Amazing this needs to be spelt out. So many seem to have forgotten why the EU wide single market was conceived of, pushed for & championed ...
*by the UK* (Cockfield & Thatcher).
How does today's UK reckon it will, & with what, compete on world markets?

https://twitter.com/SammyOWilson1/status/1845802778028900703

Where will investment into UK (instead of into - foreign owned - privately run "Freeports") come from?
UK has made itself less competitive in the EU without equally compensating elsewhere.
By deregulation? Of what? Worker, consumer & environmental rights & protections?

The dilemma UK has is that it must prove to EU it can *control* its borders in accordance with present trading (TCA) agreements BEFORE the EU will look to ease trading (eg SPS agreement) into *its* market. UK is failing here & has been since 1/1/21.
It remains too afraid to try It means finding, employing & at least adequately training the extra personnel needed for its present trading agreement. This includes "50,000" customs agents, approx 5,000 customs officers, 2,000 vets & port health authority officers. Think about those numbers.

I have tried in many different ways/tweets these last 8 years to warn of the mess UK was going to find itself in if & when it ever gets Brexit fully "done" (its choice, not the EU "punishing" UK) ..I am going to try again with a real effort not to use any tech/logistics jargon 😉 All countries start with their own customs & legally regulated (standards) territory. Trading within these (home/domestic) territories is of course the easiest of trade possible. Buyers & sellers are operating under the same mutually recognised legal oversight & authority.

I note comments that EU suppliers will no longer want to supply GB. They will. If price is right & GB importers accept "Ex Works" Incoterms. (i.e. the produce is here: you collect). EU hauliers will also only deliver if all indemnity/demurrage/spoilt goods paid for by GB importer But either way, it means the extra costs to you will be costs that are often now too prohibitive for GB importers. You were always going to be paying far more for far less choice & variety...unless dropping standards.
This is nature of trading across regulatory & customs borders

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

https://twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1752663460578492662

@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

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

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

“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.

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

https://twitter.com/DavidKlappholz7/status/1682890097300054019?s=20

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"

https://twitter.com/benhabib6/status/1681544915447078915

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

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.

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

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

https://twitter.com/bash487244111/status/1646216718803402767

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

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..

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

Brexit not yet "done" 😬

https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1646574271962009600

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

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.

https://twitter.com/br_nning/status/1643702493816184833

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

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)

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

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! 🙄

@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.

https://twitter.com/JRLOakley/status/1642603013842825216?s=20