BREXIT! BREXIT! BREXIT!

[Svartalf]

Northern Ireland's science-denying religious fundamentalists, the DUP, are standing against the deal because the Tories have gone back on their promise to erect a big wall along the border with Eire and to make the Irish pay for it!

Well, are they at least making use of ian paisley playing turbine for cheap power?

[Svartalf]

Compatible with windows XP and the BBC micro...soon to include the latest in valve technology (put your money in valves)

...meanwhile in a basement somewhere in darkest Luton, someone is dusting off a telex machine.

There's a parody account on twitter about "RAF Luton"... can't hear that name anymore without laughing myself to the floor.

[Scot Dutchy]

Compatible with windows XP and the BBC micro...soon to include the latest in valve technology (put your money in valves)

...meanwhile in a basement somewhere in darkest Luton, someone is dusting off a telex machine.

Telex-girls.

[Brian Peacock]

Happy Brexit Day to one and all!

[Scot Dutchy]

Well it is just starting:

Come clean on logjams at British borders as new Brexit rules kick in, ministers told

Amid confusion for lorry drivers in Kent, logistics firms call for greater transparency to help lessen disruption

Ministers are facing demands for more honesty and transparency over any logjams at the UK border in the wake of Britain’s exit from the EU, amid concerns that waves of disruption will last for six months.

Several lorry drivers are understood to have been turned away at Dover for not having the right paperwork following the end of the Brexit transition period last week. It has caused concern among logistics and manufacturing companies that more severe problems could occur as trade flows increase later this month.

The main initial worries for businesses concern the availability of vets to carry out checks for new export health certificates. This could hit meat and food sales to the EU. Bigger challenges will come when freight starts flowing from manufacturers of complex products, which are unlikely to have begun using the new systems.

“We are going into a test period,” said Elizabeth de Jong of trade body Logistics UK. “If you were running your own business, you wouldn’t do it like this. You would have designed your new processes, you’d have trained people in them, you’d have tested the new systems, you’d have used it with dummy data, you’d have had a walkthrough. Those are all fundamentals of management. We’ve not been able to do any of it.

“There are also cliff edges ahead. In July, we’re going to start import checks as well: that will need more capacity and more people. We’ve also got grace periods in Northern Ireland.

Like everything in the UK it is a mess.

[Scot Dutchy]

Another little development:

Spain says it will have last word on Gibraltar border entries

Agreement in principle will allow territory to join the Schengen free movement area

Spain will have the last word on who can enter Gibraltar under the terms of the preliminary post-Brexit deal announced this week, Spain’s foreign minister has said, in an assertion that was swiftly challenged by Gibraltar’s chief minister.

The agreement in principle – struck just hours before Gibraltar was poised to become the only frontier marked by a hard Brexit – will allow the British overseas territory to join the Schengen free movement area with Spain acting as a guarantor.

Gibraltar’s port and airport would become the external borders of the Schengen area, with checks undertaken by the EU’s Frontex border agency for an initial period of four years.

“Schengen is a set of rules, procedures and tools, including its database, to which only Spain has access. Gibraltar and the United Kingdom do not,” Arancha González Laya told Spanish newspaper El País in an interview published on Saturday. “That is why the final decision on who enters the Schengen area belongs to Spain.”

Brexit keeps on giving...

[pErvinalia]

[Brian Peacock]

It's stuff like that which is going to Make Great Britain Great Again!

[Animavore]

French Embassy, Dublin.

[Svartalf]

Always hated those georgian things, but in dublin, they are all the rage.

[Scot Dutchy]

The last rats leave the sinking ship:


Leave.EU leaves Britain after Brexit

Eurosceptic campaign group founded by Arron Banks is now registered in Ireland

Leave.EU has left the UK, as Brexit forced the Eurosceptic campaign group to choose between its name and its country.

According to domain name registration records, the organisation, founded by businessman and activist Arron Banks, picked the former. The website is now registered in the name of Sean Power, the chief executive of the Ireland-based professional services company BSG.

When asked, however, Power, who is based in Waterford, insisted that he had no involvement with the organisation. When informed that his name and contact details were present on the registration, he said he would be “looking into the matter”.

Leave.EU has had some time to consider its move. The organisation is named after its web address, but .EU domain names can only be held by businesses or individuals based in the EU or wider European Economic Area.

As the Brexit transition period drew to an end in 2019, the British owners of .EU domain names – of which there were estimated to be about 340,000 – started to express alarm that no deal had been made, meaning that they would have to give up their websites when Britain left the EU.

[NineBerry]

[Hermit]

[Svartalf]

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[JimC]

Son of a hamster!