Another new Brexit thread

[BobKowalski]

Faisal Islam with the snark as Johnson Senior, who announced he is ‘now a leaver’, is set to claim French nationality. I guess when he said he was a leaver he meant it literally!

‘SJ was well known pro-EU campaigner, even on Cameron’s bus day before EUref.. but the PM’s Dad announcing on French radio he’s going to claim French citizenship/EU passport on day those rights stop for rest UK as result of his son’s deal is a... plot twist‘

Brexit : le père de Boris Johnson souhaite obtenir la nationalité française

Si Boris Johnson a toujours été un partisan du Brexit, ce n'est pas le cas de son père, qui veut obtenir la nationalité française.

www.rtl.fr

 

[smudgedj]

This tickled me :)

‘Jair Bolsonaro, President of Brazil, has been named the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project’s 2020 Person of the Year for his role in promoting organized crime and corruption.’ @RAzevedo

Seems legit.

Enjoy tonight raising your glass to the King o'er the water, and looking forward to rejoining.

 

[BobKowalski]

US increases tariffs on EU products over aircraft subsidies dispute​

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ffs-on-eu-products-hit-in-airbus-boeing-fight

Even A320 wings made in the U.K. -- which isn’t targeted by the new measures -- are completed in Germany.

complete them in the UK airbus you know it makes sense.

Or lobby the Biden admin to ease them. Biden wants to re-engage with the EU and has already prioritised links with Paris and Berlin over London.

A lot of the Biden team are from the Obama days and they haven’t forgotten or forgiven Johnson’s ’part Kenyan‘ dig.

 

[blue for life]

Surely a rejoin movement is legitimate? Leavers got their way after 40 years of campaigning. So why not?

 

[Vic]

Govt statement on Overseas Territories. Good news on Lobsters. Gibraltar ‘is complicated’ - although it will likely fall under EU remit. Falklands have 6% tariff on squid which will need ‘support’.

This section was a bit ‘whiny’ for a Govt statement.

‘Despite trying everything we could, the European Commission refused to negotiate a future relationship that included the OTs. We sought to change the Commission’s position, but it declined to engage.‘

UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement: UK statement on Overseas Territories

The UK government is providing extra support and reassurance to Overseas Territories excluded from the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement.

www.gov.uk

I thought Gib had already done a side-deal with Spain on cross-border stuff.

 

[smudgedj]

Or lobby the Biden admin to ease them. Biden wants to re-engage with the EU and has already prioritised links with Paris and Berlin over London.

A lot of the Biden team are from the Obama days and they haven’t forgotten or forgiven Johnson’s ’part Kenyan‘ dig.

Good, then he shouldn’t come asking for British help in his new middle east war.
Brexit the gift that keeps giving.

 

[smudgedj]

Surely a rejoin movement is legitimate? Leavers got their way after 40 years of campaigning. So why not?

Of course. Should be interesting watching them explain how giving up sovereignty, control of borders, laws and economics will benefit us. Not forgetting, of course, that new members are obliged to give up their currency (and therefore any control of the economy) and join the success that is the €

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

I thought Gib had already done a side-deal with Spain on cross-border stuff.

Barry or Robin?

 

[Saddleworth2]

Not especially, I think a lot will hinge on the equivalency discussions with the EU next year. EU regulators were demanding more information from City institutions before even sitting down to discuss equivalency and market access to Europe.

Like everyone else, UK businesses will be jumping through administrative hoops in order to get the market access they need. FT running with a Seafood business that now has to pay £95 per consignment as well the additional paperwork. Replicate that up and down the country and you realise we are still ‘paying’ for Single Market access, it’s just that the payment now falls on individual businesses rather than the Govt.

There’s no such thing as a free lunch.

Especially if its a prawn sandwich.

 

[Scottyboi]

Surely a rejoin movement is legitimate? Leavers got their way after 40 years of campaigning. So why not?

I think everyone is that fed up of Brexit no one will want to hear about it again.