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Lord Frost now wants Sir Elton John to stop whinging about the problems this government has caused for touring musicians, and instead lobby across the EU, to get British musicians fewer rights than they had before Brexit. Rights that he negotiated the end to, because an EU offer was rejected.
This is happening in dozens of industries and it is pretty rich of the government to ask people to help sort out this mess, when it didn’t listen to them in the first place when they warned it would be a mess.
Turning round and telling all those experts to stop moaning and help knock together a fiddly scheme that they all know is nowhere near what they had before, is rich. But many industries will have little choice, they not the government are suffering.
But they all must be amazed at why an advanced, sophisticated country with one of the best civil services in the world, hasn’t been doing this already, it has had years to plan. Where are the border posts, the new paperless form filing, the training and investment and why haven’t the government been talking to the European Commission? Because Lord Frost made it clear he is talking to individual countries about touring musicians visas, not the EC.
It is almost as if the government doesn’t know the EU exists or more likely doesn’t want to be seen to ask it to help fix the mess it has made. Which is why the UK will be lumbered with dozens of inefficient, jerry built, knocked together workarounds for years. Until someone turns up willing to actually make some simple decisions, talk to the person in charge and agree to a compromise that was offered in the first place.
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