Post-Brexit News and Discussions

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Just a quick reminder that the whole Brexit thing hasn't gone away – and is, in fact, about to get a whole lot worse.

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Brexit changes will add to soaring costs in 2022, warn UK manufacturers

Make UK says two-thirds of companies fear customs delays and red tape from new rules will further hamper supply chains

Mon 10 Jan 2022 00.01 GMT

Manufacturers have warned that Brexit will add to soaring costs facing British industry, amid concerns that customs delays and red tape will rank among the biggest challenges for firms this year.

Make UK, the industry body representing 20,000 manufacturing firms of all sizes from across the country, said that while optimism among its members had grown, it was being undermined by the after-effects of the UK’s departure from the EU.

One year on from the end of the transition period, two-thirds of industrial company leaders in its survey of 228 firms said Brexit had moderately or significantly hampered their business. More than half of firms warned they were likely to suffer further damage this year from customs delays due to import checks and changes to product labelling.

According to the 2022 MakeUK/PwC senior executive survey, Brexit disruption remains among the biggest concerns facing industry bosses for the year ahead as Britain’s departure from the EU complicates the fallout from Covid-19 and the rising costs facing companies.

Delays at customs, the additional costs from meeting separate regulatory regimes in the UK and the EU, and reduced access to migrant workers were among top concerns raised in the survey.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... ufacturers

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Is this a good thread to discuss the possibility of Britain's monarchy being abolished one day?

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It's almost like it wasn't!

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It's almost like it wasn't!

I really wish governments would enforce labor laws against these corporations that seek to undermine and go around such laws. The jobs should be for the people in their nation.

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Meat from cows kept in cruel conditions to be imported from Australia under UK trade deal

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Meat from cows kept in harsh conditions banned in the UK will be imported under the trade deal struck with Australia, despite government promises to improve animal welfare after Brexit.

Cattle are transported for up to 48 hours without eating and drinking in parts of Australia, its High Commissioner has admitted – and those animals are included in the deal hailed by Boris Johnson as a big prize from leaving the EU.

The journeys are more than three times the limit of 14 hours without stopping for food and water in this country, a figure expected to be cut to 10.5 hours under post-Brexit changes.

Campaigners have accused ministers of quietly slashing standards – even as a Kept Animals Bill is meant to end “excessively long journeys” before animals are slaughtered.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/m ... L#comments

This will be a good excuse to boycott Australian meats and other foods.

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Experts scorn UK government claim it can ditch parts of NI protocol

Thu 12 May 2022

Claims that the UK government has discovered a legal justification for tearing up large parts of Brexit arrangements in Northern Ireland have been greeted with scorn by expert lawyers.

The attorney general, Suella Braverman, has reportedly approved overriding the Northern Ireland protocol on the grounds that it is being unfairly enforced by the EU. Her submission, understood to be based on external advice, claims the EU’s “disproportionate and unreasonable” implementation is undermining the Good Friday agreement (GFA), according to the Times.

But George Peretz QC, a barrister who specialises in EU law, told the Guardian: “I can’t see how any lawyer could possibly advise the government that they’ve got a slam-dunk case. What I’ve seen so far doesn’t give them sustainable legal cover.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... i-protocol

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US congress delegation to fly to London as Northern Ireland protocol concerns grow

Thu 12 May 2022

A delegation of influential US congress representatives will fly to London within days amid growing concern in the White House about spiralling tensions over the Northern Ireland protocol, the Guardian can reveal.

With the UK government poised to table legislation next week which could revoke parts of the protocol, arrangements are being made for at least half a dozen representatives from the US Congress to fly to Europe for a series of meetings in Brussels, Dublin, London and Belfast.

The delegation will be headed by the influential chair of the ways and means committee, Richie Neal, which has significant power over future trade deals.

Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, has previously said the US intends to appoint its own envoy to Northern Ireland.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... d-protocol

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UK must accept border on Irish Sea is inevitable, says ex-WTO chief

Wed 18 May 2022

Boris Johnson’s row with the EU over Northern Ireland’s Brexit arrangements is “absolutely solvable” but only if the UK accepts that a border is inevitable, the former head of the World Trade Organization has said.

But Pascal Lamy said the prime minister could only achieve a breakthrough if he stopped mixing “oil and vinegar” and throwing emotional Brexit politics on to what he said was essentially a technical problem.

Lamy said he did not understand the UK’s strategy, which risked a trade war with the EU, but added that it was unlikely to come to this as the “cost-benefit ratio” was “ridiculous”.

If matters did deteriorate and the EU retaliated with sanctions, the bloc would win as those with greatest capacity for trade generally did, Lamy said.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... is-johnson

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Supermarkets warn Boris Johnson return to imperial measures would lead to further price rises

Tue, 31 May 2022

A return to imperial measures would drive up prices just as UK households are facing a cost of living crisis, UK supermarkets have warned.

Prime minister Boris Johnson is keen to bring back measurements in pounds and ounces and is expected to announce the move during the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

BEIS, the business department, will launch a consultation on Friday looking at whether retailers should be able to sell products in imperial measurements rather than metric.

Reintroducing measurements in pounds and ounces would be a "distraction" from the country's problems and increase grocers' costs according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC), which represents some of the biggest supermarkets and retail chains in the country.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/supermarkets- ... 37481.html