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Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 3:47 pm I see those awful hauliers have dragged their feet and not made adequate preparations to the point that they may need a permit to enter Kent. For shame, you laggardly truckers!

On the positive side, we may get the New Canterbury Tales as they sit by the fireside, waiting for entry. The spelling will probably be about the same, too.

tc27 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 9:03 am Lorries stacking up in Kent for miles is quite common already - a channel storm or more commonly a strike in France is all it takes.

A friend of mine is going into the customs brokering business (rather building the website and backend for one) and reckons the actual paperwork and declaration is easy but the problem would be getting stuck behind drivers who do not have the proper documentation and getting delayed anyway...probably explains why they they want to try and filter these people out before they get to the ports.

Woddy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 10:24 am Genuine question, and advanced apologies if this just demonstrates massive ignorance of my part: how do arguments over trading deals between the UK and EU affect the GFA (which I have always thought of as a peace treaty with terrorists or their legal political proxies)?

I appreciate that there is a lot of movement over the Eire/NI border but presume there always has been.

7-year disqualification for Cambridge Analytica boss

Alexander Nix banned from running limited companies for seven years after permitting companies to offer potentially unethical services to prospective clients.

Alexander James Ashburner Nix (45), from Holland Park, West London, has signed a disqualification undertaking, accepted by the Secretary of State on 14 September 2020.

Within the undertaking, Alexander Nix did not dispute that he caused or permitted SCL Elections Ltd or associated companies to market themselves as offering potentially unethical services to prospective clients; demonstrating a lack of commercial probity.

Effective from 5 October 2020, Alexander Nix is disqualified for seven years from acting as a director or directly or indirectly becoming involved, without the permission of the court, in the promotion, formation or management of a company.

Alexander Nix was a director of SCL Elections Ltd, a company that provided data analytics, marketing and communication services to political and commercial customers. He was also a director of five other connected UK companies: SCL Group Ltd, SCL Social Ltd, SCL Analytics Ltd, SCL Commercial Ltd, and Cambridge Analytica (UK) Ltd.

From 2016, SCL Elections Ltd was included in a rebranding of associated companies which then operated under the trading names Cambridge Analytica, CA Political (Global) and CA Commercial.

SCL Elections and the five connected companies, however, ceased trading following allegations in the UK and United States media which created substantial adverse publicity.

Some of the accusations against the companies related to allegedly offering potential clients unethical services.

All six companies entered into administration in May 2018 before entering into compulsory liquidation in April 2019. The companies’ insolvencies brought them to the attention of the Insolvency Service, who conducted investigations into the conduct of the directors.

Investigators’ enquiries confirmed that Alexander Nix had caused or permitted SCL Elections or associated companies to act with a lack of commercial probity.

The unethical services offered by the companies included bribery or honey trap stings, voter disengagement campaigns, obtaining information to discredit political opponents and spreading information anonymously in political campaigns.

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 12:19 pm https://www.gov.uk/government/news/7-ye ... ytica-boss

7-year disqualification for Cambridge Analytica boss

Alexander Nix banned from running limited companies for seven years after permitting companies to offer potentially unethical services to prospective clients.

Alexander James Ashburner Nix (45), from Holland Park, West London, has signed a disqualification undertaking, accepted by the Secretary of State on 14 September 2020.

Within the undertaking, Alexander Nix did not dispute that he caused or permitted SCL Elections Ltd or associated companies to market themselves as offering potentially unethical services to prospective clients; demonstrating a lack of commercial probity.

Effective from 5 October 2020, Alexander Nix is disqualified for seven years from acting as a director or directly or indirectly becoming involved, without the permission of the court, in the promotion, formation or management of a company.

Alexander Nix was a director of SCL Elections Ltd, a company that provided data analytics, marketing and communication services to political and commercial customers. He was also a director of five other connected UK companies: SCL Group Ltd, SCL Social Ltd, SCL Analytics Ltd, SCL Commercial Ltd, and Cambridge Analytica (UK) Ltd.

From 2016, SCL Elections Ltd was included in a rebranding of associated companies which then operated under the trading names Cambridge Analytica, CA Political (Global) and CA Commercial.

SCL Elections and the five connected companies, however, ceased trading following allegations in the UK and United States media which created substantial adverse publicity.

Some of the accusations against the companies related to allegedly offering potential clients unethical services.

All six companies entered into administration in May 2018 before entering into compulsory liquidation in April 2019. The companies’ insolvencies brought them to the attention of the Insolvency Service, who conducted investigations into the conduct of the directors.

Investigators’ enquiries confirmed that Alexander Nix had caused or permitted SCL Elections or associated companies to act with a lack of commercial probity.

The unethical services offered by the companies included bribery or honey trap stings, voter disengagement campaigns, obtaining information to discredit political opponents and spreading information anonymously in political campaigns.

Alexander Nix grew up in Notting Hill, in West London, attended fee-paying Eton College

Rhubarb & Custard wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 10:26 am

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 3:47 pm I see those awful hauliers have dragged their feet and not made adequate preparations to the point that they may need a permit to enter Kent. For shame, you laggardly truckers!

On the positive side, we may get the New Canterbury Tales as they sit by the fireside, waiting for entry. The spelling will probably be about the same, too.

And they're still being told they need to get on and make their preparations without being told what they need to prepare for. As with the pandemic Boris is moving to establish any issues as being the fault of the people

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 11:12 am

Woddy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 10:24 am Genuine question, and advanced apologies if this just demonstrates massive ignorance of my part: how do arguments over trading deals between the UK and EU affect the GFA (which I have always thought of as a peace treaty with terrorists or their legal political proxies)?

I appreciate that there is a lot of movement over the Eire/NI border but presume there always has been.

The GFA was about the UK & ROI agreeing that the status of NI was entirely in the control of the people of NI. The ROI renounced their territorial claim over NI, & the UK agreed to an NI assembly, & that a referendum in the future could trigger reunification.

What Brexit is doing is forcing the re-instatement of barriers, where they had been removed by the GFA; this was predictable, & predicted. You can't have a border between the UK & the EU, & not have customs, & other checks.

The amount of movement of goods & people across the border is orders of magnitude higher now than it was before the GFA; mostly because of the removal of these barriers.

BREAKING NEWS:

In order to simplify operation of the ANPR system and permit document checking, all traffic heading to the channel crossings in Kent will be required to use the M25 clockwise and to halt at the Dartford crossing to show passports and Kent Access Permits.

In order to simplify this process further, all internal traffic will be required to travel anti-clockwise on the M25.

Vehicle starting in Kent but heading for Europe will be required to complete a full circuit of the M25 unless they have received authorisation for a Kent Regional Access Permit

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 3:16 pm #Kexit has been trending on Twitter, but it sounds like someone who has suffered a trouser malfunction.

SaintK wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 3:13 pm

BREAKING NEWS:

In order to simplify operation of the ANPR system and permit document checking, all traffic heading to the channel crossings in Kent will be required to use the M25 clockwise and to halt at the Dartford crossing to show passports and Kent Access Permits.

In order to simplify this process further, all internal traffic will be required to travel anti-clockwise on the M25.

Vehicle starting in Kent but heading for Europe will be required to complete a full circuit of the M25 unless they have received authorisation for a Kent Regional Access Permit

Slick wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 3:52 pm

SaintK wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 3:13 pm

BREAKING NEWS:

In order to simplify operation of the ANPR system and permit document checking, all traffic heading to the channel crossings in Kent will be required to use the M25 clockwise and to halt at the Dartford crossing to show passports and Kent Access Permits.

In order to simplify this process further, all internal traffic will be required to travel anti-clockwise on the M25.

Vehicle starting in Kent but heading for Europe will be required to complete a full circuit of the M25 unless they have received authorisation for a Kent Regional Access Permit

That's not real is it?

SaintK wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 4:38 pm

Slick wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 3:52 pm

SaintK wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 3:13 pm

That's not real is it?

Bloody well hope not. I cut and pasted it from below the line comments on a "live" politics feed

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 4:53 pm

SaintK wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 4:38 pm

Slick wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 3:52 pm

That's not real is it?

Bloody well hope not. I cut and pasted it from below the line comments on a "live" politics feed

It's interesting that, that kind of insanity is so believable.

SaintK wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 4:57 pm

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 4:53 pm

SaintK wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 4:38 pm
Bloody well hope not. I cut and pasted it from below the line comments on a "live" politics feed

It's interesting that, that kind of insanity is so believable.

You need to hope that Gove or Cummings doesn't see it, it might happen otherwise!!

Rinkals wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 7:28 pm I notice that Switzerland have more sense than to vote against their own interests.

Brexit threat to raise bills by hundreds of millions

Brexit threatens to add hundreds of millions of pounds to energy bills as Britain leaves an EU platform that enables efficient trading through subsea power cables with the Continent, according to a Policy Exchange report.

The think tank said that development of new electricity “interconnectors” with France and other countries also risked being delayed due to the uncertainty over trading arrangements.

The report warns that “from 2021, the integration of UK and EU energy markets will go into reverse for the first time in decades” and called for both sides to form a new energy agreement to continue efficient trading.

A system of “market coupling” automatically schedules interconnector usage to ensure electricity flows from lower priced regions where there is surplus, to higher priced regions

...

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 5:01 pm

SaintK wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 4:57 pm

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 4:53 pm

It's interesting that, that kind of insanity is so believable.

You need to hope that Gove or Cummings doesn't see it, it might happen otherwise!!

This is the Party that was investigating facial recognition for sheep, & promising that, 'technology', would be able to tell what was in the back of trucks going back, & forth across the border between ROI & NI.

MSG# wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2020 12:14 pm

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 5:01 pm

SaintK wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 4:57 pm
You need to hope that Gove or Cummings doesn't see it, it might happen otherwise!!

This is the Party that was investigating facial recognition for sheep, & promising that, 'technology', would be able to tell what was in the back of trucks going back, & forth across the border between ROI & NI.

Were they buggery. EU were using 'walking away' as a bargaining tool, ie the fact that we're not, in any way, prepared for if there isn't a deal.

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Mon Sep 28, 2020 6:34 am

Rinkals wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 7:28 pm I notice that Switzerland have more sense than to vote against their own interests.

The Swiss have referendums nearly every year and understand how they work.

Farmers and food campaigners were defeated on Monday night in their attempts to enshrine high food safety and animal welfare practices in British law.

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:50 am https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -in-uk-law

Farmers and food campaigners were defeated on Monday night in their attempts to enshrine high food safety and animal welfare practices in British law.

The UK’s world-leading food standards could be compromised under a UK-US trade deal, with consumers unable to make meaningful choices about what they eat.

New research by Which? shows that consumers are against lower standard food, even if labelled. As we reported last week, a UK-US trade deal could see hormone-treated beef, pigs and chlorinated chicken – practices currently banned in the UK – be imported or produced here.

The government had promised to uphold food standards but has recently begun to backtrack.

Proponents of lowering food standards claim shoppers can make informed decisions. When the debate around chlorinated chicken first began, in 2017, Sonny Perdue, the US secretary of agriculture, told Radio 4; ‘If the consumer doesn’t want them that way, they won’t buy them’. Earlier this month, Cabinet Office Minister Penny Mourdant told concerned MPs ‘we should be trusting the consumer’ over food standards. But new research shows consumers don’t agree. Three fifths of people say food produced to lower standards should not be on sale regardless of labelling, a Which? survey of 2,078 adults in June found. Two-thirds were concerned about lower-quality food being sold in schools and hospitals. Labelling could also be open to challenge as part of the trade deal, as the US takes a different approach to labelling of production methods, and has previously challenged country of origin labelling.

Read more: https://www.which.co.uk/news/2020/06/wh ... rade-deal/ - Which?

The transport secretary has acknowledged that flights between the UK and the European Union could be grounded from 1 January 2021 in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

At present, UK and EU airlines are able to fly any routes they wish under the long-standing “open-skies” agreement within Europe.

That comes to an end on 31 December, as the Brexit transition period ends.

Grant Shapps told the virtual convention of Abta, the travel association: “We’re seeking arrangements that will maintain connectivity.”

But his remarks made it clear that, with 78 days to go, there is currently no legal framework for flights to continue to operate from 1 January 2021.

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Thu Oct 15, 2020 8:34 am

The transport secretary has acknowledged that flights between the UK and the European Union could be grounded from 1 January 2021 in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

At present, UK and EU airlines are able to fly any routes they wish under the long-standing “open-skies” agreement within Europe.

That comes to an end on 31 December, as the Brexit transition period ends.

Grant Shapps told the virtual convention of Abta, the travel association: “We’re seeking arrangements that will maintain connectivity.”

But his remarks made it clear that, with 78 days to go, there is currently no legal framework for flights to continue to operate from 1 January 2021.

ASMO wrote: ↑Thu Oct 15, 2020 12:44 pm

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Thu Oct 15, 2020 8:34 am

The transport secretary has acknowledged that flights between the UK and the European Union could be grounded from 1 January 2021 in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

At present, UK and EU airlines are able to fly any routes they wish under the long-standing “open-skies” agreement within Europe.

That comes to an end on 31 December, as the Brexit transition period ends.

Grant Shapps told the virtual convention of Abta, the travel association: “We’re seeking arrangements that will maintain connectivity.”

But his remarks made it clear that, with 78 days to go, there is currently no legal framework for flights to continue to operate from 1 January 2021.

Those chlorinated chickens are starting to come home to roost.

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Thu Oct 15, 2020 8:34 am

The transport secretary has acknowledged that flights between the UK and the European Union could be grounded from 1 January 2021 in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

At present, UK and EU airlines are able to fly any routes they wish under the long-standing “open-skies” agreement within Europe.

That comes to an end on 31 December, as the Brexit transition period ends.

Grant Shapps told the virtual convention of Abta, the travel association: “We’re seeking arrangements that will maintain connectivity.”

But his remarks made it clear that, with 78 days to go, there is currently no legal framework for flights to continue to operate from 1 January 2021.

Openside wrote: ↑Fri Oct 16, 2020 12:38 pm

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Thu Oct 15, 2020 8:34 am

The transport secretary has acknowledged that flights between the UK and the European Union could be grounded from 1 January 2021 in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

At present, UK and EU airlines are able to fly any routes they wish under the long-standing “open-skies” agreement within Europe.

That comes to an end on 31 December, as the Brexit transition period ends.

Grant Shapps told the virtual convention of Abta, the travel association: “We’re seeking arrangements that will maintain connectivity.”

But his remarks made it clear that, with 78 days to go, there is currently no legal framework for flights to continue to operate from 1 January 2021.

Do you honestly think that will happen??

Openside wrote: ↑Fri Oct 16, 2020 12:38 pm

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Thu Oct 15, 2020 8:34 am

The transport secretary has acknowledged that flights between the UK and the European Union could be grounded from 1 January 2021 in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

At present, UK and EU airlines are able to fly any routes they wish under the long-standing “open-skies” agreement within Europe.

That comes to an end on 31 December, as the Brexit transition period ends.

Grant Shapps told the virtual convention of Abta, the travel association: “We’re seeking arrangements that will maintain connectivity.”

But his remarks made it clear that, with 78 days to go, there is currently no legal framework for flights to continue to operate from 1 January 2021.

Do you honestly think that will happen??

But I also agree with Sir Ivan Rogers, that if the UK acts in bad faith at any stage, e.g. invoking anything in the Internal markets bill; the EU will withdraw any side deals unilaterally, & the UK will end up with a North Korea deal, not an Australian deal !