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Apr 26 • 13 tweets • 3 min read

🚨🚨 "In today's the curtain is coming down on Britain" @EllenAMilligan has an excellent and detailed report on how Britons finally taste full #Brexit as costly and complicated border checks are about begin. #brexitshambles via @BloombergUK
bloomberg.com/news/features/…

"Just down the corridor from where Danish Crown’s pigs are slaughtered, boned and prepared for export as bacon, six staff have a new task: filling in customs and health certificates made necessary by the UK’s split from its largest trading partner. "/2

Apr 26 • 10 tweets • 2 min read

🚨🚨 "In today's no plan & no resources" @SpeedMaddie & @pmdfoster reports on @CommonsEFRA letter demanding clarity on plans for the UK’s post-Brexit border controls after @FT revealed that crucial checks on imports would not begin by 30 April deadline. 🧵
ft.com/content/bb825c…

@CommonsEFRA said it was concerned that a government plan to initially set the rate of checks to zero for all goods when the border comes into force was a sixth delay “in all but name”. /2

Apr 12 • 15 tweets • 3 min read

🚨🚨 "in today's Labour does not still have a comprehensive EU policy", @pmdfoster , @AndyBounds and @GeorgeWParker commendably reports on @UKLabour's obscure and limited European strategy. Small 🧵
ft.com/content/56f9a2… First of all, we need to start with Labour's red lines (because they are looming large over everything else): "Starmer will rule out Britain rejoining the EU single market, the customs union or adopting free movement". /2

Apr 8 • 14 tweets • 3 min read

🚨🚨 " In today's let us start a trade war against ourselves" @JontyBloombiz forensically examines the substantial damage (higher prices and empty shelves) caused by the 'self-harm' Brexit import checks. via @TheNewEuropean 🧵
theneweuropean.co.uk/the-self-harm-… "4 years after Brexit & five delays later from April 30 the UK will start inspecting food imports from the EU & charging importers for the checks. The delays have been for two reasons – the UKG didn’t get its act together fast enough & it is worried about the checks’ effects. "/2

Apr 5 • 11 tweets • 2 min read

🚨"The UK was in the EU for 47 years. Yet the Acquis Communautaire is unknown to us. If we wish to renew ties with EU, we must understand it". @OscarWoofs owner has an excellent @BylinesEast piece here on the significance of the EU acquis for the UK. 🧵
eastangliabylines.co.uk/the-acquis-is-… "As the debate about returning to the EU persists, it is essential to understand the importance of the acquis communautaire, also known as the community acquis, the EU acquis or just acquis." /2

Apr 2 • 8 tweets • 2 min read

🚨🚨 Fascinating #rolingbackbrexit piece by @Sherelle_E_J . Whilst I am clearly on the side that considered #Brexit doomed from the start (at least when it means leaving the EU SM), there are some interesting insights into the #brexiteer "freedom" mindset worth recapturing: 🧵

https://twitter.com/rolandmcs/status/1774879117336322464

"If, as a nation, we are unwilling to maximally benefit from Brexit by leveraging our freedom, then we should decisively minimise our losses and re-enter the security of the EU fold." /2

Mar 28 • 9 tweets • 2 min read

🚨🚨 Must-read letter by Lucy Manzano head of @Port_of_Dover Health Authority to @CommonsEFRA absolutely obliterating @DefraGovUK's plans for the implementation of the UK Border Controls. Tldr; this looks to be a real disaster. #BrexitReality
committees.parliament.uk/publications/4…

"By allowing both RoW & EU goods to arrive & leave the port without any control (as there will be none) and cutting ASF funding by 70% and then down to zero, Defra is creating an entirely needless gaping hole in this border (if they do not review this ‘contingent decision’) ". /2

Mar 26 • 6 tweets • 1 min read

🚨🚨 Key piece of EU legislation providing for criminalization and penalties in the field of environmental protection. Main elements of the revised directive:🧵

https://twitter.com/StevePeers/status/1772589755579892055

1) The number of conducts that will constitute a criminal offence will increase from nine to 20. New offences include timber trafficking, the illegal recycling of polluting components of ships & serious breaches of legislation on chemicals

Mar 22 • 11 tweets • 3 min read

🚨🚨 Had a bit of a hectic day so did not have time to sit down and read Chris' lovely blog until now, this week taking on #brexit's implication for the state. As always, characteristically nuanced, insightful and incisive analysis. Some key points: 🧵

https://twitter.com/chrisgreybrexit/status/1771079919738462496

Whilst not the commonest of the taunts aimed at remainers at the time of the ref, a recurring one was ‘don’t you think this country is capable of running its own affairs?” Nearly 8 years on it’s tempting to think that the answer to the question should simply be ‘no’. /2

Mar 21 • 10 tweets • 2 min read

🚨🚨 In today's "Betraying Brexit", @Jeremy_Hunt is facing a backlash from senior Tories over his plans to copy the European Union by introducing a Brexit carbon border tax. #brexitreality via @nickgutteridge
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/… The Chancellor will press ahead on Thursday with proposals to create a new green levy on swathes of goods being imported into Britain. Extra duties will be applied to products such as steel, glass and ceramics if they come from countries with lower environmental standards. /2

Mar 18 • 11 tweets • 2 min read

🚨🚨 In today's "taking back control" manufacturer or distributor of toxic chemicals has at least claimed a #brexitbenefit as Britain is becoming a toxic chemical dumping ground. Commanding analysis by @GeorgeMonbiot of #brexitshambles for UK environment.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/… " The UKG insisted on a separate regulatory system for chemicals. At first sight, it’s senseless: chemical regulation is extremely complicated & expensive. Why replicate an EU system that costs many millions of euros and employs a small army of scientists and administrators?"/2

Mar 13 • 12 tweets • 3 min read

🚨🚨 New very comprehensive @UKandEU report authored by @jillongovt , @alwalks96 & @joelreland examining how, and how far, the UK state has adapted to #Brexit. Absolutely essential read for #brexit nerds. Small 🧵
ukandeu.ac.uk/reports/brexit…

1) Brexit led to an increase in the size of the civil service, and is a key reason for staff numbers growing by around 100,000 since the EU referendum. The Cabinet Office, Defra and the Home Office saw particularly large staff increases.

Mar 11 • 10 tweets • 3 min read

🚨🚨 In today's "we have no plan, no clue and no resources" @pmdfoster reports that key inspection site in Harwich are not ready for new post-Brexit border controls missing vital information. #brexitreality 🧵
ft.com/content/154a18… "despite all the gleaming new equipment on display, industry bodies on both sides of the Channel are voicing ever-louder concern that the UKG has failed to prepare the ground adequately for the introduction of a new post-Brexit border" that goes live on April 30. /2

Mar 8 • 12 tweets • 2 min read

🚨🚨 Excellent instalment by @AnthonyBylines forensically recording the most recent @YorksBylines Despatches from the Downsides. It is really very good on the budget. 🧵
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/brexit/br… "Note the chancellor didn’t even mention Brexit once in his 7,297 word speech as if it’s become an unmentionable embarrassment. Fortunately, the OBR were not so reticent, reaffirming that:"

Mar 5 • 8 tweets • 2 min read

🚨🚨 In today's "let's just postpone forever implementing #Brexit deal that we agreed with the EU " @JP_Biz reports that Irish exports are 'unlikely to face checks until 2025' according to Welsh Government. #brexitreality via @BBCNewsNI
bbc.com/news/articles/… From the end of next month goods from the rest of the EU will start to face physical checks when entering GB as part of long delayed post-Brexit border controls. Some controls started in January with the intro of customs processes & official certification of some food product./2

Mar 1 • 8 tweets • 2 min read

🚨🚨The challenge posed by Britain leaving the EU gave the European Commission an opportunity to embed its values and its members’ interests. Fascinating analysis by @gwmay03 on the Brexit negotiations. via @BylinesEast
eastangliabylines.co.uk/how-the-eu-com… " The European Commission is much maligned in the UK, lambasted as a group of unelected bureaucrats, with Boris Johnson going so far as to declare the Commission “a dysfunctional bureaucracy that has no proper democratic oversight“. /2

Feb 29 • 7 tweets • 2 min read

🚨🚨 Very significant legal acts adopted today by EU COM that will pave the way for Poland to access up to €137 billion in EU funding. Key elements of this are the following: 🧵
ec.europa.eu/commission/pre… 1.The Commission concludes that Poland has satisfactorily fulfilled the two “super milestones” to strengthen important aspects of the independence of the Polish judiciary through reforming the disciplinary regime for judges,

Feb 7 • 6 tweets • 2 min read

🚨🚨Animal products entering the UK from the EU will be waved through without checks if British ports are overwhelmed by new post-Brexit border controls, according to documents seen by @FT . Important #brexitreality scoop by @SpeedMaddie & @pmdfoster . ft.com/content/07d142… " For a period after April 2024 there is . . . a possibility that some [border control posts] — despite good planning — may not be able to complete 100 per cent documentary checks before a consignment’s arrival in GB,” the documents said. " /2

Feb 5 • 7 tweets • 2 min read

🚨🚨Succinct but excellent analysis by @thom_sampson of the need for the UK to dismantle the notion of "Global Britain" and commence rebuilding a stronger legal and political relationship with the European Union. via @EncompassEurope #BrexitRealityencompass-europe.com/comment/global… " What should be the future of UK trade policy? The first step is to ditch the myth of Global Britain. The EU is the UK’s most important trade partner, accounting for around half of all UK trade and a stronger trade relationship with the EU should be the number one priority." /1

Jan 26 • 14 tweets • 3 min read

🚨🚨 Good Friday morning to everyone! Today it is time to talk about the UK rejoining the EU customs union and/or the internal market. I have a shorter piece here in @BylinesEast examining some of the legal issues involved and the feasibility of the options. Small 🧵:

https://twitter.com/BylinesEast/status/1750752173439303799

A potential new Lab government has indicated that it wishes to improve the trading and political relationship with the EU, yet Keir Starmer suggests clearly Labour would not adopt a policy to take the UK back into the EU customs union or single market. /1

Nov 24, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read

🚨 Just got hold of this lovely document from 2018 where UK outlines its future relationship with the EU. The foreword by Teresa May have some golden lines:
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl… "Leaving the EU gives us the opportunity to deliver on that ambition once and for all – strengthening our economy, our communities, our union, our democracy, and our place in the world, while maintaining a close friendship and strong partnership with our European neighbours."

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