Brexit an Unmitigated disaster !!!

Seems there are many more criticising this scumbag 'nasty party' government for the Brexit trade agreement they made !!!


Brexit trade arrangements an ‘unmitigated disaster’, food sector bosses tell MPs

Henry Saker-Clark, PA City Reporter
11 February 2021, 5:54 pm



Food industry bosses have condemned Brexit as an “unmitigated disaster” and claimed the cost of disruption has caused some firms to shut for good.

Sector leaders also told MPs on the International Trade Select Committee that companies will struggle to recover lost exports as a result of Brexit.

Ian Wright, chief executive of the Food and Drink Federation (FDF), said food exports have been cut by at least half since the start of January despite the Government’s last-minute Brexit deal.

He told the committee: “We agree with other trade groups that food exports to the EU have declined by 50-60% in January.

“That may be because companies have stockpiled three or four months of goods on the other side of the Channel and they may bounce back, but that is a big number to recover in the next few months.”

️ On the impact of the TCA – Ian told the Committee that:

➡️ The sector has been impacted considerably➡️ Not seen the full impact yet as a series of changes still to be made this year ➡️ Not all the problems are teething issues which we are glad the gov has now recognised /1

— FDF CorporateAffairs (@FDFCorpAffairs) February 11, 2021

He stressed that he was “particularly concerned” about uncertainty among officials overseeing new trade checks.

“This is not trivialising it, but in many cases they are making it up as they go along, because they don’t know what would happen with particular certificates,” he said.

Mr Wright also warned that the UK could be “50,000 customs agents” short of what is needed when import regulations are enforced from April.

Marine and fisheries consultant Terri Portmann told MPs that seafood businesses are already shutting amid the impact of Brexit disruption.

“It has been an unmitigated disaster,” she said.

“We have already seen seafood businesses who heavily relied upon an export market close their doors – companies that have been around for 30-40 years.

“And I suspect there are many more that are currently hanging on by their fingernails and going bankrupt slowly, because part of the problem is that with fresh seafood products, you can’t stockpile.”

Ms Portmann called on the Government and UK retailers to help support the country’s seafood sector amid the pressures on imports.

“I think there is a lot more that can be done to sell UK food within the UK – I would particularly like to see Government procurement step up,” she said.

“UK supermarkets could do much more to connect to regional harbours and auctions and get more British fish on the counters.”

 

Remember when the scumbag 'nasty party' and 'little englanders' telling us that after we leave the EU everything will be rosy and that we'll be financially far better off ??? - they lied through their teeth !!!


Brexit news: DUP demands ‘freedom’ from NI protocol as trade deal to wipe £45bn from UK economy
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The DUP has demanded to be “freed” from the Northern Ireland protocol, as it thinks post-Brexit trade disruption is severing its country from the rest of the UK.

Arlene Foster, Stormont’s first minister, tweeted on Friday that trade issues between Great Britain and Northern Ireland required solutions, not just “sticking plasters”.

“Northern Ireland needs [to be] freed from the protocol,” the DUP leader wrote. “We must have unfettered trade between GB & NI ... EU must recognise the absence of unionist support.”

Her party has been calling for the agreement to be ditched for several weeks now, ever since the EU threatened to override parts of the agreement in a row over coronavirus vaccines last month.

On Friday, Ms Foster warned London, Dublin and Brussels that something needed to be done “quickly” about the issue, as people in the unionist community were “very angry” about it.

She also announced that a DUP petition to trigger article 16 of the protocol, which has so far gained almost 140,000 signatories, would be debated in the Commons on 22 February.

Liz Kendall, a Labour MP, told ITV’s Peston she had little time for the DUP’s position, suggesting the current trade issues are the “inevitable” consequences of the hard Brexit the party wanted.

Elsewhere, analysis from Brussels has predicted that the UK economy stands to lose £45bn in two years because of Brexit.

By the bloc’s calculations, this will make the Brexit trade agreement four times more costly for the UK than the EU.

UK and EU pledge to find ‘workable solutions’ to NI crisis
Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove and European Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic have pledged their full commitment to “proper implementation” of the protocol in Northern Ireland.

It seems their meeting went about as well as could be expected – a “frank but constructive” discussion – and they’re expected to hold a virtual meeting with NI business leaders next week in an effort to find “workable solutions” to red tape disruption.

Sefcovic ruled out major changes to the protocol, and Ireland’s premier Micheál Martin said any pause in grace period deadlines could only be “months”.

Michael Gove and his Brussels counterpart have agreed to work together on ‘proper implementation’ of agreements for Northern Ireland, writes Adam Forrest
Brexit costs four times greater for UK than EU, says Brussels
The UK will suffer an economic hit four times greater than the EU, according to a forecast from Brussels.

The European Commission predicted Britain’s GDP loss by the end of 2022 will be 2.25 per cent. In contrast, the hit taken by the EU will only be 0.5 per cent.

“While the FTA [free trade agreement] improves the situation as compared to an outcome with no trade agreement between the EU and the UK, it cannot come close to matching the benefits of the trading relations provided by EU membership,” said the commission.