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Another Brexit bonus...



My wife's nephew missed out on a trip because of the delay in getting his passport renewed. He applied a month ahead - in hindsight he should have applied even earlier.

A former colleague who was DFA but now with the North/South Ministerial Council said the Passport Office is being swarmed with applications from all over UK.
 
Is this a brexit benefit ?


There’s no issue with this. Imports from Japan were subject to declarations made by importers to show the levels of radioactivity. The EU monitored this every year, and last year had started relieving the requirements themselves.

The FSA emailed all relevant stakeholders, those who undertake the controls, and asked for feedback on the results on an independent risk analysis report.

It’s a bit on non-story this and poorly reported to push an agenda.
 
I get bored saying I asked this question years ago (GFA/Irish border post Brexit?). Never got an answer, other than "some tech stuff".

Brexiteers blame it on the EU. Still cant wrap my nut around that neither.

Must be me I guess.
Northern Ireland, even though part of the U.K., undertakes EU checks. So when importing goods from GB to NI then the importer must obey by EU laws and fill in a lot of paperwork.

This is standard if you’re any country that isn’t part of the EU.

One of my biggest criticisms of the EU, when we were a member, was it is extremely bureaucratic and punished a lot of third world countries whilst allowing “larger markets” (USA cough cough) free reign
 
The promise.


The reality.


You will probably see a large increase in South American beef too. The Irish Farmers' Association sent two of its senior officials there a few years ago and their report was very critical of what they found .

Our cattle are free ranging eating grass most of the year, and when indoors in winter, they are fed silage which was made from grass cut earlier in the year.
 
Northern Ireland, even though part of the U.K., undertakes EU checks. So when importing goods from GB to NI then the importer must obey by EU laws and fill in a lot of paperwork.

This is standard if you’re any country that isn’t part of the EU.

One of my biggest criticisms of the EU, when we were a member, was it is extremely bureaucratic and punished a lot of third world countries whilst allowing “larger markets” (USA cough cough) free reign
No it didnt allow free reign, there are literally hundreds of US products that cant be sold or imported into the EU because of standardised rules. Plastics containing a ceratin amount of BPA is a classic example.

The UK, when it was a memebr of the EU, was at the forefront of writing consumer protection law.
 
No it didnt allow free reign, there are literally hundreds of US products that cant be sold or imported into the EU because of standardised rules. Plastics containing a ceratin amount of BPA is a classic example.

The UK, when it was a memebr of the EU, was at the forefront of writing consumer protection law.
True. I was listening to a podcast the other week where a US organic farmer was cry-arsing about having too much glyphosate or Roundup in his samples to qualify for EU import even though they had been organic for decades and never used chem's. Their organic standards allow something like x10 or x100 times more trace contamination than the EU.
 
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