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@BorisJohnson OK may I speak with you. (1)
@BorisJohnson I started my business in April 2016, and left a well paid full time job to do it. Three years work had gone into planning, and understanding the rules and opportunities if the EU Single Market (2)
@BorisJohnson Despite starting in April 2016, we opened for business on 1st June 2016. The business model is / was based on my previous experience of working for a business spread across the UK, France & Germany.
@BorisJohnson Obviously Brexit happened three weeks after trading started, but we decided to wait a year for UK government clarification of any changes to trading arrangements. (4)
@BorisJohnson We then heard Theresa Mays proposal to leave the single market and customs union (5)
@BorisJohnson OK we thought, let's wait and see what happens with that. The Single Market & Customs Union were not our only issues. (6)
@BorisJohnson We have developed a British technology product, at least we have a working prototype. The product is an improved version of a product made by two European companies . We planned to sell it across Europe initially, as easy trading (7)
@BorisJohnson Mr Johnson, it's weeks until we are due to leave, yet your government has only recently published a new UK product certification standard. This standard only applies to a UK market of 65 million, rather than over 500 million in the old EU standard (8)
@BorisJohnson With weeks to go, Mr Johnson can you tell my business whether the UK has decided to continue using the EU wide 868 MHz radio frequency allocation. Our product relies on it, but Australia has its own allocations. Will the UK? (9)
@BorisJohnson Everything is appallingly planned, from a business perspective. Do we need to open an EU branch (its only an email away now), do we need to move totally if we lose free trade. (10)
@BorisJohnson This 31st October deadline is unrealistic, if you haven't even agreed what the trading conditions for UK business will be. You need to tell us, and then give us time to adjust. (11)
@BorisJohnson Fortunately we haven't invested much yet, though have wasted three years waiting for government clarification, while our best, most innovative product, gathers dusk on the shelf (12)
