Brexit is costing the UK taxpayer more than its former annual EU contribution to make 1/ UK businesses less competitive in 85% of their former customs free single regulated market . Inc in NI. 2/ UK workers professional and non professional far less able to find work in Europe
(or even *in UK*, if competing against an Irish or settled status EEA citizen)
3/ Touring and general travel for all around Europe more costly and more difficult making it entirely prohibitive for many of the less well off . inc for those dreaming of retirement to sunnier climes
4/ UK consumer prices *rise* in conjunction with reduced volumes, reduced choice and slower delivery schedules
Can somebody advise what everybody is meant to "unite behind" as recently suggested by politicians (lying c*nt) @SteveBakerHW and (you must be kidding) @jessphillips ?
& what worries me about point "2" is that the shyster incumbent Gov more likely to seek to "redress" the issue by stripping more rights to level *down* rather than find ways to increase rights & level *up* (with a passive, compliant, or even part welcoming of such, UK electorate)
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"Currently we've got 20 loaded trailers parked at XXXXX. but not ready to go because XXXXX and XXXXXX having a row over whose job it is to sort the customs declarations out. We also have multiple loads (near where I used to live 😬) . The same problem
On Monday we sent 4 trucks to XXXXX to load export. Once loaded, the trucks then spent 20 hours waiting for to customs stuff to be sorted. Business is totally unprepared for this
Also got 4 loads at a warehouse in XXXXX but we can't take them to the port because.....
Yep that's right, the customs stuff isn't done
I'm having a few days on containers because regular work pulling Tautliners quiet. I'll be back on that soon & we load a lot of trailers for Ireland. These always ship out of Bootle. I'll let you know how get on with the Irish stuff
Frightening how much the UK after nearly 50/30 years in the expanding customs union/single market respectively has no idea what it is letting itself in for....
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@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"
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