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Exports from the EU into the UK – no disruption threat there There have been the most extraordinary and juvenile claims of potential (albeit very short-term) shortages in this country after 29th March 2019. Even you, lamentably, mentioned your diabetes and your desire for being sure of your supply of insulin. Who persuaded you to say that? Did you give the slightest thought to how ridiculous that scare story was? Insulin is sold under a wonderful system we call private enterprise, from one company to another. In the UK’s case, it’s mostly a Danish company selling insulin to companies in Britain. The insulin is put on a plane or a boat and comes over to our country. What, do you assert, would prevent this from happening after a Sovereign Brexit? Come on, what? Are you saying that the EU would somehow seek to prevent insulin being placed on a ship or a boat and exported to us? You aren’t saying that, are you? Such an action would be illegal. Or, OK: let’s even say that, however unlikely, the EU indeed decided on 29th March to start acting entirely illegally (again: for a short period of time only, which is all they could possibly ever do). Then the UK would get its insulin from the US, or the Danish company would sell the insulin to Norway, or some other non-EU country, which would then export it on to the UK. Businesses successfully deal with complications of this sort all the time. All that the EU’s (highly, highly unlikely) illegality would result in is the Danish company losing money, one way or another. But you and I know that the EU wouldn’t shoot itself in the foot like that. So, were you claiming instead that Britain would somehow put up barriers against Danish insulin coming into the country after 29th March? We wouldn’t, would we? Come on, you know that, don’t you? So why did you raise a false scare story, that would have had tens or hundreds of thousands of diabetics worried that their supply of insulin was suddenly going to dry up, when you know it’s hogwash?
Insulin is just an example of any other product that comes into the UK from the EU. We would not prevent any product from arriving; the EU would have no legal locus (or indeed any physical ability) to prevent any product from being sent; can you please just stop being silly and admit that there would be no supply shortages in the UK? (And please, can we in particular try to keep our Conservative ministers from making fools of themselves, in their eagerness to support you, by escalating the level of ludicrousness of such scare stories from a possibility of momentary disruption of a day or two, through to six-week problems, through to six-month problems?
Look at the chaos someone with a drone has caused at a major airport and tell me that Brexit hasn't got the potential to cause far more disruption.
Well Brexit was all about taking back control of our borders wasn't it? Surely a big part of that is Customs Officers doing exactly that.
That chaos seems to have boiled down, as far as can be seen, to a Transport Secretary that isn't up to the job.
My mind is boggling that someone in his position (until May has the sense to sack him - which I think she will have) didn't get straight onto the Airport and find a way of saying "Blow what you think - I'm the Transport Secretary and I have decided the following plan. The military have already had their orders - and they are en route to you as we speak". If one can't be firm/decisive/etc in positions like he currently still has at the moment - when can you?
Basically the chaos caused seems to be largely down to inefficiency all round (including the police arresting the wrong people and some of the Press proceeding to identify the wrong people).
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As for customs people "gathering like vultures - demanding correct permits etc" - the same applies. I've been a civil servant and, if even an ordinary MP just "having a word" causes civil servants (certainly lower level ones) to run round like blue !!! flies and "Obey" - then whatever Minister is in charge of them can/should do a bit of Being Firm and saying "These are your instructions - which you will obey and forget the Being A Jobsworth/Protecting Own Back for once" quite clearly to them. I well know just what proportion of civil servants are very "jobsworth"/protecting own back first and foremost - I watched enough of that sort of thing going on....but if Higher Orders tell them "Your personal back is at risk of you don't forget all those instructions for the time being for a very good reason" that's what those of us who tried to work for the public and the jobsworth ones will both do.
It isn't about being a jobsworth. If we are going to control our borders we have to have customs officers and immigration officers or do you think we should just open our borders completely? I thought leavers wanted control?
Absolutely, I read that The Netherlands have recruited and trained alot of customs staff to deal with it at their end, we seem to be just starting to prepare now and of course we have had cutbacks in all public sector areas in recent years so starting from a low point anyway.
Absolutely right, it has to be Remainers who caused all the problems.
In a democratic country everyone who lost a vote should shut up, agree that the course of action chosen by a tiny majority is 100% right for everyone in the country for the future. No-one should be allowed to argue with the majority, ever, under any circumstances. To do so is utterly, utterly disgraceful. England and Wales voted Leave so Northern Ireland and Scotland should just lump it.
It doesn't matter at all if we have problems with importing the 40% of food we need, or medicines. It's absolutely fine if people die because lifesaving drugs aren't available - because the majority of people actively want this to happen and any casualties are a price worth paying.
Theresa May, David Davis, Dominic Raab and Stephen Barclay haven't put a foot wrong; they've been undermined by sore, lying losers from Day One.
The big problem is it's taken two and a half years to negotiate a deal with the nasty, mean EU who wanted to teach us a lesson. How unkind of them.
But it doesn't matter. At some point in the future when we've left the EU, our non-existent team of international trade negotiators will appear out of nowhere and start making new trade deals with every other country on the planet at the same time as they're negotiating a trade deal with the EU. They'll be fantastic - even better than the free trade deal with have right now.
It'll all be back to normal in no time at all.
In the meantime, all Preppers will be all right, Jack.