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30 Dec 20, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Brexit Pledge: "I pledge that I shall neither forgive nor forget the politicians who inflicted Brexit on us, nor the ones that stood by as the UK was harmed. Their lack of opposition and abdication of responsibility makes them equally culpable." (please RT)
Cut out and keep version for your wallet. PDF at link below...
drive.google.com/file/d/18wqvl8…
(NOTE: the above is a repost of something I posted in March 2019. It is equally if not more valid today. This is about the last 4.5 years, not the last 12 hours...)
If you don't understand my rage, then read ALL of this...
And then ALL of this...


If you still don't get it, you're beyond redemption.

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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡 Profile picture
31 Dec 20
UK Government just released 70 pages of case studies today, showing how the borders will operate after 1 January 2021.

They're essentially hardcore porn for red tape fetishists.

Doomed, we are. Doomed.

(e.g. exporting fish; exporting mechanical goods)
gov.uk/government/pub… ImageImage
This is exactly what should have been presented years ago so that firms could prepare.

Or, arguably, before the Brexit referendum. Just the 70 pages of case studies released TODAY could have tipped the result the other way. Not everyone is blinded by sovrinty & hating forrins.
Going back to the examples...

The person in France buying (say) UK mechanical goods will take one look at the procedures involved, and Google an alternative supplier inside the EU instead.
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31 Dec 20
"The Border Operating Model

A guide to how the border with the European Union will work after the transition period."

Official UK Government guidance. Updated TODAY to take the Brexit deal into account.
gov.uk/government/pub…
The case studies are just off-the-charts awful. They might as well have saved space by just writing "give up now".

Example: selling mechanical goods to France. (Pre-Brexit: sling it on a truck, drive it over.)
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl… Image
And this one on selling fish to France. Hurts my eyes, and my brain.

Poor fishermen. And I mean that sincerely. They have been used as pawns by the high and mighty throughout the Brexit process. And now they have to face this. Image
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31 Dec 20
Full Brexit in just over 7 hours, and the UK Government website doesn't seem to know what rules will apply to moving goods around the EU for temporary purposes, such as to take stuff to trade shows...
gov.uk/taking-goods-o… Image
Here's where it gets "fun" if you follow a few breadcrumbs.

First, head to the page about ATA carnets.
gov.uk/guidance/apply…

Then click on the official link to the ecarnet site, click over to the FAQ, and you get...
ecarnet.co.uk/Lccicarnet/Help

Yes, direct contradiction. Image
So, media reports say carnets will be needed. The carnet issuer says carnets will be needed.

But the UK Government? "Nah, carry on as you were."
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31 Dec 20
I will give Liz Truss a little credit. Not that many EU trade deals remain unrolled-over. Her team did an ok job of the old CTRL-C CTRL-V.

(But *zero* out of ten for the naked propaganda following each act of copying.)

Mexico & Canada are delayed a bit. Then just titchy stuff.
What we are likely to discover going forward is that a single substantial trade deal is harder to accomplish than copying across 60+ existing ones. In the latter case, the detail has already been thrashed out over months and years. But new trade deals mean starting from scratch.
Up until now, it's basically been an exercise in penmanship: how neatly can Liz copy out other people's homework.

But going forward, she'll have to complete the work on her own. And that's a much tougher proposition.
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31 Dec 20
Here's how the UK's situation will change after the transition period ends, compared to our former EU membership...

(Come back to this thread. It will keep growing!)

- UK can negotiate its own trade deals
- No more automatic participation in new trade deals reached by the EU
- UK gets to keep fish equivalent to 25% of the catch EU boats previously caught in UK waters, staggered over 5.5 years
- Costly export health certificates for fishery products
- Inbound and outbound customs and regulatory checks (UK side will defer some of these temporarily)
- Stringent rules of origin and local content requirements
- Loss of freedom of movement for UK citizens in the EU and EU citizens in the UK (Ireland excepted)
- No Erasmus programme
- No equivalence decision for financial services
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30 Dec 20
Here we go. The final Brexit debate begins. The final splash of petrol on the dumpster fire before the match is lit at 11pm tomorrow night.
Boris Johnson deliberately mocks the SNP by calling them the Scottish Nationalist Party, despite being admonished by the Speaker. There speaks a man who doesn't give an itty bitty toss.
Boris Johnson: "Just as we've avoided trade barriers"

What? Ah, it's because he carefully defined them as "tariffs and quotas" just before lying about them.

There will be massive, massive non-tariff barries.
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