Tory MP and former government minister George Eustice, 'lamb'basting the trade deals with Australia and New Zealand - as reported by Lewis Goodall in this thread.
"I no longer have to put such a positive gloss on what was agreed...the Australia deal is not actually a very good trade deal for the UK."
"Overall the truth of the matter is that the UK gave away far too much for far too little in return."
"In my view the best clause of this treaty we have with Australia, is the final clause, because it does gives any UK govt...an unbridled right to terminate and renegotiate the FTA at any time with just six months notice."
-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Monday 14th of November 2022 05:41:19 PM
At the weekend, GB News ran their own Brexit poll on Twitter. They thought they were winning but once the 'catchment audience' stretched beyond their own viewers, they were beaten. Here is the result.
So apparently you ARE allowed to keep re-running a vote until you get the result you want, despite what they have been telling us for the last 6 years.
This isn't the most serious in the list of major Brexit-caused disasters, but as it's directly linked to tennis, I thought I'd put up the blog from one UK parent:
As said, it doesn't really compare with the fact that (taken at random) (a) we used to be Germany's 5th trading partner, and now we're outside the top 10, that (b) since doing our 'amazing' bilateral trade deal with Japan (which was actually slightly worse than the exisitng pan-EU deal with Japan) we now are exporting less to Japan than we were when in the EU, whereas EU trade with Japan is growing, or that, more personally, (c) my sister who worked for a large language school in the UK, with many sites, has seen the company basically fold as all students are now going to Dublin, or another close family member who works for a Japanese company that uses/used London as its European base are now winding London down to 2 men and a dog and moving it all over to Amsertdam.
However, the tennis travel side is interesting.....
ADD: And I see the Emily Appleton has also said how difficult it makes things:
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Its incredibly frustrating and has a huge impact on players wanting to train in warmer climes, and on clay or players who cannot afford to travel to US, Far East etc
-- Edited by Coup Droit on Thursday 8th of December 2022 10:25:36 PM
So, since Brexit, the numbers have risen by about by a multiple of about 150 times
Just shows what happens when the UK is no longer part of the EU's Dublin III Agreement
And moreover, as with the customs union etc, Britain could still have remained part of the Dubin Agreement even after leaving the EU. We could have been like Norway or Switzerland.
But the Tory government deliberately chose not to. Because it would be seen as being too cooperative, too in the EU's pocket.
And so we now have 45,000 extra immigrants that we wouldn't have had otherwise.
Which, if your whole soapbox was that we needed to withdraw from the EU to control your borders, is just too ironic for words....
Not exactly Brexit related, but I see Croatia has joined the Euro zone and Schengen as of today. At least if I ever go back to Umag for some more tennis, I won't have to ask people what the name of the currency is.
1) Britishvolt failed because of Brexit
2) Large business of this nature need scale and a huge market
3) We have left the SM and we are not going back
4) Things will be more 'uphill' outside the SM
5) People will just have to 'run harder'.
An open and frank admission that he what he campaigned for is detrimental to big business and a huge disincentive to inward investment. Yet he seems to still feel it is the right decision.
Bonkers.
As for what went on in the HoC today in the debate over the REUL bill, I'll save that rant for another day.
Boris Johnson's old newspaper and supposedly his favourite
Previously a VERY firm supporter of Brexit
Which has now been told by its owner that actually it's a nightmare (he's seen his business interests go down the toiler since Brexit, seemingly) and someone has to point it out, so the Telegraph ran the Op Ed of:
Britain will join the EU far earlier than anyone thought It is the Tories' greatest betrayal - they have made such a hash that it is now unsalvageable.
Even The Telegraph calls it the elephant in the room.....
Boris Johnson's old newspaper and supposedly his favourite
Previously a VERY firm supporter of Brexit
Which has now been told by its owner that actually it's a nightmare (he's seen his business interests go down the toiler since Brexit, seemingly) and someone has to point it out, so the Telegraph ran the Op Ed of:
Britain will join the EU far earlier than anyone thought It is the Tories' greatest betrayal - they have made such a hash that it is now unsalvageable.
Even The Telegraph calls it the elephant in the room.....
So, the Conservative Minister for Exports has said that new figures show that the value of UK exports will now not meet the much-heralded £1trn mark until 2035.
This was previously 2020, then 2030 and now 2035.
This has been blamed on Brexit, with the huge increase in admin/border checks/custom point problems/lack of mutual recognition and other trade barriers, meaning that one in eight small exporters is now no longer exporting to the EU (and has no other market to take that order book), the lack of new trade deals of any size or signifance, as well as inflation and exchange rates
Yes, and when you actually listen to the guy who - as you say - actually runs a chemical manufacturing company, not spouts political drivel - it's not just that it's costing him £155k per year extra at the moment, just to standstill and be where he was in terms of data access, compliance etc before Brexit
BUT, he says, under the government's new proposal of doing our own version of chemical regulations, taking control of our own rules etc, it will cost him £1.6m as a one-off - for nothing - that will put him out of business completely.