Governed by morons, I'll never know how people could vote for this.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presente...V6EY4U2dr6p0S0
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Governed by morons, I'll never know how people could vote for this.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presente...V6EY4U2dr6p0S0
Weve got back control of our borders.
(as long as the French staff their side sufficiently and only do a 1 second check😂😂😂)
1 second FFS.😂😂😂
Heathrow to extend flight cap.
Another Brexit Bonus.?
A British wine wholesaler who last year criticised Brexit as the biggest threat to his business in 30 years has decided to leave the UK after post-Brexit paperwork made a £150,000 hole in revenue.
Daniel Lambert, who supplies Marks & Spencer, Waitrose and 300 independent retailers, is moving to Montpellier in France later this week with his wife and two teenage children.
There he will set up a French company to export back to his own company in Wales.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...exit-paperwork
Why do the French not deploy the no checks system for migrants crossing the channel to the UK .
Should UK holidayers simply take to the boats that are left abandoned on our shores , thier border patrols are weak .
Could be seen as environmentally friendly and provide boats for migrants fleeing the French shores to the UK?
Win win
Wasn't sure whether to put this in the Starmer thread or this one.
Good sensible stuff from Roy Hattersley.
"I admit there is a gaggle of Brexiters so fixated on the idea of sovereignty for sovereignty’s sake that “taking back control” is an achievement in itself for which they are prepared to pay an economic price".
"This is not the time for Labour to talk of making Brexit work. It is time to expose its failure and to offer a radical alternative – a closer working relationship with the EU."
"That is not to argue that the outcome of the 2016 referendum can be ignored. Democracy demands it be respected, notwithstanding the fraudulent claims made by Brexiters. But the decision of a one-day referendum cannot determine a nation’s long-term destiny, as Brexiters must agree"
http://https://www.theguardian.com/c...nd-with-europe
I think it won't be too long before the general public will demand we put an end to this farce. Give it five years or so when the bulk of the Brexity tribe will have shuffled off their mortal coils and there will be clarion calls for the status quo to be restored and thereby usher in the return to normality.
balance
n 2018, the UK wine and spirits industry: created £49 billion in economic activity. generated £21.7 billion in sales, £10.6 billion of which in sales of wine. employed 358,000 people across the supply chain.
LONDON, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Full results from the Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 have been released today (7 June), revealing impressive wins for the UK, with 151 medals awarded, the most in the competition's history for homegrown wines and wines from UK supermarkets also achieving notable wins in the Value category.
Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA) is the world's largest and most influential wine competition, with unrivaled global reach. Judged by top wine experts from around the globe, DWWA is trusted internationally for its rigorous judging process.
Try not read and believe the Guardian selective agenda , you dint when it was crucifying Corbyn .
Well that's certainly debunked Mr Lambert's claims of excessive Brexit paperwork! Demolished his complaint point by point!
(And just to be helpful, here's your source: https://www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk/con...ustry-overview)
(A further point: 358.000 people employed in the UK wine supply chain probably does not mean they are all employed in the UK - the sales figure includes wine imports!)
Balance
https://www.doverport.co.uk/about/ne...ruins-s/13687/
22nd July 2022 - News Articles
WOEFULLY INADEQUATE FRENCH BORDER RESOURCE RUINS START TO THE SUMMER GETAWAY
On behalf of passengers trying to get on their way for a well-earned summer holiday, HGV drivers performing their critical role of delivering goods, our community who are severely impacted, our ferry operators awaiting their customers, our own port staff who have worked so hard in good faith and all of our Kent and Government partners with whom we have prepared together over several months for the busy summer; we are deeply frustrated that the resource at the French border overnight and early this morning has been woefully inadequate to meet our predicted demand and even more deeply regret the consequences that will now be felt by so many.
Knowing we are now in a new world of post-Brexit and Covid checks, we worked to increase interim French border control booths by 50% and has improved traffic systems in order to build in resilience and capacity in time for the summer. The Port of Dover made significant investment and delivered on this. We trained a new team of passenger champions to be on hand and assist customers at the port. They are there working hard and doing all they can to help them. We also have provided enhanced amenities, such as toilets and refreshments, as well as water refilling stations, to look after customers.
We have worked particularly hard, and extremely positively up to now, with our Police Aux Frontieres (PAF) colleagues over recent months to plan for the traffic volumes that were fully expected. We have shared traffic volumes in granular detail with the French authorities in order that these volumes can be matched by adequate border resource. The Dover route remains the most popular sea route to France and France remains one of the key holiday destinations for British families. We know that resource is finite, but the popularity of Dover is not a surprise. Regrettably, the PAF resource has been insufficient and has fallen far short of what is required to ensure a smooth first weekend of the peak summer getaway period.
We will continue to work with all Kent partners to look after those caught up in the current situation, which could and should have been avoided, and play our part in resolving it as soon as possible. Working with and through the UK government, we will also liaise constructively with PAF to work through the present logjam and to stress again the importance of adequate French border resource for the coming days and weeks on which we had previously been assured. We have to work as a team, and when we do the system works incredibly well, but it is reliant on every team member playing their part.
0730 Friday 22nd July 2022
'Post Brexit checks' eh?
I wouldn't take my comment entirely seriously..
But no...last week we had huge queues outside Dover.
One argument was it was down to understaffing. One argument was it was down to having left the EU.
We are still outside the EU, the same ferry schedule was running, presumably more-or-less as busy, so perhaps, incredible as it may seem, this issue was not really down to being outside the EU?
Just a thought.
Well, the Port of Dover said they welcomed 45,000 cars on the weekend just gone
https://www.doverport.co.uk/about/ne...-resour/13692/
The guardian reported that 33,000 used the port the week before (when there were horrendous queues)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...vel-disruption
Euronews reported 30,000 used it the week before.
https://www.euronews.com/travel/2022...k-travel-chaos
So if anything, it seems the port was busier on the weekend just gone But thankfully we rejoined the EU last wednesday, so all the problems were sorted. Phew!
I know that a dwindling number of the hardcore set like to share memes such as the above on twitter, but it really is no response to the fact based post I posted above. The reality is that you seemed to want to incorrectly blame something, not the other way round..
I'll take it as a compliment :thumbup:
In all seriousness, what does this even mean? Powerful?
Why would a German passport be more powerful than a French? Why is a Japanese one more powerful than any EU nations one? Where's the US? Those passports carry some weight, especially when I'm watching films and someone gets into difficulty abroad..
Jonny boy...
Many people's knee-jerk response was to bLaMe BrExIT. Others said it was related to staffing issues on the French side. But we are still outside the EU, and the horrendous queues were not repeated, which suggests that the first theory was perhaps not correct.
I'll grant you though, your version of bingo is more fun, as at least there are a few options. The alternative version just has two words on it "Brexit" and "Tories". At least City won on the weekend, or else you'd be blaming that on Brexit too.
Oh, another meme :hehe:
You could, of course, have referred to the contraction in manufacturing in the Eurozone yesterday versus the continued growth (albeit slowing) in the UK. That would have been a like for like comparison of near real time data between the UK and the Eurozone :thumbup:
Lemme guess...the echo chamber insulation kept those facts out? Manufacturing in contraction in the Eurozone?! Reach for an anti-brexit meme Tarquin!
https://tradingeconomics.com/euro-ar...ufacturing-pmi
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-...ufacturing-pmi
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...e-dover-delays
'Jacob Rees-Mogg: I was wrong to say Brexit would not cause Dover delays'.
This is breathtaking:
JRM: "The point I was making was that the only delays would be caused by the French if they decided not to allow British people to pass through freely. They have decided to do that".
He obviously wanted an end to free movement, except of course for us Brits. Really sums up the attitude of him and the other Brexiters in a nutshell.
Anyway, at least he has got there eventually with his admission over the delays. Only James left now :hehe:
Yes, although there are numerous definitions of the word 'powerful'. Pretty certain a US passport is pretty powerful in certain circumstances and having a British passport is probably more powerful than a Singaporean one in certain situations abroad. As mentioned below, this is the reference to power in terms of visa free travel, which is useful more than powerful, but there we go. That's why i was asking :thumbup:
https://www.onlinevisa.com/news/worl...%202nd%20place.
Still, it looks like the EU passports have visa free access to between 182 and 190 countries. Great.
The UK has visa free access to 187, so is more POWERFUL than a Belgian by the looks of it. POWER!!
The loss of the freedom to automatically live wherever you want in the EU is a loss of Brexit. I'm not sure the above is that dramatic. I wonder what the single country the Dutch can have visa free travel to that we can't is for example?
Yeah that's what I think too. Essentially a passport for a powerful country is always a powerful passport. I think I would rather be stuck in a tricky situation abroad with an American passport over one from Luxembourg or Singapore.
I agree though, the number of Visa free countries it allowed access to is also part of the mix however, and at 187 for the UK, versus a near identical average for the EU and only six below Japan at 193, I think we can all be reasonably satisfied. Would be interesting to know what those countries are mind.
Probably bigger issues for most of us to worry about.
Well it depends where. If you're in China or Brazil, the Singapore passport is better than an American one. That's what its counting, the number of countries where it's better.
I would have thought this was your kind of thing. Analysis and data with a clear and easy conclusion, rather than just gut feeling.
It is my kind of thing! And I approve of the liberal use of flags here..
https://www.onlinevisa.com/news/worl...%202nd%20place.
I'm just not sure that powerful is the best wording when you are assessing one particular element of a passport - a very important one, but there are other roles a passport serves too, which is why I asked whether it considered those.
Anyway, it is interesting!