Trade/biz mad Yank-Brit in Scot/London 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 (personal views here) Not into neat little boxes. Nuance + principles ≠ mutually exclusive. #LFC and 🎾
Sep 8, 2020 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
People are doing hot takes, here's mine. Difficult to judge conclusively w/o seeing the legislative detail and wording of what's being proposed. No doubt the symbolism of Brandon Lewis' choice of words on actions UK taking will reverberate - hard not to. As to context/content? /1
Govt may be trying to do a lot of different but related things here. On the one hand, business generally wants as little disruption as possible, and the protocol -dating back to the Joint Report- does have the provision to guarantee "unfettered access" from NI to GB /2
Jun 18, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Important. Whole no-deal prep thing supposed to be about trying to get businesses ready. Expectation-reality gap when it comes to "continuity" narrative on EU trade arrangements w/other countries can be frustrating to manage with biz on rollover efforts /1
I understand Govt trying to highlight progress where made, but not being upfront about changes/highlighting where not going OK makes communicating detail to businesses trying to be prepared challenging. One biz saw Fox interview + thought fine until I showed where it wdnt be /2
Nov 6, 2018 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
A thread on this kind of reaction which seems to question why business isn't as prepared as it "should be" (since I see this narrative gaining traction in some political quarters)
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Most SMEs don't have large compliance departments and can only prepare with clear information about alternative future arrangements, much of which still is not known - even under-no deal (will we have more BIPs and where for example?) /2
