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"Michael Gove confirms post-Brexit trade barriers will be imposed

De facto deputy PM says nearly all EU imports will be subject to checks from next year"

Put a fork in the UK. It's done. Last business to leave, please turn off the lights... theguardian.com/politics/2020/…
Reminder: HMRC estimates the extra admin costs alone will set businesses in the UK back an extra £7.5 billion a year every year. EU businesses also face the same extra costs. That's only for the paperwork, not for any of the consequences of the changes!

gov.uk/government/pub…
What can we expect? Businesses that have the capacity to leave or reconfigure their supply chains will now accelerate the process.

Once the 30 June deadline passes & we fail to ask for a transition period extension, the exodus will accelerate still further.

Why would they wait?
But of course we can export cabbages to Malaysia, so it's all good! (Together, all of the UK's cabbage exports are worth under £14 million a year.)

gov.uk/government/new…
Here's the initial info from Michael Gove, in which he boasts of the £7.5 million being made available to businesses to help ready them for 1,000x higher costs. The horror! The horror!
gov.uk/government/new…
Taking back control evidently doesn't extend to our own bowels, because the fear factor will be through the roof following this announcement.
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Grant Schapps was talking this morning about petrol and diesel car sales possibly being banned as early as 2032. But that leaves almost literally no time at all, because a lot of car buyers think about the long-term value of their vehicles and 12 years is the blink of an eye.
It's vitally important to transition to electric vehicles. But with the auto industry already struggling in the UK much more than in other countries, do we really want to add one of the most draconian environmental regimes in the world on top of Brexit and the diesel scandal?
Thing is, people will definitely care about resale value 6-7 years ahead, so 2032 is more like 2025. But it takes years to retool and ramp up production, especially for a shift as dramatic as internal combustion to electric. So the real impact will be a disastrous lack of choice.
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The UK Government released a Brexit "transition check" tool! Answer a series of questions to find out what you have to do to get ready for the end of the transition period. It spits out an alarmingly long list of tasks for even the most mundane situations.
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It has gems like this, where you have the (implicit) option of saying you're never going to travel outside the borders of the UK ever again for the rest of your life...
The advice it lists at the end is mainly just reheated versions of the "no deal" advice from months ago, but with a few words changed. Nevertheless, it's worth doing the exercise, if only to see just how drastically "full-on Brexit" will hit us.
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Have you ever read a more chilling quote? Who decides the legitimacy of those legitimate decisions? The decision-makers, apparently. What fresh hell is this?
Shapps isn't alone, btw...
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