Current Affairs EU In or Out

[nsno-chris]

Interesting. I know they used to really come down on us for any minor breaches, not just at the points of entry but at slaughtering, processing and retail establishments.

They do, I've had a meeting where they requested one of the OVS provided them with all their financial documents to prove that they did not a vested interest in any company that was importing through the port they were working at; that then transpired into an argument which they did not win.

The idea of the food regs is really good and it has picked up on some serious issues such as the Chinese melamine incidents, the Brazilian meat scandal; but overall it's implemented poorly and impacts those smaller nations who did not have a political power and rely heavily on exports. The fact that checks are still conducted on percentage basis rather than a risk basis is ludicrous.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Listening to the current disbelief at the way Brexit is implemented, it leads to the conclusion that either:

• most of the Government that voted for the protocol had no idea what it meant or,
• they have entered into it in bad faith.

 

[Haydn]

Listening to the current disbelief at the way Brexit is implemented, it leads to the conclusion that :

• most of the Government that voted for the protocol had no idea what it meant and
• they have entered into it in bad faith.

Corrected.

 

[Hickson9]

The NI border issue has been obvious since the start.

The whole thing is a massive, Tory farce.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

The NI border issue has been obvious since the start.

The whole thing is a massive, Tory farce.

I wonder where the technological solution got to?

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

I'm utterly sick of the whole mess.

We need another referendum and rejoin the EU before we turn into a 3rd world state.

 

[Jebus_lives]

I'm utterly sick of the whole mess.

We need another referendum and rejoin the EU before we turn into a 3rd world state.

I don't think the EU would go for it. I think there needs to be a sustained desire asking the UK population for it to happen and a commitment that we wouldn't break constitutional convention and International treaty.

Why on earth would the EU trust a government and a population that voted for that government, who pronounced, after negotiating, then agreeing to a "fantastic oven ready deal" that they immediately want to renegotiate it because the terms aren't favourable to them.

It's embarrassing the way we are acting.

We've gone from "holding all the cards" to "signing under duress".

 

[Neiler]

UK government is a comedy act really, international credibility shot to pieces. Feel for anyone living in the UK.

Would like the EU now just to long arm them and not enter into any treaties or deals, suspend and rip up the existing one when the protocol in breached in the North, just not a credible government really, tin pot stuff.

 

[edge]

Just had a thought today we (Everton fc) have been rubbish since we left the EU .
If they let us back in in return for the blues being half decent again i will change my vote.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

 

[peteblue]

Good grief, I thought all the cryarses were in the Relegation Thread……..

 

[Jebus_lives]

Good grief, I thought all the cryarses were in the Relegation Thread……..

In comparison to Brexit, our season has been a roaring success.

 

[Uuuuuurgh plop plop]

Honestly, tinfoil hat going on here, part of me thinks all this debacle is deliberate. The politicians clearly looked shocked when the Brexit vote came in and I just don't believe that Boris or any of them really wanted to leave Europe.

It's almost as if they said "right, what we'll do is find the most awful ways to stuff the process up and we'll do just that". And so they did.

Let's face it, I think a lot of the working class voted Brexit because they thought it wold bring a stop, or at least a slow down to mass migration. That there'd be a bit of breathing space to get housing, schooling, hospitals sorted. I think a lot of the animosity towards the EU was with regards to Merkel's open door policy, whatever the actual facts of it are/were. This is just what a lot of people were motivated by.

I'm 100% certain that we will rejoin a European Union in some form within my lifetime, probably within the next decade and maybe even within the next election cycle. Whether that's us going back with tails between our legs or whether som reform occurs that entices us back remains to be seen. I don't think that will be good for democracy in this country though. It'll be great if you're a remainer but I think that a lot of Brexit voters would be turned off permanently from politics if that occurred.

 

[Bluerover]

I'm utterly sick of the whole mess.

We need another referendum and rejoin the EU before we turn into a 3rd world state.

UK would have to join the back of a queue behind Sweden, Finland, Ukraine and maybe even Turkey (who remain in NATO).

 

[roydo]

UK would have to join the back of a queue behind Sweden, Finland, Ukraine and maybe even Turkey (who remain in NATO).

And adopt the Euro most likely. Not a chance we go back if thats the case. "We" voted to leave, we have to live with whatever the eventual outcome.