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Brexit. the Con continues
thaddeus:
--- Quote from: Dizzyfinn on January 28, 2022, 04:22:22 am ---The trouble is how hard it is to pick apart the damage done from brexit and the damage from a global pandemic. I live in the states now and empty shelves, inflation and driver shortages are rife here. Nothing to do with brexit. Cat food is like gold dust, global supply chains are fucked.
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It's a good point and in that respect Covid has done the Brexiteers a big favour. It's also magnified the issue ten fold though whereas Brexit alone would have likely been a slow bleed out that would have gone unnoticed/unreported.
I guess the US imports much of its food (?) so proportionately more impacted than more self-sufficient countries. As part of the EU we were effectively a borderless part of a self-sufficient trading block due to the massive food exports from countries like Spain and France. We're now a densely populated island a long way off being self-sufficient (even the bits we grow we seemingly now can't harvest effectively) that has to import much of its food through a chaotic border.
My wife's family live in semi-rural France and have had no food supply issues at all.
stara:
--- Quote from: redbyrdz on January 27, 2022, 08:25:22 am ---It's great, isn't it? The UK is now a fully sovereign state with actual working borders. No more uncontrolled traffic in and out of the country.
I hope the 17 fucking million that votes for this wake up every day rejoicing in their new found independence.
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Philip Rycroft, who was permanent secretary at the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU: "So HMRC reckon that the total cost of these new systems will be something like £13bn a year"
Print that on brexit bus.
stara:
--- Quote from: TSC on January 27, 2022, 07:32:37 am ---ITV article about queuing at Dover
https://www.itv.com/news/2022-01-26/new-brexit-border-checks-causing-queues-at-dover-and-itll-get-worse-says-union
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So, the government’s new IT portal adds 10 minutes to boarding times for every vehicle. If timetable holds, on April EU will introduce biometric checks that apply to all vehicles entering the EU's passport-free Schengen Area. "Logistics UK warned of tailbacks of 17 miles (27km)".
spen71:
This was posted in a group I’m in on Facebook
A great year after BREXIT for the British manufacturing sector,
shame you don’t hear this kind of news on main stream media WHILST the news tabloids and the remainers are all trying to get Boris out.
Yes hes been a plonker! But who have we got at the mo to replace him 🤔🤔🤔🙈
▪️ Cadbury announced plans to transfer production of its Dairy Milk bars from Germany and other sites across Europe to the UK.
▪️ The future of Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port plant was secured with a £100m investment. The site will become Stellantis' first factory dedicated to electric vehicle production for the Vauxhall, Opel, Peugeot and Citroën brands.
▪️ British supercar manufacturer Gordon Murray Group announced plans to invest £300m expanding its manufacturing and design operations in the UK.
▪️ Airbus officially opened its new £40m Aerospace Integrated Research and Test Centre (AIRTeC) in Filton.
▪️ Nissan announced plans to build a new electric vehicle at its Sunderland plant and, in partnership with Envision AESC, open a £450m gigafactory as part of a £1bn investment programme. The expansion will create more than 6,000 British jobs.
▪️ Ford announced plans to invest £230m converting its Halewood transmission plant to build power units.
▪️ British Steel unveiled a £100m investment programme.
▪️ Under construction in Goole, Siemens' new £200m train factory is expected to create 700 direct jobs.
▪️ The Hitachi Rail/Alstom joint venture was awarded a £2bn contract to design, build and maintain HS2’s new fleet of trains. The order will create and sustain 2,500 British jobs.
▪️ Rolls-Royce officially opened its new £90m Testbed 80 in Derby - the largest facility of its type in the world.
▪️ Kraft Heinz announced plans to invest £140m at its Kitt Green plant and start making tomato ketchup and other sauces in the UK for the first time since 1999.
▪️ Babcock unveiled its new £31.5m assembly hall at Rosyth and announced plans to create 500 jobs to support its £1.25bn Royal Navy Type 31 frigate programme.
▪️ BAE Systems announced it intended to hire 1.250 apprentices and graduates in 2021 – the highest number it has ever recruited in a single year.
▪️ Rolls-Royce's small modular reactor (SMR) programme - expected to create 40,000 British jobs - secured almost £500m in funding.
▪️ Norton opened its new multi-million factory and global HQ in Solihull.
▪️ Aston Martin broke ground on its new £200m F1 factory in Northamptonshire.
▪️The £130m UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC) opened in Coventry.
▪️ Siemens Gamesa announced plans to invest £186m expanding its wind turbine blade plant in Hull. The investment will more than double the size of the site and create hundreds of new jobs.
▪️ Britishvolt secured planning permission for a new £2.6bn gigafactory in Northumberland.
▪️ Lotus invested £100m in its UK sites and created hundreds of new jobs.
▪️ JCB built a record number of machines, created over 1,350 new jobs, secured a host of major orders and invested £100m developing its award-winning hydrogen engine.
Also
Space firm OneWeb, which is owned by a consortium of the UK Government and working to build a new global mega constellation of ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), has confirmed earlier speculation by announcing that the company will invest £2.2bn ($3bn) to shift manufacturing from the USA to UK.
redbyrdz:
How many of these would have happened anyway? And how many of these are a consequence of another part of the production moving out of the UK? Like Diary Milk may open new production facilities in the UK, but it will be because the transport is now too difficult, and they are moving other parts of production fully to the EU.
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