Brexit negotiations thread

[Bielzibubz]

One change being talked about seriously if the UK leaves the EU on WTO terms would be the necessity for UK citizens to register for a visa online to visit EU countries.That would cost and would certainly be a change from before.

Certainly no reason why we couldn't have higher standards than the EU on a whole host of areas but much more likely that we won't.Singapore here we come.

Oh get a grip man. So you might have to apply for a £15 or £20 Visa to visit certain EU countries after March 2019. Big bloody deal. If that's really such a big deal to you and your wife (thought I'd include her as you seem to a lot) then you really need to get a life and see the MUCH bigger picture

 

[Benfleet A1]

Oh get a grip man. So you might have to apply for a £15 or £20 Visa to visit certain EU countries after March 2019. Big bloody deal. If that's really such a big deal to you and your wife (thought I'd include her as you seem to a lot) then you really need to get a life and see the MUCH bigger picture

The price being banded around for a visa is £68 with a six week wait. More than I can afford on top of the rest.

 

[blues exile]

All the best workers rights were won before we joined the EU. We have gone backwards in the last 30 years

Security is worse under the EU, especially when you have countries like Belgium having 'turn a blind eye' policy towards terrorism. Open borders mean less safety

We could travel before the EU and we will after....No change. Culture is better when countries keep their national identity. Moore people around Europe are realising this that's why they are rejecting the EU.

As for consumer protection food standards and environmental there is absolutely no reason we cant have higher standards. If you Labour supporters stopped fearing the Tories and made yourselves electable by backing Brexit all that could happen.

Too much nonsense here to be worthy of serious discussion but let's just concentrate on 'national identity'. If you seriously think the people of France, Germany or even little Latvia have conceded their national identity in favour of regarding themselves as Europeans in that sense you are even more deluded than I thought. The UK is not the only country in the world where national identity exists and it is perfectly feasible to retain that even as part of a wider concept as has been demonstrated over the past half century.

 

[rigsby]

Too much nonsense here to be worthy of serious discussion but let's just concentrate on 'national identity'. If you seriously think the people of France, Germany or even little Latvia have conceded their national identity in favour of regarding themselves as Europeans in that sense you are even more deluded than I thought. The UK is not the only country in the world where national identity exists and it is perfectly feasible to retain that even as part of a wider concept as has been demonstrated over the past half century.

Oh come on Exile, we’re the ill informed who are brainwashed via the Sun or the Mail. So why not climb down from your aloof perch and share your vast knowledge.

Why doesn’t security work with open borders?
Why did the Labour Party plan On mass immigration cause a house price boom?
Why are workers rights worse than the were 20 years ago?

 

[Ricky Otto]

Steris PLC, a company with $2.6 billion in annual revenue, is planning to redomicile from the UK to Ireland due to Brexit. What that means is that, as an Irish company, the Irish tax authorities will collect its taxes going forward and not HMRC. 2/50


https://t.co/pSCw7Hin91





8 health providers have warned of medicine shortages in the event of a no-deal Brexit: "we do not believe that the current medicine supply plans will suffice, and we will have widespread shortages if we do not respond urgently." 3/50


https://t.co/iXMaCdww00





Pfizer - $100 million on Brexit prep:"Pfizer’s preparations are well advanced to make the changes necessary to meet EU legal requirements after the U.K. is no longer a member state, especially in the regulatory, manufacturing and supply chain areas." 4/50


https://t.co/zv8xUEVC2W





AstraZenica estimates its Brexit-related costs at £40 million for duplicate drug testing requirements, and building up product stockpiles. 5/50


https://t.co/vmeA5RcbVg





Chubb (world's largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company) is redomiciling from the UK to France. It has already received permission from the french regulator, and aims to complete its move on 1 January 2019. 6/50


https://t.co/LcGNUOoyoF





Columbia Threadneedle switched £6.2 billion worth of assets from UK domiciled funds to Luxembourg domiciled funds 7/50


https://t.co/2XrQQYUGrf





Liberty Specialty Markets is redomiciling its insurance company from the UK to Luxembourg 8/50


https://t.co/SDwotkuknM





Admiral Group is planning to move some of its UK business from Admiral Insurance Company Limited to an entity in Spain, Admiral Europe Compañía de Seguros, S.A, that was set on 20 December 2017. 9/50


https://t.co/MfoWkj6Qps





A ferry company has brought in 2 new ships, including the "Brexit Buster" ship Celine (600 truck capacity, world's largest short sea roll-on roll-off ferry). Idea is to bypass the UK and send freight directly from Ireland to Belgium and Spain. 10/50


https://t.co/S7IgpggYwj








SwissQuote cancelled its expansion plans in London after Brexit, and instead bought a bank in Luxembourg [article in French] 11/50


https://t.co/oKEcWYM5NT





SwissQuote cancelled its expansion plans in London after Brexit, and instead bought a bank in Luxembourg [article in French] 11/50


https://t.co/oKEcWYM5NT





Bank of America has spent between $300 and $400 million preparing for Brexit, including establishing new subsidiaries in Paris and Dublin, moving staff etc. Exact cost not yet clear as project is ongoing. 16/50


https://t.co/dROzbJx2Xv





So many firms are stockpiling food against the disruption of Brexit that a cold storage company has now completely run out of room... 17/50


https://t.co/WDx2dxwA51





Brexit is killing a crucial source of tech funding: "Funding for UK tech firms by the European Investment Fund (EIF) fell by 91 per cent during 2017 to €61.1m (£53m) compared with €708.8m the previous year." 18/50


https://t.co/3e7UznPEbi





Government has spent £5.5 million keeping Manston Airport open in case it's needed as additional overflow lorry parking after Brexit. 22/50


https://t.co/CSMj5sVRRB





Corporate Sterling-denominated bond sales have slumped 34% this year, as companies put off investing in the UK due to Brexit uncertainty. 23/50


https://t.co/lkVT14YhLF





European Medical Agency (EMA), Europe's medicines regulator, is moving from London to Amsterdam. It used to employ close to 900 people in London. It's had to cut its short-term service offering as it will lose at least 30% of staff during the move. 26/50


https://t.co/zN8lndkpgm





A major financial firm, CME Group's BrokerTec, is leaving London for Amsterdam because of Brexit, taking its $240 billion/day repo market with it. 30/50


https://t.co/5Bazyd7EMS

Project fear hey, the wheels aren't in motion for billions of pounds to move from the UK to various EU locations, this is all just made up.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Oh get a grip man. So you might have to apply for a £15 or £20 Visa to visit certain EU countries after March 2019. Big bloody deal. If that's really such a big deal to you and your wife (thought I'd include her as you seem to a lot) then you really need to get a life and see the MUCH bigger picture

I'm glad you tacitly admit there will be a visa,though the price I've seen quoted is much higher than the one you mention.The only "bigger picture" that I can see is that in the future, the UK will become a much poorer country and not just economically,either.

 

[MK Shrimper]

The price being banded around for a visa is £68 with a six week wait. More than I can afford on top of the rest.

Looking at a holiday out of the EU next year, that's of course if I still have a job and we're not at civil war over a box of fishfingers.

 

[Bielzibubz]

The price being banded around for a visa is £68 with a six week wait. More than I can afford on top of the rest.

As a rule of thumb prices for Visas when going through official channels/websites is between £15 and £20. That's standard at the moment for non EU countries so expect EU countries after March 2019 to be roughly the same.

Unofficial websites like the one I mistaking used on a recent trip to Turkey are indeed £68. Buyer beware.

 

[Bielzibubz]

Looking at a holiday out of the EU next year, that's of course if I still have a job and we're not at civil war over a box of fishfingers.

Christ on a bike you old drama queen you. As I said. Get a grip man.

As REM once famously said 'It's the end of the world as we know it'

 

[The Big Dady]

FA planning for Brexit and cutting "Foreign" players in Premier League.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-s...-premier-league-report-idUKKCN1NI031?rpc=401&

 

[Bielzibubz]

I'm glad you tacitly admit there will be a visa,though the price I've seen quoted is much higher than the one you mention.The only "bigger picture" that I can see is that in the future, the UK will become a much poorer country and not just economically,either.

A quick cursory Google and the figures being banded about range from between £6 and £52 depending on who you read and who you want to believe.

If me and the missus have to pay an extra £20 or £25 when we go away then so be it. No biggy.

 

[rigsby]

You don't need a visa for Switzerland. I never needed a visa for Greece before they were in the EU. Nor Cyprus, Croatia and the Canary Islands.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

You don't need a visa for Switzerland. I never needed a visa for Greece before they were in the EU. Nor Cyprus, Croatia and the Canary Islands.

Things will change if we leave the EU without a deal.Mark my words.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Yes Brexit finally made the EU see sense and shelve their attempt to include Turkey...…..Brexit the vote that saved the EU from itself.

Still look up the battle of Navarino (its that time of year) we saved Greece from genocide once before.

it hasn't happened because it was never going to happen, it was merely - what's the phrase........project fear

 

[MK Shrimper]

So the EU has said that no visa will be required for short trips (up to 90 days) to Europe but an ESTA will be required (ala the USA), but this will only be granted if the UK gives EU citizens the same.

What this means for those already living & working here and ex-pats overseas is unknown. Could the UK be faced with repatriation of millions of elderly ex-pats? And Barna......

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

So the EU has said that no visa will be required for short trips (up to 90 days) to Europe but an ESTA will be required (ala the USA), but this will only be granted if the UK gives EU citizens the same.

What this means for those already living & working here and ex-pats overseas is unknown. Could the UK be faced with repatriation of millions of elderly ex-pats? And Barna......

Would people have voted for Brexit if they knew that the price to pay would be the risk of Barna being repatriated?

ps Rigsby has gone uncharacteristically quiet. How about an answer to post 3092?

(Or to Ricky Otto's 9:14am post)

 

[Bielzibubz]

So the EU has said that no visa will be required for short trips (up to 90 days) to Europe but an ESTA will be required (ala the USA), but this will only be granted if the UK gives EU citizens the same.

What this means for those already living & working here and ex-pats overseas is unknown. Could the UK be faced with repatriation of millions of elderly ex-pats? And Barna......

Are you seriously suggesting that's a possibility MK? Not the Barna bit (God forbid) The bit about millions of ex pats.

 

[rigsby]

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Would people have voted for Brexit if they knew that the price to pay would be Barna being repatriated?

ps Rigsby has gone uncharacteristically quiet. How about an answer to post 3092?

(Or to Ricky Otto's 9:14am post)

I have had my freedom of speech removed. So will not be answering.

Besides your post was confusing it sounds like you work for several different companies....Or do you mean you do work for.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

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I have had my freedom of speech removed. So will not be answering.

Besides your post was confusing it sounds like you work for several different companies....Or do you mean you do work for.

A disappointing but not unexpected (non) answer.

 

[dcblue]

Merkel latesf.

Common foreign and security policy.
Common monetary policy and banking union
Common immigration and refugee policy.
EU army.

More and more integration into EU and less and less influence of domestic goverment.

No wonder leave won the vote.