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Post by yggdrasil on May 18, 2023 13:25:39 GMT
You sound like "The Borg" in that kids sci fi show.
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Post by notoriousnobbi on May 19, 2023 15:02:24 GMT
Last week I skipped Grey bc he did a book review of a Guardian author. (doesn't mean it's not worth a read) This week Chris Grey's summary is essential again. In his own words: it's on on Farage's unsurprising remark, why Labour don't say the same, Brexiter angst about immigration & REUL, Tories in turmoil, the big issues about batteries, & more. I will only quote the battery part here, the other stuff (also important) is in the original source: Brexit has failed, but there’s no solution in prospect chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2023/05/brexit-has-failed-but-theres-no.htmlIn the part on batteries he gives Sam Lowe as one of the important experts
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Post by notoriousnobbi on May 20, 2023 19:09:22 GMT
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Post by notoriousnobbi on May 22, 2023 11:52:44 GMT
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Post by tommcclarey on May 22, 2023 12:33:40 GMT
A sad case, but what has it got to do with Brexit?
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Post by Carl LaFong on May 22, 2023 16:44:19 GMT
UK fruit exports to EU have dropped by more than half since Brexit Exports of fruit from the UK to the EU, including traditional English apples and pears, have more than halved since Brexit, according to data released by HMRC. The decline has been put down to the introduction of trade barriers caused by the UK’s departure from the EU, including mandatory health certificates on fresh and chilled food and customs paperwork. Similar barriers have yet to be introduced on imports to the UK, causing recent concern about the threat to future imports of some of British diners’ favourites, including fresh cheese, olive oil and dried meats from Spain and Italy. HMRC data shows that the barriers, in place since 2021, are already biting on the UK-to-EU side of the Brexit ledger. In the year to 31 March 2021, the UK sold £248.5m worth of fruit to the EU. But sales figures dropped to £119m the next year, and have remained at that level since, with latest tax data showing sales for the year to March 2023 of £113.8m. The chartered accountancy firm Hazelwoods, which analysed the figures, blamed a number of factors including the risk to farmers who are selling fruit, which may end up rotting if delayed by customs or phytosanitary officials in Calais and other EU ports. But they also said that, with the delays and extra cost of fruit, retailers in continental Europe were now less likely to buy from the UK and were choosing to import fruit from other countries within the bloc. “Long delays at UK ports are dissuading many fruit farmers from sending their produce abroad,” said Rebecca Copping, a partner at Hazlewoods. “For a nation with an historic reputation for producing high-quality fruit, it’s a shame that red-tape is making it harder for farmers to export their wares.” “Even double-digit inflation hasn’t been enough to bring the value of fruit exports into the black. This shows just how much damage has been inflicted on the sector.” Analysis of HMRC data showed that the overall value of exports to the EU of food had increased but Hazelwoods said “a large proportion of this increase in value can be attributed to rising inflation in food prices, following the Ukraine crisis”... www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/22/uk-fruit-exports-to-eu-have-dropped-by-more-than-half-since-brexit
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Post by notoriousnobbi on May 22, 2023 18:22:22 GMT
A sad case, but what has it got to do with Brexit? You are right, this special case may had been also an issue in case Brexit had not happened. But the rules of free movement might have made possible that the husband's lawyers could have forced another outcome. Having said this: 1) Perhaps we do not know enough about this case and 2) I'm no lawyer, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. True though is that Brexit made a mess of many binational EU-UK relationships. By the way: are You that certain tommcclarey to whom I dedicated the original Brexit thread in the other forum? see >> imdb2.freeforums.net/post/2449792/threadIn that case: Congratulations! If You had not started that "Why a no-deal Brexit is nothing to fear" thread see >> imdb2.freeforums.net/thread/119496/why-deal-brexit-fear(Your initial post had been deleted) I might have never started the mammoth B-thread in that other forum. The very first post in that mammoth B-thread described the uncertain situation many people had to face at the end of 2018 and it did link to: from 2018 Citizens’ Rights – the dishonesty around Free Movement is Brexit in a nutshellchrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2018/12/citizens-rights-dishonesty-around-free.html
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Post by notoriousnobbi on May 22, 2023 19:39:13 GMT
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Post by tommcclarey on May 22, 2023 19:43:32 GMT
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Post by notoriousnobbi on May 24, 2023 19:18:27 GMT
Though being one of the important EU negotiators, I didn't have that much material on Stefaan De Rynck so far. But he offers some insights.
Here from 2017
(if You can't stand the video, there is a transscript! )
at about 15:00 he destroys a myth about David Davis having no notes:
This Year Stefaan da Rynch presented his book on the Brexit negotiations from the EU side of view, ( and he is visibly 5-6 years older )
It's a long video, but very informative and interesting.
Especially the Q&A section where it is discussed where the British exceptionalism might come from, how the chances for rejoining are, whether the EU should have engaged more with the remain campaign, the lack of understanding that the confrontative style negotiations by the UK were counterproductive, guidelines on referendums, at which point the UK should have decided which future it wants, about the order of steps after the triggering of A50, how May should have bought time, ...
I think these videos are important especially for the Britons bc the EU point of view is often missing in British media.
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Post by notoriousnobbi on May 27, 2023 8:08:19 GMT
Finally the immigration discussion in the UK switches from focusing on the (potentially) illegal migration towards the legal migration policies! British fish are happy fish, JRM once said. UK fishing industry gets green light to hire more overseas workerswww.ft.com/content/5a438a26-4046-4df6-b4e1-b49af82cfbe0(the headline speaks for itself) How happy are they now?
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Post by notoriousnobbi on May 27, 2023 8:42:21 GMT
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Post by yggdrasil on May 27, 2023 9:13:21 GMT
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Post by Flying Monkeys on May 27, 2023 13:20:55 GMT
Where's the economic disaster we were promised??
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Post by Flying Monkeys on May 27, 2023 13:27:11 GMT
Ha ha, hilarious. Or maybe it's down to there being more demand in the domestic market. Why does the Guardian continually make itself look stupid by not investigating other obvious possibilities? Oh that's right, because it is a propaganda rag, not a newspaper. Shame on you posting posting tripe.
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