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Foreign lorry drivers to be allowed to make more UK deliveries
Plan announced to temporarily change ‘cabotage’ rules to prevent shortages in run-up to Christmas

Jamie Grierson
Fri 15 Oct 2021 15.49 BST

Foreign lorry drivers will be able to make an unlimited number of pick-ups and drop-offs in a fixed period in the UK under changes to rules proposed by the government to prevent shortages of products in the run-up to Christmas and into the new year.

On Thursday, ministers announced a consultation on a plan to increase deliveries in the UK by temporarily changing so-called “cabotage” rules, which govern how many trips foreign transport firms can make within another country.

Currently, hauliers from the EU can only pick up and drop off goods in the UK twice in a seven-day period, but the proposals would allow them to make an unlimited number of deliveries across two weeks. If approved, the plans would come into force before the end of the year and last for six months.

But lorry drivers reacted strongly against the move, saying: “We don’t want cabotage to sabotage our industry.”

The lorry driver shortage in the UK – caused by the effects of Brexit, the pandemic and other factors – has affected petrol stations and supermarkets and has led to containers stacked up at Felixstowe port unable to be moved.

The transport secretary said the effect of the proposed change to cabotage rules was the “equivalent of adding thousands of extra lorry drivers to the road, but we don’t have to do anything with visas in order to do this”.

Grant Shapps told Sky News: “It’s a straightforward measure. It’ll come in towards the end of the year. It’s one additional measure to 24 as a government we’ve already introduced and there’s evidence that’s working.

“People will be able to get things for Christmas – these measures are having an impact, things are loosening up.




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Crazy idea :doh: Those drivers that still bring goods to the UK will want to get back home as quick as possible. And all drivers dread the return trip cause of the paper work when returning back to the EU, remember, many prefer to return empty. What those government brain giants don't realize is that the business network that had been established to provide the next loads in a cabotage has been shattered by the Brexit on December 20, 2020. Also too, until the end of last year the companoes and drivers operated under EU laws common to all parties. Now in the UK they have their own laws applying. I bet the EU insurance policies no longer cover cabotage in the third country of UK. Many drivers were independants bringing with them their own vehicle, making a living with extended transports over several month.
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Packaging Industry Says It Is Too Late To Stop Shortages Of Cans And Cardboard

Kate Proctor
12 October

It is now too late to avert temporary shortages of cardboard and aluminium cans this autumn, a leading figure in the packaging industry has warned.

Dick Searle, chief executive of The Packaging Federation said the “government should have reacted” a long time ago over the lack of HGV drivers, and that the labour shortage is now likely to impact collection patterns of raw and recycled materials needed for the production of cardboard.

The shortage of aluminium cans is down to the general “green” switch from plastic to aluminium for drinks packaging, which means there has been huge surge demand at a time when there is no “wriggle room” to increase capacity at the four primary can making firms.

Searle insisted that possible shortages of these types of packaging would be temporary, and urged shoppers to “behave themselves” to avoid stockpiling. He suggested they should instead get used to a limited range on the shelves.

"Now it is too late so we just have to manage what we've got, and manage it effectively,” he told PoliticsHome.

“The public has an absolutely key role to play in that. They need to behave themselves and not act like they did over fuel.”

During lockdown demand for cardboard increased due to the scale of online shopping deliveries. Because 83% of the material is recycled, in addition to the labour required for production, the industry relies on HGV drivers to collect old boxes and deliver them for re-processing.



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UK Government says it is set to allow unlimited cabotage within a 2 week period
The UK Government says it is “set to bolster supply chains by extending cabotage rights". The move would bring generate much needed capacity, but potentially allow European hauliers to cash in at the expense of British hauliers.

Gregor Gowans Journalist Trans.INFO
14.10.2021

As it stands, the current UK-EU trade deal allows EU hauliers to perform two extra cabotage operations after delivering a load into Britain. This compares to the three cabotage operations that are permitted within EU member states (although ‘cooling off periods’ limit the amount of times this can be done).

Given the Brexit border friction and the likelihood of having to come back with an empty load, many European haulage firms have said they would need to do more cabotage in order to make trips to the UK worthwhile.

Trans.INFO has of course been reporting on this possibility for some time.

Maciej Wroński, President of Transport and Logistics Poland, told Trans.INFO two weeks ago that going back to the previous cabotage arrangement, which allowed for 3 trips, is the “only solution” for the level of the supply chain problem the UK has. In his opinion, Britain has never been self-sufficient in terms of transport.




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Two weeks for additional cabotage work? Well, that will make a delivery from the EU to the UK more cost effective before returning home if scheduling works. But it will not bring the masses of drivers that used to make a living by remaining in the UK for months at a time, guaranteeing planable delivery schedules for the big customers like retail chains. As mentioned elsewhere the legal issues of running cabotage in a third country by a EU based company may be a grey area, especially insurance wise.
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The lorry driver shortage in the UK and Europe seems partly due to ridiculous continuing education requirements imposed by the EU, including the UK, which the UK cannot unilaterally relax. The demand for 35 hours training each 5 years doesn't sound excessive at first sight, it's one day a year, but drivers must hate it. Of course we all want competent and safe drivers but how is that achieved by boring them rigid? What will they learn in a classroom that they haven't picked up from colleagues, trade press, chat at truck stops, etc.? It stinks of a bureaucracy's box-ticking solution to an imaginary problem.

The CPC requirement really hits hard for ex-drivers wishing to return from other work to driving. These will not be rich people so giving up 5 days' paid work and paying for the training to regain certification is an onerous demand which massively reduces the elasticity of supply.
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Sam the Centipede wrote: Sat Oct 16, 2021 12:13 pm The lorry driver shortage in the UK and Europe seems partly due to ridiculous continuing education requirements imposed by the EU, including the UK, which the UK cannot unilaterally relax. The demand for 35 hours training each 5 years doesn't sound excessive at first sight, it's one day a year, but drivers must hate it. Of course we all want competent and safe drivers but how is that achieved by boring them rigid? What will they learn in a classroom that they haven't picked up from colleagues, trade press, chat at truck stops, etc.? It stinks of a bureaucracy's box-ticking solution to an imaginary problem.

The CPC requirement really hits hard for ex-drivers wishing to return from other work to driving. These will not be rich people so giving up 5 days' paid work and paying for the training to regain certification is an onerous demand which massively reduces the elasticity of supply.
The retraining is exactly for them, to bring them up to date with current regulations and policies. They don't get to drive with what they may have learnt ages ago on their last driving job. As for current drivers, they may be hard on work with their daily routine, they need to get the one day break to see a more general picture on regulations that usually may not apply to them. Also too, governments try to introduce drivers to policies like "gree" economical driving, reminding them to take care of other members of the public on the roads. Of course for self employed truckers this takes a day out of their productive work, but I bet those meetings with others are also relaxation and recovery time. Employed drivers will be payed as a day of work, just not on the road.
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nobody mentions the damnable B word
What is a metaverse? Facebook to hire 10,000 EU workers but no Britons for virtual reality scheme
Jack Parrock, Brussels
Monday October 18 2021, 11.50am BST, The Times

Facebook is to hire 10,000 people in the EU to help create a “metaverse” where users can interact in virtual reality without being physically in the same space.

The US tech giant said it will recruit “highly specialised” engineers to build the system envisioned by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s creator, as the successor to the internet. Recruitment will take place in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands and Ireland. There are no plans to hire in the United Kingdom.



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:twisted: a minor bump in Boris' vision of the Great Sovereign British Empire, let's create a competing mega-giga software project and hire all those highly qualified British software engineers who don't want to be retrained as lorry drivers :lol:
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One of my clients is in the process of standing up a new datacenter in London.
Normally, it would take a couple days at most to get the gear cleared through EU customs.

It has been sitting in UK customs for four weeks. No issues with the clearance, that's just how backed up things are.
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Market has collapsed! Exodus of British expats from Spain as Brexit fees spark meltdown
BRITISH expats in Spain have started to sell their houses over huge post-Brexit fees, causing the market-to-buy to collapse.

By DYLAN DONNELLY
13:53, Wed, Oct 6, 2021 | UPDATED: 17:43, Wed, Oct 6, 2021

Since the UK left the EU on January 1, Britons looking to move to Spain and other countries in the bloc must meet certain conditions to gain resident status, including financial means and health cover. Around 360,000 Britons are registered as permanent residents in Spain, but visa costs and residency permits are causing some to rethink their stay in the country.

According to official data from Spain’s Land Registry, the number of new British home buyers dropped to a historic low.

The registry saw Brits account for just 9.5 percent of all home purchases.

While British expats are still the leading demographic for buying the most houses, traditionally the group leads others by a wide margin.

Germans and Moroccans are now buying more, with Germans now accounting for 9 percent of home purchases.

He told the outlet: "Brexit is undoubtedly a factor that affects the sale and purchase of homes in Spain, but above all because it is perceived that the British have stopped buying homes in Spain."

He also stressed that "since 2020, also coinciding with the coronavirus pandemic, the representation of the British in the sale and purchase in Spain has plummeted to minimums, while the French remain and the Germans even rebound”.

However, he added he has not seen “a large increase in British retirees who have put their homes up for sale in Alicante, an area with many Brits”.



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comment: it seems that this effect is happening all accross the EU. Each country has its own rules on residency of third country immigrants. Many require proof of a minimum income, often higher than what UK pensioneers receive. Rumours have it that some real estate companies are specializing in buying up property very cheap. Also health care insurance must now be bought locally, no longer EU social supported. Many UK citizens remaining in the EU have lost their drivers license and would need to complete the local driving test from scratch, written and practical exam. They also need to reregister their car that had UK registration, no longer allowed to drive a car with foreign registration plates.
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Seems that there are Brexit caused problems in the news every day.
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Ferries going directly between Ireland and Europe bypassing Britain.
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ECB pressing on banks to move resources and people from London to Europe
October 21, 2021

MILANO – The European Central Bank calls on financial institutions to strengthen themselves in continental Europe, both from the point of view of capital and human resources. A gentle pressing that would follow the surprise to see that, despite Brexit, there was no dreaded emptying of the City of London and the workforce has redistributed relatively little in the Old Continent.

To point out the Frankfurt moral suasion are several bankers and lawyers al Financial Times, which recently carried out a sample survey on the main offices of the banks present in the financial city, finding that the number of employees of the major international banks and managers present in London had grown in the last five years. Where there have been reductions, it has been due to the restructuring plans in place rather than to the transfer to other financial centers.

According to the financial newspaper, the ECB’s action is primarily aimed at international banks that have historically made London their outpost for operating in Europe. During the Covid crisis, given the undeniable difficulties imposed on the movement, the vigilance did not want to tread too hard with great realism, but now it has returned to ask for tools to manage operations in the Old Continent from different locations. The voices gathered by the FT now speak of an undoubtedly “more rigid” approach than was expected. And they also risk opening a front with the Central Bank of England, which is worried that the reallocation of people and resources will be required not so much for reasons of business fluidity, but to steal business from the British financial center.


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Unboxing governmental brain farts
Festival of Brexit rebrands as Unboxed and details 2022 event
The £120m project will feature such attractions as a sculpture trail of the solar system and a decommissioned offshore platform from the North Sea

Will Richards
21st October 2021

The UK’s much-maligned Festival of Brexit has rebranded as Unboxed as it reveals details of its 2022 event.

The event, which was first touted under Theresa May’s government, is described as a showcase for “the UK’s unique strengths in creativity and innovation” after leaving the European Union – with comparisons being made to the 1951 Festival of Britain.

READ MORE: When Brexit is set to cost the UK music industry hundreds of millions, the planned “festival of Brexit” strikes a sour note

While critics have consistently questioned the estimated £120m cost of the festival, planning took a step forward last year when organisers called for “daring, new and popular” ideas that will unite the nation.



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One could think that the EU is waiting for the implementation of other parts of the Brexit deal, and funny, concerns here about scientists while the UK students were dropped from the Erasmus program
David Frost says EU close to breaching Brexit deal over science programme
Minister ‘quite concerned’ about delay to finalising UK’s participation in €80bn Horizon Europe scheme

Lisa O'Carroll and Patrick Wintour
Mon 25 Oct 2021 19.44 BST

A fresh Brexit row has been blown open with Brussels after David Frost accused the EU of being close to breaching the trade deal struck last Christmas.

He said the UK was “getting quite concerned” about Brussels delaying ratification of the UK’s participation in the €80bn (£67bn) Horizon Europe research programme, costing British scientists their place in pan-European research programmes.

Lord Frost said the UK had “not made a great deal of this” but patience was running out.

“It’s not a very happy place,” he said. “We are getting quite concerned about this actually. There is an obligation in article 710 of the trade and cooperation agreement to finalise our participation. It uses the word ‘shall’. It is an obligation. It would obviously be a breach of the treaty if the EU doesn’t deliver on this obligation.”

The UK committed to gross funding of £2bn a year to the programme last December but this is not now being paid in as British scientists cannot be formal participants in the programme despite historically leading on many projects.
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UK condemns France's seizure of fishing boat as post-Brexit row deepens
By Juliette Jabkhiro

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  • France and Britain in dispute over fishing rights
    Paris announced possible retaliatory measures on Wednesday
    Britain condemns seizure of fishing vessel by France
LE HAVRE, France, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Britain on Thursday condemned France's seizure of a British fishing boat in French waters and warned Paris against further retaliation in a rapidly deteriorating row over post-Brexit fishing rights.

French Seas Minister Annick Girardin said the vessel was detained during checks off the northern port of Le Havre overnight as it was not allowed to fish in French territorial waters. A second British boat was given a verbal warning.

The action signalled France's determination not to back down in the row after listing potential sanctions against Britain on Wednesday if there is no progress in talks.

They include extra customs checks on British goods from Nov. 2 and what was widely seen in London as a threat to cut electricity exports to Britain if talks fail.



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France and Briton possibly going to war...

What's old is new again...
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And historically Scotland was often France's friend against England (cf. Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Severino Maria Stuart around 1760, better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie).

Given Scotland's deep antipathy to Brexit and its current dissatisfaction with the behavior of the UK government, I guess the Auld Alliance might be resurrected. It lasted (checks Wikipedia) from 1295 to 1560, so it had some legs in the past.
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France blocks UK fishing boats as post-Brexit licence row heats up

Issued on: 28/10/2021 - 09:20

France will adopt a zero-tolerance attitude towards Britain and block access to virtually all its boats until it awards licences to French fishermen, France’s minister for Europe said Thursday.

“I stand by the fact we pursued dialogue until now, we got half of the fishing licences today, but that’s not enough and not acceptable,” Clément Beaune, France’s Europe minister, said on CNews TV.

“So now, we need to speak the language of strength since that seems to be the only thing this British government understands,” Beaune said.

France vehemently protested the decision last month by the UK and the Channel Island of Jersey to refuse dozens of French fishing boats licenses to operate in their territorial waters. France says the restrictions are contrary to the post-Brexit agreement that the British government signed when it left the EU.

After weeks of negotiations, British authorities issued more fishing licenses but the number still only accounts for 50 percent of what France believes it “is entitled to”, French government spokesman Gabriel Attal said Wednesday.

France had threatened trade disruptions from November 2 if its boats are not granted more access to British waters.

The measures targeting British fish exports would include "systematic customs and sanitary checks on products brought to France and a ban on landing seafood", Attal told reporters.

France said it also does not rule out measures in the coming weeks that would target energy supplies to Britain. Attal specified that meant the Channel Islands, which are closer to French shores than British ones and rely heavily on electricity supplied by the French grid.

While targeted measures for the fishing sector would hurt British exports, broader customs checks have the potential to seriously slow down trade with the UK.



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Who had UK/France as the starters of WWIII in the apocalypse pool?
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:o The UK will again need to send out their pleasure boats to pick up their soldiers fishermen at Dunkirk ...
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Now it’s official: Brexit will damage the economy long into the future
The Covid threat to GDP is waning, but don’t expect the pain wrought by leaving the EU to subside any time soon

Jonathan Portes is professor of economics and public policy at King’s College London
Thu 28 Oct 2021 17.45 BST

We’re used to hearing apocalyptic descriptions of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the UK economy: “the largest fall in economic output since 1709”, was the Office for National Statistics’ verdict eight months ago.

Yet the Office for Budget Responsibility, in its report on Wednesday’s budget, estimates that the long-term impact of Brexit will be more than twice as great as Covid. It thinks that Brexit will reduce UK productivity, and hence GDP per capita, by 4%, while the impact of Covid on GDP will only be 2%, with a slightly smaller impact on GDP per capita.

This shouldn’t be surprising. The fall in output in 2020 was both inevitable and desirable – it was not, in economic terms, that different from an extended holiday. Just like a holiday, we chose to shut down large parts of the economy. The difference was that it was by necessity – to save lives – rather than by choice, but the consequences aren’t that different. The economy shrank, and by a lot.

Holidays don’t reduce the productive capacity of the economy. If a factory shuts down for a month, the machines are still there when it reopens. Similarly, when workers return, they still know how to do their jobs. The virus does not destroy factories, roads, buildings or software and, while its human toll has been dreadful, the impact on the size or composition of the working-age population will be relatively small in macroeconomic terms.

So the worry was not the huge short-term fall in GDP. It was that temporary closures would do permanent damage to the economy. The biggest risk was that, as in the 1980s, we allowed mass unemployment to become entrenched, or viable businesses to go bust.

But, thanks to the furlough scheme and other business support measures, we seem to have avoided that risk in the UK and elsewhere. Indeed, US GDP – boosted by Joe Biden’s stimulus package – has already exceeded its pre-crisis level. The UK is not that far behind, albeit still well below the pre-crisis trend.



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