory minister lying.......oh wait no it isn't a novelty......

Liz Truss caught out over untrue Brexit claims over apples and trade

Liz Truss' untrue claims about apples exports to India and a trade deal with Norway don't stand up - no wonder she's so popular with...

www.theneweuropean.co.uk

 

[bluethrunthru]

more shocking news - not.....

Eight in 10 businesses believe Brexit will cause long-term hurt for UK economy

An exclusive poll for i shows that firms feel the Government had not done enough to support them through Brexit

inews.co.uk

 

[bluethrunthru]

Its not like they weren't warned - O h I see....this is project Fear? But its here.............

Brexit fishing deal ‘far away from sea of opportunity’, industry chief says

UK fisheries have been left high and dry by the post-Brexit trade deal agreement with the European Union, an industry body boss has said today.

www.cityam.com

Brexit: EU unlikely to throw doors open to UK financial services, says Bailey

Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, said on Tuesday he does not expect the EU to open the gates to UK financial services exports.

www.cityam.com

 

[BobKowalski]

Oh dear, someone needs to tell Frostie that if you put up an East/West trade border then some trade will naturally realign North/South. Are Tories taking stupid pills or are they born this way?

‘Lord Frost tells Lords Ctte that increased cross border trade in Ireland is ‘in many ways a problem’ & he doesn’t want to encourage more of it.’ @BBC

 

[bluethrunthru]

Oh dear, someone needs to tell Frostie that if you put up an East/West trade border then some trade will naturally realign North/South. Are Tories taking stupid pills or are they born this way?

‘Lord Frost tells Lords Ctte that increased cross border trade in Ireland is ‘in many ways a problem’ & he doesn’t want to encourage more of it.’ @BBC

They took everyone for idiots backed themselves into a corner and now can't believe they have to take the blame for their own lies and ineptitude.

Either that or they are just dumb fucks. Either suits as an explanation.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Can somebody tell me where we’ve made actual gains? From reading, we’re losing out in the agriculture/horticulture sector, fishing, finance, distribution, live music industry, NI, etc, etc, and I’m just trying to figure out what is the end-game for the conservatives.

Is it a matter of EU regulations that were barring certain elements of the Conservative lobby groups plans to commercialising/privatising certain areas, such as health?

 

[west didsblue]

Can somebody tell me where we’ve made actual gains? From reading, we’re losing out in the agriculture/horticulture sector, fishing, finance, distribution, live music industry, NI, etc, etc, and I’m just trying to figure out what is the end-game for the conservatives.

Is it a matter of EU regulations that were barring certain elements of the Conservative lobby groups plans to commercialising/privatising certain areas, such as health?

Good luck with that. Some of us have been asking for 5 years and never once got a single tangible response. No shortage of abstract bollocks but nothing that can be quantified.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Can somebody tell me where we’ve made actual gains? From reading, we’re losing out in the agriculture/horticulture sector, fishing, finance, distribution, live music industry, NI, etc, etc, and I’m just trying to figure out what is the end-game for the conservatives.

Is it a matter of EU regulations that were barring certain elements of the Conservative lobby groups plans to commercialising/privatising certain areas, such as health?

control mate innit? Control - we have taken back control...............

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Can somebody tell me where we’ve made actual gains? From reading, we’re losing out in the agriculture/horticulture sector, fishing, finance, distribution, live music industry, NI, etc, etc, and I’m just trying to figure out what is the end-game for the conservatives.

Is it a matter of EU regulations that were barring certain elements of the Conservative lobby groups plans to commercialising/privatising certain areas, such as health?

We’ve gained a sensible, moderate, considered, honest government of Brexit supporters who have calmly guided us through the biggest worldwide crisis since the war.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

We’ve gained a sensible, moderate, considered, honest government of Brexit supporters who have calmly guided us through the biggest worldwide crisis since the war.

And we've had a pandemic ;)

 

[BlueHammer85]

Can somebody tell me where we’ve made actual gains? From reading, we’re losing out in the agriculture/horticulture sector, fishing, finance, distribution, live music industry, NI, etc, etc, and I’m just trying to figure out what is the end-game for the conservatives.

Is it a matter of EU regulations that were barring certain elements of the Conservative lobby groups plans to commercialising/privatising certain areas, such as health?

You’d think with absolutely everything pointing to absolute shit we’d be begging the EU to return … but there’s to many stubborn old gits and a half arsed country that don’t want to through ‘all that palaver again ‘

 

[journolud]

You’d think with absolutely everything pointing to absolute shit we’d be begging the EU to return … but there’s to many stubborn old gits and a half arsed country that don’t want to through ‘all that palaver again ‘

I don’t think there is the will just yet to push to rejoin and to be honest most people aren’t joining the dots about the agitation show that is Brexit, Covid is still exercising people’s attention