Brexit still means Brexit

Jonathan Lis makes some very good, but familiar points in his collumn in Prospect Magazine today, in that erecting barriers to trade with your closest and largest trading partners will hamper trade, and that reducing the labour pool by restricting immigration will create labour shortages.

Brexit means Brexit.

And this means Brexit since May defined Brexit as leaving the SM and CU and the systems in place that reduced the red tape that hampers free trade, instead, Brexit increases red tape, makes tradeslowr and less efficient.

If only there had be some warnings that this would happen?

FFS.

The Government is still claiming its cakeist dogma and denying the root cause of the shortages, with the freight industry now believing far from the problems being eased in 2022, but will remain or get worse through to 2023 and even the year after.

There only hope is common sense breaking out in Government and mechanisms put in place that free trade up.

That isn't going to happen.

But for the time being, at least until the end of the year, the UK has unrestricted imports from the EU with no compliance checks carried out because preparations were not complete in time for the actual economic leaving of the EU, while UK exporters have to cope with the full raft of red tape and compliance issues that all other third countries have.

Rather than take back control, we have given far more away, and if it comes to negotiations with the EU, the EU already have the best deal in the world, it will take one heck of a lot of leverage for it go give up unfettered access to UK markets. It will in the end, but starting negotiations from a dreadfully poor position will only lead to a poorer end point, making us all even poorer.