Oh.

And more SPS checks are soon supposed to be carried out on imports…
Whilst the U.K. Gov is busy imposing painful sanctions on itself rather less so 🇷🇺

Food producers estimate that Brexit-related bureaucracy, which has seen the number of official export forms to be filled increase 12-fold since January 2021, is costing the industry £60mn a year.
The number of EHCs increased from 29,000 in 2020 to more than 288,000 in 2021, according to official government figures, requiring the equivalent of 580,000 hours of work for vets.
Meanwhile since new immigration controls came into force in January 2021, the numbers applying to work in Britain fell from 1,132 in 2019 to just 364 last year, according to data from the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.
Food industry groups estimate that absorbing the costs of the new sanitary and phytosanitary measures — so called SPS checks — would require an additional £3bn of sales in the first year of Brexit.

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More from @fascinatorfun

Feb 25
Video claiming to show planes during Russian invasion of Ukraine is actually of 2020 parade rehearsal - Full Fact

Beware of false information. Some may be deliberate propaganda designed to affect morale.

Others may be mischief making.
fullfact.org/online/moscow-…
I try and wait for a reliable verification - but it is easy to get caught out.

Worth remembering that one of the purposes of disinformation is to demoralise. In this instance the Ukraine people who are already suffering enough.

fullfact.org/online/ukraine…
Read 4 tweets
Feb 25
I remember in my O and A level history lessons the importance to Russia (or the USSR) of warm sea ports in the Black Sea with easy access to the south being drummed into us and why.

And how huge Russia was with great land masses uninhabited.
We were fortunate in our history teachers and also our English teacher who introduced us to Uncle Vanya, the Cherry Orchard, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, The Government Inspector (by the Russian Ukrainian Gogol) and the Brothers Karamazov
And the teachers talked to one another so the lessons joined up.

And the map was always there.
Read 5 tweets
Feb 24
“For the West, this may be (yet another) wake-up call. For Ukraine, it is a death-knell.We will have years …to mull the combination of naivete, complacency, arrogance, ignorance and — most of all — greed that brought us to this catastrophe.”

Powerful 🧵 from @edwardlucas
Read his 10 point to-do list.

Write to your MPs demanding they are delivered.

Tell them we should be welcoming and supporting those who are fleeing from Ukraine….as so many other countries are already doing.

Countries far smaller than ours and just as far away.
And his reflections on the U.K. Gov sanctions to date.

Too little. Too late. That is the slogan for this Government.

Over and over again.
Read 4 tweets
Feb 24
“Putin is an imperialist thug. He is challenging the right of Ukrainians to exist, to aspire towards European liberty. Don’t forget how this all started – with his attempt to stop the country signing an association agreement with the EU in 2014.”
“The people of Ukraine dream of freedom, safety and self-determination. He is intent on preventing them from attaining it, on the basis of a belligerent jingoistic colonialism.”
“Morality and strategy are perfectly entwined. There is no complication to this issue. There is only the profound historic imperative of taking a stand.”

Superb from @IanDunt
Read 9 tweets
Feb 24
Numerous cities across Russia.

Including his hometown St Petersburg.
Yekaterinburg where Arron Bank’s wife heralds from.
Read 6 tweets
Feb 24
It’s jolly decent of Putin to make it easy to identify who else should be targeted for sanctions.

All the biddable business élite who have attended at Putin’s bidding.

Some rather significant names seem to be missing from our (U.K.) mouse-squeak very tiny list
I make that 39 people.

Wonder what it is like being “a successful” businessman working under the shadow of fear that you will suddenly end up thrown out a window or poisoned?
And look who is one of the people who had a special meeting with Putin.

Guryev who owns the largest mansion in London after Buckingham Palace.

Hence the need to freeze assets too.
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