"When did this level of stupidity become patriotic? When did the foolishness of not reading and understanding the small print of laws, contracts and treaties become a public virtue? When did it stop being an MP’s solemn duty to scrutinise policies, laws and treaties
that will have an impact on citizens’ lives? When did we go from MPs doing the job we pay them to do being designated as thwarting the putative “will of the people”? When did we go from the Brexit ambition of the best and easiest deal with the EU ever known to humanity,
to meekly accepting and approving any old deal, no matter how harmful it might be to our interests?
.. It has come gradually upon us via one of the most successful “boil the frog” gaslighting operations ever inflicted on any population, anywhere in the world.
Too late it may be to prevent a disastrous, harmful Brexit, but we can still expose and oppose the worst government in British history."
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7 Dec
Forget UK exports in January ..*anywhere really*

"The Loadstar understands that the Ocean Alliance is drawing up plans to omit the Felixstowe call throughout January, with all UK cargo to be discharged at Zeebrugge and feedered back to “other less-congested ports”.
A source at one of the alliance member lines told The Loadstar today the decision needed the final agreement of other partners, but the only real hurdle was the lack of available feeder tonnage.
Meanwhile, ocean carriers are keeping their options open on how they serve the UK,
which is *bad news for UK exporters*.
Indeed, several carriers have, officially and unofficially, told UK shippers they would suspend acceptance of export bookings – the latest being MSC, which announced last week it would stop taking bookings “until further notice”.
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Those Brexit "opportunities" @AndreDenHouter 😳

Britain’s government may have (edit) *fucked* its preparations for Brexit, but the same cannot be said for the Dutch – the Netherlands likely to win a rush of post-Brexit business.
Brexit coordinator for Customs Netherlands Roel van’t Veld told the panel at this week’s Invest in Holland event that, since the result of UK’s 2016 referendum, Dutch Customs had recruited, trained & deployed 900 additional customs officers.
“Our government was quick off the mark
, saying no-deal is what we have to worry about, therefore it is also what we must prepare for,” said Mr van’t Veld.

“Realising this would be a massive operation, we started work immediately, and we have kept moving since, getting new staff into posts
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4 Dec
UK continued "frictionless" trade
Sure ..EU is losing 65 million consumers of its customs free shared standards single market .but UK is losing 435 million .. (plus a further 16 million of its extended single market... inc NI on goods/produce) ..
In 1986 Joe Bloggs industries had 3 production lines: 1 for UK, 1 for Germany, 1 for France. Different standards but thankfully no customs issues. Then came the Single Market. 2 free production lines enabled new expansion into Japan & USA.
Read 4 tweets
2 Dec
Support for extending the Brexit transition period is gaining traction on the UK side of the Channel, BUT it seems a Europe fatigued by “false starts” is keen for the new regime to start as planned.
“It’s very clear that government and trade are not ready, and this will probably
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“For example, testing GVMS [HMRC’ new Goods Vehicle Movement Service] begins on 23 Dec & important questions about safety/security declarations for transit shipments remain
And requirements for plant-based products transiting the EU have not been explained,” he added.

A source in the port sector added: “The UK government has been firm, it will not seek further extension.
“As such, further pragmatism from the UK and, indeed, the EU member states
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1 Dec
All entirely the fault of UK/HMG (*not* the EU) ..there are some things that utterly bewilder me about brexit..then things like this that sickens me:
Ending Freedom of Movement ...Thread

It’s just a massive change,” said Godfrey. @BritishInEurope
“It basically asks people to decide now, in the next 15 months, whether they want to change their whole lives. For many, it’s asking them to choose between elderly parents in Britain and partners and children in the EU.

“It’s a terrible choice, and it’s really ...
not one that any civilised government should be asking its citizens to make.”

Making matters worse is the fact that the act - actively discriminates against British citizens abroad compared to EU citizens living in the UK.
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From a friend (remember the year 2000 "Fuel Strikes" *without* the tanker drivers free to revert quickly to the status quo)

"The general consensus from, forwarders, experts, and hauliers is this is going to be a ClusterFuck like no other.

2/
"The thinking in Ireland is if European traffic goes direct, than that leaves Holyhead less congested for UK/ROI traffic. I think the whole UK is going to grind to a halt"
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