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Love a good Dad joke.Apparently they taste foul.
It's good to keep a'breast' of the situation.
(best I could muster)
Love a good Dad joke.Apparently they taste foul.
Apparently Pigeon English is not excepted in EuropeLove a good Dad joke.
It's good to keep a'breast' of the situation.
(best I could muster)
I just checked the feather forecast for across the channel before a recon missionI heard that the UK is about to react by staging a coo.
Is this coo going to be called (drum roll please).......I heard that the UK is about to react by staging a coo.
He only appears when articles of doom and gloom or negativity arise in the media. The last thing he wants to hear is us having full shopping trolleys and not eating a bowl of lukewarm gruel on Christmas day.I admire your gusto Dunover, but I fear even the allure of pigs-in-blankets won't be enough to whisk the Chopster back
I suppose the only realistic thing for that to happen, is if de Pfeffel opened an account at CM and tagged him. God knows Chopley would love that
Meh. Going to build back better with some homemade boris in blankets
Firstly, welcome home Chopley, back in the Brexit bosom of fellowship
I don't think anyone's calling Brexit a runaway success, because of everything cost- related being attributed to Covid, Ukraine or swashbuckling themes like unfettered Immigration.
We won't see a proper breakdown of what Brexit's wrought as we won't be given a chance to. With new issues arising at an unprecedented rate and everything moving at breakneck speed no one really has the inclination to study anything at great length, with distractions aplenty.
Brexit's been essentially consigned to the Recycle Bin, as world leaders churn out their next soundbite for us to mull over. And as Cost of Living is dominating the narrative, I wouldn't expect a Brexit blowback anytime soon, but rather, a Ukraine War-inspired domino effect that people have accepted as the reason for our current predicament....
Yep - even I'm starting to get pissed-off with all this. So much for sovereignty eh?For me though Mr Goaty, we shouldn't and indeed can't just consign it to the recycle bin. Brexit happened, we're out of the EU and out of transition, that's a fact and it isn't going to change for a long time, if ever.
However, we still need to deal with the new reality of being outside the EU and particularly the Single Market and Customs Union, because those conditions are hurting the UK economically and politically, as well as just being a massive ballache for all kinds of reasons.
We do now have the data to analyse the harms of Brexit, yes Covid is in there and so is the war in Ukraine, along with whatever other external factors are in play at any given time - but whichever way you slice it, Brexit is clearly a net loss for the UK, so now we have to think about ways we can make it better.
It's not about Remainers and Leavers any more, it's about everyone having to deal, collectively, with the damage that Brexit has done.
Tobias Ellwood wrote a decent piece about it the other day. These are the conversations we need be having. Johnson constantly parroting 'We got Brexit done' isn't fixing anything.
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Hold on isn't romania a member state of the EU, bound by all their rules and regulations?
How do the EU officials know the van with the swine fever infected pork doesn't do a few drop offs on its journey through mainland europe to the UK?
Yes it is, so any food that doesn't meet EU standards can't be sold in the EU, but the UK has basically put up a massive neon sign at our ports which read HEY FOLKS WE'RE NOT CHECKING FOOD PRODUCTS THAT COME INTO OUR COUNTRY so if you were a sketchy Romanian meat producer with a load of sub-standard meat you can't sell in the EU, you might well think, 'Hmmmm, special imports for the UK!'
Remember this from back in April?
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The UK government is set to announce a fourth delay to physical checks on fresh food imported from the EU amid industry reports that neither technology nor infrastructure resources were ready for the July start of the next phase ofYou do not have permission to view link Log in or register now..
The Brexit opportunities minister,You do not have permission to view link Log in or register now., is expected to frame the move as use of the UK’s newfound independent powers to control the trade border since the departure from the EU and the single market.
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The delays could push back the full implementation of Brexit controls until 2023, sources said, with physical checks removed and a potential relaxation on the requirement for import of products, animals, food and feed system (IPAFFS) paperwork.
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"Health protection is the aim of all EU laws and standards in the agriculture, animal husbandry and food production sectors. An extensive body of EU-wide law covers the entire food production and processing chain within the EU, as well as imported and exported goods."
Therefore Farms within the EU producing and exporting unsafe, swine fever infected pork is a failure of the EU.
We're talking about criminals who are prepared to send unfit meat products to a country that has advertised the fact it has no border checks, these are not going through official export channels. What do you want the EU to do, deploy crack teams of commandos to check every truck coming across the English Channel on the UK's behalf? The same UK whose government just passed a bill in parliament to break international law over the Northern Ireland Protocol? I bet the EU will be falling over itself to protect our borders for us.
I mean come on mack, you're literally saying there that the EU should be making sure our borders are safe, and if stuff manages to get from an EU country to us that shouldn't, it's the EU's fault. I thought taking back control of our own borders was, y'know, one of Brexit's big selling points.