Brexit: The UK will get a HARD Border with the EU!

The European Union has a rebuttal to the United Kingdom’s technical note on the Temporary Customs Arrangement with the EU, that they published on the 7th June 2018. Again, there are questionable things with the UK arrangement. As they are not properly prepared or have solutions to the new status of the Kingdom. That is weird that after so long working on leaving the EU, the UK still have no clue or at least delivering hackwork to the negotiating partner.

That is why some parts of the Technical Note from EU that was published today is critiquing the UK. They are really leaving nothing behind. Everything is criticized, they did this on the 8th June 2018 and published it today on the 11th June 2018. So the EU didn’t wait long to answer the UK.

What the UK lacks in their note is to explain this parts to the EU:

Customs

Duties, VAT and excise, trade policy, governance

Regulatory [no UK proposal]”

That the UK and the Tories have no explanation concerning the duties, VAT, excise, trade policy or even governance of the Customs Unions between them. That the duties of goods, the lack of explaining the VAT arrangement and general trade policy. This is all about how the UK as a third-party state to the EU will comply with the standards and also how they will tax the goods. How the labeling and the checking of the goods between the EU and the UK. That is the governance that is not explained. They have been working on this months and still have no clear indication of how the UK plans to this and what they are wanting to see.

There is no regulation or regulatory explanation of it. That is a real surprise, as this is tale of how the goods and the movement of products are supposed to adjust the new border requirement. The Customs will then follow standards and protocol of the papers, licenses and the general checks of the goods. The added duties, VAT and excise taxes as well. It is weird that the negotiating team of the UK haven’t delivered.

The EU Note is specific in the nature that the EU decision-making autonomy in Trade Policy and also Full EU Supervision and enforcement mechanisms, this means the UK has to follow both parts of the Trade Policy from the EU. That is if they want their goods to be fairly crossing into the Customs Union and the regulations they are following it. It is interesting and weird that the UK have no proposal for the regulatory devices of the customs arrangement between them. If that isn’t a failure, than nothing is.

The key ending of the arrangement from the technical note is this: “Does not cover regulatory controls, leading to a hard border”. So the softness of the UK will not have affect, the effect of the withdrawal will be hard, the price of leaving the Union will be hard. The border are most likely hard, as the proposals are either non-existing or not following the needs of the EU. This is something the negotiating team of UK should know. They cannot have the same arrangement as they have today, because they are not an member(wrote that a few times now, but it seem to be consistent with the nonsense the London offices gives to the world).

That is the impact the UK has to await themselves. Even Michel Barnier stated this on the 8th of June:

In all the UK papers that we have been receiving until now – which I read carefully with my team – there has been a request to maintain the status quo, a form of continuity, which is paradoxical seeing as the country decided itself to leave the European Union. The United Kingdom seems to want to maintain the benefits of the current relationship, while leaving the EU regulatory, supervision, and application framework. When we respond to UK leaders saying that these benefits are not accessible outside the EU system – because of their decision – some people in the UK try to blame us for the consequences of this. I simply want to say that we will not be swayed, I will not be swayed, by this blame game” (Press statement by Michel Barnier following this week’s round of negotiations, 08.06.2018).

The UK have stop sending their hob-knobs across Calais and send someone with a little common sense. They must be embarrassed, the people of United Kingdom should be shocked and in awe. Because their politicians are continuing to their future and their opportunities for a ride. The Tories Government should deliver safe customs union and policies, which fit with their new role with the EU. Instead, they are thinking it be worked out in the near future. United Kingdom and their businesses should worry about this, hard border because of laziness and lack of delivery to the negotiating team.

The only one losing big is the UK and not the EU. The EU are asking for certain things from the UK. Which the UK doesn’t even have and that puts the EU into a positions, where they have to make a HARD BORDER. Because their rules will not be changed by a outside entity like the UK. Peace.

Brexit: UK’s ‘Preferential Treatment’ concerning trading goods with the EU is soon over!

Latest in not so breaking news, this isn’t a newsflash. Not for some of us. Certainly the United Kingdom, Her Majesties Government should be aware, but they are dodging this sort of thing every single time. Tories Government and the negotiation team is winding down and looking at the world upside down. Trying to configure itself to its reality, without looking at the scripture on the wall. However, that has been impossible from the Brexiteers and the closes allies of the Tories. They have been thinking everything will be smooth and not cost the UK anything.

I hate to say this. If you believed anything of the smooth and soft Brexits existing. Your wrong. Your boat left for the high seas. That just sat there at the dry-dock awaiting orders and hire people to travel to the destination. However, that never happen, as the empty promises left you and the remaining crew left behind at port. That is what the Tories Government has done to you.

Your will not be special, you will not be somebody who the European Union looks differently at. The United Kingdom is the ugly duckling of Europe. The UK will not be getting Preferential Treatment by the EU. That is what the European Commission wrote in a notice on the 4th June 2018 named: “NOTICE TO STAKEHOLDERS WITHDRAWAL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND EU RULES IN THE FIELD OF CUSTOMS AND EXTERNAL TRADE – PREFERENTIAL ORIGIN OF GOODS”.

The signs of the wall is here:

Goods exported from the EU:

As of the withdrawal date, an EU FTA partner country may consider that goods having an EU preferential origin before the withdrawal date no longer qualify at the moment of their importation in that third country, due to United Kingdom inputs not being considered as ‘EU content’. As of the withdrawal date, in case of verification of the origin of goods exported to a third country under preferential treatment, the exporters in the EU-27 may, upon request from that third country, have to prove the EU origin of the goods taking into account that United Kingdom inputs no longer account as ‘EU content’.

Goods imported into the EU:

United Kingdom inputs incorporated in goods obtained in third countries with which the EU has preferential trade arrangements and imported into the EU as of the withdrawal date will be ‘non-originating’, in particular in a context of cumulation of origin with the EU. As of the withdrawal date, in case of verification of the origin of goods imported into the EU, exporters in third countries may have to prove the EU preferential origin of the imported goods” (European Commission, P: 3, 04.06.2018).

This here is saying what is expected. That the business side of the UK will be hit. The financial services of London will be hit. The export and the producing part of the UK will be hit. Especially the parts that is manufactured for the European Common Market. The Traders and Importers that is based in the United Kingdom. Will have to comply with a Third-Country standards and will not be treated as Member State. This means the cost, the labeling and the ways of trading will differ. When your outside, your really outside and has to do it differently.

This sort of treatment of the UK will also hit the businesses from the EU, which is working directly and have their majority of operation within UK. That is why some are moving out from the UK to secure their place in the EU. Like some moves to Germany or Ireland. To get the same secure place and secure their trading, their liabilities and their ability to trade on the same grounds as they did from London today. Which they will not be able to do as the Brexit is nearing.

This here is a business hit, this here is going at the currency and at the core of the cash-flow of the United Kingdom. This is really showing that the UK cannot get their soft-Brexit. That is impossible, because this is really showing the reality of trading. That the boarders and the customs will be harder, as the origin and the tariffs will hit the fan. They are outsider, not an insider in the Union. That has a price.

That most of us anticipated, but the Tories haven’t, if they have been deliberately blind, then they have cheated the public and they will pay. As this is destroying the ability of businesses, trading goods and will also affect other industries. They are not just toying around in Brussels. They are really showing the reality, which the Tories doesn’t want the public to know. Peace.

Brexit: FYI – Barnier explaining “the Brussels Effect”!

This should be for some a deja vu’ for others, its rewind and for some the same old story. But as long as the Tories and the Her Majesties Government, the United Kingdom have worked upon the withdrawal from the European Union, the UK has come with false prophets and false narratives. The Tories and Prime Minister Theresa May, have either been blindsided or not understood the ramifications of their will. They are departing or divorcing as you will, they will not be in the same sort of relationship after leaving the EU. That is just natural, that isn’t significant. Everyone understands that, especially when the UK want specialized rules and regulations, while picking and mixes as they please. However, there are protocols and regulations, that is how the Union works. So that all parties knows what they are getting and what boundaries the external nations, whose not members has to comply to. That is also natural. Therefore, Michal Barnier has now talked an example recently showing the perspective of the EU towards the Brexit and that should hurt the pride of the British!

The General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR – came into force yesterday. According to the United Kingdom’s position first presented – and published – this week on data protection: ‘The United Kingdom would like its supervisor to remain on the European Data Protection Board, created by the GDPR. It wants to remain in the one-stop-shop. It believes that this is in the interest of EU businesses’. But let’s be clear: Brexit is not, and never will be, in the interest of EU businesses. And it will especially run counter to the interests of our businesses if we abandon our decision-making autonomy. This autonomy allows us to set standards for the whole of the EU, but also to see these standards being replicated around the world. This is the normative power of the Union, or what is often called “the Brussels effect.” And we cannot, and will not, share this decision-making autonomy with a third country, including a former Member State who does not want to be part of the same legal ecosystem as us” (Speech by Michel Barnier at the 28th Congress of the International Federation for European Law (FIDE), Lisbon, 26 May 2018),

That the British should worry about this, because what he is saying, is that UK will not have decision making power or have the influence that they used too. That is because the UK is not longer a member, but acting as a Third Country. All of this has been known, but the UK has acted like they can do as they pleases and act as they want. They can get their will and their dreams, they can pick out of the sky and candy-corn and unicorns will appear within White Hall. As ordered by the DUP and all the others friendly Brexiteers, who expect the world to land in their lap and praise their works.

However, that is not how the world works. Even if the UK thinks so, as they have their empire in mind and think they still rule the world. They are the ones leaving and has to comply to the set of rules, they are not able to change the body or the regulations put in place. They will be less significant and have less of influence on the matters, as they are becoming the outsider and not the insider anymore.

I know that is hard for someone to understand. That is breaching their momentum, that is shaking their world and their whole belief system. Nevertheless, the UK will have to comply as a third country, they are not insiders who has the ability to make decisions for the EU.

Brexit has consequences, they either have to comply or find other partners, they have to follow the standards or be island left alone. That is what Barnier is saying, because Brexit will feel the Brussels effect. Its been known about all along.

It is just the Tories and Theresa May who hasn’t understood the memo. Can someone teach them, before its too late? Peace.

Windrush: David Lammy MP letter to PM Theresa May – “Re: Windrush cases – Exceptional Case Funding” (17.05.2018)

Opinion: Why is PM May deliberately stupid?

Today on the 13th May 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May wrote an article on Facebook called: ‘Trust me, I’ll take back control — but I’ll need your help’. This is an article on her defense on her and her parties stance on Brexit, as it is supposed to address the lacking framework for the negotiations with the European Union, as the United Kingdom is withdrawing their membership. However, she must think the electorate of United Kingdom are a bunch of fools.

Since she wrote first this: “We will leave the Single Market because staying in the Single Market means continued free movement of people, but we will maintain the strongest possible trading partnership with our European neighbours and create new trade deals around the world ensuring that we seize the opportunities to build an economy that works for everyone”. Than to continue the hogwash, she wrote this: “And we will leave the Customs Union so we can establish our own independent trade policy and negotiate trade deals in our interests. I have proposed different options for a new customs arrangement with the EU and the government will continue to develop them during the negotiations”. Later, the final nail in coffin of nonsense, she wrote this: “This means there can be no hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, or between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. We will uphold the Belfast Agreement in full – and we will ensure the constitutional and economic integrity of the whole United Kingdom. Second, any agreements must create as little friction as possible for trade to protect the jobs that rely on speedy and integrated supply chains. These are a valued part of our economy, particularly for our manufacturing regions”.

So the takeout of this masterpiece of nonsense, was that the United Kingdom with the Tories at the helm, will leave the Single Market and the Customs Union, while trying to get friction-less trade. I hate to say it, but that will be impossible. As the standards for trading with the EU isn’t like that and they will not configure the whole system to fit the hands of May. She might think she is the wisest of them all and the Princess all of Europe looks up-too. However, she and Her Majesty’s Government have to follow guidelines. That is within reason of everyone else and all the other member states of the Union.

If the UK leaves the Single Market and Customs Union with the EU, they will be a significant less important trading-partner by default. They will have to have a hard-border, tariffs and check-points of delivery of the product in and between the British isles. I know that the Tories will say this is not true, but if making themselves a Third-Party State to the European Union, means the trading agreements will be as hectic as they are for Zimbabwe or any other random partner trading with the EU. It will be friction, there will be tariffs and will be checks of goods. The borders and movement of funds will be costly, as the third-party nation will not have advances and securities directly with the EU. That is why the standards and the tariffs are there. Because the EU will secure trading directly with other partners and within the Union. The ones who has already signed-off to be part of the Single-Market and its business model.

Theresa May should understand that with the disconnect from both entities within the EU, there will not be possible of a stop of goods and services. The trading agreements with the EU might help, but that will be new negotiations and also suspend possible trading that exists today. Because the EU cannot have similar standards as today with a Third Party State.

That is why I think May is deliberately stupid, as she should know better. She thinks she can mix sewage and water in the same pipes, not thinking someone will catch cholera. But that is what she does. She promise golden roads to heaven, but she should have idea what the proposals really means. As an outsider, I can say that I think, she is acting like a fool, and she takes the British for a ride. Unless, that is what the Kingdom likes to played around like pawns, while the Tories play power games with them. Because that is how it seems. As the deadline for withdrawal is there… getting closer and the Tories are looking more depleted, than anyone should think was possible. Peace.

Opinion: Cambridge Analytica is bankrupt, but don’t believe the hype – The ugly baby got a new name!

Well, if there ever was someone, who used their profits and riches to rig modern-day elections, it would be the tech billionaire Robert Mercer. He is behind the Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL), who had the Cambridge Analytica as their daughter Company, whose been involved in election all around the globe. Taking personal data from the social media, making campaigns and manipulated news-cycles. These companies has used Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Mainstream Media to hit the public and done it with perfection.

Now today, Cambridge Analytica announced this: “Earlier today, SCL Elections Ltd., as well as certain of its and Cambridge Analytica LLC’s U.K. affiliates (collectively, the “Company” or “Cambridge Analytica”) filed applications to commence insolvency proceedings in the U.K. The Company is immediately ceasing all operations and the boards have applied to appoint insolvency practitioners Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP to act as the independent administrator for Cambridge Analytica. Additionally, parallel bankruptcy proceedings will soon be commenced on behalf of Cambridge Analytica LLC and certain of the Company’s U.S. affiliates in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York” (Cambridge Analytica, 02.05.2018).

So the official company is down, however, the men in background has hit the ground running. They have no plan to back-down, they are just leaving one trademark and company name behind and creating another one. Because while the scrutiny, the leaks and the truth about the shady involvement in the elections from Cambridge Analytica has appeared, they have incorporated since 11 August 2017, a new Company named Emerdata Limited.

Emerdata Limited appointed Alexander Nix as the director on the 23rd January 2018, so that he got suspended in March 2018, didn’t matter to much. Because he extended his work within the Mercer network. Other familiar faces which is directors within the company is Julian Wheatland, Rebekah Mercer, Jennifer Mercer, Cheng Peng, and Dr. Alexander Taylor. All of these has been part of Cambridge Analytica. All of these previous leaders from the other company that went bankrupt today, has been moved here within February and March. Therefore, a careful soul knows that this has been in the making. To think otherwise, it is to underestimate the ones that already has done what it could to manipulate and change the paradigms of elections world over.

Just like Cambridge Analytica had other smaller arms of inner-works companies, the Emerdata Limited, has also a small company underneath that is called Firecrest Technologies Limited, a company incorporated by Alexander Nix on the 7th March 2018. Therefore, just as he was stepping down, he already had to running businesses within the Mercer family again. How convenient right?

What is even better, just like the Brexit Campaigns with BeLeave and Vote Leave was in same offices right? Well, the new companies within the Mercer family is both incorporated and have the same address. They have the same offices and the same people, they are based on the magical sphere of: Pkf Littlejohn 1 Westferry Circus, Canary Wharf, London, England, E14 4HD. That cannot just be a mere coincidence, unless your naive. They already pulled of the same stunts within the campaigns of Brexit and now they are trying to do it again.

So don’t believe the hype, the ugly baby of Mercer got a new name and new package, just trying to spike up the next election with more Arm & Hammer. Expected to get the juice. Peace.

Windrush Scandal: Amber Rudd MP letter to Yvette Cooper MP concerning the Windrush Generation(24.04.2018)

Cambridge Analytica Scandal: Jon Snow letter to Mark Zuckerberg (22.03.2018)

EU Letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg – “Subject: Invitation to appear before the European Parliament to clarify allegations on the manipulation of Facebook user personal data by Cambridge Analytica” (20.03.2018)

Brexit: PM Theresa May letter to EU President Donald Tusk (19.03.2018)