Grateful for minor progress.

DEFRA's response to Joel Hills's piece on the cost of border checks.

It would be helpful for DEFRA to release their calculations, methodology and assumptions that cause them to think the impact will be 10 times smaller than what the industry expects

deframedia.blog.gov.uk/2024/04/26/cov…

Do love visiting music stores wherever I am, though as I keep saying, CD rather than vinyl. Apparently Japan is the pace to go for that, but haven't yet found that opportunity.

This lack of border SPS infrastructure, along with a trust deficit, likely to be the biggest handicap to UKs ability to conclude a veterinary agreement with the EU. If UK lacks manpower to check if imports are safe, how can they be relied on to certify that exports to EU are?

Fixing the ports is crucial to offsetting some of Brexit's costs. Trade agreements are secondary - the key pro-trade policies for the UK are unilateral ones, as I set out in my chapter in this Social Market Foundation collection smf.co.uk/publications/l…

Useful read, one big question ahead is the extent to which the UK is seeking a large change to the current situation or various individual relationship deepening measures, basically the objectives. Sense at the moment is this will continue to be fudged.

Going to be in Edinburgh next week which seems like interesting timing on my part...

Exactly.

Gonna be interesting forcing loads of people with mental health problems into the workplace and/ or making them poorer than they already are. Sure it’ll end well for everyone.