BREXIT - Is This Really Still Rumbling On? 😴
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i was waiting 😀
my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny0 -
Do you feel that some of the rules you comply with are not teally about safety (or an industry not renowned for paying taxes)?
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Ha.
Yes. The Building Safety Act duplicates large parts of the CDM Regulations (existing H&S legislation). There is a new section of the Building Regulations that mandates single sex toilets in workplaces and public buildings (as if they didn't already have them as a matter of course) so that culture warriors can feel like they have won something.
I will refrain from going off on one about planning legislation and attempts by anyone and everyone to bolt on their specialist subjects to make it solve all of societies ills.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Oops.
A bit of a pity they didn't tell us that, though I think some of us might have guessed. Seems a bit of an oversight.
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Rumble. Rumble. Rumble
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
You might need to show your workings to justify that.
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I'm no fan of Brexit, but that kind of anecdote is likely highlighting cr*p management rather than anything Brexit-related. Bare shelves are really not that common unless you go looking for them, and pre-Brexit they occurred from time to time anyway.
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The fresh goods in my local Tesco have recently been rearranged so that they have about half the capacity. I'm presuming that's because people are eating more ready meals, but it has made the shelves look much fuller. Not sure it's anything to do with Brexit though.
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Would this be the same David Davis who sat down opposite Barnier at the start of the Brexit negotiations?
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From the FT. We didn't even get unicorn stew as recompense.
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Not sure what the UK's statecraft has to do with the US electorate installing the Orange One or for the global domination plans of the Chinese in the last decade. Regardless of being in or out of the EU, the UK's relationship with the US and China would have changed anyway given these developments. Though I guess the relationship with Trump might be better had senior figures in the current government not made the derogatory comments about him that they did when showboating in opposition.
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But, but, but, but, it's an FT article, and it is Tory bashing, and anti-Brexit, so triggers many of Brian's boxes
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It does look like high class clickbait and judging by Brian's post above, it has worked.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
It's poor old Europe that we should probably be more concerned about.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Talking of high class clickbait...🙂
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Brian started it... 😊
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Ireland is now able to do spot checks near the border.
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Hoping this works - a nice little feature that renders a Bluesky thread into one post:
David Henig
November 26, 2024
Reading further through the latest Shipman, I have to say the account of TCA negotiations is not one that would be recognised in Brussels. Rather it reads as though under the guise of toughness the UK pretty much did everything the Commission wanted.
What is presented as major EU concession was nothing of the sort. Worse, UK tactics to play hardball are discussed without noting that there was no strategy behind them that made sense, no recognition the UK would need a deal. In short, not a reliable account.
Too much UK analysis of the whole Brexit saga ignores the negotiating dynamics and focuses instead on narrow domestic politics. I hope that won't be repeated for upcoming talks, and that we'll understand that outcomes are shaped very early by constraints on both sides.
Oh dear, more times what the Commission always expected is presented as some great triumph for UK toughness.
As a Brussels contact said, the EU got 98% of what it wanted from Brexit, and it only wasn't 100% because of choice.
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This is the one caused mainly by the UK rules on EV's?
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
This is all going back a few years so my recollection may be sketchy, but my understanding is that the Johnson "deal" for the act of withdrawal (i.e. not the subsequent trade deal) was in fact what the EU originally wanted, despite being presented as a "triumph" of Johnson's negotiation skills in late 2019.
TM's deal contained elements (i.e. the specific details of the "backstop") that the EU didn't like (*) but the EU agreed to it all the same, in the hope that it would promote a "deal" rather than "no deal" which was considered a live possibility at the time, given the prevalence of obvious lunatics in positions of influence in the Tory party at the time.
If one likes irony then I guess it's to be found in the Tory nutters backing Johnson in the expectation that the UK would renege on the deal, which obviously hasn't happened, leaving the EU with an outcome more preferable to the EU than would have been the case if the nutters had voted for TM's deal.
(*) I recall the EU not being happy that TM's backstop was that the UK would remain in the Customs Union until a solution to the Irish border was found, as membership of the EU Customs Union is a privilege to for EU/EEA members only.
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the quote from stellantis says "partly" not "mainly", nothing has changed that would void their previous threat of closure due to brexit
if it makes more sense to shift manufacturing to the eu where rules are harmonised and there's a larger market, that's 100% due to brexit, as if uk were still within the eu, the uk would have the same rules and part of the larger market
eu manufacturers are complaining about their rules too of course
what's killing both uk and eu is lower cost products from china at al. and economies weakened for umpteen reasons resulting in less spending by consumers
no degree of local posturing and whining is going to change that, and if xi decides to let the renminbi fall to counter trump's threatened tariffs things will get even worse for both uk and eu
my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny1 -
I had a quick look at a few articles and the main reason was the UK EV rules and not Brexit as Brian was trying to imply.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
A good (realistic) thread on the UK/EU 'reset' position.
tl;dr - not much is going to happen if Starmer keeps his red lines.
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The price of guessing wrongly.
70% of the output from Luton was exported anyway, so I think Stelantis. Might be saying what they think sounds good rather than what is true.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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You can think what you want, but got any evidence for that?
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Just reading the published information. They export more than 2/3 of their output. Therefore whatever UK regs are - and the shift to EV has been clear for years - UK regs can only account for 30% of the reasons for closing the factory.
If they really thought EVs were a fad and the switch to EV really was the reason for closing the factory then they want to get better advice.
We seem to be back to you arguing for the state propping up failing businesses again. Next you'll be arguing for union membership.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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You could have just said no.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Current EV sales are just below the 22% target in the regulations - 20.5% for this September. The target for vans is just 10%. 59% of respondents to an EY survey said they were intending to buy an EV in the next two years. Seems like the demand is there. These rules only affect 30% of the Luton plant's output. So sure, life would be easier if they weren't penalised for under-performing against the target. If they want to avoid the penalties they need to make their EVs a more attractive option. Sounds like it is working as intended.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0
