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Don’t know which Europeans Mr. Hannan is speaking to but I haven’t met anyone in Brussels or in EU capitals who is unhappy with the Commission approach & I’ve spoken to a lot of them. #Brexit
In addition, no-one in the #EU is threatening the UK (I wld challenge Hannan to point to one threat that has come from a leading EU politician or negotiator), nor are they stopping the UK from leaving. #Brexit
The EU have been clear from the start that there are many trade models available to the UK & the UK have ruled most of them out. If it feels like the UK has little room for manoeuvre it is because the government painted itself into a corner. #Brexit 
001/ [article content in this tweet series 001-180 reproduced with permission from Martin Howe QC of Lawyers for Britain @lawyers4britain]
#quote "Leaving the EU on WTO terms: pulling down the barriers to world trade
Introduction: why prices will FALL after Brexit, not rise" /002
#quote "Leaving the EU on WTO terms: pulling down the barriers to world trade
Introduction: why prices will FALL after Brexit, not rise" /002
002/ #quote "Over the past couple of weeks, the media have been full of lurid scare stories about what will happen if the UK leaves the EU on WTO terms, because negotiations with the EU do not result in a withdrawal agreement." /003
#tariffs #NoDeal #Brexit #WTO #ProjectFear #shortages #food #medicines
003/ #quote "One of the most ridiculous and UNJUSTIFIED of these absurd scare stories is that it will lead to higher prices, and even shortages, of foods and medicines." /004
003/ #quote "One of the most ridiculous and UNJUSTIFIED of these absurd scare stories is that it will lead to higher prices, and even shortages, of foods and medicines." /004
Who would have thunk!
British hauliers will need licenses and permits to be able to drive on European roads. In a no deal scenario there will be no way of getting UK goods into Europe!
Yup! This is not #Scaremongering but #facts
#BrexitMadness
British hauliers will need licenses and permits to be able to drive on European roads. In a no deal scenario there will be no way of getting UK goods into Europe!
Yup! This is not #Scaremongering but #facts
#BrexitMadness
The market access for British hauliers under a No deal scenario will only cover 3% of the needs.
#BrexitMadness #Transport
Check this thread where two experts on trade discuss the problem:
#BrexitMadness #Transport
Check this thread where two experts on trade discuss the problem:
Take a look again at the situation on the Border with Turkey: Trucks driving into EU will need permit from every country they need to pass!
#CustomsUnion means free movement of goods but not trucks.
ft.com/content/b44586…
#CustomsUnion means free movement of goods but not trucks.
ft.com/content/b44586…
Unite Members:
57% backed #PeoplesVote
24% leave voters backed #PeoplesVote
West Midlands car workers:
“Only now have voters started to see through the initial referendum campaigns and truly understand the implications & costs of leaving the EU."
theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
57% backed #PeoplesVote
24% leave voters backed #PeoplesVote
West Midlands car workers:
“Only now have voters started to see through the initial referendum campaigns and truly understand the implications & costs of leaving the EU."
theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
Unite union:
"open to the possibility of a vote on any deal the Tories come back with"
"members fears that the Tories' in-fighting and destructive red lines will bring ruin to their jobs and communities"
Unite Statement:
unitebrexitcheck.org/unite-policy-c…
#PeoplesVote
"open to the possibility of a vote on any deal the Tories come back with"
"members fears that the Tories' in-fighting and destructive red lines will bring ruin to their jobs and communities"
Unite Statement:
unitebrexitcheck.org/unite-policy-c…
#PeoplesVote
Great speech by Julie Ward MEP on why she marched with #WomenForEurope for a #PeoplesVote
Women and the young will be the most affected by #Brexit
#PeoplesVote
#StopBrexit
#FBPE
Women and the young will be the most affected by #Brexit
#PeoplesVote
#StopBrexit
#FBPE
#FBPE is on the same side as:
TUC
Unite, GMB & Community Unions
CBI, IoD, FSB, BCC & EEF
Labour NW & West Midland MPs
Majority of Labour MP's
Majority of UK population
UK public
Majority of Labour members
LibDem
Green Party
NUS
On: #CustomsUnion #SingleMarket & #PeoplesVote
TUC
Unite, GMB & Community Unions
CBI, IoD, FSB, BCC & EEF
Labour NW & West Midland MPs
Majority of Labour MP's
Majority of UK population
UK public
Majority of Labour members
LibDem
Green Party
NUS
On: #CustomsUnion #SingleMarket & #PeoplesVote
The transport union, TSSA:
"The left should unite now and come together to stop this Tory act of war against our class...
Supporting Tory/UKIP Brexit is unacceptable class collaboration.
Full stop.
I like this. This is fighting talk
Ref:
tssa.org.uk/en/whats-new/n…
#StopBrexit !!
"The left should unite now and come together to stop this Tory act of war against our class...
Supporting Tory/UKIP Brexit is unacceptable class collaboration.
Full stop.
I like this. This is fighting talk
Ref:
tssa.org.uk/en/whats-new/n…
#StopBrexit !!
TSSA General Secretary, Manuel Cortes:
"Our focus is our people, their rights and those of their families, which includes retaining their ability to move across EU borders freely”.
TSSA was and is in favour of remaining in the EU.
tssa.org.uk/en/Your-union/…
#FBPE
#StopBrexit
"Our focus is our people, their rights and those of their families, which includes retaining their ability to move across EU borders freely”.
TSSA was and is in favour of remaining in the EU.
tssa.org.uk/en/Your-union/…
#FBPE
#StopBrexit
Theresa May must tell UK customs union costs
Being inside the customs union costs Britain billions of pounds each year
UK shoppers overpay for non-European imports due to common external tariffs protecting inefficient producers elsewhere in the EU👇
telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/…
Being inside the customs union costs Britain billions of pounds each year
UK shoppers overpay for non-European imports due to common external tariffs protecting inefficient producers elsewhere in the EU👇
telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/…
Four fifths of these revenues go to Brussels
They’re particularly steep on clothing, food and footwear, hitting poorer UK shoppers hardest – which is unfair
To divert money we send the EU to the NHS instead we must be outside the customs union
Stick that on the side of a bus👇
They’re particularly steep on clothing, food and footwear, hitting poorer UK shoppers hardest – which is unfair
To divert money we send the EU to the NHS instead we must be outside the customs union
Stick that on the side of a bus👇
Staying in the customs union means charging EU tariffs with no say in setting them – the “vassal state” argument
This is the ghastly deal foisted on Turkey – an unproven partner state trying to join the EU
Britain is not Turkey – Brussels is trying to keep us and our money in👇
This is the ghastly deal foisted on Turkey – an unproven partner state trying to join the EU
Britain is not Turkey – Brussels is trying to keep us and our money in👇
Today is #EuropeDay!
It marks the anniversary of the 1950 Schuman Declaration, paving the way for even greater achievements in the decades that followed. Check out how we communicated about EU milestones through the years…
It marks the anniversary of the 1950 Schuman Declaration, paving the way for even greater achievements in the decades that followed. Check out how we communicated about EU milestones through the years…
50 years ago, in 1968, we announced the creation of the #CustomsUnion with the aid of a well sharpened pencil and state-of-the-art technology. #EuropeDay
31 years ago, in 1987, we launched a student exchange programme: #Erasmus
All those years of mobility and cooperation have given Europe an open-minded and entrepreneurial generation of 9 million people. #EuropeDay
All those years of mobility and cooperation have given Europe an open-minded and entrepreneurial generation of 9 million people. #EuropeDay
Here’s Daniel Hannan. He doesn’t understand the #CustomsUnion, the #SingleMarket or the #Schengen area.
I think we need to help Dan. Norway and Switzerland are in the #SchengenArea. Within the Schengen Area people can cross the borders without passport control. Try driving a lorry full of goods into Norway nd Switzerland and you go through customs checks.
This is Svinesund Customs Station at the main border crossing between Norway and Sweden. It can handle up to 2500 lorries a day. Clearing customs usually takes less than ten minutes, but may tale a couple of hours.
This is the Customs station at Svinesund, the main border crossing between 🇳🇴 and 🇸🇪 . It can handle up to 2,500 trucks/day - one truck every 4 min. 10,000 trucks go through Dover every day. Do the maths. It’s not possible. 🇳🇴 is in #SingleMarket but not in #CustomsUnion
But this should also give remainers some hope. I don’t think it will be possible for UK to leave both #CustomsUnion union and #SingleMarket - UK is not in #Schengen - Norway is in both Schengen and SM which makes trade easier, even if there’s a hard border between 🇸🇪and 🇳🇴
Then there’s the Irish Border of course. Again not possible to have a soft border between NI and ROI if UK leaves Single market and Customs Union. Even an EEA, Norway, solution would require a hard border here. Brexit is stupid!
Preventing a Brexit disaster - and the austerity this entails - requires more than the #CustomsUnion alone. So here’s a few reasons why Labour’s frontbench must, as a minimum, now also back the #SingleMarket (other than for the famous ‘four freedoms’):
Yes a Customs Union is needed. It helps 20% of our economy. For the other 80% (and growing!) of our economy, which is in ‘services’, we need the Single Market. The right to export UK service expertise is vital.
With 11% of our tax revenues coming from the UK financial services sector (£66bn), we need the Single Market so it can trade on the same basis as financial firms from the other 27 countries. We can’t pay for our NHS, schools, welfare support without this revenue.
