Political relations between UK-EU

[Vic]

UK to allow gene editing of crops and animals.

 

[BobKowalski]

I think the point has got lost in the telling. The simple truth is that some of these frictions could have been eased by better planning and implementation. In effect that is what the Scottish Salmon producer accused the government of yesterday. He wasn’t railing against Brexit. He was simply asking for clarity of process so he and his delivery line could comply.

as I said to vic yesterday, take the piss all you like but despite all the additional frictions, this would have been better with a semi competent government planning and implementing the bloody thing properly.

Sure you can have better planning, but friction is friction, and managing friction will never be as good as eliminating the friction.

What we are trying to do is manage our economy through greater State management and planning, but under a Conservative Govt who will never commit enough resources to make it work anywhere near its optimal level.

But even at optimal levels it will never match the trading environment within the EU bloc meaning our overall industrial performance will degrade in comparison over time.

To compound this we signed a deal that maximises the EU strength in goods and largely neglected our strengths in services.

No one in Govt or even in opposition is going to admit any of this. Failures will be blamed on management of issues or the deal not been good enough or whatever, but no one will ever admit the fundamental flaw, namely that Brexit could never work, that economic and regulatory autonomy is impossible. Instead we will have to pretend that we can make a success of it because to do otherwise will mean admitting we got it wrong and people hate admitting they got it wrong.

 

[BobKowalski]

UK to allow gene editing of crops and animals.

You think we have difficulties exporting foodstuffs to the EU currently? Well, we can make it a lot worse :)

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Is it just you three in here now?

 

[journolud]

of course standards were always going to be maintained - mad as fuck - DDT and Agent Orange next?

Government to let farmers use bee-killing pesticide banned by EU

‘We need urgent action to restore the abundance of our insect populations, not broken promises that make the ecological crisis even worse,’ says Wildlife Trusts

www.independent.co.uk

Don’t worry one of the leave comedy crew will be along shortly with a pithy one liner to tell us why this is a Brexit bonus really

 

[west didsblue]

Is it just you three in here now?

Yes. Now fuck off.

 

[journolud]

UK to allow gene editing of crops and animals.

Link?

 

[journolud]

Is it just you three in here now?

Yes wonder where all the leavers are now that more and more emerges to suggest that Brexit is , well a bit shit. You’ll do I suppose, could you say something funny about bees? Or fish

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Yes. Now fuck off.

Sorry mate, just checking to see how you were. Still keeping the EU flag flying I see - that's the spirit.
I see there is the beginning of a rejoin movement starting among labour, so maybe hope lies in that direction.

 

[west didsblue]

Yes wonder where all the leavers are now that more and more emerges to suggest that Brexit is , well a bit shit. You’ll do I suppose, could you say something funny about bees? Or fish

..or something funny at all.
It would be a first.