UK importers manage to avoid Brexit red tape for another 6 months

[pellinore]

Let's hope Starmer can soon get some sort of agreement with the EU to overrule the blond buffoons Withdrawal Agreement.

Fruit & vegetable imports are expected to avoid Brexit red tape for an additional six months.

The government has proposed extending the temporary easement of controls under the Border Target Operating Model for fruit & vegetable imports from the EU until 1 July 2025.

Post-Brexit border controls on medium and high-risk goods from the EU were first introduced in April this year, with fruit & vegetables expected to abide by stricter requirements starting from October this year.

But the Conservative government agreed to extend the easement and postpone the checks for some categories of fresh produce entering the UK from the bloc until 31 January 2025, over fears of supply challenges.

Britain imports over half of its fruit & vegetables. In 2022 alone, 79.4% of vegetable imports came from the EU. 

Fruit & veg importers see six-moth Brexit red tape delay | The Grocer (archive.ph)

Edited August 2 by pellinore

[L.A.T.1961]

16 hours ago, pellinore said:

Let's hope Starmer can soon get some sort of agreement with the EU to overrule the blond buffoons Withdrawal Agreement.

Fruit & vegetable imports are expected to avoid Brexit red tape for an additional six months.

The government has proposed extending the temporary easement of controls under the Border Target Operating Model for fruit & vegetable imports from the EU until 1 July 2025.

Post-Brexit border controls on medium and high-risk goods from the EU were first introduced in April this year, with fruit & vegetables expected to abide by stricter requirements starting from October this year.

But the Conservative government agreed to extend the easement and postpone the checks for some categories of fresh produce entering the UK from the bloc until 31 January 2025, over fears of supply challenges.

Britain imports over half of its fruit & vegetables. In 2022 alone, 79.4% of vegetable imports came from the EU. 

Fruit & veg importers see six-moth Brexit red tape delay | The Grocer (archive.ph)

Starmer is failing to implement EU regs, just like the Tory government. Boris was called the blond Buffoon, what shall we call Starmer ? for doing the same.

Probably wise, a rather nice bloke 😉 and best mates with the EU.

 

[pellinore]

6 hours ago, L.A.T.1961 said:

Starmer is failing to implement EU regs, just like the Tory government. 

Starmer has been PM less than a month! The Tories had 7 years since triggering Article 50, and 4 years since leaving the EU. And the damage is just starting as the grace periods are running out.

It is not just manufacturers: exporters, farmers, fishermen, professionals, musicians, social care, health care and aviation have all taken a hit, everyone is experiencing a higher cost of living. With more down the pipeline- biometric tests, import checks, more problems with N Ireland trade (despite the Windsor Framework), Gibraltar to be re-negotiated- the OBR estimate of a 4% hit to our economy is very conservative (some economists say up to 7.5%).

But don't worry, Starmer is on it and will start repairing the damage as soon as he can. Since the only people in the UK who have benefited from Brexit are the 50 or so people in the ERG, we should all be grateful someone who actually cares about the UK is finally in charge.

 

[Destination Unknown]

1 hour ago, pellinore said:

the OBR estimate of a 4% hit to our economy is very conservative (some economists say up to 7.5%).

How many times do I have to keep on debunking that 4% OBR nonsense pellinore?

That 4% hit to our economy nonsense by the OBR is a "prediction" on future GDP growth up until 2035, not how much GDP has been lost since Brexit happened.

If they could predict so accurately some 15 years into the future (2020 was when that 4% OBR "forecast" was made), then the 2008 Global Financial Crisis would have been accurately predicted back in 1993, so unless you have a portal to an alternative universe where Brexit never happened, there is no evidence to back up those claims.

Over the course of 50 years, France and the UK’s economy has had exactly the same rate of growth pre-Brexit, just as it has done post-Brexit, but now all of a sudden we're supposed to believe that our economy would be 4% better than France if Brexit hadn't happened.

As you can see from the interactive graph in the link below, the UK's economy has exactly mirrored that of France, whether we were in the EU or not. (Source: IMF).

At no point prior to Brexit was the UK's economy 4% higher than the economy of France, they both mirrored each other exactly, so where is this alleged 4% drop in the UK's economy then, or, to put it another way, why isn't the economy of France now at 6.15% (4% higher) than the UK’s 2.17% economy is right now? 🤔

Those figures are all just crystal ball predictions from a group with a reputation for getting it wrong, and it's ironic that you are falling for it whilst at the same time telling Leave voters they fell for Leave campaign lies, but seeing as you are obviously into hypotheticals that cannot possibly be answered one way or another with any degree of certainty, how much better would a post-Brexit UK's economy have been had Covid/Ukraine/energy crisis/global events etc. never happened? 🤔

https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/PPPSH@WEO/FRA/GBR

Edited August 3 by Destination Unknown