- Joined
- Mar 25, 2012
- Location
- IOM
If we'd stayed in the Single Market and Customs Union none of this stuff would be happening, but taking back control was deemed more important.
We can choose to waive some or all checks on stuff coming into the UK, that's our prerogative, although not exactly consistent with strengthening our borders against dastardly foreign imposters. (And yes, whilst no standards have officially changed, if an unscrupulous supplier in the EU had some dodgy shit they were looking to get rid of and still make a profit on, which country do you think they'd choose to send it to? Why, the one that's just waving the trucks through Customs, of course.)
The EU are applying customs checks on UK goods, and they're making sure the paperwork is right, and they're making sure the animal health declaration forms have been signed off by a qualified vet, and so on, all the stuff that they made absolutely 100% crystal clear would apply once the transition period had ended. (The transition period that, remember, we could have easily extended for another 12 months to give more time to get the Deal sorted and therefore give businesses more time to prepare, rather than the four working days they actually got.)
The amazing 'Bespoke Johnson Trade Deal' was indeed tariff free, but it threw up a whole load of non-tariff barriers overnight, and it's those barriers that are stopping, amongst other things, the UK fish and the haggis getting to the EU.
It's all in there, in the legislation that the UK parliament voted to enact in a massive rush at the end of December.
This isn't the EU's fault, this is what Brexit is, the Brexit we said we wanted.
We can choose to waive some or all checks on stuff coming into the UK, that's our prerogative, although not exactly consistent with strengthening our borders against dastardly foreign imposters. (And yes, whilst no standards have officially changed, if an unscrupulous supplier in the EU had some dodgy shit they were looking to get rid of and still make a profit on, which country do you think they'd choose to send it to? Why, the one that's just waving the trucks through Customs, of course.)
The EU are applying customs checks on UK goods, and they're making sure the paperwork is right, and they're making sure the animal health declaration forms have been signed off by a qualified vet, and so on, all the stuff that they made absolutely 100% crystal clear would apply once the transition period had ended. (The transition period that, remember, we could have easily extended for another 12 months to give more time to get the Deal sorted and therefore give businesses more time to prepare, rather than the four working days they actually got.)
The amazing 'Bespoke Johnson Trade Deal' was indeed tariff free, but it threw up a whole load of non-tariff barriers overnight, and it's those barriers that are stopping, amongst other things, the UK fish and the haggis getting to the EU.
It's all in there, in the legislation that the UK parliament voted to enact in a massive rush at the end of December.
This isn't the EU's fault, this is what Brexit is, the Brexit we said we wanted.