Brexit Re-booted

One for the ostriches optimists...

Trade will be a “day-to day struggle” after Brexit is completed, MPs have been told, in a bleak forecast from the key aerospace, chemicals and pharmaceuticals industries.

None of the three witnesses could state a reason for welcoming the end of the transition period, on 31 December, when challenged by Hilary Benn, the Brexit committee’s chairman.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-trade-northern-ireland-mps-boris-johnson-b714335.html

Oh, MaizieD, they're just being doombuckets! (sarcasm )

I am soooooo bloody annoyed.

Urmstongran ?

Yes we are all doomed aren’t we?

If the virus doesn’t get us then there is Brexit lurking round the corner.
We will either starve to death, or die from lack of medications.
What else? Oh yes we will all be poisoned by those chlorinated chickens we are apparently being forced to eat.

We may as well give up now.

I’m just off to text my offspring to tell them not to bother buying dad and I anything for Christmas as apparently we won’t be around to make use of it!

Message to brexiters

www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/james-obrien/james-obriens-message-to-brexiteers-after-eu-launches-legal-action-against-uk/

www.theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/westminster-news/uk-warned-chemical-supply-will-disappear-after-brexit-226956?jwsource=cl

so some of you find it very funny ahahaha. At this stage, one has to wonder why - and there are only two posible reasons.

and of course that means pharmaceuticals too

The EU has over 800 cases pending court action.

Snippet from an exchange in the HoC today:

Hilary Benn - The cost to the chemical industry to register all chemicals would be £1billion... so why has the government imposed such enormous costs & red tape on one of our most successful Industries?

Michael Gove - That's an inevitable consequence of leaving the EU..

So there we have it! A billion pounds for nothing was inevitable. I honestly don't remember him saying anything about before the referendum.

But, hey, people knew what they were voting for. How could they have known?

Hmm ... financial services, chemical industry, car manufacturing ... It's not going well, is it?

So when does Project Fear stop becoming Project Reality?

biba70

www.theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/westminster-news/uk-warned-chemical-supply-will-disappear-after-brexit-226956?jwsource=cl

so some of you find it very funny ahahaha. At this stage, one has to wonder why - and there are only two posible reasons.

I think it has to be hysteria. I wouldn't mind some of whatever they're on.

Useless fact of the day:

The entire UK fishing and fish processing industry has roughly the same turnover as Poundland.

Ah but it’s all about the optics growstuff. It’s ours to negotiate away, or not.

Anyway if it’s so piffling, how come the French want it so much?

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Are you still telling us that this will be the easiest deal in history because we hold all the cards UG?

haven't got the figures in front of me, but isn't the case that most fish caught by UK fishermen is exported to EU as not to our taste, and vice-versa?

Isn't there a 'problem' there ;) UG?

Well we’re obviously not just going to give those fish away biba.

Probably exchange some of them for something we want I expect.

No varian I never said or voted for the ‘easiest deal ever’. That was David Davies I think.

That said, a deal will be done.

It is also the case that the UK government allowed UK fishermen to sell their boats with their quotas to other countries, something which could not happen in other EU countries because none of them had Nigel Farage as their representative on the EU Fishing Committee.

Perhaps if Farage had taken the trouble to turn up at the meetings (he only attended one 1 of 42 meetings) he would have noticed that other EU countries protected their fishing quotas, but he let down our fishing industry and our country to achieve brexit.

Also perhaps a good deal of the EU is landlocked? Makes a big difference.
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Many EU countries do have coasts and fishing industries and they had representatives on the EU Fishing Committee who looked after their interests. We did not.

We had lair Farage determined to undermine our EU membershnip at all costs, even inculuding the destruction of our fishing industry.

“how come the French want it so much?”

Because the French fishermen will blockade the ports and motorways, if we try to take fishing away, that sort of disruption usually means loss of life too.

I hope Boris will support our fisherman. I have a worry that he will use them in a trade off with the EU.

Maybe the EU is landlocled in parts- but perhaps UG has NOT yet noticed we are an Island? I would have thought after Raab's truly ridiculous statement last year, most people would have picked up on that ;)

Six out of the 27 EU countries are landlocked, hardly "a good deal" of them. Is this you and "alternative facts" again Ug?

You may not wish to give them away - but no-one can be forced to buy them! And huge delays at ports, and possible blockages- will be the end of that.

Sarnia

I hope Boris will support our fisherman. I have a worry that he will use them in a trade off with the EU.

I don't. I hope he does use them in a trade off. I would. But Gove's father had a fish factory, so it's unlikely.

Gove's father had a fish factory which Gove claimed had been put out of business by the EU. Gove's father promptly said that that was a lie...

He's almost as inveterate a liar as his leader...