by Oui
Sat Jan 23rd, 2021 at 10:18:22 AM EST
Rotting fish, lost business and piles of red tape. The reality of Brexit hits Britain | CNN News |
For all the fanfare made when Prime Minister Boris Johnson struck a trade deal with Brussels on Christmas Eve, the inescapable reality of leaving the European Union's customs and regulatory territory has already started to bite.
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Despite Johnson's repeated claims that Brexit is a great opportunity for British exporters and would lead to some kind of revival for free trade, the reality is very different: freshly caught fish are reportedly being left to rot as exporters cannot get them to the European Union while logistics firms are skeptical that both importing and exporting is going to be viable for many businesses in the long term.
Fallout from Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic is pushing the UK economy into a sharp contraction in the first quarter, according to data published Friday by IHS Markit, meaning a double-dip recession is now on the cards.
Scottish fishermen land fish in Denmark to avoid post-Brexit red tape | Reuters |
Boris Johnson and his Conservative policy has placed Britain in the top spot of COVID-19 deaths ...
Boris Johnson heralds Britain's coronavirus successes. The numbers tell a different story. | NBC News - May 3, 2020 |
50,000 COVID-19 deaths and rising. How Britain failed to stop the second wave | Reuters - Nov. 24, 2020 |
UK has highest Covid-19 death rate in world
Coronavirus tracked: see how your country compares | FT |
Failing to protect lives and the economy, the PR propaganda continues to mislead ... failing in healthcare, the Conservatives white-wash poor performance by blaming outside forces... so damn similar to Trump's America and PM Mark Rutte of the Netherlands.
BoJo and his Oxford Mathematicians ... the same who advices the "herd immunity" policy for Britain and the Dutch ...
Coronavirus: UK variant 'may be more deadly' | BBC News |
The data comes from mathematicians comparing death rates in people infected with either the new or the old versions of the virus.
The new more infectious variant has already spread widely across the UK.
Mr Johnson told a Downing Street briefing: "In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.
"It's largely the impact of this new variant that means the NHS is under such intense pressure."
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Covid: 'More deadly' UK variant claim played down by scientists
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Secrecy of Government, the Rutte Doctrine ...
OMT Outbreak Management Team
The troubling organ of “science” in political decision making ... health-economy-unrest and protests. The alpha advice to convince the public in acceptance ... AI algorithms ...
AI Trade Mission to Boston with PM Mark Rutte
Welfare surveillance system violates human rights, Dutch court rules | The Guardian - Feb 5, 2020 |
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A Dutch court has ordered the immediate halt of an automated surveillance system for detecting welfare fraud because it violates human rights, in a judgment likely to resonate well beyond the Netherlands.
The case was seen as an important legal challenge to the controversial but growing use by governments around the world of artificial intelligence (AI) and risk modelling in administering welfare benefits and other core services.
Campaigners say such “digital welfare states” – developed often without consultation, and operated secretively and without adequate oversight – amount to spying on the poor, breaching privacy and human rights norms and unfairly penalising the most vulnerable.
