Re: Thank God We are Out of the EU ...
Here's a far more likely reason as to why those truckers spent so much on a publicity stunt:
'Scottish Tories say the SNP is “not lifting a finger” to help Scottish fishing exports while the IT failures in the UK and France have been “quickly cleared up”. '
' Checks in Scotland are performed by Scottish Government agencies, and Jimmy Buchan of the Scottish Seafood Association said that a check that should take no more than one hour “is taking nearly five hours.”
He added: “The problem is definitely in Scotland, at the hubs prior to dispatch. It’s the one thing that we have continuously asked Government, are they ready? They kept asking us, were we ready? And we are ready, but it appears that Government are not.” '
The report runs both sides of the argument but one thing that jumped out at me was this:
' “We have warned for months about the lack of preparation time for everyone involved and these problems sadly come as little surprise.
“There are now a lot of bureaucratic steps to navigate in getting product from Scotland into France .... '
A lack of preparation time?
Blimey, isn't almost 5 years enough?
Because that's roughly how long we've known that we were leaving the EU and anybody with an ounce of common sense knew that would mean changes.
Did these people
really not think to look at how other extra-EU exporters of fish into the EU like China; Ecuador; Morocco; or even Iceland and Norway (where fish are not part of the EEA agreement) traded with the EU ........
in almost five years?
Obviously not, in which case all that can reasonably be said is that it serves them right.
https://dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/202...brexit-points/