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Nature lover, love the wonderful people of the EU, hate corruption and racism, trying to make the world a better place
Peter Sefton 🇪🇺🇺🇦Ah Brexit, the gift that just keeps giving:
BBC News: Food price fears as Brexit import charges revealed
BBC News - Food price fears as Brexit import charges revealed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68726852
Alexander DommerholtThere have already been several instances of long queues at the Port of #Dover due to #Brexit
But prepare for it to get much worse.
The full #OvenReadyDeal hasn't been implemented yet. Once that happens, the following will happen for Britons looking to enter the #EU :
- Every Briton crossing into #Europe will require a #ESTA type visa called #ETIAS at a cost of €7 per person.
- Every Briton crossing into the EU will need to have their #fingerprints taken
- Also, they'll need to have a #biometric face scan made
All this will cause longer checks at the border. How much longer, we don't know. The Port of Dover CEO has said checks for a car containing 4 people could be up to 10 minutes.
All EU member states have similarly voiced the expectation that checks will take much longer. This will mean longer queues and longer waiting times.
When these rules will be implemented, we don't know yet. It has already been postponed twice, but the plan is now for it to be introduced around November.
After this, expect #chaos at the borders and outrage from #Brexiteers , but when that happens it is important to remember that this has been negotiated by #Boris #Johnson and his government.
Not much has been said about it in the press as of yet and expect it to be spun by the tabloids as 'punishment from the EU'. But is isn't.
Leading Brexiteers have negotiated this, 3.5 years ago.
Fife4Europe #FBPE"The UK has lost its voice, its vote and its veto." This is the harsh reality of Brexit, according to this article. Find out more about the lost opportunities of leaving the EU here: https://centralbylines.co.uk/the-lost-opportunities-list/
Michael‘We must admit #Brexit is a mistake and rejoin the single market’ – Tobias Ellwood
Too late. Damage done.
Rab Bruce’s SpiderIt looks as if the Tory plan is working.
1. Why have so many people not bothered to get photo Id?
2. Some who have been turned away say they may not vote again, which is exactly what the Tories want.
3. Figures for those turned away will be underestimated because some stations are turning people away before they reach the polling clerk.
This is a democratic outrage.VOTER SUPPRESSION WATCH: Voters Turned Away Without Photo ID Across England Amid Local Elections Concerns https://bylinetimes.com/2023/05/04/voter-suppression-watch-voters-turned-away-without-photo-id-across-england-amid-local-elections-concerns/
1. Why have so many people not bothered to get photo Id?
2. Some who have been turned away say they may not vote again, which is exactly what the Tories want.
3. Figures for those turned away will be underestimated because some stations are turning people away before they reach the polling clerk.
This is a democratic outrage.VOTER SUPPRESSION WATCH: Voters Turned Away Without Photo ID Across England Amid Local Elections Concerns https://bylinetimes.com/2023/05/04/voter-suppression-watch-voters-turned-away-without-photo-id-across-england-amid-local-elections-concerns/
VOTER SUPPRESSION WATCH: Voters Turned Away Without Photo ID Across England Amid Local Elections Concerns – Byline Times
‘It’s totally unnecessary… They are disenfranchising people.’ Josiah Mortimer and colleagues report from across England as ID is rolled out for the first time.
Totts"They don't share our values"
Dave B 
According to the news this morning, the grand national start was delayed by animal rights protesters and there were lots of arrests! Almost as an afterthought, the news also said 3 horses died over the weekend, one of them in the main race. So, to indulge the rich and enable lots of people to make money from
gambling, advertising etc etc, 3 horses had to die, and yet the protesters were the ones in the wrong? Something really needs to change in what is supposed to be a modern society!
gambling, advertising etc etc, 3 horses had to die, and yet the protesters were the ones in the wrong? Something really needs to change in what is supposed to be a modern society!
Emeritus Prof Christopher MaySo, in the last election there were only 6 cases of electoral #fraud (#MattHancock has reluctantly admitted). This from a #voting population of over 45M
You'll be aware of the number of cases of fraud by #Tory MPs (from a population of 355) exceeds this in nominal terms & is vastly larger in proportional terms.
So, let be clear, #voterID is about voter suppression not fraud.
If the #Tories were interested in #democratic fraud they'd put their own house in order.
h/t Roland Hoskins/Bird site