https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ort-government

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...erendum-brexit

Old, but usually you look at who profits most of a situation. Unless you are "not interested" :hmmm:

It wouldn't surprise me if Russia were involved with interfering in most Western political business but what I'd love to know is how said behaviour can be stopped.

This sounds to me to be nothing more than a load of tosh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbuY2x27mYc

"Scotch Whisky Association reports £500m loss after US tariffs"
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland...iness-55897019

The tarriffs were placed by Trump as a retaliation for Airbus state support.
Good that the US state never supported Boeing [/cynism]:shucks:
And of course it is retaliation for the EU not doing kowtows 24 hours a day, to Trump.

"The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) said distillers are "continuing to pay the price for an aerospace dispute that has nothing to do" with them."
This tarriff hampering Scotland's whisky trade is of course nonsense, but trade wars always produce a lot of unrelated fallout.

Hopefully the new POTUS will ease the tariffs and if and when Trump visits one of his scottish golf courses the bar bill he runs up will be reflective of what happened in the past :)

I'm not sure Nicola Sturgeon is fond of him either so there's a surprise.

I do not quite understand this, the UK which still includes Scotland (:shucks:) is not longer in the EU, so those tarriffs should be abandoned anyway.

Hopefully it is simply a case of Biden getting around to dropping them but heaven only knows how many Trump reversals he has on his list.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for "urgent action" from the EU amid rising tensions over post-Brexit checks at Northern Ireland ports.

UK and EU leaders are to hold talks to try to resolve the trade issues between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Checks on goods were suspended on Tuesday after threats to staff.

The UK government wrote to the European Commission overnight, calling for temporary lighter enforcement of the rules to be extended until early 2023.

But Northern Ireland's First Minister, Arlene Foster, issued a warning against "just kicking things down the road", telling BBC Radio Ulster: "We need to find solutions that are sustainable, that are workable and long lasting."

On Tuesday, Mr Johnson said the EU had "undermined" the Brexit deal by threatening emergency controls of Covid vaccine exports across the Irish border.

Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said the threat had been a "mistake that shouldn't have happened".

But he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there was a separate issue to address over trade rules, and it was Brexit "causing all of this tension" - not the measures being put in place. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55913907

I wondered, too, but the war over subsidies and sanctions between Boeing and Airbus is a different thing from the trade war Biden's predecessor launched, and the UK delivers wings and gear made in UK plants at Flinton and Broughton.

True, international companies are so intertwined that intentional punishing one company or nation equals international collateral damage, with all that can be expected as a reaction.

Hopefully matters will not escalate between the UK and our 'friends and allies'

"As the UK is now a separate country, it is not allowed to transport the animals to the EU unless they have already been treated in purification plants."
WTO rules? :hmmm:

Muscles - brrrrr.... :doh:

Some things I only would consider for eating after I crashed with an airplane in the heart of the rain forest. Also, muscles, filter feeders that they are, are formidable pollutant collectors. Eating them is like using the content of a vacuumcleaner's tank as a spice in the kitchen.

Im with the EU on this. Britain, keep your muscles to yourself. :O:


For a comparable reason I have skipped thuna - much liked - from my card with preferred fish. They live long and thus also collect a lot of bad stuff. Fishes with short life spans are better, or from aquafarms that are well-run (never from south America or Asia for that reason, please).

Oh I know that but I'm simply wondering if we are seing the beginning of a series of 'tit for tat' measures which will eventually lead to the demise of the recently agreed treaty.

What was done with those mussles and clams before?
Were there cleaning tanks on the EU coasts to be used by english fishery before selling? What does the WTO say? I have no idea.

I do not like this stuff anyway, interesting when diving or in an aquarium, but eating?

The way it is presented here looks like tit for tat, though a lot of the latter was mostly coming from the always exceptional UK side. Maybe "17 million f'offs" were perceived as they were meant, by the rest of the EU's 430 million population :D

I take it they will solve the problem, after all it is in no one's interest to block any products. Some points have obviously not been made clear, or are missing in those 2000+ pages :doh:


edit: personally, we are already running into difficulties getting automotive spare parts from England, so some are now ordering elsewhere. We are trying to switch over to personal im- and exports. This may only work in a tiny fraction of trade cases of course..

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