How to Judge Brexit a Success or Failure?

Not only is the UK losing trade with the EU it’s even getting worse deals with other countries than whilst members of the EU. “In the EU Referendum in 2016 Johnson campaigned to REMAIN in the EU Single market which we did not”. “And in the 2019 General Election he still campaigned for Free trade…

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,…

British farmers are quickly learning that it is almost impossible to compete in a very competitive agrifoods sector on the continent.

North Herts for Europe has had a letter published in the Comet: It is now looking increasingly unlikely that an extension of Transition period with the EU can be agreed by the end of this month, and according to a Social Market Foundation report commissioned by the cross-party Best for Britain group published in May…

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…

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…