Operation Yellowhammer In 2019 the Government produced Brexit Worst Case Predictions for a No deal Brexit ‘Reasonable Worst Case Scenario’ for internal use only called ‘Operation Yellowhammer‘. This was leaked to the Sunday Times and the Institute for Government produced a summary. No Preparation The Government chose to produce a ‘Hard Brexit’ with no preparation,…
A North Herts for Europe presentation A Zoom webinar with Jonty Bloom, formerly BBC business and economics correspondent, now freelance journalist and blogger. His blog, Jonty’s Jottings, can be found on https://jonty.substack.com/. He worked in the City before becoming a journalist. Jonty presents a 40 minute review of the ways in which Brexit will impact…
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Brexit costing the UK economy twice as much as the Red bus slogan promised it would save! It’s sometimes difficult to separate the pandemic’s impact on the economy from that of Brexit. But we know from reports by investment banking giant Goldman Sachs and the Bank of England itself, that Brexit was costing the UK…
Customers and businesses are seeing shortages of many products and the situation is getting worse. Ian Wright, CEO of the Food & Drink Federation, said the system that for decades had meant British consumers could expect a full range of food or drink items in their supermarkets and restaurants was “over” and probably not coming back. PoliticsHome –…
Why shortages? The various shortages being reported separately every day are actually, generally, due to Brexit and particularly the Government policy of refusing to provide visas to EU citizens to do various kinds of work. The delays at the borders, caused by Brexit are also to blame. These will get worse rather than better. Interestingly,…
A lack of customs agents and an increase in paperwork is having an impact on exports to the EU, according to Ian Wright from the Food and Drink Federation. 8 fold increase in paperwork, but no comparable increase in customs agents. Situation will get worse when import controls commence in October / January. BBC Farming…
Like pointed out elsewhere, this means that UK artists now have the same exact rights in those 19 EU countries than, say, Australian artists do. What that means is that precisely nothing has changed with those negotiations but someone felt the need for positive news. Jouni K – August 2021 UK has just changed “no…
It is just over one month since the government’s deadline for applying to the EU Settled Status Scheme passed – and EU citizens are already paying the price. Deporting EU citizens In just the last week: It emerged tens of thousands of elderly and vulnerable people are at risk because they didn’t manage to apply…
Brexit is beginning to take its toll 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. It’s not clear whether…