All part of the Tory plan then. I can't remember, did they tell us this during the election?
https://www.independent.co.uk/voice...8WpoDm2o2vAq5gSCISvnJZJ_1U#Echobox=1582041242
They have been building this up over the last 10 days or so.
Gove saying that there will be ‘significant’ changes to trade with the EU, with ‘inevitable’ border checks.
Boris insisting that we want a Canada style agreement which is totally unsuited to the U.K. needs.
This is a back door No Deal.
Despite businesses up and down the country pleading for a continuation of frictionless trade with the EU, we are getting the opposite.
Exporters to the EU will need to produce Customs Forms to ship to the EU from next year, that’s 4 duplicate documents for each shipment that will need to be checked both sides of the borders. Currently we gave none.
It’s a logistical nightmare for those industries that rely on JIT.
Can you imagine what that does to the car and aviation industries?
How does the border checks in Northern Ireland work? Is the border coming back? What about the GFA?
A return to the border in NI also kills a trade deal with the US, as the Democrats will never pass it through the house. It’s been stated many times, even Trump can’t overcome that.
It has also been announced in the last week that the U.K. is also having it’s own, yet to be decided ‘standards’ which appears to be 100% driven by the desire to be different to the EU standards.
We will still have to abide by EU rules to trade in that block, so as I feared we are now looking at having two sets of standards to trade in a market which currently has one.
What for? Does it improve the product? Doubtful, it certainly adds to the administration and cost.
Who absorbs these costs? Business can’t, prices can’t go up to cover because the products would not be competitive.
My fear with EU worker rights not guaranteed, is that we will see a drop in employment rights and a stagnation of wages.
Seems as though a political ‘pure’ divorce from the EU is more important than the damage done to the country.