This is what the EU proposed to the UK in March, where is the unilateral punishment? The following is about dispute resolution:
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This is what the EU proposed to the UK in March, where is the unilateral punishment? The following is about dispute resolution:
As far as I understand, access for goods but subject to customs bureaucracy. Agreement on a myriad of issues like flights so we avoid total shock therapy on 1 January.
Objectively, it’s awful (like exchanging a nice house for a bed in the homeless shelter) but, symbolically, it signifies the UK still adheres to the international rulebook and provides a base on which to expand and rebuild relations with our giant neighbour.
Aaah I see, thank you.
You've overlooked the relevant sections of the draft text the EU previously published. Really good legal summary here: https://www.herbertsmithfreehills.c...-of-the-future-partnership-between-the-eu-and
Key part on the "interim measures" (emphasis is mine):
When the EU creates a new act that falls within the scope of state aid control it has to notify the UK in the specialised committee, the UK and the EU can request to exchange views on the implications of the new act in order to allow this section of the treaty to function properly, that exchange has to happen within 6 weeks of the request.
The specialised committee has to either add the new act to Annex LPFS-x if both sides agree or if an agreement can't be find examine all possibilites that maintain the good functioning of the state aid control section and take any decisions to that effect. Now this procedure doesn't prevent the EU from taking interim measures that in theory can only be applied if the specialised committee fails to take a decision, the UK rejects the specialised committee decision.
The second bolded paragraph is interesting because it's in relation to INST.13 and subsequent articles which applies to both sides and not just the EU, Inst.17 and INST.21 are particularly interesting because they allow the complaining side to unilaterallly suspend his obligations to any provision of the agreeement, if the respondent doesn't follow the specialised committee or arbitration tribunal decison within 6 months.
Fixed, horsey.
Look, rain in the U.K. in December in an unprecedented and unforecastable occurrence.....give them a chance ffs
Couple of articles in the FT today about Britain's plans for regulatory reform post-Brexit to become more attractive to certain sectors.
UK draws up plans to rival Singapore with post-Brexit shipping regime - reform tonnage tax once out of EU state aid regime to try to attract global shipping companies to register in UK.
Treasury plans UK tax shake-up for asset holding companies - reform regulation and taxation of private equity and infrastructure funds to try to attract more of the asset management industry away from places like Ireland and Luxembourg.
I think it's indicative of the way the UK will try to compete through strategic reforms aimed at key sectors. I always thought this was a more likely strategy for Britain to seek to gain advantage, rather than the lowering consumer product standards which seems to have got more press (e.g. chlorinated chicken).
UK draws up plans to rival Singapore with post-Brexit shipping regime - reform tonnage tax once out of EU state aid regime to try to attract global shipping companies to register in UK.
Treasury plans UK tax shake-up for asset holding companies - reform regulation and taxation of private equity and infrastructure funds to try to attract more of the asset management industry away from places like Ireland and Luxembourg.
I think it's indicative of the way the UK will try to compete through strategic reforms aimed at key sectors. I always thought this was a more likely strategy for Britain to seek to gain advantage, rather than the lowering consumer product standards which seems to have got more press (e.g. chlorinated chicken).
OK lets leave it at that, my fault for getting off on the wrong foot, misunderstanding your original post. We are looking at things from different standpoints, I'm talking 'apples' you 'oranges'!
There once was a scoundrel called Boris,
Who made lecherous remarks to poor Doris.
To the ERG's adulation
He bankrupted the nation
And drove it over the cliff in his Morris.
You may
Fisheries, still? Less than 0.5% of GDP and it's the biggest issue on the table. Bonkers.
I don't think it's just fisheries though, something identifiable by the public. Have a feeling that if by some chance they did agree on fisheries, something else would come to the fore.
EU have set a deadline for EoD Sunday for a deal.
If they do a deal, do we get to bill them for all the shit we've had to trawl through in preparing for a no deal?
Odds got up to 3/1 on no deal today. I know there's a fair chance of a fudge at this point but that seemed absurd to me!
He was the best PM we had in a generation. An actual forward-focused thinker that didn't stand for conservative BS. Only to be stabbed in the back by his own party
Of course, when you bring the bill don't forget to take the 27 bills that are waiting for you.
just bet on no deal at 7/4 on hills - they capped me to £142
Yeah on SBK I could only make individual bets of £16.97 at 37/10 but you were able to just stack them on top of each other. Think it'll be my one and only bet this year and I really hope it doesn't win. At this point I think a bad deal for the UK is more likely but it's far from guaranteed.
Fair play to them for ending movement
Are truck drivers getting a pay rise for this shit? I am thinking of how much someone would have to pay me to sit through that and I can't come up with a number.
I’d refuse the drive and go to my Union.
Speaking of shit, at least the vegetation on the side of the highways around there will be benefitting from trucks being stuck in place for hours on end.
Don't they have set limits on how long they can drive for in any 24/48 hour period? You can't go over it even slightly or you're fecked.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quot...odds-of-a-Brexit-deal-to-70-from-60-32045015/
I think the problem with these forecasts is an assumption that this UK government has actually ever wanted a deal, never seen any evidence of that myself.
I think the problem with these forecasts is an assumption that this UK government has actually ever wanted a deal, never seen any evidence of that myself.
And the customs checks don't even start until January.
Which transport company in Europe is going to pay its drivers to sit in a queue for hours or days on end? (both ways)
How many truck licences will be issued to UK companies by the EU after the end of the year? Not a lot.
Drivers will be paid, costs will be past on down the distribution chain to you and me.
The UK is fecked
Yes the costs will be passed down but will the transport companies want their trucks out of action for long periods. Choose between delivering from Germany to Spain or the UK, they'd choose Spain.
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The thing is that it won't be a long term situation. Logistic being the backbone of the goods economy, if there is no deal within 12-24 months, companies will move their activities in the area of their customers in order to reduce costs and delays.
Yes exactly.
Factories will move gradually.
But even with a deal there are still going to be customs checks and endless formalities, documentation etc with or without the magical automatic system that doesn't exist yet.
Yes. But of all the brexit discussion, this really important point is hardly ever discussed. And certainly not by any of the chicken hearted politicians.
No it wasn't but then again most of the important points weren't discussed by the politicians or even the media, just slogans.
It was brought up many times in this thread and the pre-referendum thread.