skybluetony176
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Same. Maybe I’ve just got too many important things going on in my life to be bothered by so something so irrelevant.
The EU: In, out, shake it all about.... (65 Viewers)
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skybluetony176
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We have a brexit that we didn’t apparently vote for (that’s according to prominent brexiteers by the way not me, I think we got exactly what we voted for) and tax rises we voted in a majority government to ensure wouldn’t happen. What say do we exactly have by leaving?
shmmeee
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As opposed to those that voted for an isolationist libertarian project in which they have next to no say in matters?
Earlsdon_Skyblue1
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I'm not too sure that's likely. You seem to spend half of it posting links into this thread.
skybluetony176
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Okay, let me put it another way. When I’m in the pub having a drink with whoever there’s enough going on in my life that I don’t feel the need to inspect a glass to see if it has a CE mark instead of a crown to feel like I’ve had a victory in life. If it’s a victory it’s a hollow one, it means absolutely fuck all. Like fish being happier, or the colour of a passport.
skybluetony176
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Obviously another part of green brexit.
www.google.co.uk
Fly people in to pick fruit from the other side of the world instead of people coming from the same continent.
How 16,000 fruit pickers flew to UK for 2021 season from 37 countries
Home Office figures reveal more than 16,000 labourers were flown to the UK from across 37 countries for the 2021 season after being recruited by horticultural farmers.
skybluetony176
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Still not taking back control
Boris Johnson 'will delay imposing checks on EU imports to UK'
Boris Johnson is set to delay the introduction of some post-Brexit checks on EU imports amid fears they could cause food shortages over the Christmas period, it was claimed today.
www.google.co.uk
skybluetony176
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Just a thought. With Boris delaying brexit again does this mean that the only people who have delivered brexit is the EU.
Still not taking back control
Boris Johnson 'will delay imposing checks on EU imports to UK'
Boris Johnson is set to delay the introduction of some post-Brexit checks on EU imports amid fears they could cause food shortages over the Christmas period, it was claimed today.www.google.co.uk
I don’t think we ever want much in the way of trade barriers or as little as possible outside CU/single market. It was probably as much tit for tat as the EU wanted to protect the bloc (understandable as it’s a trade bloc, or should be) so we would apply same trade rules here. We want it as streamlined as possible. Always said that after trade deal there should be a year or so for businesses and logistics to acclimatise. We’ve just done that anyway, EU hasnt.
I’m with Shmmeee on this but could never say it before for fear of being told
I’m not owning my vote
but five years after brexit a lot of these issues aren’t brexit but poor planning and implementation by government with a chunk of covid thrown in ie the hgv driver shortage wouldnt have been much of an issue without covid by all accounts (delayed tests/licensing), the profession has not attracting younger people in because of shit wages and conditions (plugging gap with cheap foreign labour) and the government has the ability to flex migration rules to attract certain professions…what any country should have in a normal world ! If they haven’t done so, that’s down that’s down to themJohnson will live or die by the perceived success of brexit and levelling up, covid aside.
Edit - if EU had ever offered frictionless trade under current EU rules and regs (not having to follow their future amends) without unfettered freedom of movement we would’ve snapped their hand off. Never going to happen though and will damage both economies because of it
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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Maybe, but that is quite some time away. If we did apply to rejoin we'd have worse terms than when we left. Taking on the Euro would be a prerequisite and we wouldn't have the same rebates we had before. Even though I voted to remain, rejoining on different terms is quite a different thing.
We had a pretty decent deal and influence and we've thrown that away for a load of empty promises and a rhetoric that all our problems were down to EU citizens taking all the jobs whilst simultaneously bleeding the country dry with benefit claims.
skybluetony176
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As someone said. The best opportunity that brexit has delivered is the opportunity to join the single market.
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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I don’t think we ever want much in the way of trade barriers or as little as possible outside CU/single market. It was probably as much tit for tat as the EU wanted to protect the bloc (understandable as it’s a trade bloc, or should be) so we would apply same trade rules here. We want it as streamlined as possible. Always said that after trade deal there should be a year or so for businesses and logistics to acclimatise. We’ve just done that anyway, EU hasnt.
I’m with Shmmeee on this but could never say it before for fear of being told
I’m not owning my vote
Johnson will live or die by the perceived success of brexit and levelling up, covid aside.
Edit - if EU had ever offered frictionless trade under current EU rules and regs (not having to follow their future amends) without unfettered freedom of movement we would’ve snapped their hand off. Never going to happen though and will damage both economies because of it
Quite a few of us had a very strong feeling that the planning and execution would be a complete fuck-up from the start.
skybluetony176
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Not strictly true. We don’t have to join as full EU members. We can apply to join the EEA, the DCFTA, do bilateral agreements like Switzerland or have the best of both worlds (as one Tory MP put it) and have the same arrangement as a quarter of the UK, Northern Ireland.
COV
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Why would people vote for it then? This stuff will take a generation or more to fix.
skybluetony176
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Worth pointing out that the poor planning was undertaken by the same crowd that sold brexit. Listen to idiots like this and side with them at your peril. Just look at the people telling you it was a good idea, the rogues gallery of elitism, idiots, grifters, tax dodgers etc selling it should have been reason enough to know it was a bad idea from the concept.I don’t think we ever want much in the way of trade barriers or as little as possible outside CU/single market. It was probably as much tit for tat as the EU wanted to protect the bloc (understandable as it’s a trade bloc, or should be) so we would apply same trade rules here. We want it as streamlined as possible. Always said that after trade deal there should be a year or so for businesses and logistics to acclimatise. We’ve just done that anyway, EU hasnt.
I’m with Shmmeee on this but could never say it before for fear of being told
I’m not owning my vote
Johnson will live or die by the perceived success of brexit and levelling up, covid aside.
Edit - if EU had ever offered frictionless trade under current EU rules and regs (not having to follow their future amends) without unfettered freedom of movement we would’ve snapped their hand off. Never going to happen though and will damage both economies because of it
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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I meant if we reapplied to be full members, which I can't see happening for a very, very long time.
shmmeee
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Can you clarify this? I thought the point of Brexit was to enable regulatory divergence. Are you saying that trade friction shouldn’t have come in until one of us diverged in that area?
I can see the appeal. Of course whining that the EU want to make membership of the EU as attractive as possible is a little silly.
Sick Boy
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Why would the country have to take on the Euro? I mean something similar to EEA membership.
skybluetony176
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It’s without doubt damaging our economy. Off the top of my head hasn’t Germany’s exports to is grown since 2016 whereas ours has dropped? Ireland has reported growth with the UK over the last 12 months as have other EU countries. Any losses the EU may have suffered (not really reading that there’s any) is shared, as project fear predicted our losses are far far bigger and a hit we take 100% on our own.
skybluetony176
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I think he’s talking about full membership. Any new EU members who join do so on the understanding that they’ll join the EURO at some stage, we along with Denmark had a veto on joining the EURO. We lost our veto when we left so if we ever do rejoin as full EU members basically brexits lasting legacy will be the scrapping of the pound and the adoption of the EURO.
On track? On track! Remind me Mr Frost, when did we leave the EU?
Nice of you to have given the EU another 9 months of competitive advantage over the UK though.
Good work.
"Meanwhile, some EU officials suspect Britain’s border control regime is not yet fully ready for the new regime, although Frost insisted the government was “on track” to deliver the new systems.
Under Frost’s proposals, customs declarations and controls will be introduced on January 1 2022 as planned, but safety and security declarations will not be needed until July 1 2022."
Nice of you to have given the EU another 9 months of competitive advantage over the UK though.
Good work.
"Meanwhile, some EU officials suspect Britain’s border control regime is not yet fully ready for the new regime, although Frost insisted the government was “on track” to deliver the new systems.
Under Frost’s proposals, customs declarations and controls will be introduced on January 1 2022 as planned, but safety and security declarations will not be needed until July 1 2022."
Sick Boy
Super Moderator
Yeah I’m aware of that but that’s something different to rejoining the SM and CU.
skybluetony176
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Remember when we held all the cards. We’re now postponing the implementation of the oven ready deal because the man who negotiated admits it’s gash and is now looking to renegotiate it. Thank god the EU is implementing brexit from their side otherwise it wouldn’t have been delivered at all. All hail the EU, saviours of brexit.
fernandopartridge
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Read what I said again. I didn't assume anything.
skybluetony176
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Go on some of the expat forums. There was an awful lot of them who voted for it. I couldn’t say hand on heart it was the majority but it was at least in line with how people voted in the uk dependent upon age. You’ll also see that in the majority of cases the people being asked to leave are ones who took exception to being asked to apply for residency, surrender their UK license for a Spanish one etc. Basically being treated like a foreigner after voting to be treated like a foreigner.
(edit) should add I’m specifically talking about expats who retired to Spain and the so called starlings who voted leave and like to spend the winter months in the Costa’s.
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fernandopartridge
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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If we reapplied for full membership the EU would insist that we had to take it on before even considering. They'd never let us back in on the deal we had when we left. They'd have to set a precedent that it's not worth leaving. If they just let us rejoin with the perks we had when we left others would just think they'd have a go at it alone if they could just rejoin as if nothing had happened.
JAM See
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Where's 'here'?
Sick Boy
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Italy
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Was scandalous that EU nationals here couldn't vote