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Hi from France

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  1. readable link : https://archive.ph/gm6Qy another interesting piece of advice another acknowledgement in the ft https://archive.md/4DdFw
  2. A series of suggestions by Adam Posen: the UK now has "little time for delusions of grandeur". https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/when-it-comes-to-brexit-things-can-only-get-worse/
  3. Apparently freedom of movement across Europe is widely endorsed https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/brexit/mutual-free-movement-for-uk-and-eu-citizens-supported-by-up-to-84-of-brits-in-stunning-new-poll/ Originally, Brexiteers wanted to cherry pick the free movement of goods and services and not the free movement of people (although obv they should still be allowed to retire to Marbella). For us Brit’s getting free movement on a whole continent in exchange for us getting free movement on one and a bit island doesn’t seem to be a very fair deal ?
  4. does Revolut work in Thailand ? If so just pay with your smartphone everywhere
  5. you just read the Guardian, one of the leading world newspapers, fiercely independent congrats ????
  6. same perilous sea but smuggling is easier, because if they are caught they cannot be sent back. Now they just have to cross the border in the middle of the Channel and it's just done, no “take charge” requests no expulsion .. and no need to hide once you're in UK waters, you can just call the help hotline : 0043 50 43 112 so it's technically less dangerous since you're able to call the lifeboat halfway out One 19-year-old man from Sudan who is currently in Calais said: “We believe we will not be safe unless we can reach the UK. Here the French police beat us and evict us every day from the places where we are sleeping outside. It brings back bad memories from Libya where I was locked up and beaten many times by traffickers. Because of Brexit I believe that once I reach the UK I will be safe at last. No Dublin, no fingerprints any more.” He said he had no money to pay smugglers and would try to find a way to cross with a small group of friends in an abandoned kayak. “Every night we go to the beach to look for small boats that have been abandoned and we will try to cross that way.” in a kayak.... god https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/12/brexit-easier-small-boat-crossings-to-reach-uk-refugees-say
  7. I like that one “one of the great things we gave to Europe" thank you Boris
  8. well you just can't "get stuff sorted" refugees who have fled a variety of conflict zones including Sudan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Eritrea are there ....and the UK must take its share there no way around this and it's a good think the UK stopped being an EU member and now starts having to take its responsibilities. anyway the country is in dire need of builders (in London half of them are foreign), fruit pickers, carers for the elderly....
  9. why are you even debating about returning refugees to their previous country of travel then? Do you even realize Brexit cancelled the Dublin III Regulation which enabled the UK to return asylum seekers to EU Member States without considering their asylum claims? apparently this is what you would like to do, but sorry, this is not possible anymore, because of "Brexit stuff". Brexit has made it considerably easier for small boat crossings to reach the UK that's why record numbers of people cross the Channel now.
  10. it seem does some credulous brexiteers have been promised that, but no you can't do that to a sovereign state, declaration of war aside. Now you left the EU you just have to keep them, it turns out as a matter of fact just quitting the European convention on human rights (drafted by British MP and lawyer Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe) by making cross-border law enforcement harder will stop police cooperation and even threatens the TCA https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/08/eu-could-terminate-police-and-security-agreement-if-uk-quits-echr so no @transam, here you can write whatever you want, but this is not going to happen: Boris promised but didn't deliver, and Rishi won't do it because the UK really needs to mend its economy and have good relations with its neighbours The good news is the UK might put some post-Brexit customs arrangements in place (EU customs have been implemented in 2021 but sadly the UK didn't yet find the resources to do the same). In the same manner as your "made in France" blue passports, some of your post-Brexit border checks have been outsourced to a French company https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/03/07/british-operator-extremely-disappointed-french-rival-wins-hmrc/
  11. Where would you drop these people with that barge? As you know, whith brexit the UK has lost any possibility to expel to neighboring countries.
  12. Uk has a very strong "pull factor" and a lot of migrating families crossing the channel in small boats come from Afghanistan, which is in a terrible state under Taliban rule (and the UK just let them down). The UK should set up an asylum processing centre in northern France so claims could be processed there, allowing people to travel legally to the UK if accepted, instead of dying during the crossing and having to pay their way to smugglers as for the illegals https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/07/what-does-the-uks-small-boats-plan-mean-for-relations-with-france
  13. also Sunak is in France today and will pay 543M€ to help fight "illegal immigration" https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2023/03/10/le-premier-ministre-britannique-rishi-sunak-recu-a-l-elysee_6164905_3210.html as you know since Brexit, the UK cannot send just back migrants to their previous point of travel (=other European countries). personally, I'm happy that we have again someone reliable to cooperate with, but not satisfied with France doing the dirty job with a detention centre and hundred of kilometer of beaches to watch. We are not Rwanda https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/mar/10/rishi-sunak-emmanuel-macron-channel-migrant-crossings-uk-politics-live people seeking asylum should be able to have their request processed without having to cross the Channel first. Asylum is a vital human right
  14. that could be expected when you put grownups in charge like on this thread instead of a anti-euro fanatic like @JonnyF whose extremist attitude (on this thread https://bit.ly/3F2bBsL) "corrupt EU", "EU tentacles" you put in charge people a bit like @RayC with a clear vision of both differences and common ground .. solutions appear. After all, the EU is a negotiating machine. And British diplomacy is (or at least used to be) the very best of the world. Though brexiteers sacked the most skilled diplomats when taking power ("traitors"), there are apparently still some who can take over, and rebuild trust. Now the UK still has brexiteers in power for 2 more years, a political system with "no written constitution" which means 50.1% can act as if they had 100% and do whatever they please, including breaking treaties voted by parliament and with Great Seal of the Realm. A real guarantee of political stability and upholding international commitment would be to abolish First pass the post and have a UK constitution with a qualified majority system. Until then, every treaty of deal with the UK can go void anytime. Now ironically Sunak appear more pro-Europe than Starmer https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/05/brexit-has-reversed-the-brains-of-sunak-and-starmer
  15. Inside story of the deal: How an ‘unholy trinity’ of UK civil servants ensconced in a Brussels basement thrashed out EU agreement. https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-eu-deal-boris-johnson-departure-paved-the-way-brexit-bargain-northern-ireland-protocol-liz-truss-rishi-sunak-tory-conservatives/
  16. better and better: we have Charles and Camilla coming over https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/03/king-charles-to-make-first-state-visits-to-france-and-germany read : the Uk is on the fast Track to get back into Horizon-Europe
  17. I was not referring to Boris Johnson as a prime minister but as a U.K. foreign minister https://www.politico.eu/article/boris-johnson-french-turds-bbc-footage/ but this is just one of many times when UK diplomacy, which used to be very the best of the world, was wrecked when Brexiteers "took control" (and sacked its most talented diplomats). As soon as Sunak started his Bromance with Macron, some "non-negotiable" issues with Northern Ireland being in the single market suddenly disappeared https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2Farticle%2Frishi-sunak-macron-cop27-bromance-height-age-prime-minister-xjtrglxtf
  18. I read that practical Euro use in Croatia has been going on for years indeed, and the Eurozone cannot really work unless other measures are implemented (tax rates convergence, setting up budgetary transfers from rich to poor regions....). That's why it Brexit is so useful: the UK was the main (though not the only) member blocking these advances. note the USA has very heterogeneous states in its federation and the dollar works ? thanks a lot! Right now we are working on this (your browser will probably translate this page) .
  19. that would be an excellent idea, but neither party wants it at the moment. For UK politicians the "B word" is taboo. For UE public opinion, the Brexit divorce is now history and we have problems aplenty, so no one really cares: near-zero coverage of the Windsor Framework. Most experts say no membership candidacy before 10-20 years, I think it's reasonable, but both Britain and the EU will be very different then. Right now I think the priority is rebuilding the bridges which have been burned down, the good new is the tide seems to turn. No more Boris Johnson (His "The French are little t*rds" did not go down well at all). besides, Brexit is not as loose-loose as Ray would have it: to a large extend, EU countries want to go on taking or recovering pieces of the UK "economic cake": industrial sites, stock market transactions, euro bonds, foreign students... so, on the EU side there is a lot a wariness about a big quick rapprochement. .
  20. In theory, a weaker currency makes the country poorer but fosters exports and attracts foreign investments. For 6 years now, the UK has had a weaker currency, weaker exports and less investments. A horrible loose-loose-loose mix. Year after year after year, Brexit has proved not an outright catastrophy, but a continuous"slow puncture". And after years running on flat tires, there are considerable consequences. Brexit might not have been about purchasing power only, but instead about immigration and above all "sovereignty" but a poorer state and population means reduced sovereignty. And the worst thing now is: no real improvement in sight... .
  21. Automotive News specialized automotive press, europe branch : you can select my quote and left-click google to find the article now what about this fact itself? Are you conscious how serious the situation is? read the BBC news site last months Brexit induced : 1/ a productivity problem https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64623488 2/ an investment problem last time I looked it up and before the pandemics, it was -11% across the whole economy .. all this in spite of a serious devaluation of the pound (I guess you experience this in Thailand) so the current problem with the food bills or the NHS is just the tip of the iceberg : the future IS bleak, we KNOW While, I quite agree with you that "money is not all that matters" and that Brexit is no Armageddon either, there is a very very serious issue there.
  22. ... then maybe the Euro was not at all a mistake (unless croats are total idiots of course) btw I'm extremely happy with the Euro and we're heading for Croatia at Easter with the Euro and the superb scenery, not Portugal/Spain/Italy this year!
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