Lee Cain is out, rumours about Cummings and Frost next.
If Johnson is to go for a deal then he’d want them out first.
We know Johnson isn't a zealot - he doesn't appear to have any strong political principles. I think he's probably scared witless of No Deal. He's seen what happened to Cameron's legacy.
...does he have one? Apart from starting this fire in the first place, of course. And f.cking a pig.
Lee Cain is out, rumours about Cummings and Frost next.
If Johnson is to go for a deal then he’d want them out first.
We know Johnson isn't a zealot - he doesn't appear to have any strong political principles. I think he's probably scared witless of No Deal. He's seen what happened to Cameron's legacy.
Yes, I expect he is. But I also suspect that he's scared of any deal that the EU would accept. From John Major onwards the brexit zealots in the party and media have made life hell for every Tory Prime Minister. Johnson doesn't want to see his legacy being written as the traitor who sold Britain down the river just weeks before it would liberate its self from the Brussels tyranny.
time honoured solurion: kick it into the grass. We'll see handover periods, transitional states, yearly reviews etc.
...does he have one? Apart from starting this fire in the first place, of course. And f.cking a pig.
I think even among Tories Cameron's legacy is that he is regarded as a lazy, useless, short-sighted fool whose policies were reversed as soon as he left power.
Re: Getting Brexit done
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2020 2:31 pm
by El Pollo Diablo
And yet, it's hard not to think that he'd have done a better job than Johnson. Amazing, I suppose.
Re: Getting Brexit done
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2020 2:37 pm
by JQH
The alcoholic tramp who shouts at the traffic outside the railway station could do a better job than Johnson.
Weren't there rumours that Johnson won't stay that much longer anyway?
I doubt that’ll happen. Being PM is the one thing that Johnson believes in. He’s not going to give it up easily.
Re: Getting Brexit done
Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2020 7:38 am
by Woodchopper
I keep reading rumours of a new transition extension. It’s too late for that now. It would also need to be negotiated and ratified, with lots of difficult issues like the UK contribution to the EU budget. Probably harder to negotiate that over the next few days than finish the current deal.
Re: Getting Brexit done
Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2020 7:40 am
by plodder
Unless we concede everything? Doesn’t sound likely though, impossible to spin in a positive light.
Best explanation I can think of is that Johnson is preparing to accept the EUs conditions and Cummings doesn’t want to be seen to be responsible.
The Scarlet Pimpernel wrote:"In any government, you require people who are going to shake things up and come up with ideas, and he's actually been that person."
Noticeably no mention of actually accomplishing anything.
Presumably because of his and Cummings shared interest in shuffling old dears off this mortal coil.
Sorry I meant "herd immunity".
Although TBF Shipman is a mere amateur compared to everyone's favorite super-predictor.
Re: Getting Brexit done
Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2020 12:43 pm
by Woodchopper
City of London to be shut out of EU with no equivalence deal from January
Brussels looks set to lock the City of London out of European markets from 1 January, with the EU not planning on granting regulatory equivalence before the end of the Brexit transition period.
City A.M. understands the UK’s financial services firms are heading toward the default position of having to deal with individual host countries’ regulatory regimes from next year.
The decision will be a serious blow for the City of London, which wanted a fresh EU-wide deal since the UK exports around £26bn of financial services to the EU annually.
Equivalence, which gives non-EU countries access to European financial markets, is granted when Brussels rules an outside country has similar financial services regulations to its own.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak said on Monday the UK would grant equivalence to EU and EEA financial services firms, ensuring they can continue to have access to UK markets.
I remember that over the years it was often claimed that the EU had to offer the UK generous terms as the EU was dependant upon the UK financial services sector. It obviously isn't dependent now, even if it was earlier.
Re: Getting Brexit done
Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2020 1:00 pm
by Little waster
£26bn a year you say.
Hmmm that's £500m a week. I wonder what part of the NHS we'll need to cut to fill that hole?
All answers to be written on the side of a stamped-addressed bus and driven around Sunderland.
And does anyone really clear their desk into a cardboard file and do that movie-trope walk out the front door? Talk about a manufactured photo-op. It's so emphatically saying "I have left" that I absolutely don't believe it. There's something else afoot here.
And does anyone really clear their desk into a cardboard file and do that movie-trope walk out the front door? Talk about a manufactured photo-op. It's so emphatically saying "I have left" that I absolutely don't believe it. There's something else afoot here.
Ostentatious is a good word
Re: Getting Brexit done
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2020 8:36 pm
by Woodchopper
Supply chain problems in Northern Ireland
The hardest aspect of the protocol remains retail food.
Under Article 5(4), Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture is responsible for applying the EU’s Official Controls Regulation (OCR) on food and animal products arriving from Britain.
Any lorries entering the UK from France, by contrast, will tend to be dominated by one, or a handful of categories of food, so the paperwork and costs will be simpler.
"That doesn’t work for Northern Ireland because of the way the just-in-time supply chain works," says Aodhán Connolly, chief executive of the Northern Ireland Retail Consortium.
"90% of the supermarket loads are consolidated [ie mixed]. If they are fresh loads then they can have one thousand, up to 2,000 different products. They can have, in the worst-case scenario, maybe 400 products of animal origin that will each require an export health certificate."
An export health certificate can cost between £50 and £200 depending on the product. Mr Connolly says that will make the high volume, low profit margin model of northern supermarkets unviable.
Last week, Sainsburys’ chief executive Simon Roberts told the Guardian: "If we don’t get greater clarity on the Northern Irish situation then we will see a restriction on the ranges of products we can sell. This is not one or two products in stores I am talking about, it is a substantial number of products and quite key, everyday products too."
