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Cont: Brexit XII

Darat said:
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...british-attempt-to-secure-tariff-free-exports

If only we had wonderkid Truss at the helm this would never have happened!

Hard cheese: Canada rejects British attempt to secure tariff-free exports
Many UK cheese makers could face 245% duty from 1 January, making exporting unaffordable
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If it wasn't for the actions and decisions of other countries, Brexit would have been a resounding success.:rolleyes:

It's almost as if a single country has much less diplomatic and economic clout than a large bloc. :confused:
 
I remember reading about the Canada cheese thing at least a year ago. British negotiators were apparently assuming that Canada would be champing at the bit to import more cheese from us. But Canada has its own dairy industry to protect, only agreed to accept cheese from EU countries as part of a complex trade deal, and were not about to import any more. They had to explain to the astonished Brits that to continue to export cheese to them at all they would have to ask the EU nicely if they could keep the slice of the EU's negotiated amount they currently had. Looks like that went about as well as I expected.
 
An Italian environmental technology investor who has lived in the UK for 14 years has discovered she could be removed despite getting a “permanent residency” card after Brexit.

She is one of potentially tens of thousands of EU citizens who were unaware the Home Office changed the rules in 2019 requiring them to apply for a different scheme, called EU settlement.

Silvana, whose name has been changed, discovered her permanent residency card was not valid only when her application to renew her daughter’s European health insurance card (Ehic) before a holiday this summer was rejected.


https://www.theguardian.com/politic...om-uk-despite-permanent-residency-card-brexit
 
Another great benefit of Brexit:

Pint of wine anyone? UK looks to bring back ‘silly measure’

Kevin Hollinrake, the minister for enterprise, markets and small business, said, apparently seriously, that “our exit from the EU was all about moments just like this, where we can seize new opportunities and provide a real boost to our great British wineries and further growing the economy.
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Give it a couple of years, and the Brexiteers will be shocked to discover that those dastardly foreigners won't allow us to export pint bottles of wine to Europe.
 
Someone got it right:
“Is this really the best this Conservative government can offer?” she [Sarah Olney, the Liberal Democrat MP for Richmond Park and the party’s Treasury spokesperson] said.

“Instead of fixing the crisis in our NHS, cleaning up our rivers and tackling crime, this Conservative government has been spending its time developing plans to introduce a new bottle of wine size. You couldn’t make it up. Sunak and his government should be flat out fixing the very real crises our country faces, not debating wine.”
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Mojo said:
Another great benefit of Brexit:

Pint of wine anyone? UK looks to bring back ‘silly measure’




Give it a couple of years, and the Brexiteers will be shocked to discover that those dastardly foreigners won't allow us to export pint bottles of wine to Europe.
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From the article

No one is going to make a pint-sized bottle,” said one English winemaker, who asked not to be named because the debate about imperial measures was so “toxic”. “In order to make a pint-sized bottle you’re going to have to invest a huge amount of money. It’s a silly measure.
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Currently around the globe, every winery uses 75cl bottles. Every single wine producing nation on the planet is producing billions of bottles every year, even the famously not metric USA use them.

Expecting bottle manufacturers to set up new production lines for a bottle just for the UK and wineries to start using them is pure bollocks from a ******* who knows Brexit has delivered **** all.

Not to mention that it was the English that invented the 75cl bottle, when they owned Bordeaux.6x75cl = 1 gallon.That's why wine is still sold in cartons of 6 in France today.
 
Gord_in_Toronto said:
I was going to say "desperately sad" but that works too. Exactly how did these people expect things to work? (You don't have to answer.)
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If the UK had been included then they would have complained about unelected Brussels bureaucrats meddling in the UK's transport affairs
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Andy_Ross said:
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No one is going to make a pint-sized bottle,” said one English winemaker, who asked not to be named because the debate about imperial measures was so “toxic”. “In order to make a pint-sized bottle you’re going to have to invest a huge amount of money. It’s a silly measure.
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Magners and Guinness still make pint bottles of beer, and probably other brewers too, so there’s a source out there if people actually want them. Dunno if they’d be suitable for a sparkling wine.

But is this something the market has been crying out for? I used to work on the single market wine regulations in Brussels, and the focus of UK wine producers back then was low alcohol (or no alcohol) wines, while some wanted to be able to add different flavourings to wines (the legislation on aromatised wine was very strict). Literally no-one ever lobbied me to have pints of wine. Not even UKIP.

I suppose this could be good for hepatologists as students dare each other to down pints of wine.
 
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There's going to be someone with a Hull accent will take the opportunity to ask for "farve parnts of wharte waarne" . It won't be me.
 
It's quite funny that after all that shouting about imperial measurements, the result of the government consultation is that barely 1% of the public want them back.

I suppose as the 1% are all that's left of the Tory core vote we will be getting imperial measurements just before the election.
 
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