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21 Jan, 26 tweets, 9 min read
#Brexit project fear realised.

Thread of some news reports published in last 24 hours.

Brexit *has* caused food shortages admits Liz Truss contradicting her Cabinet colleague Brandon Lewis.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
Coat costing £200 had a #Brexit dividend of £82 Brexit surcharge.

bbc.com/news/business-…
Absolute carnage’: EU hauliers reject UK jobs over Brexit rules
Freight company director blames new requirement for EU transport firms to provide VAT and tariff guarantees.

theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
Anger builds among manufacturers as EU customers cancel orders due to Brexit red tape

Government taking days to respond to queries, say stuggling businesses

independent.co.uk/news/business/…
#Brexit : 'My meat shipment is rotting in Rotterdam'

Tony Hale has five containers of pork sitting at Rotterdam port that is now "rotten".

"We've not been able to move it on," says boss of London-based DH Foods, "so it's going to have to be destroyed."

bbc.com/news/business-…
Big loss for Britain as EU trade deal exposes some UK cars to tariffs

uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/car-tarif…
Organic food shipping system is a 'nightmare' post-Brexit

bbc.com/news/world-eur…
Brexit has driven 2,500 finance jobs and €170bn to France, says bank governor
Bank of France chief claims ‘50 British entities’ have moved over the Channel, while Dublin, Amsterdam and Frankfurt have also benefited

theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
Furious Kent residents step up fight over Brexit lorry park
Locals condemn lack of consultation over customs clearance site for 1,200 lorries

theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
Boris Johnson news – live: Brexit problems ‘going to get bigger’ as PM promises mythical El Dorado

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
Brexit: ‘Serious loss’ in meat export trade

fwi.co.uk/news/brexit-se…
Brexit could lead to sub-standard food imports, farmers warn

Disruption to trade is not ‘teething problem’, parliamentary committee hears

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
Gibraltar could yet face no-deal Brexit, chief minister warns
Fabian Picardo says treaty allowing Gibraltar to join Schengen ‘should not be given for granted.’

politico.eu/article/gibral…
The reality of Brexit is starting to sink in – and it’s a nightmare

metro.co.uk/2021/01/20/the…
Nando’s sauce is latest victim of Brexit as Spain seize man’s personal stash

metro.co.uk/2021/01/20/spa…
As part of its post-Brexit global vision, Britain is hosting a UK-Africa trade forum this week. But with its new trade deals failing to offer African nations much extra, the UK is falling behind as a key trading partner.

dw.com/en/uk-africa-t…
More than 150 music figures accuse government of failing performers post-Brexit

thestage.co.uk/news/more-than…
Nearly 2,500 jobs and £150bn in assets moved to France post Brexit

penews.com/articles/nearl…
Brexit Driving Top Dealmakers Out of London and Into the EU

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
UK construction faces Brexit brain drain amid exodus of skilled EU workers

uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/uk-constr…
Boris Johnson’s government accused of Brexit fairy tales

Businesses, hauliers and politicians in Northern Ireland have hit back at claims Brexit isn’t to blame for current disruption

independent.co.uk/independentpre…
‘It’s just madness’: UK manufacturer battles deluge of Brexit bureaucracy

Nimisha Raja did all she could to prepare her business for 1 January but the upheaval is already taking its toll

independent.co.uk/news/business/…
All the 🇬🇧Boris Johnson🇬🇧 bluffs and threats hurled at EU have ensured that EU have delivered #brexit divergence reality and it’s killing 🇬🇧 business.

🇺🇸 Biden removed Churchill’s bust so FTA to save 🇬🇧 unlikely

Brussels ultimatum to ease customs delays
thetimes.co.uk/article/brusse…
EU is prepared to ease post-Brexit border friction if 🇬🇧 drops its plan to create a “Singapore on the Thames”.

EU will not discuss easing customs measures or making paperwork easier if Mr Johnson embraces the high subsidy and low regulation Singapore model.
Eu#U sources said creating “Singapore on the Thames and increasing the working week” beyond EU rules would politically rule out any negotiations.

Tomorrow EU ambassadors will discuss how the trade agreement functions, in particular “joint partnership council” to review problems.
But don’t worry #brexit 🇬🇧 has taken back control and soon we will have trade deal with Africa.

express.co.uk/news/politics/…

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Liz Webster 🔶 #Article49er Profile picture
22 Jan
Fascinating @guardian interview with Stanley Johnson from 2012.

Clip 👇 and full interview here

Could provide some answers to the utter disregard of economic prosperity with #Brexit and #COVID19 if Stanley has played #CriticalRole in his son’s ideology.
There was this strange event too

inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
Like father like son? Clearly @EamonnHolmes sees more than a resemblance. 1/2 👇
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18 Jan
Johnson talks with 30 business leaders about cutting red tape as ministers draw up plans to turn 🇬🇧 into “Singapore🇸🇬 of Europe”.

Govt source said Johnson pushing for 🇬🇧 to become a low-tax, low-regulation regime like 🇸🇬

thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-…
Last month Johnson raised the prospect of tax cuts for entrepreneurs.

He told a Facebook question-and-answer session: “We’ll be looking at the tax environment and the regulatory environment and everything we can do to encourage and support business.”

thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-…
Brussels has yet to grant 🇬🇧“equivalence” rulings for financial sector, diverging from the present framework could lead to more business undertaken in 🇬🇧being shifted to EU.

Ripping up red tape should be weighed against the cost of less preferential access to European markets.
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Liz Webster 🔶 #Article49er Profile picture
16 Nov 20
Playbook gossip from No 10 aides on rule of Dom:

“Dom would often go dark. For long periods and in critical moments he was simply absent from the building and unreachable. Most basic decisions, which bc of his all-pervading authority needed his sign off piled up in his in box
most of which went unanswered. Most decision-making simply became a matter of guessing what Dom would do — an odd way of forcing everyone to be brainwashed into the mind of Dom. He was entirely uninterested in 99 percent of issues or crises, leaving the No. 10 staff leaderless.”
“Dom was constantly running a parallel briefing operation above Lee’s head, speaking daily to journalists himself, while both slagged off the same reporters — the biggest names in the lobby — in meetings.
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Liz Webster 🔶 #Article49er Profile picture
25 Jun 20
“That’s why on 2nd EU referendum (which I favoured) only one argument from the other side worried me.

It was that many of those voting for Brexit had seen the Leave vote as a rare victory. And if people like me took it away, it would be yet another sign that they didn’t matter.
“Now, in wake of #COVID and with Brexit looming, we may be about to prove again that they really don’t count. If you look at education in lockdown, you won’t be surprised by whose kids have fallen even further behind. Same for predicting whose jobs are going to go first.”
A germ of possibility lies in national tutoring programme announced last week to provide disadvantaged pupils with 1:1 tutoring to help them catch up.

👏 Why not make this £350M one-off perm and try to break the cycle of disadvantage and negative attitude to education?
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20 May 20
Susan Mckinney who runs 14 care homes:

“We had incident on April 10 where twice we rang hospital saying ‘we can’t accept this person back, we need them tested we need a negative test so we know what we’re dealing with. They turned up in ambulance and refused to go away.

1/2
There was stand-off. Family members turned up, paramedics had poor resident on a stretcher at the door and wouldn’t go away until we allowed them in. And all we got was ‘you’re not following the guidelines’

We were threatened with the police if we did not let this person in.”
Care home managers were kept on the dark:

“Privately PHE was showing ministers data they had collected highlighting rapidly growing number of COVID outbreaks in care homes, data they had been collecting since early March.”

File on 4 has discovered PHE had identified over ...
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6 May 20
British newspaper headlines lead on @neil_ferguson while the rest of world talks about Britain.

Please RT!

Let’s start with Turkey 🇹🇷

“Boris Johnson’s COVID-19 mismanagement: What went wrong?”

And ....

aa.com.tr/en/analysis/op…
Sydney 🇦🇺

'Biggest failure in a generation': Where did Britain go wrong?

Unlike Italy, U.K. had time to prepare for coronavirus tsunami. But as death toll climbs, critics say Britain's response has suffered from deadly mistakes and miscalculations.

smh.com.au/world/europe/b…
USA 🇺🇸

What went wrong with UK's initial Covid-19 response?

CNN's Nick Paton Walsh looks into the UK's initial response to Covid-19 and how that may have contributed to now having close to the worst death toll in Europe

cnn.com/videos/world/2…
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