[Britse politiek] #125: Perfect storm

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Op zondag 26 september 2021 17:37 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Het zal wel een Winter of Discontent worden.

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As the longstanding boss of the FairFuelUK organisation, which campaigns against tax rises on petrol, Howard Cox is used to criticism from environmentalists and cyclists.

What he did not expect was someone listing his home address in Kent as a petrol station on Google Maps in the middle of a fuel crisis.

“I got 70 phone calls with people saying: ‘Have you got any petrol for sale?’” he said. “I was panicking because my phone didn’t stop ringing and it’s my private home address. They typed in ‘petrol stations near me’ and it came up with a little flag over my house saying ‘petrol station’.”

He said the reaction on Twitter had given him clues as to who was responsible: “It has to be an environmentalist. The people who are laughing their socks off are mainly cyclists, I’ve blocked a lot of them. If I find him – I’m assuming it’s a him – I’m not quite sure I can control my actions. I’m convinced it’s a militant cyclist.”

Cox is campaigning against the government’s proposal to ban the sale of new petrol cars from 2030. He claims to have saved motorists £100bn over the last decade in planned tax rises and hikes in fuel duty, after helping to mobilise an extensive database of supporters to lobby the government.

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Op maandag 27 september 2021 12:59 schreef Em31 het volgende:
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Dit stilte nadat hij is uitgepraat

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Op maandag 27 september 2021 14:58 schreef capricia het volgende:
Wel tekenend dat ze vallen over dat woordje

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Op maandag 27 september 2021 14:51 schreef TargaFlorio het volgende:
"Not ideal language"

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Shadow minister quits over Starmer’s minimum wage stance

A shadow cabinet minister has quit Keir Starmer’s top team, citing the leadership’s failure to support a £15-an-hour minimum wage and saying Labour is “more divided than ever”.

Andy McDonald, the shadow secretary of state for employment rights, worked closely with Starmer’s deputy, Angela Rayner, and was regarded by trades unions as a guarantor of their influence in policymaking.

In his resignation letter, which came in the middle of the Labour conference and as the party sought to switch the focus from internecine wrangling over rule changes to policy, McDonald said his role had “become untenable”.

“When you became leader, I accepted the role because I wanted to fight for the working people of this country. It has become clear to me that I cannot do this as a member of the shadow cabinet,” he told Starmer.

“Yesterday, your office instructed me to go into a meeting and argue against a national minimum wage of £15 an hour, and against statutory sick pay at the living wage. This is something I could not do.”

He added: “After 18 months of your leadership, our movement is more divided than ever and the pledges you made to the membership are not being honoured.”

McDonald said he looked forward to being “free to fight for working people”.

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Op dinsdag 28 september 2021 22:15 schreef Litpho het volgende:
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Ik heb geen woorden meer...

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Brexit hotline goes to Indian company Hinduja Global Solutions

The government is preparing to launch a Brexit helpline for British businesses and has awarded the contract for providing the service to an Indian company.

The Department for International Trade will announce details of the hotline this week. It will help companies to negotiate a range of new rules, including documentation and physical checks on goods, that are due to come into force next year.

A source told The Times last night that the contract had been awarded to Hinduja Global Solutions, an IT services management company that is listed in Mumbai and has operations in Britain. Its biggest shareholder is the Hinduja Group, led by the billionaire brothers Gopi and Sri Hinduja.

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Op donderdag 30 september 2021 13:40 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
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Op donderdag 30 september 2021 13:40 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
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Op donderdag 30 september 2021 13:40 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
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Op donderdag 30 september 2021 14:48 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Nog verrassend hoog, eigenlijk

Eerder vandaag liet een onderminister van Financieen in het VK weten dat de logisitieke problemen niet door Brexit worden veroorzaakt.
Prima maar dan is mijn vraag waarom de Britse regering, als dit een probleem is van volledig eigen makelij, daar al die tijd niets aan gedaan heeft en waarom Britten geen brandstof en lege schappen in de winkels hebben. Als het probleem niet Brexit is dan is het probleem dus van nationale makelij waar dus alleen het VK en diens regering schuldig aan is.

Ik vraag mij af of hij dat wel goed doorgedacht heeft.

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Op donderdag 30 september 2021 14:49 schreef Jaeger85 het volgende:

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Bij die 18% zullen wel de vrachtwagenchauffeurs met forse loonstijging zitten en de die hard Brexiteers die last hebben van cognitieve dissonantie.

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Op donderdag 30 september 2021 14:49 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
Gisteren zijn weer drie energiebedrijven (Igloo Energy, Symbio Energy, Enstroga) failliet gegaan. Dat brengt het totaal op 12 dit jaar, waarvan 9 in de laatste maand. En het zullen niet de laatste zijn...
https://www.theguardian.c(...)d-by-gas-price-surge

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Op vrijdag 1 oktober 2021 13:29 schreef George_of_the_Jungle het volgende:

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Ben wel benieuwd wanneer de eersten in Nederland problemen krijgen. In het VK krijgen ze problemen omdat de overheid max tarieven vaststeld. In Nederland kan het makkelijker naar de consument doorgeschoven worden.

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Op vrijdag 1 oktober 2021 12:26 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:
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Op vrijdag 1 oktober 2021 14:50 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
Deze tweet wordt door heel wat Britten (oa Tory MP's) herhaald, met commentaren erbij als "must be brexit?":
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Carrefour had bevoorradingsproblemen door een staking in het verdeelcentrum in Nijvel, wegens de aangekondigde sluiting in 2022 (Het wordt vervangen door een nieuw verdeelcentrum in Vlaanderen, naar het schijnt omdat er in Nijvel te vaak gestaakt werd...) .

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Op vrijdag 1 oktober 2021 14:50 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
Deze tweet wordt door heel wat Britten (oa Tory MP's) herhaald, met commentaren erbij als "must be brexit?":
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Carrefour had bevoorradingsproblemen door een staking in het verdeelcentrum in Nijvel, wegens de aangekondigde sluiting in 2022 (Het wordt vervangen door een nieuw verdeelcentrum in Vlaanderen, naar het schijnt omdat er in Nijvel te vaak gestaakt werd...) .

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Op vrijdag 1 oktober 2021 14:21 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
IDS wil artikel 16 triggeren.
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Van de man die zei:
"We've had more than 100 hours in committee over the last 3 and a half years. If there is anything about this arrangement [the Withdrawal Agreement Bill] that we have not now debated, thrashed to death, I would love to know what it is"

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Op vrijdag 1 oktober 2021 15:01 schreef VoMy het volgende:

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Wel weer typisch Belgisch om je supermarktdistributie vanuit Nijvel te doen. Alsof Suzuki zijn Nederlandse distributie vanuit Apeldoorn gaat regelen.

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Op vrijdag 1 oktober 2021 15:32 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Typisch Belgisch? Kuehne+Nagel, verantwoordelijk voor de distributie, is een Zwitsers logistiek bedrijf. Er zijn trouwens meerdere distributiecentra (oa in Kontich en Sint-Katelijne-Waver).

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Op vrijdag 1 oktober 2021 15:35 schreef VoMy het volgende:

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Het was een Bende van Nijvelreferentie.

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Farmers have warned that up to 120,000 pigs face being culled because of a lack of abattoir workers, as acute labour shortages across supply chains continue to wreak havoc on the UK economy.

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Op vrijdag 1 oktober 2021 15:29 schreef Jaeger85 het volgende:

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Wat schieten ze ermee op? Dat artikel geeft de mogelijkheid om delen van het protocol tijdelijk op te schorten.

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Germans with no HGV experience asked to drive lorries amid UK fuel crisis

Thousands of Germans who live in the UK have been written to by the government asking them to drive lorries in an attempt to ease the UK fuel crisis, even though the majority have never been at the wheel of an HGV.

They were included in a 1m-letter mass mailing that also tried to recruit ambulance drivers to get behind the wheel of lorries.

The recruitment drive is aimed at easing the UK’s supply chain shortages and a lack of petrol at forecourts.

The news came as a government minister warned that motorists could face another week of queues at the pumps and an industry body said more than a quarter (26%) of independently owned petrol stations in the UK were still dry.

The Germans were automatically included in the mailout because German driving licences issued before 1997 include an entitlement to drive small- to medium-sized trucks of up to 7.5 tonnes.

A Department for Transport (DfT) spokesperson explained that UK residents from Germany who swapped their licence for a British one would have had that element transferred to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) database. This meant they were included in the HGV category, which also covered ambulance drivers, when the DVLA sent out the letter.

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Op zaterdag 2 oktober 2021 10:32 schreef Litpho het volgende:
Wat ik niet begrijp is waarom ze niet ook Britse rijbewijzen van voor 1999 dezelfde mogelijkheid geven. Het is tenslotte onmogelijk dat het Duitse rijexamen in die tijd grondiger was dan het Britse, dus er is geen risico.

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One 41-year-old German man, who, along with his wife, received a copy of the letter at their London home on Friday morning, told the Independent: “We were quite surprised. I’m sure pay and conditions for HGV drivers have improved, but ultimately I have decided to carry on in my role at an investment bank.

“My wife has never driven anything larger than a Volvo, so she is also intending to decline the exciting opportunity.”

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Op woensdag 29 september 2021 11:28 schreef Jaeger85 het volgende:
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Daarmee doelt Frost op artikel 16 uit het Brexit-verdrag, waarin staat dat in uitzonderlijke omstandigheden één partij alle afspraken op de schop kan nemen.

Bron: https://www.nu.nl/economi(...)te-herschrijven.html

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David Frost issues veiled threat to ditch Northern Ireland protocol

The UK government has issued a veiled threat to ditch the Northern Ireland protocol sooner rather than later, warning it “cannot wait for ever” for the EU to respond to its demands to rewrite the Brexit arrangement.

The Brexit minister, David Frost, said he had been waiting since July for a formal request for substantial changes to the protocol, which the UK has largely suspended over objections to checks on a range of goods including sausages.

In a speech to the Conservative party conference declaring the “long bad dream of EU membership” over, Lord Frost warned the EU that it must come back with “ambitious” proposals to renegotiate the protocol, which was drawn up to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland.

But setting the scene for an imminent triggering of article 16, allowing the UK to unilaterally suspend some of the current arrangements, if the EU does not respond, he told a half-full hall in Manchester, he was not confident the EU would meet his demands.

“From what I hear I worry that we will not get one [a response] which enables the significant change we need,” he said.

“We cannot wait for ever. Without an agreed solution soon, we will need to act, using the article 16 safeguard mechanism, to address the impact the protocol is having on Northern Ireland.

“That may in the end be the only way to protect our country – our people, our trade, our territorial integrity, the peace process, and the benefits of this great UK, of which we are all part,” he said.

He attacked what he described as the EU’s “heavy-handed actions”, which he said had led to the protocol unravelling sooner than he had anticipated.

“Cross-community political support for the protocol has collapsed,” he said.

His claims came days after business representatives in Northern Ireland warned that triggering article 16 would have a chilling effect on trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland and between Northern Ireland and the EU.

The EU’s ambassador to the UK, João Vale de Almeida, who was in the audience, said there was “nothing strange” or unexpected in Frost’s speech, promising a response to the UK’s demands within the coming weeks.

“We are looking forward to the solutions in Northern Ireland. We are ready to be flexible,” said.

He told delegates Boris Johnson knew he was “taking a risk” when he agreed the protocol in the “difficult autumn” of 2019 but the risk was “a worthy one, in the cause of peace and protecting the Belfast/Good Friday agreement”.

But he added: “We worried right from the start that the protocol would not take the strain if not handled sensitively. As it has turned out, we were right.”

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“It will not persuade a single person who is not supplying NI already to do so; that those who are already trading with NI may stop supplying NI because they might find themselves in legal jeopardy as boardrooms will want to comply with the law; and thirdly, EU customers who are buying from Northern Ireland may decide not to do so because they will consider it too much of a hassle in the legal uncertainty,” said one business leader at the meeting.

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Op dinsdag 5 oktober 2021 15:02 schreef Ulx het volgende:

Er zijn tot nu 27 aanvragen voor een tankwagenchauffeurvisum gedaan.

Blijkbaar is de glorieuze britse vrijheid niet zo aantrekkelijk.