Elegant Point wrote:

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Stircrazy wrote:

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Here's a novel approach now being adopted by the Germans, of all people. 

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Not that surprising given the declining birth rate in Germany?

https://www.iamexpat.de/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/birth-rates-have-suddenly-decreased-germany%E2%80%8B

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My attempt at irony clearly fell flat...  

Bob in Spain wrote:

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Stircrazy wrote:

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Bob in Spain wrote:

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People had lots of reasons for voting for Brexit, but this has to be one of the bizarre ones LOL

https://twitter.com/mikegalsworthy/status/1673331207063457795

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Sorry, Bob.  Not on Twitter (& refuse to sign up), so I can't read that.

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Because the flag has yellow stars in a circle on a blue background, which is the same as the American flag (the stars bit) from 200 years ago.

Quote: "Do you think it is a coincidence that the European Flag is a copy of the American Flag as it was during the civil war".

Apparently that is a reflection of EU ideology.

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Thanks, Bob.  Pathetic!

So, for several years now, the government has been inisiting that UK firms drop the CE safety mark and move over to the UK equivalent, as part of GB's new freedom to make and follow our own rules.

Apart from the fact that (a) the new safety mark was no reall different from the EU one, (b) it was costing a fortune for businesses to comply with all the admin to move over, and (c) all exports to the EU still needed the CE mark so it was just another added layer, and so had the opposite effect of cutting red-tape, as it was adding more.

Finally, after at least two extensions of the implementation date, the new UK CE mark has now been abandonned (or, technically, it has been made optional and the EU one has been retained, which is - effectively - the same thing as abandoning it)

Business is very pleased, despite one small firm saying, for instance, that they'd spent over £100k trying to comply with the new UK one.

So now, we're back where we were in 2016, with a whole heap of wasted tax-payers' money by government in trying to set this thing up, and of wasted private money by companies in trying to get ready for something that was never going to help and had serious problems

And, maybe more importantly, we're not even back where we were in 2016 because now we are all bound by an EU safety mark into which we have no vote, no input, no nothing.

Implementation on checks for food being imported by the UK from the EU have been put back AGAIN because of fears that the extra red tape will fuel food inflation. The decision was taken by those who sold Brexit on the basis that it would lead to CHEAPER food.

www.ft.com/content/d0673acb-eb87-4548-b90f-009be5ab14c3

(Behind a firewall)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/03/uk-brexit-checks-fresh-food-eu-delayed-fifth-time-reports

(Free to read)

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Thursday 3rd of August 2023 10:10:23 AM

Coup Droit wrote:

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So, for several years now, the government has been inisiting that UK firms drop the CE safety mark and move over to the UK equivalent, as part of GB's new freedom to make and follow our own rules.

Apart from the fact that (a) the new safety mark was no reall different from the EU one, (b) it was costing a fortune for businesses to comply with all the admin to move over, and (c) all exports to the EU still needed the CE mark so it was just another added layer, and so had the opposite effect of cutting red-tape, as it was adding more.

Finally, after at least two extensions of the implementation date, the new UK CE mark has now been abandonned (or, technically, it has been made optional and the EU one has been retained, which is - effectively - the same thing as abandoning it)

Business is very pleased, despite one small firm saying, for instance, that they'd spent over £100k trying to comply with the new UK one.

So now, we're back where we were in 2016, with a whole heap of wasted tax-payers' money by government in trying to set this thing up, and of wasted private money by companies in trying to get ready for something that was never going to help and had serious problems

 

 

And, maybe more importantly, we're not even back where we were in 2016 because now we are all bound by an EU safety mark into which we have no vote, no input, no nothing.

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 Well said.   Exactly that.

-- Edited by Julia Carrot on Thursday 3rd of August 2023 08:36:02 PM

At least brexit will potentially open up new markets for us if we play our cards right

www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66786611

Sunak has asked the civil service to develop negotiations as soon as possible