Brexit Benefits Log

[Not Now Kato]

We've now left the EU so it's time to keep a list of all the benefits we achieve as we go forward.  We were promised some excellent trade deals and so far we've managed to copy across over 60 trade deals.  They aren't better than those we had as members of the EU, but at least they are positive achievements.
 
However  https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/first-blow-for-post-brexit-britain-as-australia-rejects-trade-deal/07/01/?fbclid=IwAR17nan5Ez3WNCLY7xK0oIACnYnxvQmEAooWfuv2IOpwqHUQQZQMNs1XiHI

[Glyn_Wigley]

Anybody would think the Government don't want anyone to know how wonderful Brexit is!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-committee-jacob-rees-mogg-eu-trade-deal-b1784512.html

[Not Now Kato]

And it seems Leave EU never really wanted to leave the EU after all....
 
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/leave-eu-moves-to-ireland-to-keep-eu-suffix/06/01/

[Ldr]

Not been part of the process of becoming a European state works for me nnk.

[bpoolrover]

You have started a benefits thread on leaving the eu and then carried it on the same as the last one that was locked,why not give it a bit of time rather than a week and see what replies you get?

[Glyn_Wigley]

You have started a benefits thread on leaving the eu and then carried it on the same as the last one that was locked,why not give it a bit of time rather than a week and see what replies you get?

This thread will still be here in future. How long do we have to wait for your list of benefits to appear in it?

Plus, we keep being told that people knew what they were voting for so surely everybody would already know what the benefits are instead of having to leave us hanging around to find out what they are..?

[BillyStubbsTears]

I assume the blue passports are on the way?

[BillyStubbsTears]

Oh aye. And I SURE Johnson said repeatedly and categorically in the General Election campaign that there would be no customs checks between GB and Northern Ireland.

Looks like he'd better get onto the tax office, only it looks like someone there has gone rogue, actually read the Withdrawal Agreement that Johnson signed and realised they DO have to have customs checks.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-55556840

Who'd have thought it eh? Johnson bare-faced lying and not a single Brexit supporter having the dignity to call him out on it.

[Ldr]

I assume the blue passports are on the way?

Got my new JET BLACK one

[Glyn_Wigley]

Oh aye. And I SURE Johnson said repeatedly and categorically in the General Election campaign that there would be no customs checks between GB and Northern Ireland.

Looks like he'd better get onto the tax office, only it looks like someone there has gone rogue, actually read the Withdrawal Agreement that Johnson signed and realised they DO have to have customs checks.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-55556840

Who'd have thought it eh? Johnson bare-faced lying and not a single Brexit supporter having the dignity to call him out on it.

Not as little dignity as the DUP, who have gone extremely quiet about it.

[selby]

  It's still bugging some of you.

[Not Now Kato]

  It's still bugging some of you.

Funny how Brexit Supporters can never answer the question ‘how being in the EU has negatively affected me personally’, yet every day there is news on how Brexit negatively affects people’s lives.

[Glyn_Wigley]

  It's still bugging some of you.

Throwing the country into a pile of shit does that to people.

[selby]

  Ah Glyn, forgot about you, were you a member of a backing group when younger?

[drfchound]

People don’t have to have a blue passport now we are out of the EU.
Just carry on using the burgundy one until it expires.

[Metalmicky]

People don’t have to have a blue passport now we are out of the EU.
Just carry on using the burgundy one until it expires.

Same applies to the E111 (EHIC) until it expires..... and then a new GHIC can be applied for

[Not Now Kato]

Seems Bees are going to benefit from our ability to make our own laws....
 
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/uk-farmers-given-go-ahead-to-use-bee-killing-pesticide-banned-by-eu/09/01/
 

[drfchound]

Seems Bees are going to benefit from our ability to make our own laws....
 
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/uk-farmers-given-go-ahead-to-use-bee-killing-pesticide-banned-by-eu/09/01/

I wouldn’t have thought that bees would be benefitting from farmers being allowed to use a bee killing pesticide.

[wilts rover]

Seems Bees are going to benefit from our ability to make our own laws....
 
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/uk-farmers-given-go-ahead-to-use-bee-killing-pesticide-banned-by-eu/09/01/

I wouldn’t have thought that bees would be benefitting from farmers being allowed to use a bee killing pesticide.

I'm guessing NNK is being sarcastic - but just a guess mind, he may have it in for bees for some reason?

What it does mean of course is that we will then have more of our own (banned pesticide covered) food to eat - as all field grown food stuff to the EU will immediately be banned when this law comes in.

It is also benefical in another way as it does confirm what I expected. This government's claim to be more enviromentaly friendly is actually the same as that of most other Tory governments - the ability to kill more things in the countryside.

[selby]

  France made 60 million euros in fines sent to British drivers under the agreement that was in place for such as speeding on the motorways last year and sent the fines here to be paid.
  the agreement no longer stands don't bother paying them.

[Not Now Kato]

Seems Bees are going to benefit from our ability to make our own laws....
 
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/uk-farmers-given-go-ahead-to-use-bee-killing-pesticide-banned-by-eu/09/01/

I wouldn’t have thought that bees would be benefitting from farmers being allowed to use a bee killing pesticide.

I'm guessing NNK is being sarcastic - but just a guess mind, he may have it in for bees for some reason?

What it does mean of course is that we will then have more of our own (banned pesticide covered) food to eat - as all field grown food stuff to the EU will immediately be banned when this law comes in.

It is also benefical in another way as it does confirm what I expected. This government's claim to be more enviromentaly friendly is actually the same as that of most other Tory governments - the ability to kill more things in the countryside.

As you say Wilts, it was sarcastic.  Just another non benefit of Brexit.  I believe we'll see more negative changes going forward too.

[Janso]

We've shipped 20 odd orders to the continent since coming back on 4th Jan.

16 of them have been stuck in f**king customs checkpoints.

[BillyStubbsTears]

At some point in the future, we will look back and laugh at the days when utter bell ends like this ruled the country, and preened like this on an issue which is driving many companies to the brink.

https://mobile.twitter.com/TobyonTV/status/1349707738583093248

Just feels like a f**king long way off at the moment.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Meanwhile, as Scottish fishing companies face oblivion, get this.

The UK Fisheries minister didn't read the fishing sections of the Brexit trade deal before voting for it. Because she was too busy organising a Nativity trail.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MrDanDonoghue/status/1349415252925026306

So the Fisheries minister votes for a deal that she has no idea of the effect on fishing.

We should be horrified at this amateurishness, but when the Brexit Secretary and now Foreign Secretary didn't realise how important trade through Dover was, and when the NI Secretary didn't realise that sectarian tensions in Belfast were a problem, you kind of get numbed to the level of amateur incompetence.

[wilts rover]

At some point in the future, we will look back and laugh at the days when utter bell ends like this ruled the country, and preened like this on an issue which is driving many companies to the brink.

https://mobile.twitter.com/TobyonTV/status/1349707738583093248

Just feels like a f**king long way off at the moment.

You have to make him right though. British fish are going to be the happiest fish in the world right now - because no-one is catching them! As for British fisherman, well they don't seem to chuffed about this control they have taken back.

[graingrover]

From Bloomberg
Britain's population of Eastern Europeans is going home amid Covid lockdowns and Brexit rule changes

Eastern Europeans Were Leaving U.K. in Months Before Brexit
The number of eastern Europeans living in the U.K. last year slumped to levels last seen in 2015 ahead of the end of the Brexit transition and as the coronavirus lockdowns closed huge parts of the...
bloomberg.com

[graingrover]

There are some mis conceptions about the loss of passporting  for British Financial Services companies .I ran Commercial Union Assurance Benelux and despite the Freedom Of Services Directive of 1992 we never received authorisation either from the Belgian or Dutch to sell U.K Non smoker Life assurance on the continent nor our U.K. Investment  Managed Funds  .We had to ESTABLISH a company in Luxembourg and rely on customers applying to us from Belgium and Holland as passive marketing only was allowed yet the  1992 Directive   should have meant you no longer needed to Establish a company in EU because cross bordering was the idea ...it. never happened .
I hear Insurers and Investment managers from the City now saying they do not need to be on the continent since today’s customers are all online wherever they are resident .Big Industrial Companies like Maersk to quote but one would never be able to get all their fleet insured without resorting to London Coty Companies or Lloyds .They will be coming to London to get covered for sure .

[Janso]

From Bloomberg
Britain's population of Eastern Europeans is going home amid Covid lockdowns and Brexit rule changes

Eastern Europeans Were Leaving U.K. in Months Before Brexit
The number of eastern Europeans living in the U.K. last year slumped to levels last seen in 2015 ahead of the end of the Brexit transition and as the coronavirus lockdowns closed huge parts of the...
bloomberg.com

Is that bloke wearing a Rovers shirt? 

[idler]

No. It’s a cheap EU copy.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Remember back in 2016 when some of us said that a huge benefit of the EU was the protection of workers' rights?

And the Brexit Death Cult said "Yes but nobody is saying we'd have worse workers' rights outside the EU"?

https://mobile.twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1349846854255710210

Aged well, that argument...