Captain Haddock
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NEW FACILITY: The UK's first large-scale lithium refinery – expected to create more than 1,000 jobs – will be built on Teesside after Green Lithium secured planning permission.
Located at PD Ports' Teesport site, the plant will have the capacity to produce 50,000 tonnes of battery-grade lithium a year – enough to help manufacture one million electric vehicles each year.
The company said the plant would provide an alternative market for European electric car manufacturers who are reliant on China and East Asia, where 89% of the world's lithium is currently refined.
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Interesting, I thought:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66375185. On the one hand I guess you can argue this is common sense and makes life easier for UK suppliers to the UK and EU markets of a range of goods. On the other hand, a) so it does for all suppliers globally to those markets and b) it indicates that there were standards/regulations of which the UK did not need to take back control (nor to apply any "gold plating").
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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So the rumours are true. Unfortunately, failure to impose the same checks on EU goods as those applied to other markets contravenes WTO rules. And it is, of course, an open invitation to smugglers.
But business is already weighed down with so much post Brexit bureaucracy that they cannot take any more. It's a huge, unnecessary mess.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Must have been the magic post which finally caused the page to flip!
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ray hutstone wrote:Must have been the magic post which finally caused the page to flip!
Just as well, because I couldn't delete it as, right from the off, the forum reckoned I'd posted it over an hour ago!
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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There appears to be a bug that is stopping the creation (or at least the display) of a new page under certain circumstances. This topic seems to be the only one affected? Perhaps because it now extends to so many pages.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Button- Location: Dover
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Er, that's last year? And, perhaps curiously, Britons did come back to Dover again.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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You're right. It came up on my timeline with today's date in the top banner but last year's in the copy. My apologies.
Button- Location: Dover
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Bonjour Keir, ici EU. What's in it for Moi?
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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I think the EU will check in a few bonus agreements as a way of keeping us on the right path to rejoining - but yes, there won't be wholesale changes.
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Neil Moors wrote:I think the EU will check in a few bonus agreements as a way of keeping us on the right path to rejoining - but yes, there won't be wholesale changes.
I'm not sure what significant changes there could be, that would be attractive to the EU.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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At least we avoid EU censorship.
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Very accurate reflection. Starmer definitely going as far as I think he can for now - and pointing at the automatic review is a useful staging point. Public opinion will shift back towards EU membership - the question is just how long it takes.
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Neil Moors wrote:Public opinion will shift back towards EU membership - the question is just how long it takes.
Hm. First public opinion, probably across all parts of the UK, would have to change to the extent that support for the Rejoin option is obvious and overwhelming. Second, UK political will would have to change, with loud and wide support for promoting yet another referendum as a Good Idea without castigating the electorate for getting it wrong last time. Then there's the question of EU public opinion and political will. And finally, does one start re-join negotiations before or after a referendum - I would suggest before so that everyone knows what they're voting for or against. Is this all possible? Of course it is. But in my lifetime? That I doubt.
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Button wrote:Hm. First public opinion, probably across all parts of the UK, would have to change to the extent that support for the Rejoin option is obvious and overwhelming. Second, UK political will would have to change, with loud and wide support for promoting yet another referendum as a Good Idea without castigating the electorate for getting it wrong last time. Then there's the question of EU public opinion and political will. And finally, does one start re-join negotiations before or after a referendum - I would suggest before so that everyone knows what they're voting for or against. Is this all possible? Of course it is. But in my lifetime? That I doubt.
This is exactly my position - this won't happen any time soon and public opinion would have to be overwhelming to the point that it would be seen as more odd not to rejoin. That's exactly what I foresee.
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