EU trade restrictions on third party countries who are ethnically non-European would suggest an element of the EU trying to keep out Indian, Pakistani, West Indian and South African goods. This is hardly like your multicultural ideal is it?
There is. But they, one would expect, would be more likely to set up shop in a home market of some 400 million people than a home market of 65 million.
Sorry to spoil your rant with facts, but up until 2009 the EU gave preferential access to goods from African, Caribbean and Pacific states until they were forced to stop by a US-lead complaint to the WTO.
Agreed!
Presumably astra zeneca had to guess if and when the EU would actually licence their vaccine to start making deliveries?
As a small employer, I value flexibility from my staff and I try to reward them accordingly. It is NOT in the interests of small employers to screw their workers. Rigid EU or union rules can stifle company growth and ultimately harm that company's staff.
The boundary commission recommendations are that Labour should lose seats this has yet to take place, so the boundaries are currently rigged in labour's favour.
If you're not willing to sign up to the current minimum standards for staff protection, I'm not convinced you deserve to be employing people.
Sounds like an ideological viewpoint rather than anything based on practical application. There should be minimum standards, but whether the current ones are fit for purpose (in any direction) is a subjective opinion. No problem with review.
We've had enough of our rights stolen by Brexiteers already, thanks.
I agree that there's nothing wrong with the principle of review, but the current government's actions do not give one any reason to believe that any resulting changes would favour the employee.
Nice unbiased source then...
I'm struggling to understand what your complaint is here.
I am assuming that you would label me as a "europhile" because I generally support membership of the EU, and various elderly relatives of mine have been offered the vaccine, so luckily I can provide a direct answer to this question.
If that were true, which I don't believe it is, the EU programme would be a good thing, because it stops France and Germany controlling what vaccinations
In evaluating logic, if one of the premises of false you can stop going any further, as the whole argument evaluates to false. I pretty much stopped reading here.
They must be seen to punish the UK for having the temerity to leave even if it affects their own members; just as the pre christmas blockade on lorries did.
All they're doing is enforcing the same rules that they do on anyone else. We punished ourselves by leaving.
Exactly! We are outside the "protection" of the EU and have found how they treat other countries. We had to pay for our "protection" as you do in any racket.
Or more accurately, once again, once you leave a club you no longer enjoy the benefits that club offers. It isn't that complicated and certainly isn't a "racket".
I think you will find we decided to leave the club so we lose the privileges of being inside the club. Even the fabled CPTPP that we are desperate to join has protections built-in for the founding member states. So for all your protestations about the EU being a "protectionist racket", every trade bloc has protections built in for various states' industries.
I have to agree with you there.
Indeed, but you wouldn't expect the tennis club you were previously a member of to make you wait for two hours to go in when you subsequently visit as a guest, and refuse you entry at all if you made a spelling mistake on their 40 page guest registration form; while laughing at you and sayiing "thats your fault for leaving" while they did the formalities as slowly and pedantically, while other Tennis clubs sort it out guest registration in 5 minutes cheerfully and politely.
Indeed not. The EU are not blameless here. But neither are the Brexiteers in the UK...
What an absolutely fabulous post! BoJo was proclaiming that WTO rules were fine for us to revert to yet they would have required even more checks than now! WTO rules are specifically designed to encourage countries to agree trade agreements. The EU is a trading bloc that has removed all borders and checks from those who are part of the bloc so goods and services are traded freely without borders. Even the CPTPP has rules to follow and does not remove all checks or tariffs.
No. 4 should have been blindingly obvious to everyone right from the start — if you're moving out of the customs zone, there's got to be a border somewhere. (School history and what a Zollverein is all about, anyone?) And yet it all seems to have eluded the Brexiteer brigade. Or, as classic English Tories, are they all just so ignorant of and uninterested in Irish affairs that they never gave it a thought (or indeed did think, but believed the Irish would just dutifully follow GB out of the EU)?
Great post. Plus:
They're applying the same rules that they apply to other non-members. The fact that we're terrible at filling in the forms due to not having to do so for nearly fifty years is our problem, not theirs.
