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   @herrglotzenschnitzengruber1510

   March 12, 2024 at 10:21 pm

   A race to hire 50,000 people in the next six months to process Brexit paperwork is under way after the government confirmed they would be needed for border operations.

   But experts have warned it will be a challenge to train enough people in time to be competent in the complexity of customs declarations and the second layer of red tape involving entry and exit declaration forms that are mandatory for trading with the EU.

   The Road Haulage Association has warned that the number of declaration forms for tariffs alone will rocket from the current 50m a year to 500-750m a year.

   In addition, the exit and entry forms introduced after the 9/11 terror attack in New York to ensure safety on ferries and planes will involve another 100-125m forms being processed every year.

   Michael Gove, known widely for his absolute dishonesty and innate stupidity, the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who is responsible for readying the country for full Brexit at the end of the year, confirmed in parliament on Thursday afternoon that the RHA estimated 50,000 new recruits would be needed in the next six months.

   Rod McKenzie, the managing director of policy and public affairs at the RHA, said: “We have been told by several large freight company experts in the field that they get a productivity of around 4,000 clearances a year per staff member (that is about 20 clearances a day). That makes sense given the complexity of many transactions. Worth noting, that is with skilled, trained, experienced labour.

   “So if we are dealing with 200m extra declarations, at a productivity rate of 4,000 per year that equals 50,000 staff needed on day one, and probably more.”

   Gove, tried again to deceive the committee that he has access to about £1.5m to fund new HRMC customs agents but may seek additional funds of well over a billion pounds from the wider Border Delivery Group cross-department initiative to prepare for 1 January 2021.

   Neighbouring countries including France, the Netherlands and Ireland launched customs officials recruitment drives last year, with six-month training schedules considered a minimum.

   Agents in Dover who deal with lorries coming in from the Ukraine, Turkey and other non-EU countries have warned that the skills base around customs disappeared with the creation of the single market in 1991, with just a handful of customs agents now operating in offices in Dover, sufficient only to cover Ukraine and Turkey.

   The emergence of the human resource needed puts into perspective the scale of the task – the number of staff needed dwarfs the 11,000 people estimated to work in the fishing industry, a sector emblematic of Brexit.

   Government sources have said the new recruits would largely be “fairly expensive intermediaries”, agents who help businesses process their export and import paperwork with HMRC.

   The tax authorities will also recruit government agents to process the paperwork and guard against tariff evasion on borders.

   The Freight Transport Association and the RHA have been pressing the government for the past three years to wake up to the realities of a hard Brexit with no response so far from Gove, who is called in haulage circles as " Fuckwit Gove"

   The FTA said Thursday’s publication of the government’s negotiating goals gave little “hope” in that it provided confirmation that the government was not pursuing frictionless trade.

   However, it called for “more ambition” to help road, aviation and rail transport prepare to minimise the disruption from 1 January.

   “Over recent months, the FTA has repeatedly requested the UK government prioritise the needs of logistics in its negotiations around the future trading relationship with the EU or risk a devastating effect on the UK’s highly interconnected supply chain. The business organisation has also warned of knock-on effects on UK plc’s future productivity, and on the economy as a whole but these concerns seem to have been overlooked,” it said in a statement.

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   @arisplugis5197

   March 12, 2024 at 10:21 pm

   successful! they didn't manage to get European Migration pact trough 🙂

   God bless you Poland and Hungary! i am ashamed that my government can't be like yours.

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   @robharris8844U

   March 12, 2024 at 10:21 pm

   Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha so many lies

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   @magalietrust1902

   March 12, 2024 at 10:21 pm

   Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

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