Re: EU threatens to fine UK
Originally Posted by
ruthio
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Swims this isn't actually a criticism of you personally, well it might be I suppose!
But every time I see a thread opener like this I always think to myself, and sometimes post on here...Does this person ever actually DO anything constructive other than bleat on here about it?
Like copy and paste all that effort above and send it to your MP??
Or even send it to the PM!
Hi
Well the thing is this Ruthio.
The Prime Minister already knows about it and my MP could not give a damn.
It has reported by the Treasury Select Committee, so the PM most certainly knows.
All major Government IT Systems are given a rating, Green Amber, Red, self explanatory.
HMRC gave the system a Green in November, this month the same system has been changed to Amber/Red.
The new system was originally intended to cope with up to 100 million Trade Tariffs a year, not the 300 million we are now going to be dealing with.
The other issue is that for the new system to work, it has to link with other government database systems.
One in particular it needs to link with it has now been found to be incapable of being linked with.
What else can you do about it except whinge?
Well Naff all really, but it does help the blood pressure.
I will now make a prediction, we will not be leaving in two years time, the realisation has now hit home, we will need a transitional deal to give the UK the time to put into place all these things which Boris, Gove and Co assured us would be no problem.
The problem is compounded by this.
Funding for HMRC is being cut instead of being increased to cope with the new things it has to do.
The Revenue annual budget is being cut from £3.6bn in 2016-17 to £2.9bn in 2019-20.
We will not be in a position to control immigration in 2 years time either, the cuts to the Border Force and Immigration have not been reversed, never mind more money being poured in to deliver on time.
The alternative is even worse.
Corbyn would make an ever bigger mess of it and Fallon wants to overturn Brexit and increase Immigration.