We are now many years outside of the EU now and yet we have next to nothing in place to verify what is coming into the country. The EU are about to make border checks more stringent on their side, and yet we have open borders for anything coming from the EU.
Last year they actually checked 28 wagons to get a sample of what is happening, and found 21 to have food that was grossly not fit for human consumption. This was over a year ago and we have absolutely nothing in response to it.
We will have without a doubt, arms and drugs being freely transported into the UK. The food we import will have no standards applied to it. There is a massive risk to our farming industry as we are wide open to disease being imported into the country.
There is a huge disparity between the cost of someone in the EU trading with the UK over someone from the UK exporting to the EU. This has nothing to do with inflation, it is just pure incompetence to act as a government. The stories that have been circling this issue are like vultures waiting for the final moments before death. The EU ended up getting so annoyed with the British governments handling of this issue that they had to send a wagging finger of disapproval straight to Sunak's office.
This is an exert from the report commissioned in July 22.
Despite examples of excellence and a dedicated, capable workforce, Border Force seems to be less than the sum of its parts with significant systemic challenges. There is little capacity for strategic planning or workforce development. The inability of Border Force to plan effectively is further impacted by the delivery failures of enabling functions such as recruitment and procurement. Steps should be taken to address the administrative issues that are continuing to distract the organisation so that it can focus on its core mission.
The date for an expected result from the report is very telling at 2025. This government has done nothing to actually run the country. It has no intention of doing anything either. All promises are always for jam tomorrow and mostly after the election to make it an SEP(somebody else's problem). Sunak's only real push was to get licenses in exchange for family benefits. They are robbing the country blind and we are drowning with the abject lack of management. We really need an election.
The deal was just a con so they could make money betting against the pound imo. Everything in this parliament has been about a cash grab on an unimaginable scale. AFAIK there has not been one implementation of any legislation that has been for the good of the population. Everything has been about culture wars or restricting dissent against the Tories. Every time we seem something that they cannot hide, we get a John Travolta meme explaining it is nothing to do with them. They have taken everyone for a ride and treated the country like the bloody fools. And TBF it would be hard to say you are not a fool in the UK right now.
The hit to pensions in France is no where near ours, which everyone accepted. There they want to burn the government. We took that hit without blinking and yet a lot more since. It is a lot harder for protesters to hit the streets here because the media do not let anything out. You never hear of the protests that I know are taking place. Sunak gained a hefty sum for his family while selling licenses out to oil companies in a climate crisis, and yet where did the BBC report that? We are living in a pseudo Russia, except nothing works here.
The biggest fix this country needs is PR voting. Starmer is dragging his heels with protectionism. There is a huge push for PR within the rank and file of the Labour party; he isn't listening to his members. I really fear we will not fix this in time for another Tory cash grab. The next one will be so much worse, as they have learned lessons from this time around that you could not predict.