Brexiters need to be held to account

[Grafenwalder]

It’s not Covid that’s damaging British trade. It’s Brexit

Brexit is beginning to take its toll. Trade with the EU is suffering and foreign investment is heading south. Neither trend is temporary and both harm the government’s stated aim of “levelling up” regions that until now have depended on overseas trade to create well-paid jobs.

Brexiters remain largely convinced that independence from EU courts and control of Britain’s borders is worth whatever short-term damage is caused by vacating our seat in Brussels.

For a while it wasn’t clear how much the pandemic was complicating the picture. Those who campaigned for Britain to quit the single market and customs union were able to hide behind broader figures that showed global trade taking a hit – and, since January, when the transition period came to an end, how the second and third waves of the virus had distorted most exporting countries’ trading patterns.

That isn’t true any more. There are just too many independent reports examining the UK’s trade figures that are reaching the same conclusion: Brexit is bad for exporters. And not just today and tomorrow, but for a very long time.

Businesses in the north-east are already nursing their wounds, as the local chamber of commerce pointed out last week in an open letter to Boris Johnson. A survey in May of its “internationally trading members” found 75% reported their finances being hit by Brexit-related red tape while 37.5% said their UK-EU trade volumes had suffered.

When exports account for 30% of Britain’s GDP and UK-based exporters are struggling to make headway in a world where trade is now booming, it bodes ill for the nation’s economic health over the next year and many more to come.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... its-brexit

[Raggamuffin]

They don't need to be held to account. The majority voted for Brexit, and that was that.

[Maddog]

Brexit appears to have affected the entire globe.

Even 4 months after Texas reopened without restrictions we are feeling the effects of Brexit.

[Cactus Jack]

You see Stoo - every thread on this board ends up being about Texas anyway so why not start them out that way?

[Grafenwalder]

You couldn't make this up if you tried! What fucking planet do these idiots live on?

Pro-Brexit salmon smoker Lance Forman now wants government compensation for Brexit-related costs

Lance Forman, a former Brexit Party member of the European Parliament, said that the UK government should compensate the seafood industry for Brexit-related disruption.

Forman, a former member of the European Parliament representing the Brexit party, said the current situation is not a Brexit problem, "but a problem of British bureaucracy not being ready in time."

"I think the government really has a duty to support those businesses to compensate them for the losses they might have incurred," Forman told the Independent Business Network in a video interview posted on Twitter.

Unsurprisingly, his comments have attracted derision from people opposed to the UK departure, sparking a back-and-forth on Twitter with his critics.

"Lance Forman went on to become a Brexit ‘Party’ MEP & now wants taxpayers to bail out businesses he helped to scupper. Don't you just love the smell of sovereignty in the morning," wrote Keith Mullin, guitarist with the British rock band The Farm.

https://www.intrafish.com/trade/pro-bre ... 2-1-952195

His problems don't end with Brexit either!

FDA sends warning letter to salmon smoker former MEP

“We found that you have serious violations of the seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulation,” said United States Food and Drug Administration to London salmon smoker H Forman and Son.

One of the UK’s most well-known salmon smokers H Forman and Son (producers of London Cure smoked Scottish salmon) has received a warning letter from the FDA.

https://salmonbusiness.com/fda-sends-wa ... ormer-mep/

[Raggamuffin]

A lot of threads end up being about Brexit too.

[Grafenwalder]

They don't need to be held to account. The majority voted for Brexit, and that was that.

Yes they do. Time has come when they can no longer hide behind the pandemic as an excuse and they've got to start showing responsibility for their insane actions.

It's Project Reality time now.

[Maddog]

A lot of threads end up being about Brexit too.

Problem solved!!!

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politic ... e-hearing/

[Stooo]

They don't need to be held to account. The majority voted for Brexit, and that was that.

So tell those of us who didn't why.

[Raggamuffin]

They don't need to be held to account. The majority voted for Brexit, and that was that.

So tell those of us who didn't why.

What?

[Maddog]

I get the impression a lot of folks want the country to do poorly so that they can combine whining with I told you so.

Just an observation from someone who would like a great deal less influence from people a few thousand miles away.

[Red Okktober]

So tell those of us who didn't why.

Let it go - you'll just make yourself ill if you carry on with this obsession.

[Grafenwalder]

They don't need to be held to account. The majority voted for Brexit, and that was that.

So tell those of us who didn't why.

What?

Explain why Brexiters don't need to be held to account. After all, much of what you were warned about you dismissed as "project fear" and "scaremongering" but you're seeing the reality now.

[Red Okktober]

I get the impression a lot of folks want the country to do poorly so that they can combine whining with I told you so.

You're not wrong.

Although it's mainly the obsessives on forums like this, rather than the population in general.

[Stooo]

So tell those of us who didn't why.

Let it go - you'll just make yourself ill if you carry on with this obsession.

Just answer.