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21 Jan, 11 tweets, 1 min read
To stop Brexit all the government needed to do was to tell us that you would pay an extra £82 for a £200 coat. Or that you wouldn't be able to bring a ham sandwich into the EU, or tour the EU as a musician. But they didn't boast about these Brexit benefits, did they?
The field behind your house will be torn up and turned into a lorry park and drivers will use the hedges as a toilet? They didn't mention that.
Your EU customers will stop ordering from you because it's too much hassle? Didn't mention it.
Can't spend more than 90 days at one time at your second home in the EU? Didn't mention it.
Customs forms for exporting from Britain to Northern Ireland? Throw them in the bin.
Workers' rights will be abolished? Well - they did hint strongly at it.
Scotland will declare independence the minute they have a chance to print the ballot papers? Didn't believe it.
Fish and meat rot because it takes too long to export them? Didn't think of it.
Erasmus? Boris Johnson said we'd stay in it.
We'll lose access to EU security and crime databases? But we'll be safer!
Just for the record I'm adding this link because people think I was talking about myself. I wasn't.
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13 Dec 20
Thanks @Charlesknight for finding this gem.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
First one is buy cars made in the UK. How many cars are they expecting me to buy?
How will the cars be made without the parts?
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I was sacked from the civil service for asking a question but the government is sending in gunboats.
And they said oh of course we don't mind you asking a question, but you have to understand HOW we do things in the civil service. Then didn't tell me how to do it.
Because apparently civil servants are super diplomatic and can be horribly offended if you ask them something.
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You don't need to know much about the WTO and international trade law, but it's important to understand that under WTO rules we must apply our MFN tariffs to any country with which we have no trade deal, i.e. not discriminate. See them here: gov.uk/guidance/uk-ta…
We set our own MFN tariffs, which can be reduced to zero if we want but can't be higher than our maximum bound tariff rates set at the WTO. Trump unilaterally imposed tariffs on China trying to use national security and "public morals" exceptions but the WTO struck some down.
There are also anti-dumping duties, countervailing measures and safeguards. These are additional tariffs we can impose after proving there has been unfair trade under WTO rules, but that's a long story. They are mainly applied to specific countries and specific products.
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9 Sep 20
When I was in the Department for International Trade I asked whether some of our plans would be legal. The answer was that it would take a long time for them to be legally challenged. Afterwards I was sacked.
I found out that we would be making up the rules as we went along and would try to charm other countries into accepting this. I was told they would even be grateful for what we were doing. And challenges at the WTO would take a long time.
I was also told I must have autism because of the way I ask questions.
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23 Aug 20
The Sun: In Whitehall’s “reasonable worst case scenario” animal disease might rip through the countryside due to shortages of medicines and the Channel Islands could need military airdrops to avoid running out of food.
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So I know this old bloke with a holiday home in Greece. He didn't vote for Brexit but his son is a massive Brexit supporter. The old guy, S., is furious that he will have to deal with new regulations. His son wants to bribe the local mayor. Should I call the police?
I didn't want to get involved but the son is acting crazy. He says we had to get Brexit done to level up and bounce back. Now he's doing press ups in his office. He hasn't brushed his hair for a couple of weeks by the looks of it. I am afraid there might soon be domestic violence
Oh God. The son has put on a hard hat and is pretending to be a construction worker.
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