Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
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Northern Ireland voted Remain anyway, so if that (4,526) is the outcome, the province will have got most of what it wanted and the tail can stop wagging the dog for a change. As a bonus there might be duty-frees available on the NI routes.
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Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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#4520, Hi Ray. LBC only give the first name - Robert. The only former Customs terminal boss I know of with first name Robert is Robert Hardy who, until not that long ago, used to rum the Dover MOTIS freight clearance facility and who has played a significant role in Brexit planning. So the caller was quite possibly him.
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Young Mr Hardy eh? His role was probably more significant in the Seabourne Freight planning for Ramsgate and, as for Dover, way less significant than that played by the FLG SRC and young Mr Dixon.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Now I'm even more confused. I guess it's the same chap expressing his opinions in this piece:
https://readyforbrexit.co.uk/exports-will-cause-the-brexit-bottle-neck-warns-rob-hardy-at-oaklands-international/
In which case he has clearly changed his tune somewhat. There was also a chap with the same name who had a rather short-lived career at Eurotunnel in the early 2000s. I didn't know him terribly well and I can't be sure after all these years whether they are one and the same. Suffice it to say that he didn't exactly distinguish himself.
If he is an 'international customs expert', it's a self-styled title.
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Yes, that's Rob and, for what it's worth, I agree that UK exports are more of a headache than imports.
I should also have said that a small number of UKBF officers (who, like the Freight Liaison Group, Southern Road Corridor guys, have many years of pertinent experience and whom I trust) played a significant role too.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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the question is will we be leaving in October, I doubt it not when us [ the uk] and the eu cant agree on any thing. we say thes they say that, and you dont know who to believe.
Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
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Brian there are rumblings that some countries won’t agree to a further extension after 31 October. They are losing patience with us and I really can’t blame them.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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if that's the case peter there is only one course to be taken. a second referendum, a genrael election. and who ever gets in has got a mandate to work through. plan "B" would be revoke artical 50.
Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Brian Dixon wrote:if that's the case peter there is only one course to be taken. a second referendum, a genrael election. and who ever gets in has got a mandate to work through. plan "B" would be revoke artical 50.
You’re a genius Brian!!! If the referendum result is the same or reversed...... .......Err.....What then?
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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work on it of course.
Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Brian Dixon wrote:work on it of course.
No change there then?
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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No Brian
I think Johnstone will just leave the EU on 31 o ctober
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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More bad news. First it was Tim telling is there would be cheap beer, now the boss of Next is offering us cheaper clothes with a No Deal Brexit!
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/no-deal-will-cut-the-price-of-clothes-says-next-boss-lord-wolfson-fhcs02smg'If no one went no faster than what I do there'd be a sight less trouble in this world'
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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sales gimmicks, all mouth and no action. they could have done that years ago.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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It's more likely that Wolfson will join the GMB and move all production to the UK than we'll get through that bloody paywall.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
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Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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If we're to believe the thinking in #4,479, Cummings the strategist would have this outcome covered. From his (and Johnson's) point of view, all the right people are applauding the judgement: Corbyn, Swinson, Blackford, Sturgeon, Gina Miller, Khan, the Guardian etc, and this feeds into the 'establishment stitch-up' narrative. But would Johnson have bought into a political strategy which risked his actions as PM being judged unlawful by the highest court in the land? Yes, I think he would: he's a calculated risk-taker, a monstrous egotist with delusions of Churchillian 'greatness', and his eyes are on the prize. It might work, if he can keep his head (but the Queen may be thinking on that one).
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
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Weird Granny Slater wrote:... all the right people are applauding the judgement...
I fear you're right WGS. To my mind, the reaction to the ruling of our highest court should simply be an unemotional 'ta for telling what the law is, we will of course now abide by it'.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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can we get back to work now, and will Johnson now jump ship over this before he is forced out.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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