1/ Where are the Brexit Benefits?
Where is the 60% cut to council tax?
Where is the replacement of the EU infrastructure funding the Tories promised?
Where are the farm subsidies?
Where are the fishing subsidies?
Where are the shorter waiting lists in the NHS?
2/ Where are the thousands of new homes?
Where are all the farm workers?
Where are the hospitality workers?
Where are the Doctors and nurses?
Where is the ability to breeze through an airport, a ferry port?
Where are the fruit and vegetables?
Where is the inward investment?
3/ where are the freedoms to live, work or study anywhere within the EU without the 90/180 day restriction?
Where are the lower energy bills?
Where are the lower train fares?
Where are the 40 new hospitals?
Where are the 30,000 new nurses?
Where are the 20,000 new police?
4/ Shall I go on?
Brexit was sold to us on all the above promises! But they were all empty promises, like yesterday’s empty promises about pensions that will only benefit the top 1%, or the childcare that doesn’t kick in for another 2 years, after they lose next election and it’s
5/ someone else’s problem?
They lied to us about Brexit, they lie to us about everything, they keep repeating the lies. They are not governing this country for the benefit of the people, but profit, well there’s another thing, squeeze as much profit out of everything and don’t
6/ allow for reinvestment.
Spend 100s of billions on HS2 that won’t even reach central London, or Leeds, or Manchester?
Poison our watercourses, kill off the shellfish off the Humberside coast? Eradicate funding for SEN kids, destroy public services, devastate the NHS, get rid
7/ of the gas storage that meant we were protected from market fluctuations. Get rid of SureStart, libraries. Force the Austerity experiment upon us and watch the country slowly disintegrate.
For 13 years the Tories have systematically run a wrecking ball through our society.
Looks like the cost of getting a US visa is going to increase. With the loss of the EU touring and now the extra to tour the US, plus the dismal fees from streaming, is it viable to be a musician anymore?
At #CarryOnTouring we welcome any exposure to the issues facing musicians, crew and the wider creative industries. But it is important to point out that the wording used is correct, the last thing we want to do is to put creatives off from touring the heraldscotland.com/news/23295460.…
EU, we actively encourage it. It is harder than it was, it is doable, but we have to make sure the correct documentation is in place and that we abide by the Schengen area rules. In the article mentioned above it states: "With the loss of free movement, artists must now apply for
visas to work in EU countries and Brexit has made touring on the continent much more difficult."
This is not strictly true, we need to make sure that we have time left in our 90/180 days access to the Schengen area, we then need to make sure that we can work in the countries
Last night I went for a beer with an old touring buddy from way back, we discussed tours we’d worked on and the fun they had been, different bands from across the world that would pick up a UK crew and kit and take us with then as they toured the EU and often kept us on for the
tour as it went to other more far flung places, the far east, South America, Aus. If fact the majority of our work was overseas, flying the flag for UK expertise and bringing vast quantities of money for the treasury. We were doing this quietly, just minding our own business,
happily working alongside crews from other parts of the world. 1000s of us. Now that Frosts poorly negotiated TCA has left creative touring personnel high and dry, on purpose, many of us have no work. As freelancers, we are used to periods of downtime, where we get to spend time
Just had a chat with a sound engineer that did a job last week as a house technician looking after the venue system, they had an American artist playing that night and the sound engineer was talking to the Americans tour manager. They had brought a German sound and lighting rig
and German technicians with them to do a 6 date tour around the UK.
The Tour manager said to my friend that even though he struggled with the language issue, and that the German kit and crew were more expensive, he had decided to use them because it was far easier logistically
to get the kit and techs into and out of the UK than it was to take UK kit and techs to the EU which was what he had done many times before, sighting that the red tape surrounding carnets and cabotage and the hassle of checking all the techs Schengen allowance made it unviable to
Brexit. A device to maintain offshore tax havens for the rich, who used the lies about migrants swamping the country to persuade the inner racist in people to come out and vote for something they had no clue about. The billionaire press barons used the far right to push the
agenda through. And what is the result 3 years on?
The rich are considerably richer, the poor are considerably poorer, the NHS is screwed, remember the lie about £350m on the bus, business is screwed, remember Johnson’s mantra “ fuck business”.
It’s a complete disaster and people
still think it was a good idea. Is it? Is it a good idea to add hours of delays at ports and airports, trucks having to wait days, artists deciding not to tour because it’s not viable, professional qualifications not recognised anymore, inflation in double figures, staff shortage
1/ #CarryOnTouring is the UK’s umbrella campaign which all those who rely on touring can support and sit under. It brings together voices from across the touring, cultural and creative industries sector to secure political and public support for UK EU touring.
2/ The strength of our campaign is that it is inclusive reaching across the sector, industry and political parties; focusing on the real people, real lives and real jobs affected.
3/ We have vast parliamentary support from across both Houses and all parties. We are not a political campaign, Brexit has happened, as much as I personally believe it was a mistake, it isn’t going to change soon, so we must make the most of a bad job and find solutions to the