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Edwin Hayward
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The way Brexit is unfolding, it's as if the passengers and crew of the Titanic decided to while away the hours before the fateful iceberg encounter by smashing holes in the ship.
Go through the Partnership Pack intently. There's page after page of new red tape, costs and burdens on businesses. List after list of things we won't have any more after no-deal Brexit. Like reading a full autopsy report for the UK *before* we're dead.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
And then there's Liam Fox and his department. It has now emerged that they will be unable to roll over the vast majority of existing trade deals, EVEN IF THERESA MAY'S DEAL PASSES. Sorry for shouting, but that's PRETTY IMPORTANT REALLY.
ft.com/content/7beae1…
The UK Government's response to the most thorny Brexit problems has been to adopt a cargo cult mentality. "Well, we won't implement this law. We won't check that requirement. We won't implement the other directive. And we *hope* the EU will reciprocate. Fingers crossed."
Collective insanity. But another outcome is still possible, although time is growing very, very short. We can still revoke Article 50. We can still turn our backs on the madness. We can still stop Brexit. We can still Remain.
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Edwin Hayward
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Enough is enough! Laundry list of what US lobbyists are demanding before any UK trade deal reads like a horror film.
- scrap safety first approach to food quality
- weaken data protection
- allow hormone beef
- allow GM foods
- cut cattle farming subsidies
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/what-us-…
- remove mandatory GM labelling
- get rid of safety first approach to chemicals
- scrap GI protections on e.g. Cornish pasties
- change NHS drug procurement rules
- lower dairy hygiene standards
- allow data transfers overseas
- allow businesses to sue the UK itself
etc. etc.
No prize is worth that level of damage. It's just not. So we should forget about ever doing our own trade deal with the US. Perhaps the EU's immeasurably stronger negotiating power would be able to whittle down the list to something bearable. But us? Never in a million years!
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Edwin Hayward
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Brexit and the Irish border issue... an analogy:
Think of the border as a piece of rope strung over a canal that flows between NI and the Republic. At the moment, there's nothing to impede the free passage of boats. The level of the canal is the same on both sides of the rope.
Same regulatory environment, same standards, etc., all derived from the EU. But after Brexit, the level of the water in NI will begin to change, unless the UK commits to locking itself permanently into exactly the same situation as Ireland's by tracking every change the EU makes.
But if the water level becomes different on one side of the rope and the other, you're going to need something much more sophisticated than a rope to keep the waterway open. You're going to need a lock. The lock's the hard border, with all its infrastructure and mechanisms.
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Edwin Hayward
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£774,053,350 worth of penalty charge notices have been issued on the Dartford Crossing up until Dec 2018 (11,057,905 PCNs at £70 each). Amount collected may have been less (penalty is halved if paid within 14 days) but it's still a massive hidden tax!
theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2019…
For reference the Dart Charge system was put in place in November 2014. So in just over 4 years, drivers passing through the area clocked up over three quarters of a billion pounds in fines. It's a run-rate of £15.48 million a month in fines!
More background to Dart Charge can be found in the Wikipedia entry for the Dartford Crossing, under "Charges".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartford_…
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Let’s have a short thread about this famous WTO option and demolish the myth this could work well for #brexit U.K. once and for all.

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