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Oh, look. It's the Operation Brock traffic jam kicking in already. The roads have only been closed a few hours, and already the queue is building.

And if your first thought is "why are they stopping traffic 6 days before Brexit?" the answer's dead simple: propaganda.
Here's more info about Operation Brock being started up...
theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
Barely minutes later and the queue has grown... Compare and contradt
And now there's another segment of the motorway shut, on top of the other ones!
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Edwin Hayward - 'Slaying Brexit Unicorns' book🦄🗡
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James Cleverly claims that "change" and "lessen" aren't the same in the context of EU regulations.

But within the EU we can *always*
improve on the EU's own standards. So there's only one possible direction of travel. So only reason for Brexit is to be able to weaken them. #Marr
In fact, he let the cat out of the bag when he pushed back against Andrew Marr's question about lessening standards by saying in fact the UK already goes further than the EU in many areas such as workers' rights.

Yes it does. As an EU member. So our membership doesn't stop us.
What our EU membership does stop us doing is deregulating to less-than-EU standards.

It's telling that the commitment to maintaining standards has been pulled from the legally binding Withdrawal Agreement and shoved into the non-binding Political Declaration instead.
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Got some bad news for you. After Brexit, in the event of no deal, the Government is going to rejig the system so that VAT is payable on parcels of any value from overseas (including EU) unless they contain goods from categories that are zero rated for VAT.
gov.uk/government/pub…
So VAT will be payable on anything £0-£135, and both VAT and import duties will be payable on stuff over £135. Now, the sender is supposed to register with HMRC and pay the VAT on <£135 stuff, but...
A) How many businesses will bother
B) They will pass the cost on to the consumer
Alternatively, they can leave off the VAT and it will be up to the recipient to pay it, just like you have to do for stuff worth >£15 now from countries outside the EU. That will mean it will be held by Royal Mail, ParcelForce etc. and you'll get a little card in the letterbox.
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Parcels from overseas, and especially from China, could become more expensive after January 2021 (depending on what the UK Government decides to do). The UPU, a postal organisation that most countries belong to, has agreed to change its system.
supplychaindive.com/news/upu-posta…
It used to be that the postal service in the destination country could only charge very low rates for the final delivery of goods from "developing" nations, and China was on the list. With the changes, they will be able to push prices up substantially if they want.
The US will be changing next year - it gets a head start as part of the agreement. And then other countries get a chance to vary their rates from Jan 2021.

(Not specifically Brexit-related, but a heads-up that this is potentially coming down the pipe soon...)
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