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‘Complete nonsense’: Asda boss mocks post-Brexit plan to return to imperial measures

Thu 2 Jun 2022 23.56 BST

The government’s push to increase the use of imperial measurements in Britain has been mocked as “complete nonsense” and confusing for business.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) announced it is pressing ahead with plans to review “overbearing EU rules” regarding weights and measurements and restore “common sense” to the statute book.

The move comes 22 years after the EU weights and measures directive first came into effect.

It meant traders were legally required to use metric units for sale-by-weight or the measure of fresh produce, although it is still legal to price goods in pounds and ounces if displayed alongside prices in grams and kilograms.

The announcement of a 12-week consultation comes amid mockery of Boris Johnson’s vision of post-Brexit Britain pricing its food produce in measurements of the past.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... l-measures
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And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future
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Fury as government waters down post-Brexit food standards
Mon 13 Jun 2022

Animal welfare campaigners, food policy experts and farmers have reacted with fury after the government watered down post-Brexit trade deal standards in its food strategy, released on Monday.

In a version of the strategy leaked to the Guardian on Friday, the government committed to making it easier for countries to import goods if they have high animal welfare standards.

The draft reads: “We will seek animal welfare-linked liberalisation in our [free trade agreements], allowing us to offer more generous liberalisation for products certified as meeting certain key animal welfare criteria specified in the agreement.”

But the final version is stripped of this and merely commits to “considering” animal welfare and the environment when it comes to free trade agreements.

Caroline Lucas, Green MP for Brighton said: “This looks like yet another shamefully squandered opportunity to cement stringent animal welfare protection into our free trade agreements.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -standards

Sounds like this is the first step into where Australian hormone-injected beef and the US's Chlorine chicken comes to the UK more like?
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Jacob Rees-Mogg plan to axe EU laws sparks cabinet row
Tue 14 Jun 2022

A cabinet row has broken out over Jacob Rees-Mogg’s plans to axe all remaining EU laws in under four years, given concerns about the feasibility of combing through at least 2,000 pieces of legislation while the civil service faces severe cutbacks.

The Brexit opportunities minister is pushing for the laws carried over after Brexit to expire by a “cliff-edge” deadline of 23 June 2026, marking 10 years since the EU referendum.

However, the Guardian has learned that at least two cabinet ministers have railed against the proposal, while officials have said the goal is “literally impossible” – particularly as Rees-Mogg is also spearheading the cull of the civil service.

In a letter to the North Somerset MP, George Eustice said that “messing around” with some rules would mean an additional cost to businesses and be a waste of officials’ time, while senior Whitehall sources voiced fears of a mass deregulation drive by the back door.

Rees-Mogg plans to publish a “Brexit freedoms” bill this summer. In a letter to cabinet colleagues seen by the Guardian, he proposed 23 June 2026 as the date when a “sunset clause” should be activated, causing all “retained EU law” to fall off the UK’s statute book. Alternative dates “significant in the Brexit calendar” are also being considered, such as 31 January 2030, which would mark a decade since Britain left the EU.
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wjfox wrote: Sun Jun 19, 2022 9:49 am



I've definitely noticed this in the current role i am doing, even some kinds of fruit have rubbish dates now.
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Tesco Mobile quietly scraps free EU roaming from 2023 as networks cash in post-Brexit
June 18, 2022

Tesco Mobile has become the latest network to abolish free roaming across the EU for new customers, as more mobile providers take advantage of Brexit to charge customers steep fees for calls and data.

The network is set to revive EU roaming charges for new and upgrading customers from 2023, with consumers set to be charged up to 10p per MB to use data and 55p a minute to call from the EU outside of bundles.

Tesco Mobile is still selling 24-month contracts online with the prominently-advertised benefit of “free roaming for 2022” – even though small print slipped into contracts earlier this week stipulates charges will apply from 1 January 2023, when customers will still be locked in for another 18 months.
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Raab urged to let parliament scrutinise Human Rights Act replacement
Tue 21 Jun 2022

Dominic Raab is facing demands today from 150 organisations to allow detailed parliamentary scrutiny of legislation that is expected to replace the Human Rights Act.

The justice secretary has been sent a letter coordinated by the campaign group Liberty calling for the bill of rights to be subjected to “robust consideration” amid fears that it will put the government beyond the reach of the law.

It follows deepening concern that the bill will alter the balance between freedom of expression and privacy and affect people’s rights for many years.

Last week, the justice minister James Cartlidge said in a response to a parliamentary question that the government did not intend to submit the bill of rights for pre-legislative scrutiny – a move that sidesteps demands from parliamentary committees.

The Conservative chair of the justice committee, Bob Neill, called the government’s decision to ignore recommendations from the joint committee on human rights “disappointing”.
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A British bill of rights? This draconian plan is a rights removal bill
Wed 22 Jun 2022

The government’s long-threatened, misleadingly titled and highly controversial bill of rights is finally here. It has been trailed by Dominic Raab and other ministers for years, but the European court of human rights’ intervention in the disgraceful Rwanda refugee scheme last week was apparently the opportune moment to launch this unwanted, unnecessary legislation.

The Ministry of Justice has taken a hatchet to the single most powerful rights tool this country has ever had. Yet its press release announcing the bill suggests this is somehow good news for us all. Suspend your disbelief, but apparently “watering down” the Human Rights Act will in some way equate to an “expansion” of the right to freedom of expression. The MoJ cites journalists and their right to protect sources, suggesting this will be a valuable new protection. In fact, just a few months ago the journalist and former MP Chris Mullen relied on the Human Rights Act for precisely this purpose in an important press freedom case.

Believing that we are set to gain rights through this legislation requires serious mental acrobatics. The bill takes particular aim at “positive obligations”. These are the obligations that apply to public authorities and make it incumbent on them to take positive steps to protect people’s rights rather than merely restrain themselves from violating them. Positive rights are a vital tool that allows victims to hold the police accountable for serious failures in rape case investigations, for example, such as the appallingly mishandled case of the serial rapist John Worboys.

Repeated failings in the way that police and prosecution authorities investigate endemic violence against women has prompted a crisis of public confidence – yet Raab is now reducing victims’ rights to hold the authorities to account.

Positive obligations are also integral to the ability to secure effective public inquiries into deaths where the state may be responsible, such as the long-delayed Covid inquiry. It’s no coincidence, you might think, that the very politicians the Human Rights Act potentially holds to account might want to see it removed and replaced with this ersatz version.
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Australian Free Trade Deal Hampers UK on Environmental & Food Standards
22 June 2022

The UK’s first free trade agreement negotiated from scratch with Australia was so rushed that environmental issues and protection for niche British products were overlooked, a report by peers says today.

The House of Lords International Agreements Committee says the agreement is important as it both paves the way for other agreements in future and for our entry into the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), a major Government objective. The deal is estimated to add only a 0.08% increase in GDP by 2035 and rising quotas will phase in tariff-free imports.

The deal will also mean Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, will have to liberalise immigration rules for Australians to come to the UK as part of a mutual arrangement which will allow British people and their families to work in Australia and allow young people up to the age of 35 to go there for three years. The former will be particularly beneficial for lawyers, who will be able to practice law in the UK and Australia, as their professional qualifications will be mutually recognised.

Other beneficiaries will be financial and digital services, architects and car exporters.

The report is highly critical of the speed of the negotiations which led to environmental issues like climate change being ignored. It will allow the import of Australian beef from deforested land, has no section on Australia reducing dependence on coal, and allow the import of crops where pesticides which are banned in the EU and UK have been used.
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/06/23/aust ... ry-report/
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