BREXIT! BREXIT! BREXIT!

[rainbow]

He's just having a bad hair day...

Bad hair career, more likely.

Does he sleep in that suit?

[Scot Dutchy]

It is his pseudo Oxford Don look.

[Brian Peacock]

It's well known that he ruffles his hair up on purpose. One presumes to give the impression that he's disorganised and harmless. Don't be fooled.

[Scot Dutchy]

Well a direct consequence of Brexit:

UK holidaymakers barred from EU after 1 January under Covid rules

European commission indicates Britons will face ban on non-essential travel at end of Brexit transition

British holidaymakers will be barred from the European Union from 1 January under current Covid-19 safety restrictions, with the EU commission indicating there will be no exemption for the UK.

Only a handful of countries with low coronavirus rates are exempt from rules that prohibit nonessential visitors from outside the EU and European Economic Area (EEA) – with the UK included only until the end of the Brexit transition period.

EU member states agreed in October to adopt a European council proposal to allow non-essential travel from a small group of countries with lower levels of Covid cases including Australia, New Zealand and South Korea.

An EU commission spokesman last week said there were no plans to extend that to the UK. “This is a decision for the council to make,” he said.

Within the EEA, or Schengen-associated states, Norway has also confirmed it will bar UK visitors from 1 January, according to the Financial Times.

The imminent bracketing of British tourists with those of other non-EU countries such as Albania and Turkey underlines the potential impact of a no-deal Brexit. EU member states can override the European council recommendations in theory, should they wish to .


With most insurance policies invalidated by the FCO advice – and with the end of the Ehic (European Health Insurance Card) reciprocal health cover scheme on 31 December – UK travel industry sources said that outbound bookings were currently very low for winter sports holidays in 2021.

[Brian Peacock]

I know a couple of musicians in a band with bookings in France and Germany pencilled in for March. The paperwork to get their instruments across the border is horrendous and each instrument will cost them £360 for a licence. The sax player has two saxes and a flute: £1080. The drummer pays once for his kit but has to pay again for additional percussion instruments like a tambourine. They'll have to pay tax on the money in the country and at the time they earn it and tax on their earning in the UK and then claim it back. And they need visas to cross from the UK to France and from France to Germany and will be subject to mandatory customs checks at each border because, it seems, EU countries really do have control of their own borders after all. This is just a five-piece - imagine if you're in an orchestra.

[Scot Dutchy]

Well the "talks" go on.

Boris Johnson and EU set Sunday deadline to decide on Brexit deal

Significant gaps remain between PM and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen after Brussels dinner

A Brexit deal must be sealed by Sunday or there will be no deal, Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen agreed after a “lively and frank” three-hour summit that set the stage for a dramatic final act of the negotiations.

Despite nine months of troubled talks, “very large gaps” were said to remain between the UK and EU. The leaders said they should come to a deal or no deal outcome by the end of the weekend, with pressure on both sides to find time for parliamentary ratification.

Downing Street said the meeting in Brussels had been “frank” – a diplomatic expression for a heated conversation. The commission president, Von der Leyen, tweeted: “We had a lively and interesting discussion on the state of play on outstanding issues.

[Brian Peacock]

Makes no difference. This is pure politics now with neither side wanting to look like they were the one's that didn't try the hardest.

[rainbow]

It is his pseudo Oxford Don look.

[Scot Dutchy]

Makes no difference. This is pure politics now with neither side wanting to look like they were the one's that didn't try the hardest.

I agree just finding the right exit strategy.

[pErvinalia]

Everything about him is dishevelled.

I didn't realise that you were such a neat freak...

Well I'm not the Prime Minister of a country.

[Scot Dutchy]

From the article I posted:

Before flying to Brussels from RAF Northolt, Johnson told the Commons that the EU had tabled terms no British prime minister could accept. “Our friends in the EU are currently insisting that if they pass a new law in future with which we in this country do not comply or don’t follow suit, then they want the automatic right to punish us and to retaliate,” he said.

“And secondly, they’re saying the UK should be the only country in the world not to have sovereign control over its fishing waters. I don’t believe that those are terms that any prime minister of this country should accept.”

Friends? I would not like to meet his enemies. He is a laughing stock here.

[pErvinalia]

Kind of like you here...

[Strontium Dog]

Everything about him is dishevelled.

I didn't realise that you were such a neat freak...

Well I'm not the Prime Minister of a country.

I always thought of you as the prime example of a country. Or something like that anyway.

[rainbow]

Everything about him is dishevelled.

I didn't realise that you were such a neat freak...

Well I'm not the Prime Minister of a country.

I always thought of you as the prime example of a country. Or something like that anyway.

Weak.

[NineBerry]

"Australian option"