UK & EU Agree Post-Brexit Trade Deal

[jfman]

Originally Posted by Pierre

I’ve provided more than enough evidence on this particular issue.

So in light of all the evidence you wish to ignore, I’ll dismiss you again, on this matter, you Know nothing, you’re coming across as an idiot.

If you carry on, you’ll only be confirming the proposition.

You are a parody of your former self, Pierre. As the Nostradamus of this situation can you advise, as at when you type from “I know something you don’t know headquarters“, if the steer is to avoid UK stocks or buy?

If you can’t answer the easy ones I’ve no real optimism for the challenging ones.

Name your company too. For transparency to prove you are telling the truth you stand by and not just spewing rhetoric in favour of one political party. I suspect you will not...

Originally Posted by jfman

An “engineer” sounds more like manual labour than stakeholder relationship to me. That said I’m sure, behind your keyboard, you will prove me wrong as ever.

It is blindingly obvious from Pierre’s many highly technical contributions to this forum over a great many years that he has the expertise he says he does. I think you need to back off a bit ... you’ve argued yourself into a corner here and if you persist in trying to discount his informed views on this issue by making daft claims about his supposed lack of expertise you’re just going to make yourself look silly.

[jfman]

Originally Posted by Chris

It is blindingly obvious from Pierre’s many highly technical contributions to this forum over a great many years that he has the expertise he says he does. I think you need to back off a bit ... you’ve argued yourself into a corner here and if you persist in trying to discount his informed views on this issue by making daft claims about his supposed lack of expertise you’re just going to make yourself look silly.

I’ve seen nothing to indicate he has any knowledge of the involvement of Huawei, or anyone else, and the implications for national security above that in the public domain.

My reading is that he is opining above his station. However this will of course be difficult to evidence as it’s “an opinion”.

I remind the forum that when I challenged him on this fact I was told to “do one”. Behaviour I’d personally consider below reasonable etiquette. Unless of course the moderating team seek to create a two tier forum?

It’d be helpful also if Pierre flagged “professional insight” from speculation as well.

[pip08456]

Originally Posted by jfman

I’ve seen nothing to indicate he has any knowledge of the involvement of Huawei, or anyone else, and the implications for national security above that in the public domain.

My reading is that he is opining above his station. However this will of course be difficult to evidence as it’s “an opinion”.

I remind the forum that when I challenged him on this fact I was told to “do one”. Behaviour I’d personally consider below reasonable etiquette. Unless of course the moderating team seek to create a two tier forum?

It’d be helpful also if Pierre flagged “professional insight” from speculation as well.

Remember a few posts ago when Pierre said he would call you stupid but that would be an insult?

He was correct, it would have been an insult to stupid people.

[1andrew1]

I'm not sure how much this will impact us if we're not Amazon merchants or buy from Amazon, but I'm sharing this here.

The Amazon FBA Brexit bombshell has dropped which will significantly impact your Amazon business from the 1st of January 2021. Amazon’s UK FBA operations will be split from the EU with no more EFN (European Fufilment Network) and an end to Pan-European FBA inventory transfers between the UK and EU....

The logistical impact will be a higher barrier to entry to selling on mainland Europe from the UK. If you want international sales from Europe then you will be forced to split your stock (which will probably mean higher inventory holding and additional costs) and send part of your stock to a warehouse in Europe (with the associated additional shipping costs compared to the UK).

https://tamebay.com/2020/07/amazon-f...ds-for-uk.html

[Pierre]

At least we're well out of this kind of thing.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...-fund-12031925

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Engineer is not manual labour, it is a skilled technical position in Telecomms.

Before retiring, I worked at a number of Universities, and used to attend RUGIT (Russell Group IT Directors Group) meetings, and we often had "off agenda" briefings from representatives from the National Cyber Security Centre (which is part of GCHQ) - there were often warnings about how Chinese students were actively copying/taking back to China proprietary research findings, and how we should be mitigating this (difficult in Universities, who believe knowledge should be shared), and how they had concerns about any Chinese manufacturers tech being embedded in our networks (pro’s were it was cheaper, con’s were it was often built with stolen copyrighted technologies, and concerns about backdoor security potential breaches).

He knows that, Hugh, he's just being insulting and argumentative.

Originally Posted by Pierre

At least we're well out of this kind of thing.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...-fund-12031925

”well out of" leaders trying to help each other’s countries, but at the same time looking out for their own countries/economies?

I thought we wanted countries to be able to make their own decisions, rather than being over-ruled by the EU?

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by jfman

I’ve seen nothing to indicate he has any knowledge of the involvement of Huawei, or anyone else, and the implications for national security above that in the public domain.

My reading is that he is opining above his station. However this will of course be difficult to evidence as it’s “an opinion”.

I remind the forum that when I challenged him on this fact I was told to “do one”. Behaviour I’d personally consider below reasonable etiquette. Unless of course the moderating team seek to create a two tier forum?

It’d be helpful also if Pierre flagged “professional insight” from speculation as well.

We're still waiting to see your 'economist' credentials, jfman. Just sayin'...

[denphone]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

We're still waiting to see your 'economist' credentials, jfman. Just sayin'...

l suspect at the end of the day none of us have any economic credentials as such so its just one persons opinion against another persons opinion.

[Pierre]

https://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=506546

More woe for Huawei

[Carth]

Originally Posted by Pierre

https://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=506546

More woe for Huawei

if you say that fast, it even sounds Chinese

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Hugh

”well out of" leaders trying to help each other’s countries, but at the same time looking out for their own countries/economies?

I thought we wanted countries to be able to make their own decisions, rather than being over-ruled by the EU?

We’ll see how it resolves itself. If it resolves itself.

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Hugh

”well out of" leaders trying to help each other’s countries, but at the same time looking out for their own countries/economies?

I thought we wanted countries to be able to make their own decisions, rather than being over-ruled by the EU?

There are 447m people in the EU. If the EU leaders agree on stimulus grants totalling 390 billion EUR, that's nearly 900 EUR per person in the EU.

No wonder the "frugal five" are baulking at this.

And you mock Pierre's view that we are "well out" of their mess? Dear oh dear.

[1andrew1]

UK Government runs out of time to introduce a replacement to "CE" labelling. Maybe the Government just needs to believe more and the replacement will magically appear ?

The government has run out of time to introduce a new UK quality assurance scheme to replace the EU’s “CE” product labelling system at the end of the Brexit transition period, industry has warned.

With less than six months before the Brexit transition period expires, the government has still not published details of how its own planned mark — the UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA) — will operate, causing rising frustrations among manufacturers.

The CE marks are essential for legally placing products in EU markets, covering vast numbers of industrial products, from car brakes and airbags to industrial pressure valves and electromagnetic engine safety tests.

Honda, the Japanese car and marine engine maker, called on government ministers to “urgently update” its plans for the UK scheme or risk interrupting component supplies to its UK base in Swindon.

“Honda is calling on the government to urgently update its guidance on CE markings to ensure that we can continue to supply cars, motorcycles, marine engines and power equipment to customers in the UK beyond the end of the transition period,” the company said in a statement issued to the Financial Times.

“The remaining time in 2020 is simply too short to design, test and guarantee compliance with whatever the new UK requirements will be before the end of the year.”

In 2019 the previous government said that the CE mark would be recognised in the UK for a limited period in the event of a “no-deal” Brexit, but that advice was rescinded in January and has since not been updated.

https://www.ft.com/content/16a10238-...9-a48c0b00c96b

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth

There are 447m people in the EU. If the EU leaders agree on stimulus grants totalling 390 billion EUR, that's nearly 900 EUR per person in the EU.

No wonder the "frugal five" are baulking at this.

And you mock Pierre's view that we are "well out" of their mess? Dear oh dear.

How much has the UK spent? I suspect the Magic Money Forest has paid out more than €900 per person in the UK. Ironically, BoJo has got his wish to be compared to Churchill - he has indebted the country to levels last seen when Churchill was PM.