Brexit

KK wrote:It's basically just Blair's boozy mate Juncker talking out of his arse.

bear wrote:

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So much for that then...

BID0 wrote:

bear wrote:

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So much for that then...

Blue Eyes wrote:Same gooseberry fool keeps popping up over and over. These stupid idiots in charge need to kill themselves.

Moggy wrote:

Blue Eyes wrote:Same gooseberry fool keeps popping up over and over. These stupid idiots in charge need to kill themselves.

Stop with all the abuse. It's making me very upset.

lex-man wrote:

BID0 wrote:

bear wrote:

twitter.com/tconnellyRTE/status/897373068238213120

So much for that then...

Isn't this the 700 time this sentiment has been expressed. It's hardly breaking news.

Lagamorph wrote:

lex-man wrote:

BID0 wrote:

bear wrote:

twitter.com/tconnellyRTE/status/897373068238213120

So much for that then...

Isn't this the 700 time this sentiment has been expressed. It's hardly breaking news.

It must be breaking news to the government since they clearly don't know this.

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Eighthours wrote:Unfortunately, the Opposition are also breathtakingly clueless: https://order-order.com/2017/08/15/labo ... oms-union/

Listen to the whole interview. Emma Barnett just gets more and more and more frustrated at the same mean-nothing words.

Cheeky Devlin wrote:As someone who works giving advice on Customs matters to businesses and private individuals the whole thing is a strawberry floating mess and it's only going to get worse. Far, far worse.

On the plus side my job is looking pretty secure for the foreseeable future.

UK position paper opposes Irish border posts
The government has said there must be an "unprecedented solution" for the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic after Brexit.

The position paper sets out two "broad approaches" to future customs arrangements that the UK hopes will help to prevent physical customs posts along the Irish border.

The suggestions are a "new customs partnership" or a "highly streamlined customs arrangement".

The partnership model would "align" customs approaches between the UK and the EU, resulting in "no customs border at all between the UK and Ireland," the paper claims.

The paper suggests the second, "highly-streamlined" arrangement could include:

- a continued waiver on submitting entry/exit declarations;
- continued membership of the Common Transit Convention to help Northern Ireland and Irish companies transit goods
- a new "trusted trader" arrangement for larger businesses
- a "cross-border trade exemption" which would mean no new customs processes at all for smaller traders

The paper also dismisses the idea of a customs border in the Irish Sea, saying it would be economically and constitutionally unviable.

Dual wrote:Sorry Ireland but returning to the glory days of the Troubles is just a small price to pay for our Independence.

a new "trusted trader" arrangement for larger businesses

BID0 wrote:

a new "trusted trader" arrangement for larger businesses

Does this mean corporations can basically do what the strawberry float they like when it comes to cheap labour and products? Excellent

Cheeky Devlin wrote:

BID0 wrote:

a new "trusted trader" arrangement for larger businesses

Does this mean corporations can basically do what the strawberry float they like when it comes to cheap labour and products? Excellent

It's more likely to be something along the line of the existing Approved Exporter Scheme. They look at the processes and systems that a business has in place and if they are sufficiently robust they are able to use more simplified procedures when moving goods. Something like this implies that they would look at a business compliance history and processes and if they can show they are trustworthy and know what they are doing, then they are able to just move goods across the border with reduced reporting required. Of course this is all dependent on the EU and Ireland agreeing to it.