Sweep
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Shouldn’t you have ended that question with a question mark rather than an exclamation mark?
Brexit - or Article 50: the Phoenix!
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Shouldn’t you have ended that question with a question mark rather than an exclamation mark?
Foxy is king of the exclamation mark. Uses it at the end of almost every sentence.
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Mudball
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TMay must be over the moon.. she had been knocked off the front page by party ‘splits’, Isis bride etc.
Now all she needs is that Javid revokes the isis passport and it being reinstated by the Courts or ECJ .. suddenly everyone will be behind her ‘deal’..
Now all she needs is that Javid revokes the isis passport and it being reinstated by the Courts or ECJ .. suddenly everyone will be behind her ‘deal’..
Doon frae Troon
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My God, Wastemonster is soooooo pathetic.
Serious discussions going on about where 11 MP's are going to sit.
Serious discussions going on about where 11 MP's are going to sit.
Old Skier
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H'mm!
Btw. I don't!
Good, then perhaps you can stop acting like the grammar police.
Old Skier
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New anti Brexit Party formed. Wonder what they are going to do at the end of March. The only common ground is that they want another "People's Vote". No common ideology, interesting times.
SocketRocket
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They all may be against Foxhunting.
SocketRocket
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Put Blackstock on a diet and you may fit a few more in.
Mudball
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Another Project Fear claptrap ? This time from Formula 1 fellas.. some would argue that who wants these overpaid fellows in this country anyways eh?
8 of the 10 F1 teams are UK based and UK is a pioneer in this space but who care
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/19/...rcedes-brexit-formula-one-spt-intl/index.html
8 of the 10 F1 teams are UK based and UK is a pioneer in this space but who care
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/19/...rcedes-brexit-formula-one-spt-intl/index.html
drdel
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So the EU continue to claim the Irish border solution is key to the integrity of the single market to ensure products are not smuggelled into the EU across the border and undermine its economy.
This would mean Ireland receiving a huge quantity of produce to be of any significance. Surely such volumes of cross border movement would be opposite to current flow and be very obvious. Do these people live in the real world
This would mean Ireland receiving a huge quantity of produce to be of any significance. Surely such volumes of cross border movement would be opposite to current flow and be very obvious. Do these people live in the real world
Doon frae Troon
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Are you thinking toilet rolls whilst others think small bottles of knock off perfume.
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Does volumes matter, whether its a little or a lot, still has to be accounted for?
Just because there isn't a massive flow of goods from NI into Eire now doesn't mean there couldn't be in future if an open border did offer a means to smuggle easily into EU. If we turn ourselves into a lower taxation country so goods become significantly cheaper here even more so. People could/would try to do it just to avoid hefty tariffs.
Seems like you're saying "dont be daft us Brits dont do smuggling" or "there isn't or won't be enough smuggling to bother about".
If we're out of SM and CU with no trade deal in place with EU then tariffs will most likely apply.
You know how it goes buying stuff like golf clubs from USA, we have to pay customs and excise and added VAT on anything worth more than £120 or so, quite significant added cost it is too. We could end up in a situation like that if we can't agree the backstop which we know ERG wont let May do.
People smuggle by buying new Callaways at $1,000 over there in US as they're cheaper there (or were before the £ tanked after referendum), mucky them up a bit and stick them in an old golf bag pretending they took them over with them - small potatoes but still smuggling and illegal but loads of 'honest' UK golfers do it.
Lots of whisky could go from Bushmills over the border into EU undetected. Argicultural produce too.
That Stranraer to Larne ferry crossing business could become very busy indeed, more boats needed, a good investment maybe, get in now!
Doon frae Troon
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West of Scotland/NI shellfish market is an example once tariffs are imposed by the EU.
Land catches at NI ports and fly them from Dublin instead of Glasgow.
Land catches at NI ports and fly them from Dublin instead of Glasgow.
USER1999
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Steel is another. Land cheap Chinese steel tariff free into the UK, ship it to the EU from Eire. Job done.
The BBC continues to scaremonger talking about stock piling foods and other essentials should a no deal occur.
I'm not sure if they realize, although I'm sure they do, that there will be people who will be concerned far more than others and could make themselves ill with worry, so I think this constant media output of scaremongering along these lines is disgraceful.
They (BBC) are fully aware of everything that is in place for a no deal scenario, and that in some areas a minimum period of 12 months has been agreed to ease some of the changes into place, and not, as they would like us to all think, comes to a grinding halt!
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I'm not sure if they realize, although I'm sure they do, that there will be people who will be concerned far more than others and could make themselves ill with worry, so I think this constant media output of scaremongering along these lines is disgraceful.
They (BBC) are fully aware of everything that is in place for a no deal scenario, and that in some areas a minimum period of 12 months has been agreed to ease some of the changes into place, and not, as they would like us to all think, comes to a grinding halt!
No Deal Arrangements
Beezerk
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News headline on BBC 5 Live earlier "Juncker says no deal is bad for Britain".
Actual story and quote a few minutes later "Juncker says no deal will be bad for both the UK and EU nations".
BBC = Brexit is Bad Corporation 🤣
Actual story and quote a few minutes later "Juncker says no deal will be bad for both the UK and EU nations".
BBC = Brexit is Bad Corporation 🤣
The Beeb put out something yesterday that said children's safety and security after Brexit will be compromised. Can't remember all the detail but it was an appalling bit of journalism. Licence fee payers are paying for that level of rubbish.
drdel
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Does volumes matter, whether its a little or a lot, still has to be accounted for?
Just because there isn't a massive flow of goods from NI into Eire now doesn't mean there couldn't be in future if an open border did offer a means to smuggle easily into EU. If we turn ourselves into a lower taxation country so goods become significantly cheaper here even more so. People could/would try to do it just to avoid hefty tariffs.
Seems like you're saying "dont be daft us Brits dont do smuggling" or "there isn't or won't be enough smuggling to bother about".
If we're out of SM and CU with no trade deal in place with EU then tariffs will most likely apply.
You know how it goes buying stuff like golf clubs from USA, we have to pay customs and excise and added VAT on anything worth more than £120 or so, quite significant added cost it is too. We could end up in a situation like that if we can't agree the backstop which we know ERG wont let May do.
People smuggle by buying new Callaways at $1,000 over there in US as they're cheaper there (or were before the £ tanked after referendum), mucky them up a bit and stick them in an old golf bag pretending they took them over with them - small potatoes but still smuggling and illegal but loads of 'honest' UK golfers do it.
Lots of whisky could go from Bushmills over the border into EU undetected. Argicultural produce too.
That Stranraer to Larne ferry crossing business could become very busy indeed, more boats needed, a good investment maybe, get in now!
I think you need to think hard about practicalitie. This stuff 'smuggled' from UK to Ireland in such volumes would then need to be transported to the EU! : any such pattern would be very obvious.
You have put words in my mouth and commented on stuff that was not in the post.
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