dexxy57:
The guy asked you a fair question though. Any tangible benefits of leaving coming our way any time soon?
Blue passports maybe? Being doled out already I believe.
Noremac:
dexxy57:
The guy asked you a fair question though. Any tangible benefits of leaving coming our way any time soon?Blue passports maybe? Being doled out already I believe.
Iconic blue passports return next month - GOV.UK
Yes.
A dark blue passport.
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Made in Poland by French/Dutch Gemco.
Franglais:
Surprised nobody posted anything about this so far?
thelondoneconomic.com/busin … ins/30/09/
Seems Johnson is concerned that Brexit might actually be harmful to the UK motor industry.
No !!! Sherlock!
Toyota & Nissan will seek reimbursement from the UK if Brexit talks fail.
"TOKYO – Toyota and Nissan will ask for reimbursement from Britain if the UK government fails to agree on a trade deal with the European Union, the Nikkei financial daily reported on Monday.
The Japanese automakers are bracing for a 10 percent tariff on cars exported from the UK to the EU and are demanding that the government pay extra costs, the Nikkei reported on Monday.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday that he did not particularly wish for a Brexit transition period to end without a new trade deal in place but that Britain could live with such an outcome." europe.autonews.com/automakers/ … paper-says
Trouble is someone in Cornwall or Kent is probably not interested in that, they are only concerned about their problems and what is it for them. There is no us , just people who want something for themselves. You only have to look at the amount of time it’s said on here about lack of facilities for hgv drivers and nobody else is interested. It’s human nature. May be if you said what is actually in it for them personally you might sell it better, otherwise it’s flogging a dead horse.
Odd days:
Trouble is someone in Cornwall or Kent is probably not interested in that, they are only concerned about their problems and what is it for them. There is no us , just people who want something for themselves. You only have to look at the amount of time it’s said on here about lack of facilities for hgv drivers and nobody else is interested. It’s human nature. May be if you said what is actually in it for them personally you might sell it better, otherwise it’s flogging a dead horse.
Couldn’t agree more, but General Elections (or local council elections) are the way to express your concerns about the economy, Health, Transport etc . Brexit was a straight down the middle binary choice. Stay or Leave. And we voted to leave, and we’re leaving. No argument there, the People have spoken.
So, when the sunny EU-free future arrives next year, what tangible benefits will we see? Come on everyone, there must be something we can look forward to in these dark times.
dexxy57:
Odd days:
Trouble is someone in Cornwall or Kent is probably not interested in that, they are only concerned about their problems and what is it for them. There is no us , just people who want something for themselves. You only have to look at the amount of time it’s said on here about lack of facilities for hgv drivers and nobody else is interested. It’s human nature. May be if you said what is actually in it for them personally you might sell it better, otherwise it’s flogging a dead horse.Couldn’t agree more, but General Elections (or local council elections) are the way to express your concerns about the economy, Health, Transport etc . Brexit was a straight down the middle binary choice. Stay or Leave. And we voted to leave, and we’re leaving. No argument there, the People have spoken.
So, when the sunny EU-free future arrives next year, what tangible benefits will we see? Come on everyone, there must be something we can look forward to in these dark times.
Tourists?
Pound has been falling against Euro and Dollar, so we are getting cheaper for foreigners.
Less lies on buses ?
Unicorns and rainbows on sunny uplands with crumpets for tea ?
No media headlines about how awful brexit is going to be ?
All benefits
OwenMoney:
Less lies on buses ?Unicorns and rainbows on sunny uplands with crumpets for tea ?
No media headlines about how awful brexit is going to be ?
All benefits
Your first suggestion just isn’t going to happen. It just isn’t. Any Government that has normalised telling lies is not going to pass up the chance to spread more lies on the side of a bus. Number 3 is a dead cert, the waiting will be over and the bright new future will have arrived. Said headlines might be replaced with how awful Brexit actually ‘is’ instead of ‘it’s going to be’, but Francois and Farage have assured us all that the future’s rosy. Two more trustworthy gentlemen would be hard to find.
Anyway, number 2 cancels out the others , I’ll go with that. Can’t wait.
You mean i have been lied to and i’m not getting a Unicorn or a rainbow or crumpets for tea ? Then what am i getting ?
OwenMoney:
You mean i have been lied to and i’m not getting a Unicorn or a rainbow or crumpets for tea ? Then what am i getting ?
Calm down, we’ve been assured the Promised Land is where we’ll be living next year. Trust them, they know what they’re doing.
Having watched the piffle of hot air from the conservative party conference today ( where the IT couldn’t do 20 000 ) then it’s time to panic Corporal Jones —
OwenMoney:
Having watched the piffle of hot air from the conservative party conference today ( where the IT couldn’t do 20 000 ) then it’s time to panic Corporal Jones —
No need to panic, our PM is in full control.
Has Arfur Daley been made an offer for his used car lot yet?
Here is an update on truck parks being acquired and planned.
theguardian.com/politics/20 … congestion
Ten of `em, Dover to Holyhead including Warrington and Birmingham.
And this is a link to the Gov statement Thursday
gov.uk/government/news/gove … ting-model
A link to the actual updated plan is included there.
Once again ‘chlorinated chicken*’ and ‘hormone beef’ are in the news.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/p … 14047.html
Liz Truss says to trust the Government…
This has been going on ages, with many chances to enshrine safety measures in law, but always evaded.
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. * it isn’t the washing of food with chlorine that is the issue exactly, it’s that it is intensively reared, to lower standards than allowed in the UK, so will put British farmers out of business.
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Four ferry firms sign £80m post-Brexit freight deal.
Four ferry firms have signed contracts with the Department for Transport (DfT) worth a combined £77.6m to provide freight services after Brexit.
Brittany Ferries, DFDS, P&O and Stena Line will between them provide extra capacity for the equivalent of 3,000 heavy goods vehicles a week.
The new contracts will ensure that vital medical supplies and other critical goods continue to be delivered “smoothly”, the DfT said.
Capacity will be added on quieter routes between the UK and mainland Europe, serving ports such as Felixstowe, Harwich, Hull, Newhaven, Poole, Portsmouth, Teesport and Tilbury.
OwenMoney:
Four ferry firms sign £80m post-Brexit freight deal.Four ferry firms have signed contracts with the Department for Transport (DfT) worth a combined £77.6m to provide freight services after Brexit.
Brittany Ferries, DFDS, P&O and Stena Line will between them provide extra capacity for the equivalent of 3,000 heavy goods vehicles a week.
The new contracts will ensure that vital medical supplies and other critical goods continue to be delivered “smoothly”, the DfT said.
Capacity will be added on quieter routes between the UK and mainland Europe, serving ports such as Felixstowe, Harwich, Hull, Newhaven, Poole, Portsmouth, Teesport and Tilbury.
Hooray! At least those companies own boats.
Thousands call for new Brexit ‘lorry park’ to be named after Nigel Farage
Thousands of people are calling for a huge new Brexit “lorry park” in Kent to be named after Nigel Farage.
A tongue-in-cheek petition wants the Brexit Party leader to be recognised for his contribution to the UK leaving the EU.
Up to 1,700 lorries will be able to park at the new facility, which is under construction next to the M20 in Ashford.
But while the Government refers to it as an “inland border facility”, the online campaign prefers to describe it as a “diesel-soaked Valhalla”.
As the UK approaches the end of the Brexit transition period, a number of measures are being put in place to try to avoid friction after December 31.
Hauliers will need special permits to gain access to Kent in order to help avoid queues of 7,000 trucks heading for the border.
Meanwhile, portable toilets could be installed alongside roads in the Garden of England in case lorry drivers get stuck in congestion.
The petition, launched on Thursday, calls on Kent County Council to name the controversial new facility “Nigel’s Folly”, after the longtime Brexit campaigner.
It says: “It is fitting that every lorry driver, every commuter and every local resident has a chance to link this fine example of civil engineering to its true hero.
“It may be that Mr Farage will be unable or unwilling to attend the unveiling of this great honour that we do him, but that shouldn’t get in the way of seeing his name and huge gurn plastered all over the boundary fence at regular intervals, topped by a coil of razor wire no doubt festooned with the shreds of black farmers’ plastic known as witches’ knickers.
“For the foreseeable future everyone should genuinely be able to refer to this diesel-soaked Valhalla as Nigel’s Folly.”
Set up on Thursday afternoon, the petition has so far garnered more than 2,000 signatures.
As signatures mounted on Friday morning, others left comments endorsing the plan, with some suggesting the “Farage Garage” as an alternative name.
Kent County Council was trending along with Nigel Farage on Twitter on Friday morning.
The petition can be accessed here: change.org/p/kent-county-co … gel-farage
Johnson looks forward to Australia style deal…“with great confidence”.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/p … 68616.html
Just as he was confident covid would soon be beaten, we’d have the easiest trade negotiations, world beating test and trace, a moon shot, etc, etc.
The boy is a fool.
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The best we can hope for now is a deal with our nearest neighbours, and biggest trade partners, similar to that of a minor European trader, half a globe away?
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anon84679660:
Thousands call for new Brexit ‘lorry park’ to be named after Nigel FarageThousands of people are calling for a huge new Brexit “lorry park” in Kent to be named after Nigel Farage.
A tongue-in-cheek petition wants the Brexit Party leader to be recognised for his contribution to the UK leaving the EU.
Meanwhile, portable toilets could be installed alongside roads in the Garden of England in case lorry drivers get stuck in congestion.
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The same article suggested calling the portaloos the ‘Jacob Rees-Boggs’.
I quite like the sound of that.