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Post by captainconfident on Feb 11, 2021 12:51:39 GMT
Are people really proposing the UK head down the route of an autarkic society? I very much doubt that's achievable, but when your trading partners stop playing nicely, you do have to stop and reassess. So readily invoking Article 16 - without even bothering to notify Ireland or the UK - shows what they really think of us. Trade is not a game, where countries have a duty to be 'nice' to each other. If the UK did badly in negotiations it's because they chose to play a poor hand badly. I think I can speak for my fellow Europeans, and they all think that the UK has set other EU countries an example. An example of what happens if weak democratic systems and the media power of certain rich individuals can lead a country to make itself poorer, less influential and irrelevant as a world power. Or do you think that the UK is providing an inspiring example?
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Post by captainconfident on Feb 9, 2021 19:24:20 GMT
Taking one of the logistics problems in isolation, meat, cheese and seafood (Not products I am involved in shipping) are subject to veterinary checks and mountains of extra form filling and delays for one good reason. The UK government reserved the right in the Withdrawal Treaty to diverge from EU hygiene standards.
The UK has been subject to EU hygiene standards for 45 years. The UK government at no time has claimed that they are inadequate. It was simply in the quest for ideological purity that they insisted on the right to diverge from them, disregarding the chaos it would cause. Whether or not Brexit was a good idea, it is the way it has been implemented, regardless of the impact it would have on working peoples' lives, that irredeemably damages the whole reckless enterprise.
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Post by captainconfident on Feb 8, 2021 19:23:57 GMT
I've noticed a few times that you make a post, people reply and then you reverse what you've said, causing considerable confusion. If you read some of the report, it makes a distinction between wealth and income. High income was not an indicator of voting for Brexit. I'm not cross with you in particular, dear michaelc . The government is today denying that there is any trade problem, which is as false as the statement that there will be no border in the Irish Sea. it is chaos in importing and exporting at the moment. Only the true believers can make sense of leaving the EU, because they are not interested in the livelihoods of ordinary people.
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Post by captainconfident on Feb 8, 2021 19:16:20 GMT
Admitdly I haven't read it all - just the abstract but I'm fairly sure the stereotype brexit voter is likely to be older, working class and poorer. Anecdotally all my contacts are middle class, well educated and doing well. They all supported Leave. Did you not know anybody who believe in remaining in the EU? Just an echo chamber of people who agreed with you?
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Post by captainconfident on Feb 8, 2021 19:04:20 GMT
I don't think you quite get it, Seb. I've invested in all of those, took the losses and the platform still returns about 12% p.a., better than any of the tens of platforms I've used. These are small vulnerable borrowers paying interest rates over 20% meaning the assets cover for the loans was never much. Chances of a recovery from most of them, years after they defaulted is minimal and almost all not worth pursuing. If you put more than one egg in any of these baskets then you misunderstood the nature of this sort of lending. Try to move on.
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Post by captainconfident on Feb 8, 2021 18:54:28 GMT
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Post by captainconfident on Feb 4, 2021 19:01:29 GMT
Talking to colleagues in the excise goods shipping world, things are practically at a standstill everywhere as none of the small or medium businesses can find an agent who can get the paperwork accepted by the antiquated CHIEF customs declaration system. Everyone is engaged in phoning each other asking if they can take on each other's jobs. I don't know how many customs agents have a working system, but nobody we know.
Here in Belgium on our ind. est. the last of the warehouse space has been taken by the second of two UK companies who import their products from China. Both distribute throughout Europe, but can't now ship piecemeal from the UK as they would be charged import tariffs on their Chinese stock twice, so they are setting up to receive their imports here for distribution, re-registered as EU companies. Looking at this situation and the current scarcity of storage space nationally, there may well be more money to be made as an agency to advise UK companies on registration and warehousing in Belgium if imp/ex to the UK remains blocked.
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Post by captainconfident on Feb 3, 2021 21:08:53 GMT
Average time to negotiate EU membership is 5 years, and there are 6 other countries waiting to join. Scotland would clearly be a net contributor so would be welcome with open arms to help pay the bills. Yes and they are cosmopolitan and outward looking.
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Post by captainconfident on Feb 3, 2021 20:12:33 GMT
Having just received the 5th in a series of update emails from Viventor, I thought I would post a positive review of their efforts. They have embarked down the road of providing analysis of the financial stability of their loan originators, accompanied by market analysis and explanations of the platforms actions during the C-19 crisis. It's doing this much better than the similar platforms and although I'm deeply distrusting by nature, they have gone a long way convincing me that there are serious professionals in charge there. I should say that since I wrote this and since their takeover, their communications declined in quantity and quality. The last ones about AF were as clear as mud, leading to secondary market panic selling. If they were more frank about what is going on, fewer people would be looking for the door.
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Post by captainconfident on Feb 3, 2021 19:29:54 GMT
Now there is an interesting question. Which one leaves the UK first? N.Ireland or Scotland? N Ireland, they have somewhere to go which puts them in a much stronger position than Scotland. Negotiations for Scexit will make Brexit look like a walk in the park Thinking about Scotland in the EU, the main A1 transport link from Greece runs through North Macedonia and Serbia. I wonder how that works in terms of documents? Talking of documents, we gradually realised that the software supplier's Customs Declaration software was not fit for purpose. Only released 1st Jan and the paying users were essentially being used to test it. So subcontracting the customs decs until we can find software that works. Irony is, the larger company we handed the work to has cocked up the first movement, 8 pallets of beer from Denmark stuck in Harwich, will be returned to sender, wrong paperwork. I had to give that a frosty smile after the three weeks of misery we've had. Practically no income in January, only costs. Actually, I did process some imports from Greece last year, but it was just the usual EMCS (For anyone on this logistics thread who speaks transport-language).
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Post by captainconfident on Feb 3, 2021 17:51:29 GMT
On further thought, a referendum would seem the way to go. Winner takes all, United Ireland or stay part of UK. Marvelous idea.... Marvelous. We could even make that chap Micheal Martin in charge of farming and agriculture. Build some Church of Englands around the place....bring in some proper beer....civilize the place....you know..... Now where has my copy of King and Country gone.... Sorry in a daft mood today - better have a covid test. Actually, if you had a ref who would you poll? N.Ireland only, Island of Ireland plus or minus the rest of the UK ? This is excellent. We could send over folk musicians to teach proper English folk music. And May Poles.
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Post by captainconfident on Feb 1, 2021 18:29:43 GMT
I hate the “once we have the information from the borrower”. Translated in P2P borrower speak that means unlimited extension. I see that Google Translate can do Mohican and Eskimo etc, but I couldn't find 'P2P borrower'.
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Post by captainconfident on Jan 21, 2021 10:07:18 GMT
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Post by captainconfident on Jan 20, 2021 19:18:20 GMT
Well I put in an amount and units that may vaguely be qualities of the product, submitted for the 13th time, and got back the error
E02253 - Declarant must be declared with this DAN prefix Box 48 (DAN1) requires a prefix character of either 'B', 'C' or 'D'. 'D' is when
the agent is also the importer, the importers TURN will be in Box 8 (Cnsge)
and Box 14 (Declt No) will be blank
To be fair, this looks like one of the easier ones to puzzle out. But it will just lead to another error code next time. I have become fatalistic now. I think we missed the boat with this import in all senses. I was thinking of starting afresh with one of the other waiting shipments, but generally the orders we handle are for small quantities of many items, needing an hour or two of input into this system just for the basic descriptions of each product.
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Post by captainconfident on Jan 20, 2021 18:53:00 GMT
A light in the darkness! Thank you - you're on to something. What an unlikely forum actually to find some help! OK, so Already filled in "Statistical Quantity" = x litres. Next section, "Third Quantity" = (A number) and (Pair, Dozen, Quart, carats etc). I'll try some guessed pairings and see what happens yet. But thanks for your intervention mosaic. I'll report back.
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