Brexit Re-booted

In today's Times...
" Britain will reject an invitation to join an EU coronovirus vaccine procurement scheme over fears that it could delay access to to successful products by up to six months "

I really do not understand this, but remember that the powers that be to join in a procurement schemme for PPE at the start of the pandemic .

growstuff

MaizieD

There were two pages to that letter apparently, but only one screenshotted on twitter. I'd like to see the second page...

Voilà!

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project fear (they said)

MaizieD

There were two pages to that letter apparently, but only one screenshotted on twitter. I'd like to see the second page...

Voilà!

Welshwife

When do the personal allowances come back into play - Jan 2021 or July? I assume the limits will be similar to how they were before we joined the EU.

There were personal limits long after we joined the EU/Common Market. I can't remember exactly when they were lifted. Was it 1992?

Genuine duty free goods were actually cheaper than some of the items bought with lower foreign taxes.

When do the personal allowances come back into play - Jan 2021 or July? I assume the limits will be similar to how they were before we joined the EU.

There were two pages to that letter apparently, but only one screenshotted on twitter. I'd like to see the second page...

Even Barnier’s English is better

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Here’s the reply. Makes you want to crawl away and hide at the idiocy of our MPs

Barnier is very polite I thought! Can imagine the hilarity in the Brussels office though

How on earth did we manage to get such an utter idiot as an MP?

What Truss is saying is that there isn't enough time to work out any systems. International laws need to be respected if the UK wants anybody to buy from us. If nothing's in place by December, nobody in any country will buy anything manufactured in the UK. It really isn't just about smuggling a few hundred cigarettes and a couple of bottles of whisky.

It does not need to be a Charter for Smugglers but checks will be needed. The border crossings between Switzerland and the EU work smoothly, sometimes you get stopped sometimes you don’t, (we did). Commercial goods go through separate channel’s and get inspected. Once the rules are established it will be routine but not everyone will like it that’s for sure.

Davidhs

Of course there will be 6 months where existing rules will apply, we will all be able to bring booze and cigarettes for personal use as we do now. No doubt we will want to take advantage of that concession before it gets stopped, but it’s not smuggling.

Commercial goods will go through the existing process, so I don’t see why smuggling would be more or less of a problem, except for Ireland.

Just how they are going to stop Northern Irish residents bringing illegal goods across the Irish Sea has not yet been agreed. As there will be no land border with the south a sensible solution would be, “you cannot take advantage of any concessions at home but you can’t bring it across the Irish Sea”.

That would suit the Irish, north and south, commercial goods get declared, mostly. Personal use carte blanche as it is now, the best of both worlds.

In my previous life I had a lot of dealings with smuggling and border issues.

Truss is right. It is a charter for smugglers.

“ you can take advantage”

Damn predictive texting.

Of course there will be 6 months where existing rules will apply, we will all be able to bring booze and cigarettes for personal use as we do now. No doubt we will want to take advantage of that concession before it gets stopped, but it’s not smuggling.

Commercial goods will go through the existing process, so I don’t see why smuggling would be more or less of a problem, except for Ireland.

Just how they are going to stop Northern Irish residents bringing illegal goods across the Irish Sea has not yet been agreed. As there will be no land border with the south a sensible solution would be, “you cannot take advantage of any concessions at home but you can’t bring it across the Irish Sea”.

That would suit the Irish, north and south, commercial goods get declared, mostly. Personal use carte blanche as it is now, the best of both worlds.

ev yes I think that is right, and C19 and the experience of Brexit has made the EU more determined in its collective endeavour to cooperate as a team of nations.

So civilised.

We had no business to be part of a vote to leave the EU. It's screamingly obvious that this country can't function without the backing of Europe and all that it stands for.
We're a multicultural society so what difference does it make to have the foreign backing of those countries that are a part of the EU ?

This pandemic has shown proof that we NEED a United Europe in every way.
It's going to create more mayhem than any pandemic and I couldn't blame other countries if they're going to make things awkward for this country----I hope they do ! The backlash will be something that we'll rightly deserve.

It's the EU who have built up a lot of deprived areas in this country and have brought about employment so who's going to do that now ? With what this pandemic is costing the country there'll be nothing left in the kitty to further any more progress. The worst thing that we could have done was to leave the EU, it'll be put paid to any trading that we've known.

MayBee70

I honestly think this country has gone mad.

Yep! Historians will be spoilt for choice, as will psychologists.

I honestly think this country has gone mad.

Border plans will also effectively cut Northern Ireland off from the mainland.

MayBee70

I wonder if some politicians are now wanting to be on the right side of history?

Yes they may.

It does seem that a Trumps re-election isn’t going to be a shoo-in, and that will muck up the U.K. plans for a deal with the USA.

I wonder if some politicians are now wanting to be on the right side of history?