Whoops...Don't cross the fishermen

"...while EU states have an obligation under EU law to stop private citizens from interfering with the free movement of goods between member states, they have *no such obligation to stop individuals blocking imports from non-EU countries*"
UK Gov said last week the Navy will be able to arrest EU fishermen who illegally enter Britain’s waters in event of a no-deal Brexit. But Rogoff told the France Info radio station: “If we are deprived of our fishing grounds, we will not watch the British supply the French market.

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11 Dec
@RichardAENorth as always exposes majority (UK politicians &) MSM as being wholly complicit in this mess owing to their ignorance/bad misinformation

"Basically, what this amounts to is a declaration of intent by the EU that, if Johnson chooses the path of “no deal”,
then in all but a tiny number of areas the United Kingdom is to be left to stew in its own juice.
Yet still, as far as the media goes – so say nothing of our lacklustre politicians – the consequences of walking away without a deal still don’t seem to have sunk in,
typified by a headline in The Times which tells us: “EU threatens to ground British flights”.

This is classic, if moronic response which fails to understand that the purpose of leaving the EU is supposedly to rid ourselves of the grip of EU laws,
Read 15 tweets
10 Dec
TRAGIC..
"And so it came to pass that alleged Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson travelled to Brussels to personally take charge of the Brexit trade deal negotiations. He alone could break the deadlock, put the dastardly Eurocrats in their place and snatch victory
from the jaws of defeat.
But alas, this was yet another occasion when reality had to spoil things: Bozo was as inept as ever, and he came away with nothing.
Headmaster and head of modern languages summon Bunter and his side-kick for a jolly good dressing down
There was no cavalry of German car manufacturers riding to the rescue, no picketing by prosecco producers, no French wine and cheese after party. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and chief negotiator Michel Barnier were the ones who held firm;
Read 13 tweets
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”.
Read 5 tweets
7 Dec
"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.
Read 4 tweets
4 Dec
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
Read 14 tweets
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.
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