Westministenders: Unilateral Ignoring of WHO rules

[RedToothBrush]

Where we are:

On 1st January the EU started to apply checks on all goods from the UK coming into the Union.

However the UK decided to take a slower route to this, and planned that on the 1st April the UK we would be carrying out Sanitary & Phytosanitary paperwork for animal and plant EU imports like meat and eggs.

Then on 1 July we'd implement a full customs check on all goods arriving into the UK from EU member states.

Obviously we've struggled with exports as we weren't ready for this and its fucked business. But ultimately the import side of things has yet to hit the shit fan still.

It sounds like there is likely to be issues with imports of food in particular, so there is talk of delaying our plan of checks until later in the day. There is concern that the reopening of pubs and restuarants which will up demands of imports occuring at the same time as checks are put in place is likely to be 'problematic'.

Remember we get 2/3 of fruit, veg and cheese from the EU. And half our wine. And to date these largely have only been affected by haulage issues NOT UK customs issues...

You might want to keep that in mind.

My thought about the Prince William announcement was a Boris brainwave.

As for Scotland and the Monarchy - at a guess nothing would happen while the Queen was alive. Afterwards - well, what might happen say in Australia? This might start a cascade of countries renouncing the British throne as their head of state.

Princess Anne is relatively popular in Scotland She is patron of the SRU and an overt supporter of the Scotland rugby team

I've sat in her heated seat at Murrayfield when I got to sit in the Royal Box for a U16 Cup Final

Slightly OT, but I'm sure some here might enjoy James Acasters new released (despite being recorded in 2019 )

(Trailer)

DW and I have only see the first 30 minutes and that's enough to recommend it - especially if you like anti Brexit humour and anti Brexiteers complaining about anti Brexit humour being owned. But it's deeper than that.

Stewart Lee fans will notice the influences the endless repetition. The endless repetition. The endless repetition. And then a slam dunk punchline.

For those who think that breaches of the Ministerial code should apply to all parties, not just those who prejudged the outcome in Scotland.

The flags thing is surely designed to annoy and divide, despite some utter shit of a Tory MP on the radio this evening insisting it was to unite the country. He was one of the most unpleasant interviewees I’ve heard, and I’ve heard Farage et al often enough. He practically accused Evan Davies of being a traitor (yes, I exaggerate) because he mildly disagreed with him. When ED inquired if equating the Scottish saltire to the Middlesex flag was unwise he acted as if he hadn’t heard him. Of course it was a deliberate insult. There are some deeply and deliberately unpleasant and mischievous policy decisions being made at present. If it’s not Cummings, who’s behind it?

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For those who think that breaches of the Ministerial code should apply to all parties.

Interestingly, Theresa May drew up her own list in 2007.
Labour and the Ministerial Code: 100 accusations;

www.conservativehome.com/platform/2007/04/theresa_may_100.html

A Majority Support Independence For Scotland
52% YES / 48% NO
Source Herald/BGM March 16-19

A bit misleading - the don't knows were removed. Actual results:

49% YES / 46% NO / 5% Undecided.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_on_Scottish_independence

Well, Clavinova - yep, the Tories obviously decided that instead of setting a better example that on the contrary sauce for the goose was obviously sauce for the gander and not by the sauce boat, but by the bucket load.

Labour and the Ministerial Code: 100 accusations

Did I miss an election or is it the usual squirrel turds

You probably know more about this matter than me Peregrina - I can only read the Telegraph's headline;

15 Jan 2021;
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/01/15/lib-dem-mp-accused-election-fraud-spending-reported-police/

I’m sure Clavinova can read all about this convicted fraudster - no paywall involved.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47667080

LostToucan

There are only 11 Lib Dem MPs - they don't want to lose any more!

Oh dear;
Alex Salmond to take Scottish government to court again.

The former first minister said Permanent Secretary Leslie Evans had failed to take responsibility for the botched handling of harassment complaints against him.

He said he had instructed his lawyers to bring proceedings in the Court of Session.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-56513358

Better news;
An Abu Dhabi investment fund has agreed to pay £800m into UK life sciences, in what could be the first of billions of pounds of investment in the UK.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56496888

Clavinova funnily enough, at the time Davis’s constituents ousted him (because he he thought he could brazen it out as a convicted fraudster to resign) and replaced him with a Lib Dem.

I know a lot of Scots ..

I’d be a bit more concerned about who’s going to be picking up the decommissioning costs.

LostToucan
replaced him with a Lib Dem

She didn't last very long;
A by-election was held on 1 August [2019], which was won by Liberal Democrat candidate Jane Dodds. Dodds was then defeated by Conservative Fay Jones at the general election in December 2019.

I really cannot get my head around this. How can Brexit prevent a British company using British pork ? And they said the CAP was byzantine.

www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/24/uk-firm-to-stop-using-british-pork-after-post-brexit-border-problems-helen-browning

A UK food company whose products appear on the shelves of the country’s largest supermarkets has decided to stop using British pork in its sausages because of the post-Brexit complications of moving meat across borders.

After two disastrous attempts since January to send British pork to Germany, where it is made into 75 tonnes of organic sausages annually, the firm behind Helen Browning’s Organic says it has been forced to drop its support for UK farmers and switch to Danish suppliers.

How can Brexit prevent a British company using British pork ?

I couldn't get my head round that either, but it turned out that there was no where in the UK which could process it, so it was processed in Germany. So there would seem to be a business opportunity for someone to build a processing plant here. Wonder if Johnson's Government will stump up the cash?

@Clavinova

LostToucan replaced him with a Lib Dem

She didn't last very long;
A by-election was held on 1 August [2019], which was won by Liberal Democrat candidate Jane Dodds. Dodds was then defeated by Conservative Fay Jones at the general election in December 2019.

Still, he was a crooked MP removed by his own constituents.

How we laughed

Scottish NHS nurses getting a 4% pay rise.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-56518221

NHS staff in Scotland are to be offered a pay rise of at least 4%, the Scottish government has confirmed.

@DGRossetti

Scottish NHS nurses getting a 4% pay rise.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-56518221

NHS staff in Scotland are to be offered a pay rise of at least 4%, the Scottish government has confirmed.

Nothing to do with upcoming election at all.

Nothing to do with upcoming election at all.

Yup, let's see Johnson or his successor pull the same trick for the next UK GE.

@Peregrina

Nothing to do with upcoming election at all.

Yup, let's see Johnson or his successor pull the same trick for the next UK GE.

Probably. Can't stand any of them. Without exception.

I think it's a genius move. If nothing else it will cause an explosion of gammony rage driven by the Express about how plucky old England is having to subsidise those crazy Scots and their 4%. Will no one think of Dido ?

It's guaranteed to not only neutralise, but probably reverse all the recent efforts Boris has made to try and pretend anyone in England gives a shit about the union.

Chapeau ! as they appear to have started saying.

@DGRossetti

I think it's a genius move. If nothing else it will cause an explosion of gammony rage driven by the Express about how plucky old England is having to subsidise those crazy Scots and their 4%. Will no one think of Dido ?

It's guaranteed to not only neutralise, but probably reverse all the recent efforts Boris has made to try and pretend anyone in England gives a shit about the union.

Chapeau ! as they appear to have started saying.

I agree. It's also a good distraction from the Salmond scandal.