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This is a clip from that excellent @BBCNewsnight last night with @JohnShirleyLtd utterly trenchant in what is coming our way. His company handled a delivery of charity shoe boxes to Belarusian orphanages. He was held up for 5 DAYS in customs.
“You are either in the CU or not” https://twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/status/1335001481511047168
“You are either in the CU or not” https://twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/status/1335001481511047168
He also said the “Some MEPs turned their backs on the EU a national Anthem. Well hauliers are going to turn their taillights on Britain after Christmas....You can ask any driver in Dover (if not in the CU) how long it takes to get into the EU. 5-10 HOURS”.
@JohnShirleyLtd has had DECADES of experience in Freight right across Europe, within the EU and outwith the EU, including Albania, Belarus and Serbia.
He knows what is coming his way re deliveries and certifications.
He knows what is coming his way re deliveries and certifications.
It is 26 days until the end of transition and OUR GOV still cannot say what forms will have to be completed or what tariffs will be due, how many hauliers licences will be available, what mutual recognition terms might be agreed or what data equivalence there will be.
That is such a shocking, catastrophic failure of Government.
How dare @PeterBoneUK defend the utterly indefensible or fail to condemn outright the sort of rude, boorish and destructive conduct we have seen from Brexit MEPs in the EU Parl referred to here?
How dare @PeterBoneUK defend the utterly indefensible or fail to condemn outright the sort of rude, boorish and destructive conduct we have seen from Brexit MEPs in the EU Parl referred to here?
Make no mistake about it. Whilst NO DEAL will be catastrophic even WITH an FTA (as this same programme demonstrated) those queues for customs will still be long and costly - as Albania, Belarus and Serbia have discovered.
Inefficient. Unattractive.
Inefficient. Unattractive.
The very thing the SM & CU were designed to circumnavigate
Which is why the EU is the largest, most sophisticated, most efficient Free Trade Area in the world.
As some of our MEPs so crudely turned their backs on the EU, who could blame the EU for turning their backs on us?
Which is why the EU is the largest, most sophisticated, most efficient Free Trade Area in the world.
As some of our MEPs so crudely turned their backs on the EU, who could blame the EU for turning their backs on us?
h/T to @huge2ya for this LBC clip of @JohnShirleyLtd interview with James O’Brien.
He repeats the figure of 99% of loads are driven by non GB drivers, Lithuanians especially, but Poles and Hungarians too.
Why would they keep doing uneconomic and inefficient journeys?
He repeats the figure of 99% of loads are driven by non GB drivers, Lithuanians especially, but Poles and Hungarians too.
Why would they keep doing uneconomic and inefficient journeys?
Let’s say you have a fleet of 5000- 6000 trucks...and 500 of them are tied up in Britain...Eddie Stobbart has 2000 tied up, Lithuanian hauliers. About 60% of drivers are paid by the kilometre.
So if there are long queues/ delays sitting in one of Farage’s Garages...the companies have lease costs to pay. Drivers have families to feed. They will do EU runs where they know they can work.
Then there is Port health. They work Mon - Fri 9-5 pm.
80% of trucks -5k trucks daily arriving in Dover- are carrying food. Right now, 24-7 they just drive straight through. That isn’t going to continue.
80% of trucks -5k trucks daily arriving in Dover- are carrying food. Right now, 24-7 they just drive straight through. That isn’t going to continue.
Even if the U.K. Gov waves through incoming trucks (a smuggler’s paradise and green light to any sort of illegal rubbish - let alone all those pesky illegal immigrants Patel hates with all her being) what about the return journey loads? They will still meet the EU barriers
I am going to keep saying this.
It is to the eternal shame that Labour did not even press for an extension let alone put up an effective resistance or even make a heartfelt compelling case for one.
Too many Labour supporters THINK they were loyally supporting their leader.
It is to the eternal shame that Labour did not even press for an extension let alone put up an effective resistance or even make a heartfelt compelling case for one.
Too many Labour supporters THINK they were loyally supporting their leader.
But what if Starmer NEEDED Labour supporters to stand up loud, clear and persistent for what he would have preferred to do but felt compelled NOT to do by the louder more insistent voice of the Lexiters?
