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One of UK's last Holocaust survivors fears deportation in Brexit EU Settlement Scheme
Irena Jendrycha was liberated from an Austrian concentration camp just 12 minutes before they were to be murdered. She has lived in Dundee most of her adult life but still has not been told whether or not she has a 'right' to stay in the UK

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20:21, 21 JUL 2021 UPDATED19:14, 22 JUL 2021

Holocaust survivor Irena Jendrycha faces an uncertain future

One of Britain’s last Holocaust survivors - liberated from the death camp where she was born – fears she may be deported in the post-Brexit EU Settlement Scheme.

Irena Jendrycha and her mother were just 12 minutes from being murdered when their Austrian camp was liberated at the end of of World WarII.

But now 77-year-old Irena, who has lived in Dundee, Scotland for most of her adult life, has been forced to apply for the right to remain.

The deadline for EU citizens to apply was July 1 and she still has not been told whether or not she has a “right” to stay in the UK.

She has not travelled outside of the UK since arriving after the war ended and never needed a passport.

But now, seven decades on from her family’s rescue as refugees Irena has been left “in the dark” about whether her status as a resident here is confirmed.

She spent her working life helping the UK and the world’s neediest through the church, serving hot food to the homeless and organising and donating clothes and bedding for refugees escaping conflicts across the globe.

She describes as “divine intervention” her rescue from the hands of the Nazis.

After being liberated as a baby, she spent the first five years of her life living in refugee sites and displaced persons facilities in Italy, England and Scotland with her mother and the man who she would know as her father - who had himself survived Stalin’s salt mine gulags as a young prisoner of war - before meeting his future wife and daughter in Italy.



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comment: i don't see why the lady would need to apply for permanent settlement. She was a war refugee at the time. Is she still considered a Polish national? Did dhe never naturalize?
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UK forced to reopen sensitive Ukraine trade pact after errors in text
Exclusive: Sections of the largely copied and pasted agreement tie Britain to EU rules

Anna Isaac Economics Editor
Saturday 17 July 2021 18:37

The UK has been forced to reopen its trade deal with Ukraine, one of its most sensitive post-Brexit agreements, after errors were found in the original text, The Independent can reveal.

The pact was signed by prime minister Boris Johnson in October last year, and lauded as a key example of Britain’s post-Brexit trade and foreign policies. The agreement not only covers the commercial relationship between Britain and the eastern European country but also defence cooperation to support Kiev’s sovereignty.

It followed the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, an area still internationally recognised as part of Ukraine. It also came amid a deterioration in relations between Moscow and London in the aftermath of the poisoning of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in 2018.

UK-Ukraine ties were again thrust into the spotlight last month when Russia claimed it had fired warning shots at a British vessel that passed close to the Crimean peninsula.

Underscoring the political importance of the agreement in October, Johnson said the UK was “Ukraine’s most fervent supporter”. He added: “Whether it’s our defence support, stabilisation efforts, humanitarian assistance or close cooperation on political issues, our message is clear: we are utterly committed to upholding the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.”

However, two officials told The Independent that the pact was already having to be reworked after mistakes were noted in the drafting of trade chapters. Some of the errors are a result of copying and pasting sections that bind the UK to EU rules, the same officials said.

Problems emerged when the trade department sought to create guidance on how the deal should be used by businesses in February and March after it came into force in January. However, the fact that the deal needed fresh negotiation and drafting was not made public by the Department for International Trade (DIT).

One of the same government officials said this was a deal that “no one wanted to get wrong” – particularly as it was subject to especially close scrutiny by the European Union, they added. Separately, an EU official told The Independent they had noted that the agreement bound the UK to rules in some areas they had not expected it to.



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remember, it's 5 years since the UK voted to leave the EU
UK border posts in race to be ready for EU import checks
By Joe Whitworth on July 9, 2021

Concerns have been raised again that several border control posts in the United Kingdom may not be ready by January when checks on some imports from Europe are scheduled to come into force.

Physical checks on products of animal origin will begin in January 2022. Import declarations start in October this year while all checks should be in place by March 2022. These dates have already been pushed back by the UK government. Exports to the EU from Britain have been subject to controls since January 2021.

Gary Gould, chair at the Association of Port Health Authorities, said several border control posts have indicated they won’t be ready by Jan. 1.



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“Brexit, What’s Next?” Series | The UK and the Lugano Convention in the post-Brexit world

With the help of our members, this thought-leadership series focuses on explaining what businesses should expect from the new reality of Brexit – in essence, with “Brexit, What’s Next?”. Today, we present Colin Monaghan, Partner, and Louise Mitchell, Knowledge Lawyer, at MASON HAYES & CURRAN and based in Dublin, Ireland; along with Tunde Oyewole, Of Counsel, and Sarah Lajugie, Associate at ORRICK and based in Paris, France. They will address: “The UK and the Lugano Convention in the post-Brexit world”.

Since the end of the Brexit transition period on 1 January 2021, the UK is outside of the Brussels and Lugano regimes which govern and provide streamlined procedures for jurisdiction and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters in the European Union (EU) and certain European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries.

The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement concluded on Christmas Eve 2020 is silent on civil justice matters and we are essentially experiencing a “Hard Brexit” in this regard. Absent a deal that continues or reproduces the EU Recast Brussels Regulation, it seems that the most straightforward way of replicating the pre-Brexit Brussels regime would be for the UK to re-join (in its own right) the Lugano Convention which provides a broadly similar regime on jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments between the EU Member States and certain EFTA countries (Iceland, Norway, and Switzerland).

The UK applied to join the Lugano Convention in April 2020 and had hoped to be admitted by now since the Convention itself provides that contracting parties shall endeavour to consent within one year. However, the UK’s application is still pending, and gaining consent from all contracting parties is proving more difficult than initially envisaged.

In this article we examine the current status of the UK’s application as well as the consequences of a decision to admit or deny the UK entry.

Current status of the UK’s application to accede to Lugano

Unanimous support required

The UK’s accession to the Lugano Convention requires unanimous support from all the contracting parties to the Convention, the EU, Denmark (in its own right), Norway, Iceland, and Switzerland. The three non-EU Lugano signatories (Iceland, Norway, and Switzerland) have already consented to the UK’s accession request.

The European Commission opposes UK’s application to join

In April this year, several news outlets reported that the European Commission expressed opposition to UK membership at a closed-door meeting. On 4 May 2021 the European Commission formally communicated to the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union that it opposes the UK’s application.



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EU citizens who applied to stay in Britain facing threat of deportation
The Home Office appears to be in breach of the Brexit withdrawal agreement, says legal charity

Mark Townsend
Sun 1 Aug 2021 10.50 BST

European citizens who have applied for settled status are being detained and threatened with deportation, a development that contradicts assurances from ministers and appears to contravene the Brexit withdrawal agreement.

The Home Office has served EU nationals with removal directions even though they could prove they had applied for settled status, which should protect their rights to remain in the UK.

Ministers have repeatedly promised that anyone who had applied by the 30 June deadline would have their existing rights protected while their case was heard.

The apparent failure to honour that agreement has prompted accusations of either “administrative incompetence” by Home Office officials or a “wilful” attempt to deport as many EU nationals as possible on the assumption they are easier to remove, for instance, than asylum seekers.



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How UK Citizens' Travel Is Impacted Post Brexit - Patron Story
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A member of my Patreon described his experience visiting Norway post Brexit and during the pandemic. He was had received his vaccination from the NHS and the certification to go with it. However it seems, according to his experience, that this was no valid in order to cross into Norway. He described how his family had to quartine in a hotel at their expense and get tested a number of times. It seems the Brexit Mentality has stopped the UK from joining the EU system like Norway did.
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Brexit has hit UK's position as a gateway to Europe for imports, say freight firms
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Updated: 06/08/2021

Brexit has damaged the UK's position as a gateway to Europe for imported goods and increased red tape.

That's the claim of air freight companies who say Britain's exit from the European Union has been compounded by the COVID pandemic.

“It was just a perfect storm," Robert Larkin, director of Med Freight Services near London, a company providing air cargo transportation, told Euronews.

"Everything got delayed, and then add Brexit onto the top of that as well, literally a complete nightmare.”

His company is one of a dozen air freight logistics firms near Gatwick Airport. They rely on chartering flights at short notice, that hop between several countries to move goods around Europe, such as manufacturing parts for supply chains.

But Brexit -- the effects of which kicked in at the start of the year -- is now slowing things down, with permits and permissions that are usually very slow to arrive.

The headache of added Brexit related paperwork goes hand in hand with anxieties connected to Britain being removed from the European equation.

“We, as Thatcher said, were the gateway to Europe, to get investment from Japan here: Honda, Nissan, whatever," said Jeffrey Ingarfield, director of Glenn Freight Services. "So once you’ve imported it [the goods], it’s then free to go anywhere."

"There’s now no point. Unless it’s going to terminate in the UK, what’s the point in bringing it here? If it’s going to go into Europe, go to Paris or wherever it may be. And we are seeing that stuff that used to come here is just not coming here anymore,” he added.



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by a UK wine importer

original tweet at https:// twitter.com/DanielLambert29/status/1423916054426923008
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As we enter August the #Brexit effect is now showing, in my industry at least, the permanent issues that we have to deal with. Here is my updated thread for my business in the wine industry. 1/25

It’s fair to say that Brexit has delivered very few positive outcomes to the wine trade, needless to say there are many more negatives which we now manage to the best of our abilities. 2/25

On the positive side, the end of the grey market and overseas online retailer has effectively ceased in U.K. because taxes and shipping has made the practice unsustainable verses regular U.K. retailers. 3/25

Secondly as you may have heard the government have backed down on Vi1s not just for the EU ( which were due to start in Jan 22) but they removed the non EU version too. That is good news. 4/25

There is no doubt in my mind that this was partly due to these threads on Twitter & getting the issue out to the wider public. So big thanks to all of you for helping us get this u-turn from Government. 5/25

On the negative side logistics to the U.K. have never been so dire in the 29 years I have been trading, and the delays for stock coming over from the EU show zero signs of improving. 6/25

Just to be clear, pre-Brexit I could expect stock collected on day 1 in Austria, Italy or Spain to be arriving in my warehouse in South Wales on day 3-5. Post Brexit days have become weeks, and the implications are huge. 7/25

Adding these lead times to shipping means firstly my company is forced to hold much higher stock levels to maintain our high service levels. This of course has a cost. 8/25

Secondly actual logistics is now at a premium as many EU operbators frankly can’t be arsed with the U.K., moreover with less frequency delays are inevitable. 9/25

Then of course we have the mine field of paperwork which continues to evolve. The two big issues here seems to be the exit port number and the EX1 document. Both have given my suppliers nightmares. 10/25

What I can confirm is that logistic companies across the EU have now got to the point with wine that until the paperwork is correct it simply doesn’t move at all. Moreover I understand why they are doing this. 11/25

So whilst we are getting stock from the EU its more expensive, takes considerably more time and you have to spend an excessive amount of time to get all in the supply chain to ensure paperwork is correct. 12/25

Moreover each EU country has a different protocol for paperwork clearance. The easiest is France and most difficult is Italy. Then Spain, Austria, Portugal are somewhere in the middle. 13/25

Looking forward we still have two issues to tackle with the Government. The first is Organics and the second is back labelling. Like Vi1 these two issues have yet to be introduced. 14/25

For organics it’s once again beyond the realms of stupidity what is being proposed for wine as Vi1 were. But yet again the Government are being lax in their understanding of the issue. 15/25

Organic wines in much of the world are produced under very rigorous controls as you might expect. All of the controls especially in the EU are policed tightly. This is so the consumer has faith in the organic symbol. 16/25

So ALL organic wine has undergone all the checks required when it’s produced locally at the vineyard. Once it’s bottled nothing further can happen to it. This is very simple to understand (you would think). 17/25

Under the Brexit plan all importers of organic wines have to register with one of the organic bodies in the U.K. to gain certification as an organic importer. To become certified you have to meet their requirements. 18/25


So as ever wanting to be ahead of the crowd we applied some 4 months ago. The cost should have been £1500 PA but we offered a reduction as we don’t actually make/ grow anything. 19/25

Part of the inspection is to ensure that organic wines don’t come into contact with non organic wines. That’s right folks I have to make sure the bottles of wine don’t interact with each other. You just can’t make this stuff up. 20/25

Secondly its required (TBC) that organic wines as well additional paperwork (cost) we’ll need to ship separately from non organic wines. Again to avoid contamination apparently. 21/25


But when it comes to the retailer who will actually sell the product to the consumers there is no requirement for any controls. Which I have to say does make the rest of the system a complete waste of time. So that is due Jan 2022. 22/25

Then in September 2022 all imports of wine must have the importer details on the back label for traceability. Personally I don’t have problem with this, but it does add 7p approx to the cost of the product to have it applied. 23/25

So to conclude the #teething problems the government talked about back in January have become permanent fixtures, costs continue to increase, and still the Brexit deniers want to pretend this what they voted for. 24/25

Just imagine what’s happens when HMRC start checking goods coming in the U.K from the EU ! 25/25.

I just wanted to add this to my thread so that you can all see for yourself the slow decline even post Brexit. Below is tracking info from Feb & now. Same products and producer with the same logistics company. It’s getting worse not better. The three images below prove it.
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Business chief calls on PM to save north-east from Brexit damage
James Ramsbotham, CEO of North East England Chamber of Commerce, says letter sent to Boris Johnson remains unanswered

Phillip Inman
Mon 9 Aug 2021 00.01 BST

A letter to Boris Johnson sent a fortnight ago by James Ramsbotham called on the prime minister to save the north-east from the “damage being done to our economy” by Brexit and urged him to give it his “most urgent and personal attention”. Two weeks later, it remains unanswered.

Ramsbotham is the chief executive of the North East England Chamber of Commerce and speaks for thousands of businesses caught by the red tape and extra costs of complying with EU rules. In a recent survey, 38% of members said sales to Europe had fallen since January.

“This is not teething problems,” he says. “Our ports face the EU and our region has the highest proportion of any exporting to the EU. It is vital that more barriers come down.”

Surveys by the chamber show that three-quarters of its members wanted to stay in the single market when asked about their personal views.

The same proportion reported they had been financially harmed by leaving the EU.



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Army on standby to stock Britain's shelves: Up to 2,000 HGV drivers from Royal Logistic Corps are on five-day to notice to deliver food and essentials to UK supermarkets due to shortage of 100,000 truckers
  • The Government is expected to make a formal request to the military for help 'imminently' to cope with crisis
    Thousands of prospective drivers are waiting for their HGV tests due to a backlog caused by the pandemic
    Problem has been exacerbated in recent months by scores of 'pinged' drivers having to go into self-isolation
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PUBLISHED: 10:06 BST, 8 August 2021 | UPDATED: 12:31 BST, 10 August 2021

The Army is on standby to cope with Britain's food shortages caused by a lack of qualified truck drivers which has left many supermarket shelves bare in recent weeks.

Some 2,000 HGV drivers from the Royal Logistic Corps and other corps are reported to be on a five-day notice to help distribute food and other essential supplies, including medicine.

The Government is expected to make a formal request for assistance to the military 'imminently'.

It comes after the Road Haulage Association warned in late July that there was a shortage of 100,000 lorry drivers in the UK, which has been hampering deliveries of food from warehouses to supermarkets.




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:doh: 2000 to cover 1000'000 :brickwallsmall:
Also too these military drivers are trained on military vehicles. Not on commercial delivery trucks. They are neither trained in the procedures of commercial deliveries and associated paperwork.
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I'm sure any properly licensed military member can drive an articulated lorry from point A to point B. Backing into a tight dock might be another issue. Ditto for finding you way in a crowded city.
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The Brexit crisis nobody is talking about? Our need for Danish sperm
The UK is heavily reliant on foreign sperm donors – and Denmark is responsible for more than its fair share. Then along came Brexit...

Brexit keeps surprising us. The latest industry that might be under threat if the UK leaves the EU without a deal is allegedly that of sperm donation. Specifically, Danish sperm donation.

The Department of Health and Social Care revealed last week that 3,000 sperm samples were imported from Denmark to the UK in the last year, and nightmare scenarios were quick to flourish. The risk of Danish sperm being held up at British borders because of unclear custom arrangements seems to have never been so real.

Keep calm: the much sought-after ‘Viking baby’ may not be under threat. Professor Allan Pacey, head of Andrology for Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, agrees with Doctor Jane Stewart, Head of the British Fertility Society, in asserting that the panic was all just media alarmism.

“Importation of sperm is an issue of national legislation. Our UK standards for safety, which I contributed to writing in 2008, are already higher than EU standards, so that won’t be an issue,” he says. “As for customs arrangements – there will be a change of paperwork, and arguably that may take some time. But then Danish sperm banks already send sperm all over the world without any problems of delay. There is no reason that there should be any issues in the UK.”

Even in the event of a no-deal, therefore, the UK should be able to continue buying from Danish sperm banks. The question remains, though, of why Danish sperm seems to be so popular with British women. The answer? Culture, abundance, and good looks.



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Boris Johnson warned over Brexit ‘haemorrhage’ of fishing workers
EU trade deal fell ‘short of expectations’, fishing leaders tell PM

Andrew Woodcock

Boris Johnson has come under fire during his visit to Scotland from fishing leaders, who told him that his Brexit deal had “fallen short of expectations”.

Fisheries leaders warned of a “haemorrhage” of foreign workers in the industry in the wake of the UK’s departure from the EU’s single market and customs union on 1 January.

And he heard complaints about new red tape and delays resulting from Brexit which have hit the industry north of the border.

The prime minister was joined by business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, Scotland Office minister David Duguid and Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross for a meeting with heads of a number of fishing organisations in Fraserburgh on Thursday.

Scottish Seafood Association chief executive Jimmy Buchan challenged Mr Johnson over the number of staff lost to the industry as a result of Brexit, which has dramatically reduced the number of seasonal workers in Scotland and had an impact on the seafood sector.



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There might be a lesson here for those who think they want to secede the United States of America.
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AndyinPA wrote: Wed Aug 11, 2021 11:14 am Sort of
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:confuzzled: the American fishing industry may lose its right to fish in Norwegian territorial waters :?:


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RTH10260 wrote: Wed Aug 11, 2021 3:02 pm
AndyinPA wrote: Wed Aug 11, 2021 11:14 am Sort of
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:confuzzled: the American fishing industry may lose its right to fish in Norwegian territorial waters :?:


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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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The impression I have from listening to several vlogs and news items is that by end of August there will be serious shortages accross the country, with smaller places and smaller outlets getting hit hard. It's not only a shortage of drivers but also now a shortage of supplies. The stocks that had been piled up end of 2020 to buffer for the transition into sovereingity habe been used up. I understand that supplies from the continent aka EU are not arriving at the speed expected. There seems to be many hesitant truck drivers that prefer to work within the borders of the EU and not be stuck with the hassle of border procedures.
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UK pilots cannot fly in EU - job applicants get rejected by airline companies. Formerly the UK certification was valid EU wide
Pilot licenses caught in post-Brexit limbo

30th March 2021
Rytis Beresnevicius

Following the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union (EU), some continuity has been achieved due to agreements between the two sides. However, the agreements have not covered everything. One of the subjects is pilot licensing and now a UK-based pilot group is calling for a reciprocal agreement between the UK and EU over the transfer of flight crew licenses.

Outlined in a petition, affected pilots want to ensure that flight crews would not have to “convert their licenses by retaking all fourteen Airline Transport Pilot License (ATPL) exams in a European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) state, skills tests, an EASA ELP test and class 1 EASA medical,” reads the petition.

“The aviation industry has been brought to its knees by the pandemic, having a significant effect on pilots’ mental health and wellbeing. Now, pilots who wish to transfer their licenses to Europe are facing the prospect of having to re-sit exams, adding severe pressure and huge expense at an already very stressful time.”

According to the UK Civil Aviation Authority’s UK-EU transition page, while UK-issued license holders would be able to operate UK-registered aircraft, they would not be able to operate EU-registered aircraft. “To continue operating EU-registered aircraft, you may seek a license validation from any of the EASA Competent Authorities, which would be valid for aircraft registered in any EASA Member State,” reads the page. The other option would be to transfer one’s pilot license to a National Aviation Authority (NAA) within the EU.

However, if a pilot with an EU-based license wants to operate a UK-based aircraft, they will have to obtain validation from the British aviation authority. If a pilot’s license was obtained or was in the process of being transferred prior to Brexit, validation could be obtained for up to two years. After the two-year period, they would have to obtain a UK-based license to operate UK-registered aircraft.

“Many in the pilot community have been made redundant or face redundancy due to the pandemic and are now facing the prospect of their licenses not being recognized by EASA and having to re-do all 14 exams, IR, ELP and initial medical again in order to hold the same EASA license that they held before Brexit,” one pilot, affected by the matter, told AeroTime News under the condition of anonymity.

According to the CAA’s Brexit transition informational page, if an EASA-based pilot’s license was issued post-Brexit, the pilot is “required to complete training as recommended by a UK ATO, complete all theory exams and a skill test with a UK examiner and to gain a UK medical certificate appropriate to that license.”

“There are currently some limited ameliorations to these requirements in that recognition will be given to any theoretical exams taken in the EASA system prior to December 31, 2020, flight training conducted at an EASA ATO prior to December 31, 2022, and skill tests conducted by EASA examiners during this period,” further read the CAA’s page.

“This is placing tremendous stress and expense on pilots who are in this situation,” the pilot added.


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Brexit blamed as Devon garden centre gives away plants for free

Wednesday 11 August 2021, 8:48am
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A Devon garden centre company has blamed Brexit for a staff shortage as it gives away £100,000 worth of plants for free.

The Plants Galore centres in Plymouth, Newton Abbot and Exeter are planning on giving away their stock on a first-come-first-served basis.

Bosses say they cannot maintain the plants due to a staff shortage, which they say is related to the UK’s decision to leave the European Union.

Team leader Matt Pollard said he would rather see the plants go to a new home than die in the garden centres.

Staff are giving away £100,000 worth of plants.

“We aren’t able to look after these plants, we’re not able to take them back to our nursery to cut them to produce plants for next year, so we’re just going to give them away,” he said.

“It’s really disheartening as a business because we have grown all of these as cuttings that we took last year - we’ve planted them, looked after them, we’ve grown them, brought them into the stores, we’ve tried to sell them and now we can’t continue to do this.

“We haven’t got the staff to look after these plants as they should be and we don’t want to watch them deteriorate.”



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‘A perfect storm’: UK beet growers fear Brexit threatens their future

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Thu 19 Aug 2021 16.57 BST

In a field in Norfolk, the sight of lush green leaves sprouting from the soil are giving farmer Ed Lankfer cause for optimism. “I think this is one of the best crops we have ever grown,” he says, surveying one of his fields of sugar beet.

The signs are promising so far for this year’s harvest – known in the trade as a campaign – which takes place later than for other crops, during the autumn and winter. It would mark quite the turnaround from 2020’s terrible harvest, when bad weather and pests caused yields of the white sugar-yielding root to plummet by as much as 60%, leaving Lankfer with a £12,000 loss.

Sugar beet has been grown on Lankfer’s 225-hectare (556-acre) family farm in the village of Wereham since his grandfather first introduced it in 1928, alongside other crops. However, recent years of falling prices, coupled with risks from weather and disease, have many farmers questioning whether there is a future in growing it.

This is before growers feel the impact of post-Brexit trade deals with large sugar producers such as Australia. It’s a concern for Lankfer, whose land is in international trade secretary Liz Truss’s constituency. He has twice hosted her at the farm to answer questions from growers.

British farmers hail sugar beet for its role in crop rotation and the timing of its harvest. “It’s a good break crop, and it spreads the workload over the winter,” says Lankfer.

The destination of his beet is visible from the field itself: the factory at nearby Wissington where it is processed, eventually ending up in products such as Coca-Cola and Cadbury chocolate, or bagged and sold to consumers under the Silver Spoon brand.

The processing site is owned by British Sugar, a subsidiary of the Primark owner Associated British Foods. The company is in a powerful position: it is the sole customer of the UK beet farmers’ crop.



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Nando’s shuts 50 restaurants in the UK after running out of peri-peri
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Aug 18, 2021, 03:47 PM
  • Nando's shut 50 restaurants in parts of the UK after it ran out of ingredients, specifically peri-peri.
    It has now deployed some of its own staff to help suppliers get back on track, and hopes to reopen all its stores by the weekend.
    The UK has suffered supply-chain disruptions due to a Covid-19 "pingdemic", a shortage of truck drivers, and Brexit.
    KFC in the UK took some items off its menu because of shortages.
Nando's closed 50 of its restaurants in some parts of the United Kingdom this week because it could not secure the ingredients needed for its popular meals.

"The UK food industry has been experiencing disruption across its supply chain in recent weeks due to staff shortages and Covid isolations, and a number of our restaurants have been impacted," the chain said in a statement.

Though it is under different ownership, Nando's in the UK is closely related to its South African originator.

In a potted response to customers on Twitter, Nando's described the situation as "a bit of a 'mare".

The disruptions are not equally spread across the UK and the region; all stores are open in Northern Ireland, which in some ways escaped Brexit, and in Ireland, which remains part of the European Union.

Nando's said it hope to have all stores open again by Saturday, after it seconded 70 of its own staff to key suppliers.

Earlier in the week, Nando's specified that it did not have enough peri-peri to keep up with demand.



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They're still swirling down the bowl, with no way to stop the flushing. :(

Meanwhile, we're starting to get a bit of progress on climbing back out of our stupid-minded, self-imposed, suicidal hole. Not at the speed I'd like to see by far, but slowly we seem to be moving forward.

It's terrifying to me that advanced societies like the UK and the US could basically vote to seriously, seriously damage their own countries. How could we - on both sides of the ocean - be so dumb?

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And it seems the British electorate seem to have taken a decision* that will prove enormously, enormously damaging before - or if - they find their way back out of the thicket. :blackeye:



:whisper: British leets actually say 'taken a decision'. Where do they find them? How do you take one? :confuzzled: Americans make our decisions ourselves, out of good ol' American know-how and sturdy bones. We don't have to look around, running all over the place while the parking meter is running down, desperately searching for a decision to take. Just another reason why British people are silly. Except, British members of Fogbow, of course.
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Having followed the news, particularly the last few weeks, I have been dismayed by the emerging evidence that businesses have been just as inept as the government in identifying and mitigating the consequences of this farce. :mad:
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