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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧

@vivamjm

7 Feb

I'm not unique. From relevant coalface experience all I have predicted has come true and will continue to do so. The overwhelmed implosion of freight movements will come even if UK (as seems more likely) is still not ready to implement full stepped up controls by 1/4 & 1/7.

GB to EU with greater controls into EU than from EU into GB is same as GB into NI imbalanced to/from flow that reached headlines. It's just not yet wound up enough. The EU buyers, unlike and not influenced by a raging DUP NI, have much greater alternative suppliers to readily

replace the GB suppliers. NI could alleviate some of its issues & will by also looking for alternative suppliers to GB in ROI & rest of EU..which is why DUP (if not the tories too) are desperate to collapse (or will at least again try to unilaterally "modify") the Irish Protocol

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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧

@vivamjm

5 Feb

Rolling out the Goods Vehicle Movement Service (GVMS) in time for Brexit was a “technological marvel” – but a trading disaster.
Chairman of customs consultancy ASM Peter MacSwiney said the viability of the new border control system for coordinating the movement of vehicles

epitomised the model of government led by Boris Johnson. “Ours is a government with a three-word policy, and that policy has been ‘get Brexit done’, and that’s what Boris did,” Mr MacSwiney told The Loadstar.

“When Boris said ‘f**k business’, he wasn’t joking;

they have rammed mechanisms in that do not work for business, that are not fit for purpose and that they knew would not be fit for purpose before the end of this year – and now we are seeing the results.”
Since January The Loadstar has reported on a stream of chaos

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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧

@vivamjm

2 Feb

I've experienced it first hand these last 50 years ..helped by 30 years experience in the Freight/Customs frontline industry. How UK has grown accustomed to (took if for granted) growing freedoms & choices...an excessive Tory regime bulwarked. Public grown apathetic & complacent

that could always tacitly expect their Gov not to ruin *majority* of businesses all sectors, livelihoods or lives by specific design or policy. Casually allow or even cheer on their Gov to do just that.
I tried to do my little bit here in Cyprus, on twitter for 4.5 years...

One month in & shit hitting the fan (as I always knew) everywhere. I sincerely hope all disparate groups can find a way to coalesce around somebody high profile (Marcus for PM? 😬) to protest against the lying shysters in Gov & an ignorant, compromised or cowed? broadcast media.

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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧

@vivamjm

2 Feb

bbc.com/news/uk-englan…

Jonathan Whittemore, head of production and procurement at Johnsons, said the firm "didn't see this coming at all".
I think I might have earned the right to just laugh now at the foolishness & apathy of so many in losing their EU (SM&CU) membership benefits esp when in business..

and here specifically Johnson's 2019 "victory" in agreeing to the Irish Protocol (SPS/UCC) border between GB & NI keeping NI in the Single Market.
I wonder if Mr Whittemore voted for Johnson to "get Brexit done" armed with this certainty that it would directly hurt his business?

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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧

@vivamjm

1 Feb

Quote ...Other countries such as Norway are outside the EU but enjoy free trade within the customs union.

FOR FUCKS SAKE...

Still they can't get it right

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

And if compensation to fishermen & farmers what about the manufacturers, distributors, hauliers, service providers, (Portuguese) removal companies, Welsh ports/steel industry, SMEs, online EU sellers, musicians,TV crews, motor racing, cycling teams, equestrian, horse racing et al

all queueing up (if not now they will be as realise what no longer members of the SM&CU means)
for compensation special treatment or state aid?
At least for the ones that didn't happily go along with a free trade deal (they got it) rather than protesting about leaving the SM&CU

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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧

@vivamjm

1 Feb

FELIXSTOWE, England (Reuters) -

In just one month of post-Brexit trading, British logistics expert Jon Swallow has seen exports dive, prices rise and customers so desperate that he is practically offering a counselling service.

Swallow is one of thousands of freight forwarders and customs brokers based around Britain’s biggest ports who have described the overnight introduction of a full customs border as akin to the country placing economic sanctions on itself.

Britain’s New Year’s Eve departure from the European Union’s orbit after 47 years of membership means exporters must now provide customs and safety declarations, health checks and rules of origin details to trade with its biggest partner.

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