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28/02/2020

A row has broken out between the British Government and the EU Commission over the funding of study by the European Economics Research (EER) group of Trinity College Dublin. A spokesman for the British government accused the EU Commission of meddling in internal affairs when it was revealed that the EER had received co-funding from Europe for a study of the potential political and economic impact of a reunited Ireland. No British or Northern Ireland university was involved in the study. The results of the study can expect a wide distribution as it is EU policy to make the results of such studies easily available to the general public. It will certainly not go unnoticed on both sides of the Irish Sea. DUP ministers declared that the EU has been actively engaged in encouraging a united Ireland since Brexit and has been using surreptitious methods to disrupt the UK/Ulster relationship of which this is just another example. An EU representative for the research funding agency said that the criticisms were unfounded and the grant to the EER was in the normal context of the present Framework programme.

20/02/2020

20th February 2021: Figures just released show that activity in the Hotel and Restaurant sector took a plunge over the Christmas and New year period. The President of the Hotel Federation said that part of the drop was due to hotels having to limit and in some case even cancel room reservations through lack of staff. Since the immigration laws came into place, unskilled (yet competent !) labour, mainly from Eastern Europe, has been excluded from the UK work force. With unemployment at a new low, hotel managers and restaurant owners in Britain cannot recruit enough people to prepare rooms and participate in the general running of a hotel.
Likewise, now that Britain has closed the doors to E.U. table service personnel, restaurant owners cannot attract sufficient manpower because of the difficult working conditions of long hours, physically tiring and often stressful. Paradoxically, British people trained in hotel management and restaurant skills - chefs and serving staff - are moving to the E.U. being employed by the big hotels and Michelin restaurants where salaries are much higher than in the U.K.

14/02/2020

14th February 2021: As American pension funds invested massively in the British heath care industry, the Pound Sterling has gone from strength to strength against the Euro. The Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer made a joint announcement today declaring this was yet another proof of Brexit being fully justified as indicated by the continuing weakness of the Euro against the Pound Sterling.
In contrast, the independent study group “UK Business” published their monthly report on post-Brexit business pointing out the fall in exports to the EU of British manufactured goods. They claim that this is a direct effect of the weak Euro against an artificially-inflated Pound Sterling. British goods are more expensive than EU-produced goods, notably domestic electrical appliances. The export situation is compounded by the “tit for tat” taxation that has been going on between the UK and the EU.
The half-term analysis of the UK agriculture industry underlined the catastrophic effects of the lack of EU labour on last summer’s fruit and vegetable harvest. Eastern European non-qualified workers did not return to the UK in anticipation of the spring and summer harvests, preferring to remain within EU member states. The good exchange rate £/€ were offset by concern over the non-application n the UK of European health care rights to EU nationals and uncertainty over the right of stay in the UK. Much of the potato production was lost because the crop could not be brought in before the winter rains began whilst only part of the fruit in the Kent orchards were collected, the rest rotting on the ground.

11/02/2020

11th February 2021: The TV enquiry programme "Search it out" screened yesterday evening revealed that last week British Customs agents at Felixstowe stopped a lorry attempting to bring counterfeit drugs into Britain. The vehicle was loaded with boxes of supposed antibiotics, pain-killers and a variety of other medicines. The British Police and Customs were alerted when the Belgian authorities informed them that the driver presented false customs export documents when embarking on the Zeebrugge ferry. Sources informed "Search it out" that tests made on samples of the antibiotics showed them to be almost 85% inert powder. The government has warned high street chemists to refuse offers of cut-price antibiotics.

Since Brexit, the penury of medicines in Britain has become more and more acute. The UK imported £24.8 billion of pharmaceutical products, of which £18.2 billion (73 per cent) were from the EU prior to Brexit.The situation became even more difficult when the newly-installed production line for antibiotics at a major British pharmaceutical company was closed following a devastating fire.

Negotiations on a new trade deal with the US drugs industry have been suspended by the British government following talks on a better deal with the EU Commission for the European Pharmaceutical Industry. The US deal involved a 35% increase in prices for many products imported from the USA.

09/02/2020

9th February 2021: Tension is running high between Britain and the EU after British fishermen fired shotguns at a mixed German/Danish fishing fleet. Only minor damage was reported and the European Commission lodged an official complaint to 10 Downing Street. A government spokesman said that the foreign ships were fishing well within the British territorial waters. This is the third incident since the negotiations on access for European vessels in British waters broken down. The situation is compounded by the steep fall in fish prices on the British market due to excessive supply coupled to insufficient consumer demand. The EU has said that it will maintain the 35% inport tax on British seafood until the British government returns to the conference table.
Short-time working is still in place at most of the British car manufacturing plants, especially in the North, as production is perturbed by the delays in the delivery of parts from Europe. The queues of goods vehicles at the Channel ports were due to many drivers not having the correct documents, a EU spokesman for transport declared.
Trade talks with US pharmaceutical companies got off to a bad start earlier this week as prices for American products were proposed at 25% up on the pre-Brexit negotiated tariffs.

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