| Another brexit climb down 17:19 - Aug 3 with 548 views | HARRY10 |
UK Brexit checks on fresh food from EU delayed for fifth time
But wait, cry the brexiters, there must be some good news. There is. For EU exporters to the UK.
Before Brexit, UK exporters could send chilled and fresh food to the EU without any paperwork. Now, British exporters of fish and other fresh goods are in chaos with a lack of customs agents and veterinary staff to certify whether the produce complied with EU standards.
Brexit thickos might care to ask what checks have been imposed on EU exporters to the UK since Brexit. None. Absolutely none, not a sausage (pun intended). So Brexit has heaped piles of red tape, cost and delay on the UK companies while leaving EU companies a free hand. Nice one, thickos.
Now some might wonder why those naughty EU types are not being checked. Two reasons is the thought.
One, as the Stick -Insect pointed out(July 22) the checks would add further costs to UK food bill. The second is the thought that it is pretty pointless building the infrastructure when it will not be needed in a few years hence - UK back in the EU.
Ah, bleat the thickos, hindsight. No. It was known that leaving the EU would lead to higher food prices. Why would any country offer stuff cheaper just because the UK was out of the EU ? In fact, it was always going to be the opposite, as deals with Aus/NZ have shown.
We send food to the EU unrestricted, why not impose huge costs on those exports
Maybe that's what should have been written on the side of that bus.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/03/uk-brexit-checks-fresh-food-eu- |  | | |  |
| Another brexit climb down on 18:51 - Aug 3 with 470 views | Eireannach_gorm |
Unintended cost of sovereignty.
At least you are free to not check EU goods. |  | | |
| Another brexit climb down on 05:34 - Aug 5 with 340 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
I’ve never asked you Harry, which way did you vote in 2016? |  | | |
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