Leeds lad. Worked 30 years at the Freight Forwarding & logistics/coalface with owner drivers thru intro of fax machines & C88s to 2017. Escaped using my FoM 😉
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Feb 1 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The disgusting Tory MP does not really give a shit & doesn't know her own Gov. rules. The foreign spouse cannot claim any state benefits & pays for NHS as a large up front payment (inc visa about 4 grand tot? for 1st of 2 visas needed of 2.5 years each) @paperghost Thread
@alexinlaw @StevePeers @ColinYeo1 @SimonFRCox @ZoeJardiniere His/her (foreign spouse) earnings don't count even if meeting min earnings threshold. If living abroad UK spouse must show 6 months earnings of 29,000 pa (38,700 pa next year) alone in UK before foreign spouse can apply
Jan 1 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
Once again for the Brexit liars & dummies 1/ All countries start with their own market standards, regulated & customs territory.
If an outsider wants to sell on it you must prove you meet its standards & pay a tariff at its border
2/ If you want to stop another from being too protectionist & charging you whatever tariff they wish to keep you out of their territory, you join the WTO, which agrees maximum tariff schedules between its members.
There are 163 members, but not all countries of the world are
Dec 25, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Pre-Brexit A N Other paid the relevant tariffs on his parts from China before finishing the *British* product & sending onto his (fellow EU member) buyers completely free of all other costs apart from transport & CMR (despatch & delivery) note & invoice. . 1/5
..all for a nice profit & orders allowing employment of 15 staff.
Post-Brexit he paid these same tariffs on entry to UK *but now had to pay them again on behalf of his EU buyers* who will not pay them, as they will instead find new suppliers inside the EU (SM/CU) borders. 2/5
Nov 6, 2023 • 36 tweets • 7 min read
“Stock-out” is (not) a new phrase for me, but the meaning is obvious – it is just supermarket shorthand for being out of stock. And when a supermarket is out of stock, the result is empty or partially empty shelves. These are being seen once again in UK supermarkets....
..and images of them are being shared on social media. And it is worth stating once again that there is a simple reason why stock-outs happen more than they used to: Brexit. Leaving the EU has seriously stymied the UK’s food importation and distribution sector.
Jul 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Man leaves club
Man loses all the benefits of club membership
Man is angry, moans & whines about his former club "punishing" him for no longer giving him these benefits
Man is angry they are no longer even concerned about his better interests outside the club
Silly, ignorant twat
Brexiters are doing all I predicted they would. Customs & regulatory border processes (UK chose to resurrect both.. & add 'ss' processes in too) *constrict* throughput at extra cost & bureaceacy. This is fact. How do you mask this? You have the processes further back "upsteam"
However, by making the processes further "upstream" inc building holding areas away from port/Tunnel area control, the results are the same. Extra costs & delays to consignee orders (impossible for smaller former groupage) being fulfilled means the future orders simply fall away
May 29, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
The people of Bristol were fed up of too many non Bristolians in Bristol. They duly voted to leave the union of the UK to take back more control of their borders & be free to make trade deals more tailored to their needs; not trying to satisfy all others out there in the union.
Bristol jobs for Bristolians only. No more Freedom of Movement with the union.
Having a different trade policy (different regulated & customs territory) to the union meant of course having to make customs & regulated border posts & checkpoints between Bristol & its former union.
May 27, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Is it better to explain borders this way?
An immigration/ID control border is a wall to climb over. A regulatory (proving standards & rights to enter) border is a wall built on top of former wall.
A customs (proving no entry tariffs to pay on your valuable goods) border is another wall built on top of previous two walls
Apr 15, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
So many blamed EU for this. There was no "discrimination" by the EU. All EU (& EFTA) member state citizens have same FoM rights, but you have to exercise them by moving to another state not your own.
All citizens are subjected to their home nation individual immigration policies
Brits with non EU spouses were envious to see EU citz, also with non EU spouses living alongside them not subject to UK immigration rules..but that worked in reverse too. A Brit with non EU living in other EU state would have same greater FoM rights than a Pole etc in own country
Apr 15, 2023 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Brexit Billy was in a wealthy club where members did lots of buying & selling with each other and when able to not get exactly what they wanted they were freely able to do so outside the club. But naturally they made it far easier to sell to & buy from each other, as all clubs do
However, this was a special club that others looked up to as the premier club for the easiest possible buying from & selling to each other thanks to deep mutual trust with & for each other. Brexit Billy had the privellege of being a leading member within this, his, club ..but..
Apr 14, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
If in UK based manufacturing or (food) production what do you think would happen to you if?
1/ UKG made it law you abide by designated *British Standards* but unilaterally also *equally* allows EEA/CE standards onto GB market?
Which is more certain than ever.
2/ UKG made it law you abide by designated *British Standards* but unilaterally also *equally* allows EEA/CE.. And American, Japanese, Australian & Indian (all WTO member as a Brexit "benefit") standards onto GB market?
Which has been/is being openly considered by some in UKG
A "saving" being *absolute lie* of course
when compared to no border processing crossing costs at all
as part of same regulated & customs territory as the other
Only a "saving" when cutting corners & perm. levelling out smuggling risks fm all parts of world. Allow me to explain
Apr 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Although..if you are travelling/moving to a different EU or EFTA member state not your own, your non EU/EFTA spouse & family member/s inherit your exercised FoM rights.
You own EU/EFTA member nation though has its own sovereign immigration policy if travelling to/moving there.
Even then, if living/working in another EU/EFTA member state not your own for qualifying period (6 months) you have *all* now exercised FoM rights to live/work together in your home nation. In UK it was called Surinder Singh route & many say is the reason why UK in its mess today
Apr 12, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Tell me it's not difficult?
Different customs territories have customs borders with checkpoints.
Different regulated territories have regulatory borders with border posts. These very visible borders take time, cost & effort to cross, esp. when one is *divergent* to the other
Anywhere in world only way to remove a customs border is to agree a customs union with the other(s). & only way to bilaterally remove a regulatory border is to agree a single market of regs with the other(s). No country does this unilaterally, giving all advantage to the other(s)
Apr 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
My son is good. He came up with the NI now being the West Berlin to GB's East Germany analogy..
& the Brexit standing down hard on the fire hose at full water pressure, ending FoM throughput, analogy. He's also right when he says the pressure tap is now being turned down ..1/2
(i.e. GB freight/exports permanently lost, & people dropping away, behind the Brexit constricting flow) so that the previous full pressure flow will again become a relative trickle (of the more exclusive products & more affluent people) to the continent. 2/2
#BelarussianBrexit
Apr 10, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The great god Brexit where all is good. People are fucking nuts.
FoM had to be ended as too easy for 'forrins' to enter UK..*but FoM is reciprocal* so won't we lose that same easier access to the EU? ..'no' say the Brexiters 'losing it makes no difference' ..
for fuck's sake 😂
@vivamjm Imagine owning property in EU and hoping to retire there someday... then voting for brexit...
Coz they did you know.
It was like trying to reason with fire irons! 🙄
Apr 10, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@MaxWarnerQ @NorburyKaz There are *no* customs border delays/queues when part of same customs (union) territory. There are *no* proving market standards, before entry, borders delays/queues when part of same (single) market standards territory
@NorburyKaz @vivamjm Also the uk gov were warned about this but did nothing to prevent it.
Brexit Benefits: 1/ You can holiday more in GB (which you didn't when you had *choice*) 2/ You can eat more mackerel, whelks & turnips (which you didn't when you had *choice*)
3/ You can play 5 nights in Scunny with your fledgling band (which you didn't when you had *choice*.. to play in EU27, or even Northern Ireland)
Apr 9, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Not seen this thread before, but a good one illustrating what UK has @SaveFOM lost in leaving its single market ..
& @JKLDNMAD doesn't mention the losses from leaving a cu (no more duty free circ. of commercially valuable goods, but costly declarations & onerous carnets instead)
@vivamjm @bobreeduk @SaveFOM @JKLDNMAD Our daughter got settled status in France. Has just finished her masters. She can’t join her girlfriend in Amsterdam. And they can’t go to work in Berlin. She doesn’t have FOM
Beautiful angel ambitions curtailed.
Apr 7, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@TeagueRoger @AnniHawk @vivamjm You don't understand the difference between customs and immigration controls, or what becoming a third country as a result of brexit means, do you? The French are only applying the EU rules for third country borders which is what brexit voters voted for...
@Dominic_Simpson @TeagueRoger @vivamjm When they start the biometric processing the last week is going to look like the good old days.
Mar 31, 2023 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
Read this thread @JimofEssex and tell me which of it is incorrect
"Britain has joined a trade deal so contentious that it united Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in opposition to US membership"
In signing the CPTPP, Britain has ditched environmental standards, signed up to terms that will undermine British farmers, and left us open to being sued by multinational corporations in secretive courts. And all for no real economic benefit.
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