Off Topic UK / EU Future

Something good out of Rotherham comes

 

Confirmed in the Commons that mobile roaming charges will reappear after Brexit. It will be up to individual service providers to set the rates, but with a cap of £45 in a month before you get cut off.

 

The thin end of the wedge.... Incrementally the private individual will be paying more across the board...

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Yesterday the business minister told a Commons committee that the end of March was not the real date for leaving, but it was the 14th February. This was based on it taking six weeks for a cargo vessel to get to South Korea or somewhere else down south. He confirmed that a container from the UK might not get clearance if it arrived after the 31st March, and even it was cleared there could be additional tariffs to pay outside the contract price. A similar situation has occurred before with goods from the USA being held in limbo due to trade deals being broken.

 

Is this one of those games where you write the first line and we all add one to make a story

 

Don't hold your breath, but the rest is en route. Red wine can stop your fingers working in the correct order.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...-to-explain-why-they-cant-even-manage-a-bribe

As usual, John Crace wins

 

I have noticed over the past week that John Crace no longer has to look for the bizarre, he only needs to report on actualities, and they will have the reader wondering if our MPs are actually of this world. Liz Truss, chief secretary to the Treasury, as an example was giving a speech today, and proclaimed that the population were not so interested in Brexit, but were waiting with bated breath for the spending review to be published. Not only would it not be any old spending review, but the “People’s Spending Review”. No one has yet told Truss that the Tories are in the process of tearing themselves and the country apart over Brexit. Rather she saw the UK as being in a bit of a lull.

How do these people get a job as an MP let alone into the cabinet? There are a lot who really should be in the monster raving loony party.

 

His writing is spectacular, he manages to make this serious and depressing topic so funny every day...His digested week columns always offer a touching insight into his life too, he genuinely seems like a lovely man.

I was very upset about the passing of Jeremy Hardy, one of the most under-appreciated comedians of the last few decades. The News Quiz was always one of my favourite shows, and he was absolutely brilliant. I guess i'm just getting old, as I really don't see any bright lights in the upcoming generation of comedians

(Doubt i'll start voting Tory soon though)

 

It looks as though Grayling is out of his depth again, this time over Ramsgate harbour. Since 2010 Ramsgate Port has racked up £20M in debt, and the Thanet District Council has decided that with the budget cuts coming from Westminster they have to save some £730,000 that was to be spent on the port. A Ramsgate/Ostend ferry service has been proposed by start-up company Seaborne Freight but, despite prolonged negotiations over a two-year period, a deal is yet to be signed for either port. Now after secret talks between the council leader and Grayling, the whole budget setting exercise for the next financial year has been put on hold. There is no sign that Seaborne Freight are anymore nearer to running a ferry from the port than they were months ago, yet Grayling says the importance of Ramsgate in Post-Brexit resilience plans had been recognised and the DfT was keen to “keep the option of Ramsgate alive.” As one councillor said, "The budget tonight has been cancelled -at Chris Grayling’s request. This last minute intervention to keep the fiction going demonstrates the confusion that UK Government is in. Being Brexit ready is no more real that those old fashioned candy cigarettes. This is a shambles and falls far short of the well run council that residents expect.”

 

On and on it goes.....Now: Passport renewal

I am in and out of the UK over the next few months... and just discovered that if we leave without a deal my passport which expires in July will not be valid in the EU.....

Therefor the only mean to get a passport in enough time for travel between trips will be to go and have a fast track renewal which costs almost twice the price of an online renewal..... plus of course my time and travel...….

Another not-so-hidden cost......

 

And don't forget to go to a nominated Post Office to buy your International driving permit, as you will not be able to hire a car without one. You might have to get two depending on where you plan to go.

 

Further to my piece on Ramsgate, despite Grayling saying how important the link to Ostend was to be in the emergency measures being put in place, he has now had to cancel the contract with Seaborne Freight as they cannot get the backing they require from another company. So much for his in depth study into Seaborne. The man is a total fool and shouldn't be allowed anywhere near to government. Everything he touches goes wrong, prisons, trains and now shipping.

 

My 12 year old niece is travelling to Germany in the first week of April with her grandparents - both of whom are Irish passport holders and she's on a UK one. Can't imagine there'll be any problems as nobody is going to engineer a scenario where hoards of lost kids are wandering round passport control areas but can understand my sister in law being a bit concerned!

 

Don't spoil the project fear 2 fairy stories, they thrive on fiction.

 

The problem is everyone knows there will be disruption of one form or another but the predictions are becoming Wilder by the day. I do agree that some of this is probably scare mongering but equally it doesn't help when every potentially damaging scenario referred to is greeted with fingers in ears and "yeah - you're just making it up".
I said a long time ago that contingency plans shouldn't be put in the public domain because everyone would focus on worst case scenarios (which every responsible government should plan for) - haven't seen much to dissuade me of that.
The fact so many politicians on both sides of the channel and Irish Sea are drama junkies isn't making it easier either.

 

A very pleasant reply to that cretin Tusk.

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Not unless they go to Texas....

 

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news...this-says-plumber-born-in-1977-20190206182178

 

So true.....