Brexit: Now What? Part IV

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If the Daily Fail has their way, neither will UK passports - instead they will be produced, at a much greater cost to the UK taxpayer, in the UK in what will then turn out not to be a competitive bid process as the contract will simply be awarded to De La Rue (a suspiciously foreign name, if you ask me :) :p) at whatever cost they deem appropriate.
 
The Don said:
If the Daily Fail has their way, neither will UK passports - instead they will be produced, at a much greater cost to the UK taxpayer, in the UK in what will then turn out not to be a competitive bid process as the contract will simply be awarded to De La Rue (a suspiciously foreign name, if you ask me :) :p) at whatever cost they deem appropriate.
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Doiuble win for the Mail - "Our campaign did it" when the decsion is made and then the next day "Govenment paying over the odds for our passports!".
 
My lovely brand new, UK-made, European Union, UK passport arrived a few minutes ago.

What a remarkably stress-free process, including uploading a selfie as a passport photo. Less than two weeks from online application to new passport in my paw.
 
The Don said:
My lovely brand new, UK-made, European Union, UK passport arrived a few minutes ago.

What a remarkably stress-free process, including uploading a selfie as a passport photo. Less than two weeks from online application to new passport in my paw.
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Two weeks? At my town hall, it's one week (NL). But at least you have a burgundy one with EU on it. :thumbsup:
 
Quietly pleased that myself and Miss Analyst jnr have brand-new burgundy passports, although obviously in her case she's only covered until 2023. Mrs Analyst is now looking to see if she can replace hers in advance before they go blue.
 
An update from the Brexit committee.

The government should not rule out continued membership of the European Economic Area (EEA) after Brexit, a committee of MPs has said.

The Brexit committee said joining Norway in the European Free Trade Area (Efta) should also be an option.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43631410

Unsurprisingly, MPs in favour of Brexit do not want this.

The recommendation caused splits in the committee, with Tory Brexiteers, led by Jacob Rees-Mogg, voting against its inclusion in their report.

The committee's Brexiteers also voted against the report in its entirety, but were defeated by 10 to six.
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You have all been warned you business leaders!

Businesses that speak out for Britain's EU membership will be punished, vows John Redwood

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/po...rship-will-be-punished-vows-John-Redwood.html

Leading Tory eurosceptic says companies who publicly back staying in EU will pay 'very dear economic and financial price", with executives potentially losing their jobs

The former Welsh secretary demanded firms "keep out" of the debate and "beware" not to "meddle in politics".
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Mr Redwood told a fringe event about Britain's place in the EU that "the only answer for all concerned is for big business to keep out and not express a corporate view".

He added: "If they don't understand that now they will find those of us organising the 'get out' campaign will then make life difficult for them by making sure that their customers, their employees and their shareholders who disagree with them - and there will be a lot who disagree with them - will be expressing their views very forcefully and will be destabilising their corporate governance.
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The selection process for our politicians is failing heavily on the integrity and honesty front.
 
jimbob said:
Because nothing says that you have confidence in your arguments like trying to stifle dissent.
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This is the same Redwood that was advising investors to move their money out of the UK and in to Europe just a few weeks ago.
 
Information Analyst said:
We recently got Miss Analyst jnr's first passport. HM Passport Office managed to send her birth certificate to some random bloke in Scotland - along with his son's birth certificate - who returned it to us direct. When we took this up with HMPO, they - unbelievably - suggested it was our fault because we didn't cough up extra for Special Delivery return, rather than regular 2nd class mail. They seemed incapable of understanding that paying for SD return is to avoid something going astray in 2nd class mail, not to avoid someone at HMPO stuffing two birth certificates in one envelope.

Personally I'd be happy if the entire thing was run by foreigners, as long as they were less incompetent than the UK lot.
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It seems our experience was not an isolated error:

BBC News: 'Human error' blamed after passports posted to wrong people
 
More Brexit "good news", the CBI is concerned that diverging from EU rules post Brexit will cost, rather than save money.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43719924

In a survey of 23 industry sectors, the vast majority preferred continued close alignment with EU regulations.

Agriculture, shipping and tourism might benefit, but this was "vastly outweighed" by the impact on other sectors, the CBI said.
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The CBI do tend to represent bigger business so their view is coloured by that.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
You have all been warned you business leaders!

Businesses that speak out for Britain's EU membership will be punished, vows John Redwood

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/po...rship-will-be-punished-vows-John-Redwood.html
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Wait, what?

Mr Redwood told a fringe event about Britain's place in the EU that "the only answer for all concerned is for big business to keep out and not express a corporate view".
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All businesses are legally required to look out for their business's best interest. Redwood is advocating breaking the law.
 
Nothing concrete at this stage but yet another story about a business sector worried about life after Brexit

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43627343

Industry executives' main fear is that Brexit will result in heightened barriers to trade, not only with the European Union, but with the rest of the world too, once the transition period ends on 31 December 2020.
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But Liam Fox assured us that getting excellent free trade agreements would be the simplest thing and that the new agreements would be so much better than the ones we already have as a result of being in the EU :rolleyes:

Then there's China, the world's second-largest car market. Trading relations with China are already complicated, and may well be subject to even greater complexity in future.
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I thought that the whole rationale behind Brexit was that, sure it'd be more difficult to do business with the EU (who account for half of exports), but it'd be easier to do business with the rest of the world and that market is growing faster. Turns out that may not be the case. Who, apart from anyone who looked at the subject, could have seen that coming :rolleyes:

But wait, there's more.....

On top of this, UK automotive trade with China - and other fast-growing markets such as India, Brazil and Russia - could suffer, depending on the terms of a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, Mr Singh says.

That's because the UK might not be able to piggyback on the EU's existing bilateral trade agreements with third countries, including those entered into since the Brexit vote with Canada and Japan. Instead, it would face years of protracted trade talks with dozens of countries.
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B...b...but we were promised it was going to be easy !!!!11!!!!111!!11 :mad:
 
The Don said:
My lovely brand new, UK-made, European Union, UK passport arrived a few minutes ago.

What a remarkably stress-free process, including uploading a selfie as a passport photo. Less than two weeks from online application to new passport in my paw.
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Will you have to buy a new one in 2019 or 2020?
 
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