I started at the last:
“TRADE AND INVESTMENT HUBS”
Announced
23rd March 2022
“550 staff are expected to be present in the hubs by
2025, with an ambition to increase this to 750 staff by
2030.
An existing DIT Hub in Edinburgh announced in September last year, will see a significant increase in headcount following its relaunch today.”
Today’s Queen's Speech:
“My Government will continue to champion international trade, delivering jobs across the country and growing the economy. Legislation will be introduced to enable the implementation of the United Kingdom’s
first new Free Trade Agreements since leaving the European Union [Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill].”
So
ONE Free Trade Agreement after seven years? I doubt if that will need seven hubs!
FREEPORTS
“The EU is the only place where these [free ports] really don’t exist…”
Rishi Sunak MP,
1 August 2019“
“[We can] use that opportunity of Brexit to do the kind of things that we’ve been precluded from doing for decades, including free ports…”
James Cleverly MP,
2 August 2019
Both statements are simply incorrect, especially to say that the EU has stopped the UK from having free ports for decades.
There
are free ports in the EU and
there were free ports in the UK until 2012,
when UK legislation establishing them expired.
TAKEN BACK CONTROL OF OUR WATERS
Really?
“The UK agreed
catch limits for 2022 for six jointly managed fish stocks in the North Sea with Norway and the European Union on
10 December (2021).”
The negotiations with the EU continue and are focussed on the setting of total allowable catches (TACs) for bilateral UK-EU stocks and a range of related technical measures.”
Another unfulfilled promise that will continue until 2026 at the earliest.
May I suggest that a read of the BBC Reality Team Report Dated 23rd December 2021 would help people who may be confused …
… and remind everyone that UK waters were virtually fished out by 1954
(*); this being the start of the “Cod Wars” between the UK and Iceland.
After the above three elements I just lost interest in the whole Posts.
My Mam had a brilliant saying:
“There’s non as deaf as those
who don’t want to listen!”
I agree, even if I am one of the “deaf” people who cannot believe that the Tories are suddenly “for the many”. This may be because another one of my Mam’s sayings was:
“A leopard never changes its spots!”
:hat:
(*)
Sorry, the first Cod War kicked off in 1958 an not as I stated!
