Thread: Brexit - It's Still On!

Originally Posted by malmomike77

How are the EUs plans for their own Rawanda style schemes going?

They'll observe the british attempt......closely.

Learn from it, try to follow in the brittle footsteps and then fuck it up.

It's one big corrupt and incompetent Babel Tower.

^ well it is staffed by people unable to make a sucess of life outside of a Govt paid job. It's also staffed by small minded petty people who love nothing better than making rules. I fickin loath their ilk, and sausages is one of them. It'll all come crashing down if Germany decides its had enough of working to pay for 60% of the EU beggars.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

It'll all come crashing down if Germany decides its had enough of working to pay for 60% of the EU beggars.

Don't worry about that

If someone in Germany should get such an idea, I'm sure "dat they haben ways to get den terroristen gebanned".

We have to feed the southern "Siesta Europeans".

Cyrille and Davidovic says so.

For peace's sake

About time tolerant Ireland got flooded with migrants, should put an end to the "troubles".

Rwanda plan: Ireland '''won'''t provide loophole''', says taoiseach - BBC News

The Rwanda policy is working already

I see that the scottish fella has resigned.

One more white/ginger to take charge then

Remarkable that he's lasted this long.

Originally Posted by Joe 90

About time tolerant Ireland got flooded with migrants, should put an end to the "troubles".

Rwanda plan: Ireland '''won'''t provide loophole''', says taoiseach - BBC News

The Rwanda policy is working already

Regardless of how you feel about immigration, Brexit etc.... it is simply illogical and irrational for the EU to suggest we should accept immigrants returned from one region of the EU (Ireland), whilst being unable to return immigrants to another (France).

Originally Posted by Joe 90

it is simply illogical

Ouch

Mixing logic with ..politics ?

Thought more of you, Joe




(yes; you do ofcourse have point)

Originally Posted by helge

Mixing logic with ..politics ?

It is only Joe-logic.
He forgot that Britain has a special responsibility for the border to Ireland based on the Brexit soft border agreement with EU.

Originally Posted by helge

(yes; you do ofcourse have point)

nah, he doesn't.

Originally Posted by Molle

He forgot that Britain has a special responsibility for the border to Ireland based on the Brexit soft border agreement with EU.

Whereas France has a ...special permission to let all unwanted "personel" row to Dover ?


Ok then

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Ireland bombed the UK and massacred it's citizens for years,

They did

Odd that the changing UK governments acted like they couldn't care less.

(the number of bombings and duration of the Troubles suggests so)

I see France, Germany, Italy & Spain have all exceeded their growth predictions for Q1.

Originally Posted by cyrille

I see France, Germany, Italy & Spain have all exceeded their growth predictions for Q1.

I see that Germany went up 0,2 % compared with previous quarter.

Which was down 0,5 % compared to.........

But good to know that they were too pessimistic

What's your point ?

That Britain is worse of ? Schadenfreude perhaps ?

A bit of propaganda from the danish press
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Brexit consequence finally takes hold: Now the British are tightening food controls


From today, there will be physical checks on food products entering the UK. And this makes exporting to the country more expensive and troublesome.







Among other things, animal products and plants will be covered by the new controls. (Photo: © Neil Hall, Ritzau Scanpix)

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Sean Coogan

Katrine Bang Ramsbæk
Brexit-konsekvens slar endelig igennem: Nu strammer briterne fodevarekontrollen | Udland | DR

From today, it is becoming more and more difficult to export food from Denmark and other EU countries to the UK.

This is because, from today, physical checks will be introduced on food and plants when they arrive at the UK border.

The measure was originally decided in connection with the UK's farewell to the EU in 2021, but has been delayed several times.

For British businesses, the new controls mean they will have to go through even more piles of paperwork to import goods from continental Europe – and pay a tax to the UK authorities.

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The extra control will be felt in a large number of European and British companies, but also in the usual British, says DR's UK correspondent, Tinne Hjersing Knudsen.

The new rules could mean less choice in British supermarkets because foreign companies give up exporting to the country.

At the same time, it raises the prospect of higher food prices as companies are expected to pass on the costs to consumers, the correspondent says.


Can hit businesses hard


The new controls may hit small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK hard, because they will have higher costs for both taxes and administration, Tinne Hjersing Knudsen points out.

At the same time, British business organisations fear that the new controls will not go smoothly, even though the authorities have spent years training staff for the task and creating the infrastructure to enable physical checks.

"It is an enormously comprehensive control of fresh food that must now be carried out. And this has not been seen in the UK for decades, says Tinne Hjersing Knudsen.







Lorries in Dover yesterday. From today, the trucks arriving in the UK port city can look forward to further checks. (Photo: © Neil Hall, Ritzau Scanpix)
Since January, companies have had to fill out certificates and comply with increased document checks, and from today there are also physical checks when the goods arrive at the British border.

One of the companies that can feel the consequences of this year's new requirements is ScandiKitchen, which is the largest distributor of Scandinavian food products in the UK.

- It used to be a pretty straightforward process. Now it is much harder to find a supplier who can actually handle all the administration," says Jonas Aurell, CEO of ScandiKitchen, which is based near London.


"Now we have to fill out documents that need to be certified by a vet, and it has to be inspected and checked at the border with the UK, and then slowly, but hopefully safely, it can find its way here.

Great administrative work


Previously, ScandiKitchen could order five boxes of one item, if that was what made sense.

But those days are over, says Jonas Aurell.

- We have to pay the same when it comes to administrative expenses, whether it is a box or an entire trailer.


Although he has a smile on his face, the CEO admits that Brexit has hurt quite a few British businesses in recent years.

"There's been a lot more paperwork," says Jonas Aurell, who describes his business as a small or medium-sized importer.

- We are probably the smallest of those still standing on our feet. It's really, really hard work for someone who just wants to import something for their small shop or for personal purposes," Aurell says.

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He says that the company's purchasing department used to consist of a single employee.

- Now the department consists of three employees. They handle about the same amount of goods, but they just need so many extra hours to be able to import the goods.

An unwelcome reminder of Brexit


It is now eight years since almost 52 percent of Britons voted to leave the EU.

Then followed a long Brexit saga with years of popular division, toppling prime ministers and political squabbles about what would come after the divorce from the EU.

Only in early 2020 – 1,318 days after the fateful referendum on Brexit – did the British leave the EU, but it took until 2021 for the British to take the big step away from the union and the "new relationship" between the EU and the UK began.

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British politicians had promised that physical checks on goods would be introduced by the beginning of 2021, but this has been delayed a number of times.






According to a YouGov poll from the start of the year, 51 percent of Britons fully or partially support a return to the EU, while 36 percent are partially or fully opposed (Photo: © Andy Rain, Ritzau Scanpix)
With today's introduction of the new controls, there is a prospect that the British who regret Brexit will be even more annoyed, says Tinne Hjersing Knudsen.

"This is not going to do any good for the feelings of regret that a lot of Brits are running around with.

"I also think a lot of Britons will be surprised to see this come through, because it's kind of something that's been forgotten," says the correspondent, who points out that since Brexit there has been a pandemic and war in Ukraine, which is also taking a toll on British household budgets.

So this is an unwelcome reminder of what the British voted for back in 2016, which is now many years ago.

What does this mean for Danish companies?


If we look at the Danish companies, most are fully prepared for the new control.

This is according to Peter Thagesen, Head of Global Trade at the Confederation of Danish Industry.

"I expect it to go relatively smoothly.

"We have a very large export of food to the UK. Last year, it was more than DKK 11 billion. So I predict that food exports to the UK will continue to be quite significant," says Peter Thagesen.

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The Danish companies that may still be in trouble are the smaller companies that do not have as many resources to familiarize themselves with the new rules, says Peter Thagesen.

- They may look more closely for other markets such as Norway, Sweden, Germany and so on.

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Now, if Britain could regain her independence from the US, it would start to look like something.

Puzzles me why they prefer Seppo cock to the much more varied european selection