Current Affairs EU In or Out

[Piijt]

There's a reason why every single trade body in the UK would rather revoke article 50 than go through a no deal Brexit.

Do you have a source for that Bruce. I’d like to ram it down the throats of a few Brexiteers I know

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Do you have a source for that Bruce. I’d like to ram it down the throats of a few Brexiteers I know

Britain’s medium-term preferences in trade point to EU continuity rather than ‘Global Britain’ - LSE Business Review

There are competing visions for British trade policy: ‘Global Britain’, which sees a sovereign Britain trading free from the shackles of the EU on the basis of WTO rules, with an ability to shape its own rules; and what might be called the “European continuity vision” that sees UK interests...

blogs.lse.ac.uk

About 2/3 down the article

 

[nsno-chris]

I have just watched a bit of a TV programme fronted by Ed Balls all about the import/export machine in the UK. Mainly cos the footie is crap, and I am vaguely interested in it.

They focused on food. And it was astonishing how a ship with hundreds of containers rammed full of it from everywhere are seemlessly loaded, (by computer) onto hundreds of lorries and then delivered to distribution hubs around the UK.

With the reverse for the exports.

Anyone thinking that messing with this utterly interdependent system, that has developed over years/as technology expands, with no repercussions on food supplies is plain and simple, a fool.

Food imports won’t change at all.

we’ll still receive foods from both Europe (with no additional border checks) and ROW will be imported as per usual. Current EU regulations have been transposed into U.K. and those current regimes will still be in place.

on the technology aspect, Brexit does not affect how goods are containerised. The entire system is automated to reduce delivery time, so if it’s not ordered (from the USA for example) it won’t be loaded onto a vessel

the entire import regime provides an excellent JIT system with the development of new technology. So much so that delivery drivers, at the Port Of Liverpool for example, are given 20 minute slots because the system already knows where the box is on the vessel before it arrives and where it’s end destination is. All the bits in the middle are then calculated to give an exact pickup time

 

[summerisle]

There are dim people, there are stupid people, there are witless people - and there are Geordies :

 

[peteblue]

There are dim people, there are stupid people, there are witless people - and there are Geordies :

Boris likes this.....

 

[summerisle]

Boris likes this.....

*Johnson.

 

[Chewbacca]

There are dim people, there are stupid people, there are witless people - and there are Geordies :

My Dad, a Scouser, has just informed me that he voted out to stop all of the Egyptians using the NHS for free.

Egyptians?

I’m sure this has been a massive issue for the EU.

 

[roydo]

Food imports won’t change at all.

we’ll still receive foods from both Europe (with no additional border checks) and ROW will be imported as per usual. Current EU regulations have been transposed into U.K. and those current regimes will still be in place.

on the technology aspect, Brexit does not affect how goods are containerised. The entire system is automated to reduce delivery time, so if it’s not ordered (from the USA for example) it won’t be loaded onto a vessel

the entire import regime provides an excellent JIT system with the development of new technology. So much so that delivery drivers, at the Port Of Liverpool for example, are given 20 minute slots because the system already knows where the box is on the vessel before it arrives and where it’s end destination is. All the bits in the middle are then calculated to give an exact pickup time

Oh. My bad.

 

[Xizor]

Egyptians?

Maybe one in particular?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Boris likes exploiting the ignorant to make him wealthy

Fixed for you

 

[Charlie Sweet]

There are dim people, there are stupid people, there are witless people - and there are Geordies :

See how can society be so bankrupt where smiling "Tory bankers" like Farage, Johnson and Rees Mogg can stand alongside these deluded muppets and the latter not have clue they are being taken for a ride? When does the penny drop? Will it ever?

 

[Chewbacca]

Maybe one in particular?

He couldn’t name any but it was in the Daily Mail

 

[Tubey]

There are dim people, there are stupid people, there are witless people - and there are Geordies :

Yeah that's about right. Thick as two short planks.

Embarrassing that these idiots are influencing the direction of this country. Laughing at the generations that follow.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

This incident will undermine that special relationship more than anything before, all the warnings of the UK regulating kowtowing to the USA, it's this that will hit home with UK electorate.

Harry Dunn crash: Mum appeals for US suspect's return

The wife of a US diplomat left the UK after being made a suspect in a crash in which a teenager died.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Bruce Wayne]

This incident will undermine that special relationship more than anything before, all the warnings of the UK regulating kowtowing to the USA, it's this that will hit home with UK electorate.

Harry Dunn crash: Mum appeals for US suspect's return

The wife of a US diplomat left the UK after being made a suspect in a crash in which a teenager died.

www.bbc.co.uk

It's an appalling decision and the woman (and her husband) should be ashamed. No one has mentioned his status, but I would have thought her running away from the law makes his position completely untenable.