EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

China to buy a European port?
Fingers were burnt here!

Good to see that tax-avoiding, ex-pat brexiteer Jim Ratcliffe has pulled the Grenadier manufacture planned for Wales into France.

Could sell them Portsmouth?

Give, surely?

Nah, 99-year lease!

Just that image reminds me of Pratchett's Discworld "Future Pork Markets" ... :)

The Pork does not exist yet...

I thought that happened ages ago. No market for luxury cars in the UK post brexit. Donkeys maybe.

Predictable, but he'd have to be stone-wall crazy not to build it in the EU. Of course, that does make his pro-Brexit stance a little hard to justify.

Like Dyson, he probably only cares about the size of his own bankaccount.

Fair enough, but then own it. If he has spouted the "UK will thrive outside the EU, oh no wait, only if I run Brexit which I don't" then typical bullshit merchant alert.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/dec/08/commonwealth-bank-australia-move-european-hq-london-amsterdam-brexit?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

More brexit dividends.

Thankfully the threat of breaking international law seems to have gone although it will doubtless be twisted into some grand negotiating strategy/triumph

Šefčovič

Subtitle software really struggles with this name, this was from 2018 I think.

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Possible that the UK Gov never intended to actually include the contentious article, merely gave themselves an item that they could later 'give up' and appear to compromise?

I’m expecting them to go full Schrödinger and claim that they were somehow expressing sovereignty by being able to compromise AND that they were simultaneously bullied into it by the EU

Anyone got letters from Companies House for Overseas Companies?

It lists requirements for letterheads:

In addition after 31 December you will also be required to include the following additional information on your client or public facing material including letterheads, websites and order forms:

• Location of your head office
• Legal form of your company
• It's limited liability status
• **Its share capital**, and if applicable 

Notice that your company is being wound up or is subject or insolvency or other analogous proceedings

Most of that is standard, but share capital?

Now we have a secretive task force on the possible impact and preparation of a No deal?

Easiest deal in history and no deal is better then a deal, and we come to this.

Anyone selling digital goods got any idea whether EU companies need to be registered for VAT in the UK? In theory, yes (and I assume anyone selling into the EU from the UK needs to be registered the other direction), but I just don't know how they intend to enforce it or even apply it given the advice on HMRC's site is just about physical goods or UK companies selling digital goods.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/09/grace-period-for-brexit-checks-on-supermarket-supplies-to-northern-ireland?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Some more relaxation on rules agreed.

But nothing about if small shops can be trusted traders, how you become one and if I have to deal with eBay paperwork next year if I sell used clothing I no longer wear🤷

Strange things on youtube:

One channel pretending to do USA republican news, but actually spamming Brexit nonsense...domain registered by japanese isp.

Another joined youtube in 2009...twitter in 2020 with .pw links which is Palau island.

I wonder if those are spam channels to relieve the gullible of their personal information/money... :)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/09/boris-johnson-and-eu-agree-to-extend-brexit-talks-for-another-72-hours?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Looks it's going in extra time. With trade penalty shootouts?

(Sorry...)

Who ate all the buffets?

https://twitter.com/PhilipSime/status/1336796547783258118?s=19

🙋 The two on the left: one wearing a clown sized tie and the other wearing what looks like his big brother’s suit.

UK holidaymakers barred from entering anywhere in the EU after Jan 1st due to COVID restrictions.

Those blue passports are going to feel GREAT.

Barnier looks like a giant Xmas tree decoration with a strong coming out of his head.

I know you shouldn't be so superficial about these things, but politicians (well anyone, but particularly them and lawyers) in untidy, ill fitting suits is a pet hate of mine.

https://twitter.com/Trump_ton/status/1336945674001260545?fbclid=IwAR09Tk7RH3tkSb8vHV4B3uxh_MMuq6EJrRyzfFoXAwnUZDX3Kw0D6183pEo

spicy "oven ready deal" parody tweet

Just being a pedant (as usual) for a moment, its not actually a ban more a recommendation that member states can choose to override.

So far a handful of states have chosen not to banning Brits to protect their tourist industry. Austria for example have said that Brits are welcome if they can turn up at the border with a negative Covid test ( or can turn up without a test if UK covid rates fall to < 100 per 100k).

It will be interesting to see what the ~18 or so EU countries with worse Covid rates than the UK choose to do.