Boris’s Brexit border plans could make UK a laughing-stock, says MP best-known for obsession with cheese
Liz Truss: the queen of cheese is warning that Boris Johnson’s Brexit will cause serious problems.
Boris Johnson’s Brexit border plans could break international trading rules, risk the UK’s international credibility, and lead to smuggling from the European Union, it has been alleged.
And just so you know this is a serious matter, the warning comes in a leaked letter written by the minister best-known – and ridiculed – for her own unnatural obsession with cheese.
Liz Truss – for it was she – outlined four “key areas of concerns” [sic] about the government’s plans to leave EU trading and custom rules at the end of 2020, in a letter to Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Michael Gove.
Here’s UK Business Insider:
Truss said the plans could create a series of logistical, political, and reputational risks for the government, including:
- A legal challenge from the World Trade Organisation.
- Increased smuggling from the EU if not all UK ports are ready to carry out checks.
- Concerns over the union if EU tariffs are applied to all goods heading to Northern Ireland by “default.”
- The undermining of the UK’s international trade policy.
The whole is likely to make the UK even more of an international laughing-stock than it is now – and that’s frankly amazing because other nations have been laughing at us for years.
They can see what happens when a nation falls into neoliberal decline for more than 40 years.
By the end, it has no public services to call its own, no manufacturing industry, no trading partners, no talent and no credibility.
And the members of the Tory government are prime examples of the philosophy that led to this collapse.
Source: Leaked Liz Truss letter says Boris Johnson’s Brexit plans risk legal challenge – Business Insider
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