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[xxxxxy] 08/8/2020 15:09

Stopping illegal migrationBy JOHNREDWOOD | Published: AUGUST 8, 2020As there is great support from many writing in for this, why not set out  your proposals  for the Home Secretary in your postings as she clearly shares this aim.I have raised this issue several times in the Commons, on this site and elsewhere. I have proposed a more intense police operation against people traffickers, and new UK  asylum legislation which makes clear all EU continental countries are safe countries and the Dublin Convention should therefore be applied by our courts.

[xxxxxy] 08/8/2020 15:08

Steve Willis8 Aug 2020 2:27PMThe Government has to talk up the danger to justify the immense catastrophe they have caused by lockdown. I'm over 65 and a scientist

[xxxxxy] 08/8/2020 15:04

No DealWTO

[lefrene] 08/8/2020 14:48

Perhaps billing the EU for all these illegals might reach hearts and minds? I would think that over time each of these migrants will cost us at least £250k, so deduct that from whatever fantasy figure the EU conmen say the UK owes them.

Can you just imagine the furore if the UK was exporting tens of thousands of illegals to Euroland every year. Would the awfully nice French and Belgian coast guard be sending rescue boats to pick up dinghies escorted by our navy? Answers on a postcard.

[investtofly] 08/8/2020 14:09

We should stop advertising what benefits the will receive if they manage to get to The UK. I hope The Government gets on top of this, but they won't.As for people that want to help these illegals are welcome to do so as long as they house and feed them.

[alphorn] 08/8/2020 13:17

One problem - those PC's would most likely break down. ;)

[k38] 08/8/2020 11:06

NO DEAL & WTO !THAT'S THE WAY TO DEAL WITH THE BRUSSELS RATS.(Good morning Minerva....;))

[alphorn] 08/8/2020 10:34

M2 - may be! You can either continually be amazed at the lack of knowledge - or just smile and read the next post.

The dead parrot has a better understanding. Lol

[maxk] 08/8/2020 10:14

Brussels = money for nothing and your bribes are free.

[diku] 08/8/2020 09:48

Tangle demands will be sowed in to deter if any of the other 27 thinking about leaving...

[maxk] 08/8/2020 09:39

WTO is functioning. Has warts etc, but nothing compared to the tangles the €U are demanding for a trade deal.

[diku] 08/8/2020 09:24

Think the French President so an opportunity for a visit to Beirut blast...clear up and infrastructure spending coming...get those French companies in there quickly...

[alphorn] 08/8/2020 08:44

So in essence what are the improvements over the current EU/J agreement.

Not immediately obvious.

[smartypants] 08/8/2020 08:35

Japan rushes UK to agree first post-Brexit trade deal

Britain under pressure to meet Tokyo’s 6-week timetable, meaning key areas such as agriculture may suffer.

Japan has given the UK just six weeks to strike a post-Brexit deal, putting Boris Johnson’s government under pressure to agree one of the fastest trade negotiations in history — and Britain’s first in more than 40 years.

Time is so short that both sides will need to “limit their ambitions”, warned Hiroshi Matsuura, Tokyo’s chief negotiator, in comments that dash UK hopes of winning deep trade liberalisation from Japan.

While meeting the timetable would hand Mr Johnson an early trade victory, it also highlights the risk of the UK being bounced into bad deals before the Brexit transition expires at the end of the year.

Striking a trade agreement with Japan is one of the main priorities for Liz Truss, the UK’s trade secretary, who hailed the start of talks as a “historic moment” for both countries.
Most comprehensive free trade deals normally take years to agree, but Mr Matsuura said there was almost no time left if Japan was going to ratify a deal this year.

Both sides have agreed to base a deal on the existing EU-Japan agreement — which took effect last year — but the UK has set out further goals, including the “reduction or elimination” of Japanese tariffs on goods and agriculture and “ambitious commitments on market access” for UK services.

However, Mr Matsuura suggested there would be little time for talks on contentious areas such as tariffs and quotas. “The shortage of time means that both sides will have to limit their ambitions,” he said.

His comments raise the risk that the UK will not secure any meaningful quotas to sell agricultural goods such as beef or cheese in the Japanese market. Agriculture was one of the most contentious areas in EU-Japan trade talks.
Instead, one of the UK’s priorities is likely to be rules of origin that let British exporters continue to include European components in products they sell to Japan.

[alphorn] 08/8/2020 08:27

"Declare talks finished and WTO"

Cheshire and others - you repeat this like parrots. You think that WTO is fully functioning? I suggest that you do a little weekend study. You might benefit.

[xxxxxy] 08/8/2020 07:25

Remember BOYCOTT France and French produce. Spread the message please.
Thanks

[xxxxxy] 08/8/2020 07:24

The new Planning system
By JOHNREDWOOD | Published: AUGUST 8, 2020
Let us welcome the idea of a simple map setting out general uses for land in each designated area of a Local Plan. Let us also agree the government needs to cut inward migration and prevent people trafficking.

The government suggests 3 categories on a map. One is Growth, the second is Renewal and the third is Protection. Growth implies more or less any development is fine in principle, though subject to design and density requirements to be set in the Local Plan. Renewal we are told implies rebuild, change of use or some “gentle densification”. Protection implies keeping areas green with little or no building.

Maybe the government should look at three other use categories instead. They could demark land for housing, land for commercial development be it retail or industrial estate, and land for green gaps, farming and outdoor leisure for sports fields and other green spaces. I am all in favour of eroding the current complex uses classes and allowing greater freedom for building owners to flex from retail to homes or to industry. There do need to be special controls on the location of industrial businesses or leisure businesses that create noise or other nuisance, so they do not conflict with housing areas. Adjusting their categories, they could make it clear Growth includes employment sites as well as housing sites, whilst Renewal might like to stay more in keeping with current uses and styles of development.

The big issue to be resolved is the process of forming the Map, and the extent to which local wishes will be fully reflected in the results. The present system is deeply distrusted and disliked for the simple reason that the compromise which is a local Plan is soon broken by appeal decisions, forcing fast growing communities to absorb more housing development than they wanted. In communities that lack growth and investment the same process fails to lift the area to attract the new people and new investment they need to boost living standards and enterprise.

There is enthusiasm for levelling up both in the fast growth areas suffering from too much building, and in the slow and no growth areas desperate for new investment. How will this new system level up? What does it bring to the areas without investment that will drive a better distribution of building around the country? The government needs to make sure this is not just a new variant of systems to increase the pace of housebuilding in areas that are already relatively well off.

[cheshire pete] 07/8/2020 22:56

Awful French allowing it to happen. Our friends? lol. Remainers note. Thank goodness we've left.