Off Topic UK / EU Future

I do not want to mix threads on this one SH. The subject of the Burqa is discussed in detail on the 'Talking to letterboxes' thread despite it's flippant title. I find talking to hidden faces something which is my problem and I have to overcome this every time we have the Cologne Carnival where more or less everybody is unrecognizable, including the mayor.

 

They would’ve been blackshirts, certainly Mogg, so compared to Marxists...

 

Only amongst a vocal and rabid minority, most of us sane folk think they’re a pair of disingenuous bell ends.

 

Your usual drivel...

 

One day you will post something worthwhile.

 

Well today I am off to Budapest where there is free travel on public transport for all EU citizens aged 65 and over..... most worthwhile escape from the sort of profiteering we are supposed to be proud of in Great Britain...

Bye and enjoy your pumped up posting ....

 

Say hi to George Ezra, don't forget your hippy beads.

 

I know this article is 6 months old, but for obvious reasons I couldn't really resist: https://capx.co/britains-best-brexit-bet-the-jersey-option/
The First Minister of Jersey has regular dialogue with the UK Government regarding Brexit, the problem is that the current incumbent,John Le Fondré, only took office in early June after the elections in May and I don't know how fully he was informed when he took office.

 

Brilliant, Tobes.

This, along with that blond muppet, are how we aspire to be represented, eh?

 

Blessed be the fruit.....

 

Yes, Rees Mogg, and Boris would be an excellent team, along with Gove of course. The Marxist twins are on a downward spiral and the old fella Cable is nowhere to be seen. They seem to be a shoe in for our next Tory government. There is a suggestion that David Davis will take over as an interim PM until after Brexit, ok by me.

 

Boris does appear to be throwing down the gauntlet for a leadership challenge. He has come up with a simple solution to the current housing crisis, namely reducing the ridicules high stamp duty rates. This easy way to collect tax by the chancellor is preventing the usual flexibility of labour movement, downsizing and upsizing. Rees Mogg has also suggested much of the protected Green Belt is neither green or worth protecting, and should be built on. It is quite brave for a Tory MP hoping for political advancement to suggest such an idea.

 

July showed up that Border Control is not working, with queues of two and a half hours for non EU passengers happening at Heathrow. Lack of staff and computer problems were given as the cause. Let people through from " safe countries " has been suggested as a means to reduce the waiting time. Not what was promised. If computer problems are to blame as well as shortage of staff, then it says little for the idea of relying on technology to deal with customs at the borders. The government says it will have an extra 200 officials at Heathrow this month, but they will come from other airports and ferry ports just moving the problems to those places.

 

Now France is being completely bypassed for Irish - EU direct trade we can borrow a few officials from quiet French ports to save the unemployment rate from rising too fast.

 

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No, it is the UK that will no longer being used as a bridge. The direct services between Ireland and France have had a great deal of investment, including brand new ferries. It still shows that if the existing computer systems fail there are problems. To rely on a system that hasn't even been designed yet is clearly a pipe dream.

 

There was investment in France because they expected to benefit from direct business from Ireland. The Commission, has in their wisdom, decided not to use any French ports due to unaffordable high cost and /or unreliability because of France's lousy record on industrial action. Many Irish exporters of food have already dismissed the new direct link as taking too long for perishable foodstuff.
The French are now whinging that being excluded from this lucrative business is unacceptable.

 

French ports cut out of EU trade route after Brexit – POLITICO

France fumes at proposed post-Brexit EU sea trade links | Reuters

 

What a load of nonsense. The EU have rightly decided that to allow goods to travel through the UK would be unreliable so have made plans and provided investment to bypass the country. With the chaos in Dover this will spread to Calais creating huge delays there as well as Kent. Calais has some space to create lorry parks, Dover hasn't. If there were no planning on how to deal with this problem the EU would be at fault, as indeed is the UK government.

 

Can you answer the question why the EU Commission has decided to bypass the obvious French ports in favour of longer trips to Holland and Belgium.?