ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Ross Miller- Location: London Road, Dover
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"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
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While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
Button- Location: Dover
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No mention of Motis, I note - only Stop 24 and the erstwhile Ashford ICD. (All of the 3 imply use of Common Transit.)
I was under the impression that Transit declarations counted as Safety and Security ones too.
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Button- Location: Dover
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As the cliche has it, 'if you're failing to plan, you're planning to fail':
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53018020. Let's just hope that the French at least are geared-up to "get Brexit done" for trade across the Straits in both directions come 1st January.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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The countdown continues.
'If no one went no faster than what I do there'd be a sight less trouble in this world'
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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Captain Haddock wrote:
The countdown continues.
It surely does, but Mr Gove's 'On 1st January 2021 we will take back control' quote just makes me cringe. I didn't vote for Brexit in 2016, not because I wanted to remain in the EU particularly but because I a) couldn't see what all the fuss was about and b) could see operational risks in leaving. However, the majority of enfranchised voters who expressed a preference said they did want to leave. Fine. That was 4 years ago. You'd think that, having got the easy part over with and government's sleeves rolled-up (which they were in 2016-7 at least), we would all know by now what the future EU:UK trade methodology is to be - where, what and when by.
Good job the pubs are shut because I don't think that this administration could organise a piss-up in a brewery.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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good god is brexit still going on, there is me thinking it was dead and buried at the start of the year,.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Captain Haddock wrote:?s=19
The countdown continues.
I hope Gove has the integrity to own it and all that flows from it. Somehow, however, I don't think that is remotely likely.
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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I think Labour has played a blinder here - just standing back and giving enough time and space for the Tories to lurch into civil war. By not lobbying for an extension, Labour has depoliticised Brexit so much that all it can do now is cause internal problems for the Tories as they inevitably fall out over the future relationship. Meanwhile, on the day that Gove ruled out any extension, Starmer is showing the highest rating of any opposition leader. That’s fantastic.
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Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
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In a survey of 1000 people who still see Bojo as the more capable leader, fantastic, not!
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Brexit will be tories next big challenge
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Johnson or Starmer? This is the future? We're screwed.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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How come we agree weird?
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Maybe, KS, in the same way that malt loaf and a Victoria sponge with whipped cream and real fruit are both cakes.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Suppose that answers it weird
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Super Keir Starmer is a safe pair of hands, don't worry about that.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Sadly this is not a send-up.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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2016: “I see no downsides to Brexit, only a considerable upside”
2020: “We desperately need ‘shock and awe’ campaign to prepare the public and businesses already on their knees for the devastating consequences of inaction when transition period ends”
LONDON — The U.K. will use “shock and awe” tactics based on behavioural science to spur businesses and the public to prepare for the end of the Brexit transition period.
The term, more often used to describe a military strategy of overwhelming force and closely associated with the Iraq war, is contained in a document setting out the government's communications plan.
A massive information campaign is set to warn the public about the “consequences of not taking action,” before moving to a new phase focusing on avoiding losses as a result of the post-Brexit disruption.
The plan forms part of a £4.5 million advertising deal the government has struck with media agency MullenLowe London, which has also been working on communications around the coronavirus pandemic. The contract was found on the Tussell government procurement database.
Britain is set to leave the transition period on December 31, even if it fails to strike a trade deal with Brussels. Either way, there is expected to be new administration and checks on cross-border trade next year, as well as action needed by EU nationals in Britain, British nationals on the Continent and other groups in order to avoid disruption.
“The Transition Campaign is the most important government campaign this year,” says a tender document. It says the advertising blitz will begin in July and could stretch as far as May 2022.
Internal government data from October showed 61 percent of businesses had not even looked for information on how to prepare for a no-deal scenario.
The current plan is to split the publicity across four “bursts.” Between July and August there will be a drive to “nudge” or “shove” people to take action by warning of the “consequences and opportunity” ahead, before moving to a “shock and awe” approach between September and November.
Between December and January the campaign will focus on “loss avoidance” and from January 2021 onward it will be about “new opportunities.”
The strategy was drawn up with the help of behavioral experts after the “Get Ready for Brexit” campaign, which sought to prepare people and businesses for Brexit throughout last year, was criticized by the National Audit Office.
Internal government data from October showed 61 percent of businesses had not even looked for information on how to prepare for a no-deal scenario. The government said the numbers showed “there must still be a large degree of complacency amongst businesses.”
Government research showed businesses are reluctant to take action without certainty. Some, especially those working in cross-border trade, were more likely to prepare because of their concerns about the potential impact of Brexit, but the government noted that because of their worries they “will not respond well to overly positive messaging.”
Meanwhile, Brexit voters are “less likely to prepare as they don’t believe in any potential negative consequences of leaving.”
Polling in January this year showed 74 percent of U.K. adults had done nothing to prepare for leaving the EU and did not plan to. Eight percent had taken action and 9 percent intended to do so.
The new approach will use behavioral science to make people feel they should act and make them feel capable of acting. It will use some nongovernment channels to convey messages because “people have a higher level of trust in third parties and peers than they do in government.”
The document states: “With nine months to go, now is the time to ensure that clarity and certainty is communicated wherever possible about what will happen at the end of the year. Therefore we need to frontload preparation wherever possible, and ensure that any early misunderstanding is ironed out and appropriate actions are taken.”
The communications drive to prepare businesses and citizens is one of five “strategic goals” of the overall government plan for quitting the EU institutions at the end of this year.
Another goal is to convince the EU that the U.K. is ready to leave the transition period without a deal, while others include minimizing short term disruption and implementing necessary changes.
Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
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#4946, source please Stuart.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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