Take These (Supply) Chains from My Heart

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al_yrpal wrote: 12 Oct 2022, 9:02am On our recent visit to France I watched the passport examination process carefully. It consisted of looking at us both opening the passports and putting them in a reader and after that date stamping them. Presumably the computer system would alert them to anyone breaking the 90 day rule? They certainly didnt examine every page looking for previous French entry stamps.
So despite false assertions, the French/Shengen entry/exit system is no different from how it was before and how it is elsewhere.
At one point the bloke putting one of our almost brand new passports into the reader had to do it about a dozen times before it worked - we got the gallic shrug! :lol:

Al
Friends crossing over to and from Cherbourg, Caen and St. Malo report trouble free entry and departures. I wonder if it will be the same when facial recognition is in place. My passport never works when going through the scanner at Stansted. I have to queue and try three times before the staff direct me to another queue with a human checking passports. Can you imagine everyone in a car having to do this before being allowed through. Most will pass though but at busy times any delay at passport control means even longer to get on your way.
I was once behind a family of 4 who somehow couldn't find their passports. We all had to wait until another member of staff ushered them to the side so they could sort it.
I saw them board the ferry and asked them how they were allowed to board? It seems they found their passports between the front seats.
My son has Titre de sejour which means not having a stamp in his British passport. In spite of this he's had it stamped and when it was pointed out the chap merely shrugged his shoulder and put a line through it.
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Goods trade

"Research released today (19 October 2022) by the ESRI shows reductions in UK to EU goods trade by 16% and trade from the EU to UK by 20% relative to the scenario in which Brexit had not occurred."
https://www.esri.ie/news/brexit-reduced ... -one-fifth

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The Pope and some bears
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What happens when you deharmonise:

"Many new products now need multiple safety test facilities for home and abroad, say entrepreneurs":
https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... d-eu-sales

And the Government is legislating to allow Ministers to do more of this without scrutiny.

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Meat exports

"We are writing to alert you to a serious issue that threatens to cause a market disrupting event from 13 December this year and embroil the Government in a new controversy. If regulatory changes about to be introduced by Defra to the attestation of health status accompanying animals for slaughter are allowed to go ahead on that date, a significant amount of the UK’s meat production will become non-compliant for export to the EU overnight. Accompanying this letter are some notes covering the technical difficulties involved in trying to implement Defra’s plan."
https://britishmeatindustry.org/press-r ... cember-22/

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Labour

"‘Not the Brexit I wanted’ – Next boss calls for more foreign workers in UK":
https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... rd-wolfson

"“We have to remember, you know, we’re all stuck in this Brexit argument. We have to remember that what post-Brexit Britain looks like, is not the preserve of those people that voted Brexit, it’s for all of us to decide,” Wolfson said."

Yes. (Apart from the placing of the comma.)

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Presumably Wolfson was more the singapore-on-thames kind of supporter of brexit? I.e. plentiful cheap migrant labour that, unlike those from the EU, wouldn't be entitled to the same employment rights as UK citizens.
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Food safety and transmissible diseases

President of the NFU on the risks of inadequate border controls:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... te-batters

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More from the Pope and those bears, I'm afraid...
UK to import high-carbon beef and low-welfare pork in trade deals
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... rade-deals
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People who want to go abroad:

Statement from the Port of Dover:
https://doverport.co.uk/about/news/stat ... -07/13759/

"The Port of Dover is deeply frustrated by last night's and this morning's situation and particularly so on behalf of all the ferry operators' coach passengers who have had to endure such a long wait at the port."

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Jdsk wrote: 1 Apr 2023, 11:47am People who want go abroad:

Statement from the Port of Dover:
https://doverport.co.uk/about/news/stat ... -07/13759/

"The Port of Dover is deeply frustrated by last night's and this morning's situation and particularly so on behalf of all the ferry operators' coach passengers who have had to endure such a long wait at the port."

Jonathan
Not sure if you should have posted this in the Festival of Brexit thread.

All passengers on coaches now have to get off the coach and have their passports stamped. I expect that means 30-40 people in a queue waiting for a couple of border officials to process them through. Any discrepancies or queries will just make the wait longer.
Even if we get biometric testing the passports, will still need stamping and that will mean getting out of the vehicle.

Brexit keeps on giving.
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Calder on the causes:
https://twitter.com/SimonCalder/status/ ... yU58ktAAAA

And from July 2022:
"Will Dover and Folkestone travel chaos continue and is Brexit to blame"?
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/ne ... 31620.html

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It was the UK government that required passports to be stamped. We now control our borders!
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Jdsk wrote: 25 Apr 2022, 5:56pm Research grants

"The European Research Council (ERC) has written to 98 scientists and academics who were recently approved for €172m (£145m) in grants telling them that if the UK’s associate membership of the €80bn Horizon Europe programme is not ratified they will not be eligible to draw down the money."
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... ng-from-eu
"The UK will not have to pay for the two years it has been out of the EU’s €95.5bn (£84bn) Horizon scientific research programme, EU officials have said in a significant move that opens the door to British scientists.":
https://www.theguardian.com/science/202 ... me-eu-says

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