I’ve been doing the Tory diet this week. You have a quarter of a tin of tuna, half a pepper and a slice of bread daily for five days then burn a £20 note. Feeling good so far.
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I’ve been doing the Tory diet this week. You have a quarter of a tin of tuna, half a pepper and a slice of bread daily for five days then burn a £20 note. Feeling good so far.
Trump senior looks like he'll split Republican votes whatever, unless he retires or dies
That would not have worked, because the only way the sides could agree was when they were both staring into the abyss of no deal
Brexit shellfish delays: 'If we go another week like this, we're finished'
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image captionJamie McMillan said delays in exporting his shellfish would result in them arriving dead
A Scottish shellfish firm has warned it is on the brink of bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit red tape.
Lochfyne Langoustines managing director Jamie McMillan said his firm had already lost some consignments after they were found to be rotten by the time they arrived in France.
He also warned EU customers were now going to Denmark to buy langoustines.
Mr McMillan described it as a "very, very serious situation".
It halted groupage exports last week after delays in getting new paperwork for EU border posts in France.
DFDS said it would not resume those exports until Monday.
Mr McMillan told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: "We've been screaming for the last six months - eight months - that we have to get our produce to market within 12 to 24 hours.
"Any delays in that process, our shellfish will arrive in France dead.
"We lost two pallets last week. It took five days to arrive in Boulogne from Scotland, so our goods were rotten on arrival."
image captionTransport company DFDS has said it will not resume groupage exports until Monday
He added: "Customers are not buying from us any more - we have become unreliable suppliers.
"Everybody has stopped buying. This has happened for the past two weeks. We can't continue this to happen for another week because we will be out of business.
"We have had no sales to the EU, our biggest market for live shellfish, in the last two weeks.
"If we go another week without that, we are finished."
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IMAGE COPYRIGHTJAMIE MCMILLAN TWITTERimage captionJamie McMillan said delays in exporting his shellfish would result in them arriving dead
A Scottish shellfish firm has warned it is on the brink of bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit red tape.
Lochfyne Langoustines managing director Jamie McMillan said his firm had already lost some consignments after they were found to be rotten by the time they arrived in France.
He also warned EU customers were now going to Denmark to buy langoustines.
Mr McMillan described it as a "very, very serious situation".
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It halted groupage exports last week after delays in getting new paperwork for EU border posts in France.
DFDS said it would not resume those exports until Monday.
Mr McMillan told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: "We've been screaming for the last six months - eight months - that we have to get our produce to market within 12 to 24 hours.
"Any delays in that process, our shellfish will arrive in France dead.
"We lost two pallets last week. It took five days to arrive in Boulogne from Scotland, so our goods were rotten on arrival."
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IMAGE COPYRIGHTDFDSimage captionTransport company DFDS has said it will not resume groupage exports until Monday
He added: "Customers are not buying from us any more - we have become unreliable suppliers.
"Everybody has stopped buying. This has happened for the past two weeks. We can't continue this to happen for another week because we will be out of business.
"We have had no sales to the EU, our biggest market for live shellfish, in the last two weeks.
"If we go another week without that, we are finished."
My son has ordered a bass guitar and UPS turned up today with an invoice for an additional £47 bill to get it through customs (coming from Germany) - says he's dropping off about 20 of these bills every day since Jan 1st......£47 on a £130 guitar! FFS
Nadhim Zahawi is Under-Secretary of State for COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment. This is a success story, isn't it? So why did he look on Newsnight tonight as if he was being interviewed by police for his part in a Huddersfield grooming gang?
Also, he was presumably in his own home, so why the **** did he have a Union Flag behind him?
Pathetic.
Also, he was presumably in his own home, so why the **** did he have a Union Flag behind him?
Pathetic.
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EU blames UK after outcry over end to visa-free touring for musicians
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IMAGE COPYRIGHTREUTERSThe EU has insisted it was the UK government's choice to end visa-free touring for musicians on the continent, following an outcry from performers.
Officials in Brussels told the BBC that the UK "refused" a plan that would have let musicians tour without visas.
The response came after Downing Street re-affirmed that its own "ambitious" proposals had been rejected by the EU.
The EU's Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said the result was one of the "inevitable consequences" of Brexit.
"I very much regretted that the British didn't have more ambition for people's mobility," Mr Barnier told reporters on Thursday.
'You need two to make a deal'
"From last March, we made fairly ambitious proposals in terms of mobility, including for specific categories such as journalists, performers, musicians and others," he went on. "But you need to be two to make a deal."
Pressure has been mounting on the two sides to negotiate an exemption to the new restrictions for musicians, with performers and crews saying livelihoods could be at risk.
Since Brexit, British musicians and crews are no longer guaranteed visa-free travel and may need extra work permits to play in certain European countries.
Under the terms of the deal, British bands can tour Europe for up to 90 days in a 180-day period. But tours in Germany and Spain, for instance, will now require extra visas for paid work, while those in France and The Netherlands will not.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55654386
The fish are happier though. If he can just hold out for some arbitrary period of time until things are all good, he’ll realise how much better things are.
Yeah knock them for the awful things they do and terrible unprincipled public servants they are rather than for having a flag in their spare room which is definitely there on camera out of sheer pride and not to appeal to our vast swathes of flag-shaggers.
I feel sorry for your son. It’s stupid that a free trade deal looks like this. People will get P’d with this and shop elsewhere. I have seen other articles of the same thing happening. This will change when at some point.
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Well you will need to ask Boris that question.
I will admit I have read a few things that are a bit of a concern regarding the deal. It was a bare bones deal and smaller ones will be reached in time. However if the EU continues with all this red tape and paperwork, companies with go elsewhere.
Not sure Johnson will know
https://www.thenational.scot/news/1...read-brexit-deal-full-downing-street-signals/
https://www.thenational.scot/news/1...read-brexit-deal-full-downing-street-signals/