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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧

@vivamjm

28 Dec

Whatever the analyses, I'll never understand the efforts, taxpayers money & substantial pain to come to make the disunited or broken apart UK, face so many more difficulties in trading with its neighbours; even within its own territory & to be so much poorer & less secure

with fewer rights for Brits in their own country & across the EU/EEA.
And that there is not a lot more official opposition/media attention & anger about it
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Even more so when I read the following from 2010 by the "Taxpayers Alliance"

@CandidePeel

@CandidePeel @bakerstherald Thanks for bringing this to my attention when the MSM - for whatever reason - is so noticably reticent to expose these would be quickly evolving (sounds better/less sinister) "freeports"

https://twitter.com/CandidePeel/status/1343557914687021056?s=20

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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧

@vivamjm

18 Dec

It makes me laugh ...all this flurry of activity over queues of lorries.
It does seem no matter how much the relevant experience warns and tries its damndest to explain it goes over the head of most reporting until they see with their own eyes.

Even when it leaked about '7000 truck queues' nobody really reacted as should have, because clearly they did not comprehend shoved up bumper to bumper this is approx *80 miles* long with until now *normal flows" .
These queues seen here are result of normal flow increased by 1.4?

(15,000 trucks p/day thru Dover)..
Outside the CU/SM/safety zone, 1.4 times normal flow would take 80 miles to..(do the maths)
Anybody not yet understanding why (without extended CU/SM transition) UK in big trouble
...even without the converged container shipping crisis/covid etc

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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧

@vivamjm

15 Dec

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.

@BrokenTwitty

Full report (thanks @BrokenTwitty
thegrocer.co.uk/brexit/food-bu…

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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧

@vivamjm

11 Dec

@RichardAENorth

@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,

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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧

@vivamjm

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;

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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧

@vivamjm

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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