I must say it beggars belief MSM still not picking up on the official UK Gov policy of (not only favouring EU businesses/exporters - into GB - over its own)
a smugglers charter!!
Previously anything entering GB from EU was in free circulation/free movement.
That is goods/produce moving under same shared policing authority/jurisdiction
& from outside EU, previously customs & SPS cleared into EU thus into UK by another member state.
Now there's no shared authority & nothing is customs/SPS cleared into UK by a shared territory country
Instead trailer/container loads will be simply customs transited across EU territory & through its ports
&
is now UK authorities' sole responsibility to ensure loads meet market compliance/standards & correct duties paid: only UK isn't !! It doesn't have the capacity to do so.
This "border facilitation" has been extended into 2022 after I & others warned of its consequences since last June when it was announced
(rather than do the sensible thing & extend transition..which "border facilitation" & "grace periods" later clearly proves UK always *needed*)
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"UK must leave the greater union as more sovrin-tea is much more valuable than greater trade/economic prosperity"
(Better not together)
AND
"Scotland must not leave the greater union as its greater trade/economic prosperity is more valuable"
(Better together)
(although Scotland, unlike UK, would be leaving its greater union/single market to join a much greater union/single market...
so the argument already lost!!)
I have just met a nice young lady from RAF Akrotiri who although not blaming the Cypriots was lamenting that all their post from UK now has to go through Cypriot customs.
She thought the Cypriots were "just making things up" and didn't understand why brexit meant this.
I do have to despair many times these days.
(I did suggest she order online now from Ireland or anywhere else in EU which she'll try)
Breaking free of Brussels bureaucracy was meant to herald a bonfire of red tape for Britain. In the first 100 days of Brexit, the only thing many businesses burned was money. Customs checks, paperwork & border delays since the U.K. completed its withdrawal from the European Union
are sucking cash and time out of firms from big-name retailers to small family-owned businesses. Companies, which warned for years that this would happen, take no pleasure in saying “we told you so,” but the frustration is clear as they grapple with the long-term reality.
For many businesses on tight margins, every pound spent on documentation means less for wages, hiring and investment. While the impact will be far less dramatic than the short-term shock of the Covid-19 lockdowns, over time it will add up, hobbling the economy and
For the last 5 years I have tried to convey how shocked I was and what it would devastatingly mean to leave the EU (SM&CU) after nearly 5 decades part of it & its expansion.
Maybe the best way is to say both customs free internal markets will turn in on themselves much more.
However the EU customs free internal market (inc NI) is much bigger than the GB (UK minus NI) customs free internal market.
Guess which of the two is going to be much more internally self sufficient
& which one will continue to need the other more ?..
Only now, to UK's further detriment, the continental (& Irish) purchases for GB consumers will be (customs & regulatory) more expensive; rarer; more limited in choice & with longer delivery schedules.
I'd suggest EU holidays will be pretty much (back to the early 1970s) same 🙄