Wonderful things happening after the referendum and A50

[Guest]

No deal

[Cannydc]

Lol. The eu is broke and shitting itself. If it doesnt get a handout from us they're fucked.

Chill remoaners. The brave lads got this.

Brexit

So the answer was no, same old bravado, same old BS.

Thanks for that.

[Cannydc]

Meanwhile, the dishonesty mounts up....

The Electoral Commission is to investigate Vote Leave for a potential breach of spending limits during the EU referendum campaign, and a student campaigner who received £625,000 from the organisation.

The watchdog will investigate whether the officially designated Brexit campaign during the referendum, fronted by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, breached the £7m legal spending limit and whether it had filed its return correctly.

The commission said new information had come to light, which meant it had “reasonable grounds to suspect an offence may have been committed”.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... gn-funding

[Cannydc]

Meanwhile, the dishonesty mounts up....

The Electoral Commission is to investigate Vote Leave for a potential breach of spending limits during the EU referendum campaign, and a student campaigner who received £625,000 from the organisation.

The watchdog will investigate whether the officially designated Brexit campaign during the referendum, fronted by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, breached the £7m legal spending limit and whether it had filed its return correctly.

The commission said new information had come to light, which meant it had “reasonable grounds to suspect an offence may have been committed”.

Also today, Lord Callanan, a Brexit minister, has apologised to the House of Lords for wrongly telling peers that article 50 cannot be revoked. Lying toad....


https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... gn-funding

[Cannydc]

The EU27 have chosen Amsterdam as the city that will host the European Medicines Agency when it leaves London after Brexit.

Cheerio to being at the forefront of that particular area, along with the attendant jobs, then.

[Stooo]

All going swimmingly then

Remind me, what did we win again?

[Cannydc]

One of the world’s biggest logistics companies, whose clients include Rolls-Royce, Airbus and Primark, has said it is “bordering on insanity” to think new Brexit customs systems will be in place for 2019.

Leigh Pomlett, the executive director of CEVA Group, which specialises in road, air and ocean-going freight, said Downing Street and the Treasury did not understand how difficult it would be to have a system in place in 15 months’ time, when the UK leaves the EU.

“It is just the urgency of this that worries me. It takes me longer to negotiate a supply chain contract than we have here. Arguably, it is already too late,” he said.

CEVA employs 6,000 people in the UK and counts supermarkets, car manufacturers, food producers and pharmaceutical companies including GlaxoSmithKline among its clients.

Pomlett told the Freight Transport Association conference in Dublin on Monday that delays in Dover would lead to a “calamitous situation”. It is calculated that an increase of just two minutes in the average time it takes trucks to clear customs could cause 17-mile tailbacks in the port town.

He said 70% of EU trade entered Britain “on a lorry” and urged businesses to be more vocal about the potential disruption in order to force the government into action.


Calamitous - but hey, we get our borders back, yeah ?

[Cannydc]

A body set up by the Good Friday agreement to promote cross-border trade in Ireland warned that some companies in Northern Ireland could be wiped out simply by the sheer number of rules of origin certificates required for each export to the EU post Brexit.

“They are £48 a pop. We worked out the bill for one company would add on £700,000 in costs a year, its entire profit,” said Aidan Gough, strategy director of InterTrade Ireland, which is coaching businesses on Brexit survival.

Manufacturing Northern Ireland said this was only the tip of the iceberg. “Add staff time, copies, potential letter of credit – if banking arrangements aren’t agreed – and the cost increases tenfold,” it tweeted in response to Gough.

[Cannydc]

Now the car makers (remember them being trumpeted as post-Brexit investors ?) are showing their true hands.

The devastating impact of a hard Brexit on the UK car industry was laid bare on Tuesday to MPs, who were told every 15 minutes of customs delays would cost some manufacturers up to £850,000 a year.

Presenting the industry’s most detailed evidence yet to the business select committee, Honda UK said it relied on 350 trucks a day arriving from Europe to keep its giant Swindon factory operating, with just an hour’s worth of parts being held on the production line.

The Japanese-owned company said it would take 18 months to set up new procedures and warehouses if Britain left the customs union but that, with 2m daily component movements, even minor delays at Dover and the Channel tunnel would force hundreds of its trucks to wait for the equivalent of 90 hours a day.

“Outside of the customs union, there is no such thing as a frictionless border,” said Honda’s government affairs manager, Patrick Keating.

Honda and other witnesses from Aston Martin and the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) argued that customs and trade threats were only the start of their concerns.

Aston Martin also feared a “semi-catastrophic” end to EU recognition of UK regulatory approval, something Keating revealed Brussels was now threatening in the event of a “no-deal” Brexit.

Honda pointed to a recent study suggesting the cost of converting an EU car to match US standards is equivalent to another 26% tariff increase.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... toms-union

[Cannydc]

Sir Ivan Rogers speaking at the NFU

"trading on WTO terms, in a no deal scenario, would be pretty damaging for the agricultural sector...The agri sector would be the one facing the highest EU external tariffs."

[Big Fat Frosty]

Sir Ivan Rogers speaking at the NFU

"trading on WTO terms, in a no deal scenario, would be pretty damaging for the agricultural sector...The agri sector would be the one facing the highest EU external tariffs."

we could always sell more whisky
doesnt matter if it spends fucking ages in the new kent lorry park...

[Cannydc]

Sir Ivan Rogers speaking at the NFU

"trading on WTO terms, in a no deal scenario, would be pretty damaging for the agricultural sector...The agri sector would be the one facing the highest EU external tariffs."

we could always sell more whisky
doesnt matter if it spends fucking ages in the new kent lorry park...

All the better for it, imho.

Mind you, if I were truly honest, and sorry Scotch lovers, it wouldn't matter to me if it was tipped down the nearest drain. Horrible stuff...

[Stooo]

Does anyone know the percentage of trade that we do as GDP with Eire?

[Big Fat Frosty]

Sir Ivan Rogers speaking at the NFU

"trading on WTO terms, in a no deal scenario, would be pretty damaging for the agricultural sector...The agri sector would be the one facing the highest EU external tariffs."

we could always sell more whisky
doesnt matter if it spends fucking ages in the new kent lorry park...

All the better for it, imho.

Mind you, if I were truly honest, and sorry Scotch lovers, it wouldn't matter to me if it was tipped down the nearest drain. Horrible stuff...

ive been buying tescos and asdas home label "southern comfort"
for years
local asda had non but proper was on sale for 15£
when drank it
i was dissapointed
if i was to mark
asda 1st
tesco 2nd
original 3rd
asda tastes more orangy

[Cannydc]

Does anyone know the percentage of trade that we do as GDP with Eire?

Exports - £28bn (5% of GDP)

Imports - £17bn (3% of GDP)

https://visual.ons.gov.uk/uk-perspectiv ... nd-beyond/