"No matter what way people voted in the Brexit referendum, no one in Northern Ireland voted for this new additional level of bureaucracy being placed upon animals owners, hauliers and vets as a result of the Northern Ireland Protocol," Mr Higgins said"
People still don't get it
IF YOU WERE HAPPY TO ENDORSE/vote for NON SHARED CUSTOMS TERRITORY (out of a Customs Union) AND NON SHARED REGULATORY TERRITORY (out of a Single Market) you *did* vote for borders ..and the entry requirements into the Customs Union and into the Single Market..
IF YOU WERE HAPPY TO ENDORSE Johnson's "Oven Ready Deal" you *did* vote for these entry requirements to be from GB into NI
"This additional bureaucracy is effecting the economy of Northern Ireland."
Maybe should have thought of this before voting for/endorsing all of above.
(& at least...unlike GB...NI does have the option of adjusting its supply chains into a much bigger internal market for goods)
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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.
"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