Current Affairs EU In or Out

[Drico]

Lol, what, the UK Government under Boris had no idea on how stuff works?

Colour me shocked.

But, but, but...bendy bananas and British sausages to Northern Ireland or something...

 

[Drico]

Sunsetting EU laws risks rights of more than 8.6 million UK workers

Government plans to rush the ‘sunsetting’ of EU laws by the end of 2023 will put the rights and protections of more than 8.6 million UK workers at risk, new analysis by the Work Foundation at Lancaster University reveals.

www.lancaster.ac.uk

But, but, but...Mick Lynch told us we'd be better off out or something something Burt Ward...

 

[Bruce Wayne]

The ‘Othering’ of ‘Eastern’ Europe in Brexit Britain

Adriana Svítková summarises the main findings of her dissertation which examined immigrant attitudes in Brexit Britain. After the Brexit referendum, EU immigration substantially fell but the net mi…

blogs.lse.ac.uk

 

[Haydn]

Anybody else got their UK replacement EHIC card ? Mine turned up today and I thought I’d been enrolled in UKIP.

This load of crass, Tory, flag waving ferrets, don’t miss a single opportunity to have a union jack orgasm.

 

[Ron1878]

Anybody else got their UK replacement EHIC card ? Mine turned up today and I thought I’d been enrolled in UKIP.

This load of crass, Tory, flag waving ferrets, don’t miss a single opportunity to have a union jack orgasm.
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This is the perfect metaphor for Brexit, really: it’s not as good as what we had before, but it now has a flag on it.

Brexit is a pathetic stunt that’s all gone horribly wrong and left us completely stranded, totally embarrassed, with nothing else left to do but pathetically wave our little flags.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Anybody else got their UK replacement EHIC card ? Mine turned up today and I thought I’d been enrolled in UKIP.

This load of crass, Tory, flag waving ferrets, don’t miss a single opportunity to have a union jack orgasm.
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Screams Gammon doesn't it?

 

[Billy Dean]

Recent story from work: someone was hired to work for a well known uk public body, to do work of high value to the British public. An EU national. After being offered the job he started the visa application process. In the end he was asked to pay a total of 5k for visa pplication and health care costs before they even decided to grant him a visa. So he just jibbed it. I guess that’s the hostile environment at work. Funny thing is there was no British citizen who applied so the job is just vacant now.

 

[Haydn]

Recent story from work: someone was hired to work for a well known uk public body, to do work of high value to the British public. An EU national. After being offered the job he started the visa application process. In the end he was asked to pay a total of 5k for visa pplication and health care costs before they even decided to grant him a visa. So he just jibbed it. I guess that’s the hostile environment at work. Funny thing is there was no British citizen who applied so the job is just vacant now.

The Brexit bonus works the other way too. A company I worked with have built a great reputation for store design and fit-out delivery, with high end European retail brands.

Pre Brexit, no problems, as all their employees qualifications were automatically recognised, meeting regulatory and design requirements for the various building codes across the EU.

Now, there’s no recognition of qualifications, so they faced applying to the relevant guild, state, or local council for equivalence status on each project.

There was 1 other option, set up a division in the EU and employ a EU based team. They now work out of Germany. Additionally all their outsourced technical support requirements now comes from German firms rather than UK providers.

The Brexiteers were deffo right, when they said Brexit would create thousands of high paid jobs, just not over here though.

 

[Billy Dean]

The Brexit bonus works the other way too. A company I worked with have built a great reputation for store design and fit-out delivery, with high end European retail brands.

Pre Brexit, no problems, as all their employees qualifications were automatically recognised, meeting regulatory and design requirements for the various building codes across the EU.

Now, there’s no recognition of qualifications, so they faced applying to the relevant guild, state, or local council for equivalence status on each project.

There was 1 other option, set up a division in the EU and employ a EU based team. They now work out of Germany. Additionally all their outsourced technical support requirements now comes from German firms rather than UK providers.

The Brexiteers were deffo right, when they said Brexit would create thousands of high paid jobs, just not over here though.

Shocking stuff.

 

[Kurt.]

Recent story from work: someone was hired to work for a well known uk public body, to do work of high value to the British public. An EU national. After being offered the job he started the visa application process. In the end he was asked to pay a total of 5k for visa pplication and health care costs before they even decided to grant him a visa. So he just jibbed it. I guess that’s the hostile environment at work. Funny thing is there was no British citizen who applied so the job is just vacant now.

@Joey66 will fill the void

He once got kicked out of jersey for stealing potatoes or something by a gang of Europe’s finest fruit growers

 

[Joey66]

@Joey66 will fill the void

He once got kicked out of jersey for stealing potatoes or something by a gang of Europe’s finest fruit growers

Incorrect as per usual .......read your Beanos better jokes in there .....

 

[peteblue]

The Brexit bonus works the other way too. A company I worked with have built a great reputation for store design and fit-out delivery, with high end European retail brands.

Pre Brexit, no problems, as all their employees qualifications were automatically recognised, meeting regulatory and design requirements for the various building codes across the EU.

Now, there’s no recognition of qualifications, so they faced applying to the relevant guild, state, or local council for equivalence status on each project.

There was 1 other option, set up a division in the EU and employ a EU based team. They now work out of Germany. Additionally all their outsourced technical support requirements now comes from German firms rather than UK providers.

The Brexiteers were deffo right, when they said Brexit would create thousands of high paid jobs, just not over here though.

So one day all the qualifications were fine, and the next they weren’t. Thank you for providing yet another example of EU protectionism based on absolutely no logic whatsoever…….

 

[Haydn]

So one day all the qualifications were fine, and the next they weren’t. Thank you for providing yet another example of EU protectionism based on absolutely no logic whatsoever…….

Yep, you know Pete, just like the rules for every other 3rd country.

Exactly what you voted for and your hero Johnson agreed to, as you apparently knew all along.

You know, Brexit means Brexit. Own the consequences.

I suppose the UK not recognising overseas medical qualifications, at a time of NHS crisis is brilliant Tory planning ?

 

[Haydn]

So one day all the qualifications were fine, and the next they weren’t. Thank you for providing yet another example of EU protectionism based on absolutely no logic whatsoever…….

Pete, to clarify, UK Gov guidance.

The Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications (MRPQ) Directive (Directive 2005/36/EC) on the mutual recognition of qualifications no longer applies to the UK.

As of 1 January 2021, UK-qualified architects who wish to supply services in the EU should seek recognition for their qualifications using the national rules in the EU Member States.

I’m sure the forthcoming bonfire of EU laws will do much (not) to improve any remaining hopes of agreement on mutual equivalence in many other areas.

It’s what your cult leaders planned all along, but you always seek to cast the EU as the perpetrator.

You must inhabit a very strange reality, where Johnson never lies, the Tories are definitely not at all corrupt, doing a fantastic job of managing the economy and under their management, the NHS is the envy of the world.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Pete, to clarify, UK Gov guidance.

The Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications (MRPQ) Directive (Directive 2005/36/EC) on the mutual recognition of qualifications no longer applies to the UK.

As of 1 January 2021, UK-qualified architects who wish to supply services in the EU should seek recognition for their qualifications using the national rules in the EU Member States.

I’m sure the forthcoming bonfire of EU laws will do much (not) to improve any remaining hopes of agreement on mutual equivalence in many other areas.

It’s what your cult leaders planned all along, but you always seek to cast the EU as the perpetrator.

You must inhabit a very strange reality, where Johnson never lies, the Tories are definitely not at all corrupt, doing a fantastic job of managing the economy and under their management, the NHS is the envy of the world.

My trip to Brussels this week was heavily about this kind of thing, and Britain wasn't on the agenda at all. It was all about the acceptance of qualifications between member states.