A Mess Up
Hi
Today we get down to the nitty gritty of Brexit.
The first full week of negotiations.
The EU have a plan, agreed on, costed, and literally thousands of staff on the job and an unlimited Budget.
We do not yet have a plan, our cabinet are still divided, arguments about how we proceed.
The EU were very quick off the mark after the Brexit Vote, they have got the boring bits in place, and the boring bits are what will determine the success or failure of Brexit for the UK.
They have costed everything, we have costed very little.
They have already upgraded their systems to collect WTO Tariffs from the UK, even have lorry parks in place, we do not.
The EU has gone through the Entire 104 WTO Tariff Schedules for what we, as part of the EU, allow in, the quotas for things as simple as butter, beef and lamb.
The UK has not even started on this.
It is absolutely crucial to maintaining our existing Free Trade Agreements negotiated as part of the EU.
The EU has already provided, free of charge, chapter and verse, to their Exporters to the UK, exactly what they need to do to continue to Export to the UK.
We have not done this, we have told all our Exporters they must work it out themselves, a huge cost to our Industry.
The EU are already holding Beauty Competitions as to which Countries will get Euro Clearing and other Financial Services when we leave, they are currently here in the UK, they will no longer be.
Euro Clearing is £880 Billion a day in the UK, we lose the VAT, Stamp Duty and Corporation Tax on that.
It completely dwarfs the amount we pay to the EU every year.
I voted to leave, it could have been good for us, instead, we have messed it up big time.
Once again, we have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
It is the Charge of the Light Brigade once again.
Piss poor planning.
Theresa May's incompetence has resulted in such a paper thin majority that we are having to fly back our big hitters, in the midst of negotiations, just to get a simple Parliamentary Majority.