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Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Sep 18, 2020 8:15 am

Biden has a point.
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Post by Svartalf » Fri Sep 18, 2020 9:35 am

but he's too dull to have any edge.
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Fri Sep 18, 2020 10:06 am

Brian Peacock wrote:
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Biden has a point.
I agree which is why the tories are so concerned. It was another way of attacking the EU by allowing all the crap food in through the back door undermining EU unity.
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Post by rainbow » Mon Sep 21, 2020 11:44 am

Svartalf wrote:
Fri Sep 18, 2020 9:35 am
but he's too dull to have any edge.
I'm not so sure. I'm sure Bojo and SloJoe will make a great comedy duo.
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Post by Svartalf » Mon Sep 21, 2020 11:55 am

Comedy? Man, I wish I could find such sad things funny.
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Wed Sep 23, 2020 7:47 am

Truck queues could be 7,000 long when Brexit transition ends, ministers warn
Michael Gove tells haulage firms to allow for two-day delays as part of worst-case planning
Just two days? A week would be more like it.
UK ministers have warned of 7,000-truck-long queues in Kent after the Brexit transition period ends as a worst-case scenario if hauliers fail to prepare for changes to customs rules.

The cabinet office minister, Michael Gove, who is responsible for no-deal planning, has written to logistics groups detailing the government’s “reasonable worst-case scenario” planning, which warns of possible two-day delays for cargo travelling to France in January.

The warnings were contained in confidential government documents revealed by the Guardian earlier this month.

Gove is due to outline the scenario work, which the cabinet office stressed was not a forecast, in the Commons on Wednesday.

It comes as the European Union’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, prepares to travel to London for further informal talks with his counterpart, Lord Frost, as efforts continue to strike a post-Brexit trade deal.

But in the document sent to logistics associations, which has been seen by the PA Media news agency, Gove warned changes were coming with or without a deal.

The transition period, which kept the UK aligned to the EU’s single market and customs union rules to allow trade to flow smoothly after Brexit, expires at the end of the year unless both sides agree to an extension – something Boris Johnson has ruled out.
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Post by JimC » Wed Sep 23, 2020 8:45 am

Does the term "schadenfreude" mean anything to you, Scot?
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Post by Brian Peacock » Wed Sep 23, 2020 9:06 am

Bring it on! The coming social and economic catastrophe of BREXIT will fan the flames of glorious revolution!!
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Post by rainbow » Wed Sep 23, 2020 9:17 am

JimC wrote:
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Does the term "schadenfreude" mean anything to you, Scot?
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Wed Sep 23, 2020 10:19 am

rainbow wrote:
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Does the term "schadenfreude" mean anything to you, Scot?
Kwaadaardige vreugden.
I know what it means but it is self induced.
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Sat Sep 26, 2020 7:01 am

Brexit: Brussels punctures optimism that deal is in sight
EU sources fear Boris Johnson hasn’t yet got backing for compromises on state aid to business

Brussels has sought to puncture an outbreak of optimism over an imminent Brexit deal, amid fears Boris Johnson has not secured the backing of key advisers and his party for the compromises needed in the final stretch of negotiations.

With the UK government yet to offer a way forward on the most contentious issues, and trust in Downing Street at a low ebb, senior EU officials treated with scepticism reports that the UK could see a way to secure a deal.

The EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, told ministers from the 27 member states this week that there was “a more open atmosphere at the negotiating table”, according to diplomatic sources in Brussels. But he had also emphasised that “substantial differences of opinion remain, particularly on a level playing field” – the issue of state aid to businesses.

While Downing Street is keen to move into intensive “tunnel” negotiations to allow both sides to be creative before emerging at the leaders’ summit on 15 October with a solution to the most intransigent problems, Brussels is not convinced the prime minister yet has the support of his colleagues to commit to what might emerge.

“We cannot trust this prime minister’s word, so the EU member states are not yet willing to go blind into a tunnel negotiation and see what happens,” said one source. “It will take more than David Frost [the UK’s chief negotiator] telling us Johnson wants a deal.”
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Post by Brian Peacock » Sat Sep 26, 2020 6:42 pm

The Tories don't want a deal, and they've been paid good money not to try.
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Mon Sep 28, 2020 6:25 am

Rule Britannia....sorry...

Confidence in UK's global role plunges after Brexit, poll finds
Belief that Britain is force for good in world is down 10 points from April 2019 in UK

Belief that Britain is a force for good in the world has plunged in the last 18 months, a national poll has found, with under half of the UK now convinced of the country’s positive impact.

As negotiations on the UK’s future relationship enter a key week in Brussels and with the country set to leave the EU’s single market and customs union at the end of the year, a poll by Ipsos Mori suggests there is a lack of confidence in Britain’s global role.

Just under half of Britons (49%) believe that Britain is a force for good in the world, down 10 points from April 2019. While 41% of Britons say the UK should punch above its weight in world affairs, the proportion who believe Britain should stop pretending it is an important power is up five points from last year to 38%.

The public are still more likely to say that Britain should increase its influence around the world than reduce it – by 36% to 16%.
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Mon Sep 28, 2020 6:32 am

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Post by Scot Dutchy » Thu Oct 01, 2020 10:41 am

Well it is bound to happen:

Brexit: EU launches legal action against UK for breaching withdrawal agreement
UK put on formal notice over internal market bill, which ministers admit breaks international law

The EU has launched legal action against the UK after Boris Johnson failed to respond to Brussels’ demand that he drop legislation that would overwrite the withdrawal agreement and break international law.

Ursula von der Leyen, the European commission president, announced that the UK had been put on formal notice over the internal market bill tabled by the prime minister last month.

Brussels had given the prime minister until the end of September to ditch the contentious clauses in the draft legislation but Von der Leyen said “the deadline had lapsed”.

By seeking to unilaterally change the terms of the agreement signed last year with Brussels, Von der Leyen said the UK had already failed to live up to its obligations to act in “good faith”.
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