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UK Politics reporter for Bloomberg News - jmayes9@bloomberg.net Author, Can You Run the Economy? @eburypublishing Sep '25

Sep 18, 2020, 5 tweets

🚨Play our Brexit game! 🚛

Will you end up in the lorry park? Or can you keep trade flowing?

Money is on the line... 1/

bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-…

Here’s the scenario. You run a car-parts manufacturing business in north England, exporting to the EU. Your biggest customer is in Germany 🇩🇪 🚗🚙🚗

They’re worried Brexit will disrupt your deliveries, but you say it’s going to be fine.

It’s time to keep your promise... 2/

It comes to late October. You get some very good news - the U.K. and EU have signed a free-trade deal!

Sigh of relief. Now you’ve got to make some decisions as the clock ticks down to the end of the transition period... ⏰ 3/

What prep do you need to do, if any? Do you need to hire a customs agent? Can you handle it yourself?

Over to you. Play along here, and try to stay out of the Brexit lorry park and evade French border officials 😏 4/ bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-…

With special thanks to @_jsdiamond for the beautiful graphics and constructing the game design 👏 ends/

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