They don't get it
The day has finally arrived when the UK starts to introduce the checks on food and plant imports from the EU which should have been introduced 3 years ago and which have been delayed 5 times.
The scale of the checks and their inconvenience should not be underestimated. From today, every exporter to the UK of meat and dairy products will need to find a vet to sign off pages of paperwork, for each and every shipment. A plant expert will have to do the same for plant products like seedlings.
The shipments can only go ahead when the tests are done, paid for and loaded onto the UK government’s computer system.
Already the Brexiteers are preparing their excuses, calling this a tit for tat exercise and unnecessary red tape imposed by Brussels bureaucrats. Which is strange because that is what they said when we were in the EU and this is actually what Boris Johnson negotiated and they voted for.
The Boris Johnson they want back in power, for his Brexit purity and can do attitude. As the Americans say “fool me once…….”
I suppose we can just add the expense and the bother to the long list of “but it wasn’t supposed to be like this” excuses from the swivel eyed loons.
Amazing, isn’t it, how what it is actually like is exactly what they were told it would be like but which they lied about.
And so yet another burden is placed on another sector of the British economy, by exactly the people who boast about taking burdens off business.
And still they don’t get it.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media