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Feb 19 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Queues/delays not the EU's fault; not France's fault, not Germany's..I can't believe still having to tweet this, but is prompted by a friend still in logistics/customs industry who's just told me he has a 'friend' saying this
(tragically he's considering dumping him as a result)
His words "what makes it worse he is not an idiot. He just thinks manufacturing is coming back and that any problems at the borders etc is just spite. I feel like he’s been groomed as he was a massive EU fan and always talked fondly of how great they are.
But about 10 years ago he started following Farage and the rest is history. He is trying to find the past that was never that great. The turn around and hatred he has now for all things EU is shocking. Nothing violent but a complete disregard for facts.
I guess this is how things went into the lead up to WW2. I explained everything before the vote and reality is here but still not getting it. He's a decent man. So many people are like him angry at the world & Brexit hasn’t solved anything.
I don’t know what will placate them"

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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 Profile picture
Feb 19
One of the joys of my 30 years in international logistics/shipping/forwarding was seeing the fledging companies wanting to expand product sales out of UK & finding it just as easy to sell into EU. We helped them with setting up in continental trade fairs;
selling their first pallets of product, after easy quick FoM samples business trips within same time zones to further quickly build relations during same work hours. We watched them grow their business, esp in 2004 when 10 new countries joined their customs free internal market.
We started to arrange large part loads & full loads of shipments for them while other continued fledging business started to on our groupage services.
Roll onto 2022 where UK has levelled *down* these trading opportunities with the EU to be as difficult as with rest of world.
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 Profile picture
Feb 15
More Brexit "benefits" ...for EU/EU members
(and for NI that is still in the EU Single Market for goods/produce...
without losing any of its selling access to rest of UK)
h/t @LloydClark1
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 Profile picture
Feb 14
Increasing noise from sources within the supply chain suggests importers are engaging in strategic non-(Customs)declaration to avoid worse congestion across UK’s RoRo ports.
Another source explained that the “minimal” congestion experienced across UK ports ..
following the implementation of border controls did not tally with the volumes of goods entering the country or post-Brexit customs systems
“I can't work out what is happening at the borders, because where you have customs checks at road borders you have queues,” said the source
“The fact we don’t have queues is questionable – it’s not the efficiency of the systems and operations. With the numbers they are processing, it only requires a couple of hold-ups and that’s hours lost. They have greater queues on the EU/French side.
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 Profile picture
Feb 8
I have seen the official EU report on the failings of UK Gov to implement what it agreed on the NIP: it finds no more than what I've prev. tweeted. in that basically UKG was never going to be ready to implement it even if it wanted to (& that NI is a smugglers back door into EU)
The Commission team noted however, that the shortage of staff and
the high volume of animals and SPS goods are such that DAERA could not implement
the types of controls that it had prioritised (see sections 5.1.7 and 5.2.5 below)
The Commission team visited two retail distribution centres and noted that the
supermarket goods were packaged for end consumers, but those packages, contrary to the
undertaking given in the unilateral declaration,
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 Profile picture
Feb 8
There is a long written piece to be published by a high profile journalist: I will leave it to him as to when and what covered exactly,
but I made these basic points as follows
I remember when we used to use UK owner drivers to do our groupage/part loads to the Eastern European countries before they joined the EU. They told us of real horror stories, hanging around waiting to cross certain borders at certain times (certain customs officer shifts)
but they endured it for the easier work we gave them in the EU...
Never in my wildest days did I imagine UK making itself one of those pre-EU Eastern European nations, making any work in Europe now just as odious. That UK would be the one behind its equivalent Iron Curtain.
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 Profile picture
Feb 6
Again asked (too embarrassed on twitter) in a DM to explain SM/CU.
If a Welsh supplier sells to an English or Scottish buyer how easy is it? Why? All nations are part of same customs (union) territory & same (single) market standards territory operating under same legal authority
There are no (organic health against disease) standards to be qualified nor proven; nor tariffs or duties to be paid to any Government before the English or Scottish buyer can place onto the market, even if extra finishing, work, or additions made to the produce first.
If there are any subsequent consumer issues with fault in the produce the Welsh supplier can be readily & easily held to account under the same mutually recognised, legal overseeing authority.
The EU is an extension of all of the above across 27 other nations.
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