Political relations between UK-EU

[blueparrot]

Much as we are awash with the problems of UK fish and meat exporters, most of it is down to leaving the EU Single Market and Customs Union, which there was plenty of warnings about beforehand and as neither industry or any industry pushed to remain in either the SM and CU, they kind of made their bed and all that.

Varadkar is right in what he has said to the Irish haulage industry also joining in on complaints...that there is no fix, no magic bullets. It’s a consequence of the UK leaving the SM and CU. Just got to knuckle under and adapt, or find alternative supply chains. “There’s no workaround". @FT

Apart for crawling back asking to rejoin the sm, cu. Question is only how long can the government resist, or the next government.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Apart for crawling back asking to rejoin the sm, cu. Question is only how long can the government resist, or the next government.

You could. But would the fish be happy.

 

[jay_mcfc]

Hope no one is expecting a parcel from an EU country any time soon. You might be in for a surprise £££

 

[blueish swede]

Trade takes the easiest route to markets.

‘Up to 40% of fish sold at a Danish auction so far this year are believed to have come from Scottish boats circumventing UK disruption. Industry figures fear it might be the start of a permanent shift, not just a temporary work around’

Up To 40% Of Fish Sold At A Danish Auction This Year Is from Scottish Boats Avoiding Brexit Chaos In The UK

Up to 40% of fish sold at an auction in Denmark so far in 2021 have come from Scottish boats, according to a a leading figure in the Nordic logisti...

www.politicshome.com

Esbjerg have already built a new terminal and increased capacity by 50% to accomodate the expected increase in happy British fish being landed. But they somehow got wind of Brexit happening a few years ago.

 

[Rascal]

Much as we are awash with the problems of UK fish and meat exporters, most of it is down to leaving the EU Single Market and Customs Union, which there was plenty of warnings about beforehand and as neither industry or any industry pushed to remain in either the SM and CU, they kind of made their bed and all that.

You are still blaming Brexit rather than the Government who has made a mess of Brexit.

It really is no wonder the Tories keep getting elected, you are letting them off the hook and blaming the people who voted in good faith.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

You are still blaming Brexit rather than the Government who has made a mess of Brexit.

It really is no wonder the Tories keep getting elected, you are letting them off the hook and blaming the people who voted in good faith.

If you understand anything about business and trade it was obvious Brexit could never be anything but an eye-wateringly expensive mess. Where I agree with you is that the current government have made an even bigger mess of it that it could be, but the reason is, the tories who could have at least made a reasonable attempt to mitigate the damage were all either hounded out or left the Conservative party between 2017-19. Every single sensible Tory was anti-Brexit, and that’s the problem.

The main reason they keep getting elected is that Labour keep electing shit leaders.

 

[blueparrot]

You could. But would the fish be happy.

Don’t know are Northern Irelands fish happy in the sm?

 

[west didsblue]

If you understand anything about business and trade it was obvious Brexit could never be anything but an eye-wateringly expensive mess. Where I agree with you is that the current government have made an even bigger mess of it that it could be, but the reason is, the tories who could have at least made a reasonable attempt to mitigate the damage were all either hounded out or left the Conservative party between 2017-19. Every single sensible Tory was anti-Brexit, and that’s the problem.

The main reason they keep getting elected is that Labour keep electing shit leaders.

The other problem would have been to make it as smooth as possible they would have had to spend a fortune on preparing properly and educating everyone about all the additional overhead rather than the half arsed rush job at the end, and more people might have cottoned on to the real costs ahead of the 2019 election. Even if they’d prepared properly it still would have been shit but not quite as bad.

 

[blueparrot]

You are still blaming Brexit rather than the Government who has made a mess of Brexit.

It really is no wonder the Tories keep getting elected, you are letting them off the hook and blaming the people who voted in good faith.

Brexit was a shit idea made worse than it needed to be by an idiotic government, it isn’t letting them off the hook.

 

[BobKowalski]

You are still blaming Brexit rather than the Government who has made a mess of Brexit.

It really is no wonder the Tories keep getting elected, you are letting them off the hook and blaming the people who voted in good faith.

Okay, I’ll explain it again, these issues are structural, they are caused by the UK leaving the EU Single Market and Customs Union, ie Brexit.

Some of these issues can be better managed, but you cannot eliminate them. We now operate a separate legal and regulatory area, rather than a under a shared one. This creates, trade, regulatory and legal barriers which are causing these issues.

Brexit is the problem, the incompetence is just an optional extra.