From 30 April, border checks will start on imports coming to Britain from the European Union. Nearly eight years after the Brexit vote, over four years after the UK formally quit the EU, and after many postponements, the UK will finally start checking items, one by one, rather than having the free flow of the EUs Single Market. <\/p>\n
Except not yet. The government will run selective checks, and for a while yet will set the rate of checks to zero, i.e. not check. It is beyond frustrating that... businesses will have to try to navigate this clearly broken system, said a lobbyist for the perishable goods trade. <\/p>\n
Checks on exports to the EU from Britain, long active, have reduced those exports, and the new checks will bring price rises and supply delays for stuff imported from the EU. <\/p>\n
Brexit makes sense only for the section of the capitalist class which thinks it can use it to reduce worker, environmental, and consumer protections in the UK way below EU standards, something even Sunaks Tories have so far shied off from. <\/p>\n
A big majority in Britain now says Brexit was wrong. But since the EU has proposed a youth mobility scheme for people aged 18-30 to move freely between the EU and the UK to work or to study, but Starmer has followed the Tories in saying no, on the grounds that youth mobility would amount to free movement of people. <\/p>\n
Well, yes. And a good thing too. Solidarity agitates for Labour to reverse Brexit. <\/p>\n
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Reverse the Brexit fiasco! - Workers' Liberty<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From 30 April, border checks will start on imports coming to Britain from the European Union. Nearly eight years after the Brexit vote, over four years after the UK formally quit the EU, and after many postponements, the UK will finally start checking items, one by one, rather than having the free flow of the EUs Single Market. Continue reading