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Brexit: UK and EU ‘strike customs deal’ in protocol breakthrough
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The UK and EU have reached an agreement on customs in hopes the two sides are close to ending the post-Brexit dispute over Northern Ireland Protocol, it has been reported.

Brussels is said to have accepted a British plan that would avoid routine checks on goods moving from Great Britain into Northern Ireland in a major breakthrough in the ongoing row.

The agreement is based on proposals for green and red lanes which would see goods flowing unimpeded from GB to NI, while goods set for export into the Republic of Ireland would see checks in Northern Irish ports, according to The Times.

Citing government sources, the newspaper also reported that Brussels has made concessions of the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), a key sticking point in UK-EU talks.

For the first time, it recognised that the ECJ could rule on Northern Ireland issues only if a case was referred on by courts there.
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How the UK sacrificed its car industry
February 15, 2023

Will Britain, as Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt have both promised, really turn into the “next Silicon Valley”? It is bold talk. Some might say Panglossian. Although in truth, perhaps it’s to be expected from a weak administration troubled by divisions, haunted by former leaders and struggling to shake off the impression that it is the last-gasp government of a party worn out after largely wasting 13 years in power.

But we should not be too harsh on Sunak and Hunt, even if their supposed plans to turbocharge growth through harnessing of technology look skeletal. Prime ministers must pretend to have purpose while chancellors must talk up economic prospects by pushing back against tides of negativity. After the latest data showed Britain’s economy to be flatlining rather than contracting, Hunt insisted it was “more resilient than many feared”. But if you really want to see the sorry state of our economy and our nation’s struggles to adapt to the fast-changing world, take a look at one sector that is laden with national symbolism and long been a bellwether for our economic health.

This is the British car industry, a production hub reliant on sophisticated supply lines and a proven beacon of innovation. It is a sector that has shown an uncanny ability to reflect the zeitgeist through its rollercoaster ups and downs since the Second World War. It boomed after the birth of mass motoring, then crashed in spectacular style amid industrial strife, before its careful restoration with a woman driver at the wheel. Now it is being allowed to rot again, partly thanks to the stewardship of a glossy magazine’s former motoring columnist. Perhaps we should have been more alarmed by Boris Johnson’s cavalier approach to cars when we discovered he had racked up £4,000 in parking tickets for GQ.

Once it was the world’s second biggest, but now our shrivelling car sector has sunk to the fringe of the top 20, just behind Slovakia and one place ahead of Iran. Last year, we produced 775,014 cars. This was the fewest since 1956 — a time when an Austin A30 cost £529, a gallon of petrol was 22p (or four shillings and six pence in “old money”) and there were no motorways. There were only 3.3 million drivers, roughly one-tenth of the numbers cramming our roads today, some no doubt humming along to that year’s biggest hit by Pat Boone. Almost all their cars were made in this country by five makers — Nuffield/BMC, Ford, Rootes, Standard-Triumph and Vauxhall — and three of them were British-owned.
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wjfox wrote: Sun Feb 19, 2023 9:17 am








Sounds like the first person is deluded.
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Time_Traveller wrote: Sun Feb 19, 2023 9:48 am
Sounds like the first person is deluded.
They were being sarcastic.
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wjfox wrote: Sun Feb 19, 2023 9:52 am
Time_Traveller wrote: Sun Feb 19, 2023 9:48 am
Sounds like the first person is deluded.
They were being sarcastic.
Ah, never mind
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Boris Johnson ‘being a nuisance’ as he threatens to derail Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal
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Boris Johnson is threatening to derail Rishi Sunak’s efforts to thrash out a new Brexit deal after warning that ditching the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill would be a “great mistake”.

The former Tory prime minister was accused of being a “nuisance” and “wrecker” as he was criticised for encouraging the DUP to resist a compromise over the post-Brexit arrangements. A source close to the former PM said: “His general thinking is that it would be a great mistake to drop the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill.”

Mr Johnson’s first intervention on Brexit since departing No 10 comes as Mr Sunak is expected to announce an agreement with the EU on the contentious post-Brexit trading arrangements. The Sunak government has indicated that a successful outcome to talks in Brussels would mean the protocol bill – which would unilaterally override checks – would no longer be required.

A senior government source said: “If we can find a way to satisfactorily resolve the issues with the protocol then you wouldn’t need the bill. But we haven’t resolved them yet.”

Mr Johnson negotiated the protocol, which created economic barriers to trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as part of his Brexit deal. But he later turned against it. Relations with the EU deteriorated further over the Johnson government’s controversial protocol bill, sparking warnings about a trade war. But the bill is still seen by Brexiteers as a key bargaining chip with the EU.
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