Consequences Of Brexit [Part 9] Read First Post Before Posting

[melthebell 863]

3 hours ago, El Cid said:

Being able to recruit staff from around the world is just as important. We are now seen as a more divided and less friendly country.

Although I did see a story about record numbers of NHS nurses working for the NHS. How does that fit with Brexit?

Most are from places like India, which I said would happen after brexit

[Mister Gee 823]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10836933/Britain-faces-summer-shortages-supermarket-shelves-lack-season-crop-pickers.html
 

I’d like to thank all the Brexiteers on here for not rubbing us Remainers noses in it for all the benefits that Brexit has achieved. It’s very kind of you all not to be gloating about all the fantastic successes Brexit is bringing the country.

[hackey lad 3,977]

16 minutes ago, Mister Gee said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10836933/Britain-faces-summer-shortages-supermarket-shelves-lack-season-crop-pickers.html
 

I’d like to thank all the Brexiteers on here for not rubbing us Remainers noses in it for all the benefits that Brexit has achieved. It’s very kind of you all not to be gloating about all the fantastic successes Brexit is bringing the country.

No problem 

[Litotes 63]

2 hours ago, Mister Gee said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10836933/Britain-faces-summer-shortages-supermarket-shelves-lack-season-crop-pickers.html
 

I’d like to thank all the Brexiteers on here for not rubbing us Remainers noses in it for all the benefits that Brexit has achieved. It’s very kind of you all not to be gloating about all the fantastic successes Brexit is bringing the country.

Tumbleweed... the desolation of the high streets, the pound's value against other currencies, the emptiness of the supermarket shelves...

 

They must be proud of taking back control.

Control of a failing economy, with a failing health service, failing borders, led by a failing government propped up by sheep...

[Dromedary 166]

2 hours ago, Mister Gee said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10836933/Britain-faces-summer-shortages-supermarket-shelves-lack-season-crop-pickers.html
 

I’d like to thank all the Brexiteers on here for not rubbing us Remainers noses in it for all the benefits that Brexit has achieved. It’s very kind of you all not to be gloating about all the fantastic successes Brexit is bringing the country.

Maybe the government are missing something here as they don't need to supply visas. Instead of sending the boat detainees to Rwanda they could be made to do the work and make up any shortfall.

[L00b 441]

On 21/05/2022 at 23:45, Dromedary said:

Maybe the government are missing something here as they don't need to supply visas. Instead of sending the boat detainees to Rwanda they could be made to do the work and make up any shortfall.

The government would need to change all of immigration,employment and asylum laws quite fundamentally to do all that (remove visa requirements for workers, facilitate asylum seekers into employment pre-assessment, force asylum seekers into picking jobs).

 

Plus, putting refugees into chain gangs for picking broccoli can’t be anywhere as sexy, for the current government’s fanbase, as shipping them (back-) to Africa.

 

The government may have a bit more truck with Northern Ireland loyalists. Quid pro quo for the £1bn bung and stalling/faffing with the Protocol, the DUP sends its minions over to England for picking crops 👍🏻

[L00b 441]

Monday, so obligatory ‘Brexit benefit’ post:

 

https://www.cityam.com/uk-trademark-disputes-double-following-britains-exit-from-the-european-union/

 

Not a surprise (I posted that eventual consequence years ago).

 

There is a Brexit benefit to UK IP firms, in that the increased number of oppositions at the UKIPO means that they’ve done, and are doing, more fee-earning work about UK rights (whether they act for the applicant or for the opponent)…

 

…but, and of course, that benefit is to be contrasted with the loss of fee-earning work about EU rights since 01.01.21; the investments in the EU before and since then, to try and preserve that work with new structures/partnerships/joint ventures (…and new jobs) in the EU; and increased domestic competition from EU firms that have done the same thing ‘in reverse’  (set up small shops in UK for access to UKIPO).

 

The losers are, unsurprisingly, businesses (more or less doubling of registration and enforcement costs) and ultimately their customers.

Edited May 23, 2022 by L00b

[Magilla 510]

On 23/05/2022 at 13:05, L00b said:

Monday, so obligatory ‘Brexit benefit’ post:

 

https://www.cityam.com/uk-trademark-disputes-double-following-britains-exit-from-the-european-union/

 

Not a surprise (I posted that eventual consequence years ago).

"Same nightmare week after week":

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/30/brexit-uk-firms-eu-trade-northern-ireland

 

Nice graph in there showing UK global exports...

[Magilla 510]

Universities warn of EU-UK research scheme 'close to precipice':

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61644662

 

...and yet another thing dismissed as project fear, is on the verge of happening.

[L00b 441]

You have more serious short-term problems.

 

 

 

Seriously.

That cash-flow shock was predicted lengthways and sideways by us ‘Remoaners’ when the government brought in that  EIDR quick release, as interim palliative care for the supply shock of 1st January 2021.

 

Expect corporate casualties, I’m afraid.

[Magilla 510]

Well it looks like Moggs public consultation has completed and the results are in...

 

Brexiteers give Boris 2,000 ideas to obliterate EU rules - and here are their suggestions:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1618395/Brexit-news-Boris-Johnson-2000-ideas-Jacob-Rees-Mogg-suggestions-EU-rules-update

 

The top nine “most interesting” proposals...

 

1. Encourage fracking, shortcut rules on planning consultation via emergency act.
2. Abolish the EU regulations that restrict vacuum cleaner power to 1400 watts.
3. Remove precautionary principle restrictions (for instance) on early use of experimental treatments for seriously ill patients and GM crops.
4. Abolish rules around the size of vans that need an operator's licence.
5. Abolish EU limits on electrical power levels of electrically assisted pedal cycles.
6. Allow certain medical professionals, such as pharmacists and paramedics, to qualify in three years.
7. Remove requirements for agency workers to have all the attributes of a permanent employee.
8. Simplify the calculation of holiday pay (e.g. 12.07 percent of pay) to make it easier for businesses to operate.
9. Reduce requirements for businesses to conduct fixed wire testing and portable application testing.

 

So... at least a third we could have done as EU members anytime we wanted... the rest, so inconsequential they'll cost more to administer than any possible savings, and are potentially dangerous.

 

‘Fundamentally Meaningless’ - The Government's Brexit Benefits Paper:

https://bylinetimes.com/2022/02/01/fundamentally-meaningless-the-governments-brexit-benefits-paper/

"a ministerial power grab and a glaring failure to account for any of the costs"

 

...public services set for another shock methinks...

 

Meanwhile, UK retailers warn against switch to imperial measurements:

https://www.ft.com/content/f029f5df-46c0-4188-832c-e7d920ed2e76

British Retail Consortium, alongside other businesses and organisations, have warned against the move.... because.... "it creates additional costs"

 

 

 

Apparently, there is concern Rejoiners are giving a "false" impression that Brexit has been negative?  

 

Edited June 6, 2022 by Magilla

[Mister M 1,625]

Wow, from one oft he doyens of Brexit this is something:

Brexiteer peer Lord Hannan admits UK should have stayed in the single market | The National