Brexit discussion thread XIV (Please read OP before posting)

We absolutely should not be investing more money in a LNG interconnector. We should improve electricity interconnectors with Europe and invest in migrating homes from Gas to electrical cooking and heating, and shut down our gas power stations replacing them with renewables

This is fine for 50 years from now, but what happens should the UK close or reduce the pipeline to meet their own needs in, say, a year? We burn more coal. Apparently Ireland's burning 413% more coal this year vs. last due to lack of natural gas, and the price.

It's absurd to continue to rely on a pipeline from the UK with no backup, nor will conversion away from Natural gas to renewables happen fast enough.

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/european-energy-crisis-a-wake-up-call-for-irish-policymakers-1.4684125

I'm not plain wrong, I just didn't know you were tied into a UK based warranty. Whereas I had zero delays with a garage ordering parts from the continent.

You may want to factor in ties to GB when purchasing your next car.

No Uk based warranty.

An Irish car bought from VW Ireland

Why are you insisting on introducing atypical supply chain. Presumably i could hop on a plane and buy the parts in Brazil if i wanted to.

i am talking about an irish car, bought from an Irish main dealer. No UK warranty, a simple VW warranty tied to the Irhsh distributor.

And I was shown five or six other cars in thr workshop also awaiting parts. My repair was handled by an insurance company because it was the result of an accident and so i was restricted.

Tell me any VAC/ Mercedes/Renault main dealer who will source spare parts from suppier outside the main manufacture supply chain?

there is one in wicklow but I assume everything needs to be just right and nobody wants all their mountains concreted over

Image of 'Global Britain' seems to be taking a hammering. The petrol and food shortages are being widely reported across Europe, the US and beyond and media are directly linking it to Brexit. The spin masters are going to have a hell of a job trying to deflect this away from the 'B' word.

It doesn't seem like a serious fix, if anything more like a cheap publicity stunt and not even intended to work.

3 months visas aren’t going to even start solving the issue, unless they charter in plane-loads of Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi HGV drivers. And if you’ve seen how those drive in dashcam vids on YouTube, well…

EU27 countries face their own shortages of HGV drivers, and compete with each other for drivers across the FoM-enabled Single Market, oftentimes with equally good pay-&-perk packages and better working/travelling conditions.

Which PL, RO or BG HGV driver in their right mind, is going to look up a 3 months stint-with-strings-attached in the nationalist binfire that is today’s UK, over a minimal-red-tape permanent contract in postCovid-surging FR, DE or NL (e.g.)?

And that’s before we get into the minutiae of HGV license equivalency/swapping and assorted other red tape, and the very widely circulated (amongst the EE driver community) conditions in which EU27 HGV drivers were sequestered in Kent last Christmas.

Just more chickens coming home to roost, and there’s a mountain of those more to come.

I'm not going to go around in circles with you, but I haven't ordered anything online since January that comes from a GB distribution hub.

if you want to stick to GB for sourcing for everything then knock yourself. I've already got car parts from elsewhere in the EU so it's going forward it's your choice if you want to avoid GB delays.

The problem is the UK isn't Australia a huge continent separated by sea. The UK has a rail connection to the mainland Europe and shares a border with another EU state. While bringing in a long-term visa would be better it still won't solve the fundamental problem caused by Brexit and the requirement for borders checks which the UK has still not implemented. By leaving the EU, the UK has reduced it's alternatives for the supply of goods and services/increased the cost of doing business. Why would any haulage company do business in the UK and deal with the added cost of border checks on goods and associated visa costs?