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12 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Is there UK law that dictates reports must include a statement from Gov..& that this statement must conclude reports?
If not why are they included? As here:

"A spokesperson said: "We were always clear that there would be changes

NOPE .& def NOT guaranteed *ADVERSE* "changes"
once the UK left the EU's customs union and single market, and we engaged extensively with traders and industry to help them prepare.

ARE THEY FECKING KIDDING?
"We have agreed a high-quality free trade agreement, based on zero tariffs and zero quotas,

WHICH IS LAUGHABLY THE SAME AS UK ALREADY HAD... BUT AS JUST THE BARE BONES OF EU MEMBERSHIP
which will benefit families and businesses right across the UK.

WTF...

"This is the biggest deal that the EU has ever negotiated with another nation,

"Biggest" ? in Trade *Reduction* for sure
"and it will help unlock investment and protect high value jobs right across the UK, from financial services through to car manufacturing."

I MEAN..DOES ANYBODY REALLY FALL FOR THIS CRAP?
h/t @GrumpyScot
bbc.com/news/uk-wales-…

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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
13 Feb
H/T @PatHarrison2
A decent report from the NY Times...
"As the new year made Brexit a reality, Tony Hale encountered the pitfalls of Europe’s redrawn geography. Specifically, he confronted the need to extricate 53 tons of rotting pork products from administrative purgatory
a port in the Netherlands.
For more than two decades, Mr. Hale’s company had shipped pork to the European Union without customs checks, as if the United Kingdom and the continent across the water were one vast country.

With Britain now legally outside the bloc,
exporters suddenly had to navigate inspections, safety regulations & a bewildering crush of paperwork.
For Mr. Hale, incorrectly prepared documents meant sending five containers full of pork to an unplanned final destination : the incinerator.
“It’s a new game,& we have to learn”
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
10 Feb
Sources have told The Loadstar that red tape & associated delays were scaring-off EU drivers – paid per kilometre, & in some cases facing *12-hour delays* – from coming to the UK without guarantees that they'll be paid for round trips. One source predicted that driver shortages
..would lead to abandoned trailers, resulting in surging rates, mimicking the recent experience of ocean container supply chains.
Director analyst at Gartner’s supply chain practice Susan Boylan said with EU drivers continuing to question the viability of serving the UK,
a “capacity crunch” could hit, creating a domino effect in the logistics sector. “There has been a level of pain and complexity from both a customs clearance and financial perspective that has led drivers to say ‘we’re just not doing it’” Ms Boylan told The Loadstar.
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
8 Feb
A Belfast deli owner also told The World This Weekend he is now getting more of his products from the Republic of Ireland.

Kieran Sloan, managing director of Sawers, said it was companies he had dealt with for over 30 years were no longer supplying Northern Ireland.
"We have found other channels. We are bringing a lot of our stuff in from the Republic of Ireland.

"We can place an order on Monday and it will be here on Tuesday morning.

"There's nothing to fill in - not a form, nothing at all."
ALL things brexit always predicted ...and a real what will be an *expanding* example of why DUP desperate to collapse the Irish Protocol
(and UK Gov desperate for extended grace periods.. to avoid immediate embarassment of what they agreed to) bbc.com/news/uk-northe…
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
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. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
6 Feb
Reporters @adampayne26 still reporting wrongly as a "ban" @RobinPirates @RichardAENorth @CaptainSwing666
Either way welcome to life as a non EU/3rd country. If EU wants to change its market rules UK no longer has a say in it
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
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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