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only in the UK under Boris Johnson - leaving the EU and after half a year beginning to look for opportunities :cantlook: :brickwallsmall:
Search for head of the new Brexit Opportunities Unit begins
Recruitment is underway for the Director of the Government’s Brexit Opportunities Unit.

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Cabinet Office, Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street, and The Rt Hon Lord Frost CMG
Published 16 June 2021

Recruitment is underway for the Director of the Government’s Brexit Opportunities Unit.

Lord Frost, at the request of the Prime Minister, is leading the work to make the most of the economic and political opportunities of Brexit – making sure the policy, laws and regulations are helping to boost growth, drive forward innovation and increase competition in the UK.

A new Brexit Opportunities Unit has been established to support him in this work. The new Cabinet Office unit will play a crucial role in setting the strategy for the Government’s ambitious approach to regulation, reviewing and reforming existing policy and regulation, and supporting the scrutiny and introduction of new regulation.

Its work will build on progress made since the end of the Transition Period, including regulations to access global talent and forging new trade deals around the world.

The Government is looking for a talented individual to lead the team, who has experience in economics, regulation or business and can challenge policy and produce creative new initiatives.

They will develop a cross-government strategy for regulatory change, while driving policy development on new opportunities across Whitehall, working with relevant Cabinet committees.


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It could be amusing to see who gets the “job”. Probably the equivalent of creating a “commission of enquiry” that can be rolled out as a ready deflection.
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So they want to re-invent the wheel they had already invented and discarded?
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zekeb wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:22 am So they want to re-invent the wheel they had already invented and discarded?
Yes, but it will be a purely British wheel, with none of those annoying foreigners.
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I think you’re getting a bit ahead of yourselves, we haven’t decided on the shape yet. A commission will be established to evaluate the options.
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The weel will match the British lifestyle - slightly excentric ;)
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5 years ago - the UK votes to leave the EU - BREXIT
UK votes to leave EU after dramatic night divides nation
Historic referendum vote in favour of leaving EU raises questions over futures of David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn

Anushka Asthana, Ben Quinn and Rowena Mason
Fri 24 Jun 2016 07.51 BST

The British people have voted to leave the European Union after a historic referendum in which they rejected the advice of the main Westminster party leaders and instead took a plunge into the political unknown.

The decision in favour of Brexit, following a bitterly close electoral race, represents the biggest shock to the political establishment in Britain and across Europe for decades, and will threaten the leaderships of both the prime minister, David Cameron, and the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

The value of the pound swung wildly on currency markets as initial confidence among investors expecting a remain vote was dented by some of the early referendum results, triggering falls of close to 10% and its biggest one-day fall ever. Jeremy Cook, chief economist and head of currency strategy at WorldFirst, said: “Sterling has collapsed … It can go a lot further as well.”

By 4am, a series of key results signposted a likely leave victory. After a lower-than-expected margin of victory for the remain campaign in Newcastle, where it won the backing of 54% of voters, there was a jolt after midnight when leave captured Sunderland with 61.3% of the vote in a city that has traditionally been a Labour stronghold.


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Driver shortage leads to 48 tonnes of food waste, Tesco says
Tesco told government ministers that suppliers are wasting food

By Sahar Nazir -June 17, 2021
  • // Tesco witnesses shortage of HGV drivers
    // The shortage is leading to almost 50 tonnes of food waste each week
    // The shortage was leading to supermarket shelves and restaurant plates going empty
Tesco has said the shortage of HGV drivers is leading to an additional 48 tonnes of food waste each week.

The Big 4 grocer told government ministers that suppliers are wasting food because of the situation.

Tesco said 48 tonnes of food across its supply chain in the last week alone had been binned, which is a big change from typical levels and the shortage of drivers remains unresolved.

Foodbank charity FareShare said that as much as a third of the food that would otherwise reach its warehouses was not getting through, equating to 800,000 meals a week for those in need.

“It is frustrating that a lack of available HGV drivers is resulting in more perfectly good food going to waste when it could be redistributed to those who need it most,” FareShare chief executive Lindsay Boswell said.

Earlier this month, major distributor Nationwide Produce said the “acute shortage” of HGV (heavy goods vehicle) drivers is behind “perfectly good, graded and packed fresh produce being dumped or left rotting in cold stores, waiting for wheels to go under it”.

The shortage was leading to supermarket shelves and restaurant plates going empty, describing it as a “crisis of national importance”.


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ETA. I understand that there is also a shortage of vehicles that formerly would have been available from EU companies.
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"nobody could have predicted this!"

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Just another of the less serious unintended consequences. As I have posted previously - aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!
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the poor guy wants to renegociate the treaty he himself drafted up with the EU
Leave campaigners ‘surprised’ by decay in relations with EU, says David Frost
Brexit minister says dispute over border checks in Northern Ireland main barrier to better relationship

Lisa O'Carroll Brexit correspondent
Thu 24 Jun 2021 21.40 BST

The deterioration in relations with the EU, partly driven by the Northern Ireland “sausage war”, has come as a surprise to those, who campaigned to leave the bloc five years ago, the government has admitted.

The Brexit minister, David Frost, said they had dreamed of a sovereign Britain, which could set forth on a global mission while maintaining friendly relations with its neighbours.

He was speaking on the eve of an expected concession by the EU to agree to the UK’s request for a three extra months to resolve the dispute over Brexit checks in Northern Ireland including those on chilled meats, nicknamed the sausage war.

In a sign that a modicum of peace may be breaking out, Lord Frost said: “It is absolutely not part of the plan to be bickering with EU and hope it isn’t part of their long term plan either.”

But he admitted that this would only happen if tensions over Northern Ireland were sorted out.

“Until we have settled the Northern Ireland issue and put in place new balances, or the right balance, I think it’s going to be difficult to get relations on to the right footing that we want, but we absolutely do want that,” he told the thinktank UK in a Changing Europe in an interview on Thursday night.



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when the UK consumers are now members of a third country, prepare for roaming charges once the mobile companies on the continent move to modify their contracts with the UK providers.
EE reintroduces roaming charges for UK users in Europe
Mobile phone operator is the first to bring back the charge since the start of Brexit trade deal

Mark Sweney
Thu 24 Jun 2021 16.49 BST

The BT-owned mobile operator EE is to start charging UK customers to use their phones in Europe, having previously said it had no plans to reintroduce roaming costs after the Brexit trade deal struck at Christmas.

New EE customers or those upgrading after mid-July will have to pay £2 a day when they use their phones in 47 European countries from January. EE is the first UK operator to officially reintroduce roaming charges, although O2 has said it will impose an extra “fair use” charge if customers use more than 25GB of data in a month.

Since 2017, mobile networks in EU countries have been banned by law from charging customers extra to use their phones in other member countries. Legislation scrapping roaming charges within the single market was introduced after multiple cases of so-called “bill shock”, in which holidaymakers returned home from foreign breaks to be presented with bills of thousands of pounds for using their phones to connect to the internet while abroad.

“In the aftermath of Brexit, the UK’s biggest mobile providers all said that they had no immediate plans to change their charging models for consumers roaming within the EU,” said Ernest Doku, a mobile expert at Uswitch.com. “It’s hugely disappointing for consumers to see that situation change so quickly. This is ultimately a backwards step for consumers. Unfortunately, when one provider makes such a bold decision it can mean that others follow. Always use hotel and cafe wifi when on holiday where possible.”

In January EE, O2, Three and Vodafone all said they had no plans to reintroduce roaming charges even though the UK’s departure from the EU enabled them to do so.



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Note - a full two hour discussion of the effects on various business sectors neglected by the Boris Johnson's Brexit

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Lorry driver shortage: UK government and retailers in emergency talks
Defra looks for solutions as Covid and Brexit problems threaten to leave gaps on supermarket shelves

Sarah Butler
Mon 28 Jun 2021 19.19 BST

The UK government has held emergency talks with retailers, logistics groups and wholesalers as a shortage of lorry drivers threatens to leave gaps on supermarket shelves.

Officials from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) are understood to have discussed potential solutions, including relaxing restrictions on drivers’ working hours and increasing capacity for HGV driving tests and training to help bring in new local drivers.

Defra is also considering putting drivers on the official shortage occupation list to help make it easier to bring in workers from overseas.

Sources said the government department was planning to survey related businesses to try to build support for the potential regulatory changes.

Industry chiefs have warned the UK is facing a summer of food shortages similar to a series of “rolling power cuts” because of a loss of up to 100,000 lorry drivers as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit.

Sources said retail representatives on this week’s call with Defra expressed concern that the reports of potential shortages in stores would lead to panic buying and a return of the stockpiling behaviour seen in spring 2020.

There are also fears the problems will worsen once hospitality businesses are able to fully reopen next month.



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Bring in drivers from overseas now suddenly viable but EU nationals are not??? The border control would roll out the red carpet for them? The countries with candidates that have driving-on-the-left experience is limited. You will not want Pakistani or Indian drivers :blackeye: And I doubt that many Australians or New Zealanders will want to change for the British weather.
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Clowns. :mad:
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inspired by a vlog entry on YT

Bicycles

The vlogger mentioned the fact that due to Covid the demand for bicycles has risen as exercise for those stuck at home. As a result there is extra demand for bike spare parts.

Fun fact: due to the shortage of truck drivers the deliveries of spare parts to retailers has been pushed to second tier while food is considered essential. Seems that large retailers are buying massive amounts of parts, and small retailers face difficulty purchasing them. Seems that there is also some price increase visible.


and also too:
Pandemic vs Brexit – why have bikes got more expensive and harder to find?
Bike prices have rocketed, as have waiting times. More positively, so have cyclist numbers. We investigate the state of affairs (including unpicking the impact of the trade agreement)

By James Witts
Published: January 22, 2021 at 2:00 pm

Almost every manufacturer has increased the prices of their bikes for 2021. Globally, prices have also increased significantly over the past twelve months.

Lead times are also longer than they’ve ever been – sources quote a 12-month wait for key components and a chronic shortage of bikes across the world.

But what’s to blame: Brexit or the pandemic?

We talked to several key bike, kit and accessory manufacturers in the industry, as well as smaller niche manufacturers, to find out how Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic has affected them.




https://www.bikeradar.com/features/long ... ke-prices/


UK bike makers grapple with shipments to EU as origin of parts questioned
6 January, 2021 Mark Sutton

British bike makers selling to customers on mainland Europe are hitting a wall of red tape in the face of a trade deal that appears to weaken their hand on export trade and calls in to question what it truly means to buy British.

The confusion stems from the origins of components used to make up a bike. With comparably little in the way of supply of UK made, cost competitive components, bike makers are largely forced to import parts to complete the assembly of a bike; what’s more, the rule book says assembly is quite different to manufacturing in defining true product origins.

Simplified, to qualify for zero duty exports to the EU the latest advice appears to be that the value of UK-sourced / Non EU parts utilised for assembly be not above 45% of the ex-works price. For Cotic the Uk made frames eaily meet the requirement, but the Taiwanese production presumably will not, even with UK value add.

There exists an ambiguity in the terms UK origin and UK Value Add, the latter perhaps referring to a paint finish, or other modifications made once the raw product is landed.

For Cotic, which wrote a piece on its homepage detailing the situation facing customers in Europe, the puzzle was outlined as such:

“What we are currently trying to ascertain is whether our EU customers who have bought Taiwan produced frames or bikes assembled using the majority of Taiwan sourced parts might need to pay some import duty. This is because the rules regarding items being of “UK origin” are a bit unclear, and the ‘value add’ by Cotic possibly doesn’t add up to a significant enough percentage of the value of the end product supplied to qualify for zero rating. I am currently going through the full trade agreement to try and figure it out, and we are in touch with our industry body to get to the bottom of this.”

As a result, the Brit brand is not shipping anything to European clients until it has clarity. By the time the situation is resolved it is highly likely that prices will inevitably have to rise as a result of both shipping cost increases, but potentially customers will also have a local VAT payable to the courier upon delivery. UK VAT of 20% will however now not apply to EU customers.


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RTH10260 wrote: Tue Jun 29, 2021 1:39 pm inspired by a vlog entry on YT

Bicycles

The vlogger mentioned the fact that due to Covid the demand for bicycles has risen as exercise for those stuck at home. As a result there is extra demand for bike spare parts.

Fun fact: due to the shortage of truck drivers the deliveries of spare parts to retailers has been pushed to second tier while food is considered essential. Seems that large retailers are buying massive amounts of parts, and small retailers face difficulty purchasing them. Seems that there is also some price increase visible.
The British trucking issue and the "buy British" aspects are unique to the UK but the bicycle shortage is worldwide. Here in the US, nobody's got product at any price point (from Walmart specials to high-end $10,000-plus dream machines).

Here's what I have learned in conversations with two different bike shop owners:

Typically, cycling industry growth in developed economies is relatively flat, with a slight decline in the number of units sold offset by price increases in higher-end bikes that have more capability and reliability at lighter weights. When Covid hit, cycling demand spiked by 50% at the same time that the factories all closed, dropping production by 50%.

However, many manufacturers thought that orders would plummet, so before demand spiked, they slowed production. They then tried to recover quickly by opening the floodgates to orders from bike shops, accepting orders beyond the credit limits they had extended to shops to purchase inventory. In other words, they didn't care if you wanted to order $1 million in product even if your credit limit was only $200,000. This then resulted in a huge backlog of crappy quality orders. When it then appeared at the end of last summer that the bike boom might persist into 2021, they had to go back and rationalize their order pipeline and clean up all the questionable orders they accepted.

Meantime, the factories in Asia (primarily Taiwan, especially for higher-quality bikes) and the component manufacturers in Japan and Taiwan, were hit early by the need to keep their people safe. Even those with Covid safeguards had to close plants and then had to reduce capacity. Even though they now believe that the bike boom will persist, they can't go out and double manufacturing capacity overnight. And they don't trust the big bike makers (Trek, Specialized, Cannondale, etc.) who gave them rosy forecasts with all those dodgy orders.

High-end component manufacturers (Shimano, SRAM, etc.) also had to worry about what the shortage would do to their 2021 product announcement plans -- should they just go ahead and produce 2020 parts for another year or endure the month-long cutover to re-tool for the 2021 designs they were just about to put into production? Higher profits now, but at the risk of a potential erosion of competitive position. It now looks like the industry is going to continue to produce 2020 models in 2021, and just skip the 2021 model year.

However, it's still a scramble for components, as people are trying to buy on the spot market, which is one of the factors driving prices up. Customers, particularly on the high end, who tend to be fairly particular about component choices, are not going to be happy if their high end bike arrives with different components than advertised. I can tell you that the Cannondale Topstone 4 I just bought for my girfriend has some amazingly shitty components (along with some good ones) on a pretty good frame, and I'm not happy about having to redo the brakes, seat and stem on a brand new bike, even though I understand it's a relatively entry level bike.

Another major issue has been freight costs. The big retailers (Walmart, Amazon, Target, etc.) all do their own importing on behalf of their suppliers and have contracted for reserved space on ships for years in advance. Walmart is responsible for something like 5% to 10% of trans-Pacific container volume. They have the firepower to keep those contract slots alive during the downturn. But the cancellation of so much business last Spring followed by the surge in demand and supply in the Fall resulted in many smaller manufacturers (including bike vendors) to cancel their contracted slots and then scramble later to get capacity on the spot market, which is currently running (IIRC) 4x or 5x historic levels. That adds maybe $20 to the cost of a bike, not much on the high end but bad news for the low end models that sell for $250 at Walmart. And throughput is a problem -- there are dozens if not hundreds of ships waiting for dock space at LA/Long Beach to unload. So price increases are here, typically running 4% to 7% in the US, even without the unique costs the Brits have imposed on themselves.

It should be noted that "buy British" in the bike industry is a joke. There are a number of small to mid-sized specialty bike makers in the US that build frames domestically, and there are some domestically produced components. But it is impossible to buy all the components domestically that you need to assemble a completely US-made bicycle. Same in the UK. I suspect the UK is going to learn that "buy British" is easy to say, but impossible to execute, and it certainly won't make up for the export markets that they have closed themselves off from.
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H/T for the global market analysis!
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Post-Brexit talks on City access to EU have stalled, Sunak reveals
In Mansion House debut speech, chancellor sets out series of reforms in bid to help finance industry

Richard Partington Economics correspondent
Thu 1 Jul 2021 17.17 BST

Talks to secure City of London access to the EU have stalled, Rishi Sunak has confirmed in his first Mansion House speech to financiers, as he set out sweeping reforms designed to help Britain’s finance industry embrace global opportunities after Brexit.

Addressing a hand-picked gathering of 40 young financial workers at a slimmed-down version of what was, in the days before the pandemic, a landmark annual gathering, the chancellor said a deal on a comprehensive post-Brexit financial services settlement with the EU had not happened.

“Now, we are moving forward, continuing to cooperate on questions of global finance, but each as a sovereign jurisdiction with our own priorities,” he said.

Sunak said Britain would diverge from Brussels’ rules on financial services as he set out a vision for the City.

Suggesting the UK would pivot away from Europe, he said he would build instead on deals such as a partnership on financial services signed with Singapore earlier this week – with plans to grow business in the Indo-Pacific, the US and China.



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The Great Depression Gummibear Shortage
Haribo struggling to deliver sweets to UK amid lorry driver shortage
Shortage caused by Brexit and the pandemic, Road Haulage Association says

Clea Skopeliti
16 hours ago

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Germany confectioner Haribo is struggling to deliver sweets to UK customers due to a shortage of lorry drivers.

In response to the shortfall, the company has reportedly cancelled upcoming promotions on its share bags as it attempts to protect availability.

According to trade magazine The Grocer, Haribo told its wholesale and retail customers that it is “faced with several challenges throughout our supply chain including a shortage of drivers” but is “working flat out to manage the situation”.

The note added that the issue meant the confectioner would have to cancel its planned promotions on its share size bag ranges, including £1 price marked packs.

A Haribo spokesperson said: “As is the case with many manufacturers and retailers throughout the country, we are experiencing challenges with regards to the nationwide driver shortage. We are working with partners across the food and drink industry to address and respond to this problem.”



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boss warns of shortage of skilled trade workers
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A shortage of skilled trade workers has developed as European Union migrants leave the UK and demand for home improvements rises, the founder of Homeserve has said.

Chief executive Richard Harpin said the shortages were "pretty bad" across the country, not just in construction but in other trades too.

He wants the government to put more trades on its jobs shortage list.

The Home Office said employers should invest in UK workers.

Mr Harpin, whose company also operates Checkatrade, told BBC Radio Four's Today programme he believed shortages were being caused by "mainly EU migrant workers going home".

He said it was "really important that we find a way to get them back" in order to cope with the "massive demand" for work.

"Our research in Checkatrade says 80% of homeowners are going to improve their home this year but they can only do that if we have sufficient trades to do those home improvements," he said.

"We are all living and working in our homes more, we want more doing, so I think this is an ongoing phenomenon."

Mr Harpin suggested two solutions to solve the shortage in skilled workers - a short-term move to expand the government's shortage of occupations list, and then a longer-term plan to get more school leavers to take up apprenticeships, rather than going to university.

"What we are asking for on the points system these skilled trades get enough points so they [the EU workers] can come back," he said.

"Currently, if you're an IT analyst, a vet or a graphic designer you can come back to UK, but it doesn't include bathroom fitters, kitchen installers, fencers, tree surgeons, locksmiths. There's a very long list," he said.

Industry bodies warned construction skills shortages were "hampering the activities of many small building firms".



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I know! What about some kind of free movement agreement with nearby countries?
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Uninformed wrote: Sat Jul 03, 2021 8:48 am I know! What about some kind of free movement agreement with nearby countries?
Cannot have those dangerous EU citizens, look overseas for slaves.


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no more skiing holidays in the Alps for British kids, or at double the cost
UK school skiing trips to EU could be wiped out by Brexit visa rules
Extra cost of permission for British temporary staff to work in resorts likely to be prohibitive for firms

Lisa O'Carroll Brexit correspondent
Fri 2 Jul 2021 19.01 BST

School skiing trips that rely on British personnel to staff their EU winter camps could be wiped out by Brexit after it emerged they are facing the same obstacles as the music and theatre sectors.

Just like rock bands and music artists, instructors who work on the slopes of France, Italy or elsewhere in the EU are now required to have visas if they work in Europe, even if it is for just one week at a time.

Pre-pandemic, Robert McIntosh, managing director of Interski, took 250 groups a year involving 10,000 to 12,000 children to Aosta in Italy.

Now he does not know if he can survive, with visas for up to 600 instructors costing £300 per visit. Typically, ski schools would hire instructors for one, two or three weeks at a time to mirror the school peaks in the December holiday and February half-term.

But he is also unsure how he will be able to continue to employ the 40 to 50 staff he brings to Italy for the entire season.

“I am facing a battle on two fronts. Brexit throws uncertainty into everything. The increase in costs because of the visas will be in the region of 100%. You don’t have to be an economist to know that is not going to be viable,” he said.

“It is a disaster and there is almost nothing said by the government, they have not provided us with any information on how we work this.”

His warning came two years after ski industry businesses warned of the loss of 25,000 jobs if they could not hire British staff at ski resorts and chalet villages after Brexit.

Lincolnshire-based ski instructor Nick Orgles, who has worked with school trips for the past 20 years, said: “Since Brexit, we have all lost our jobs, our passion. The UK government has put nothing in place to allow us to continue to work in the EU.

“I would normally be going down three, four or five times a year to teach students to ski in the valley. I now can’t do that.”

He says his experience is “the tip of the iceberg” and the same visa requirements will hit other sport instructors in sectors including sailing and climbing.



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