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Outlawed Loyalist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland say they are temporarily withdrawing their support for the historic 1998 peace accord because of the disruption caused by new post-Brexit trade rules The groups say they are not planning a return to violence, but the announcement underscores rising tensions over the trade deal agreed between Britain and […]
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Post-Brexit Truck Driving – a Driver’s Report
February 12th, 2021 
Awake Goy Written by Thomas Klikauer and Norman Simms It is Saturday morning in Dagenham, East London and for truck driver Johan Most Brexit means waiting. It was the Saturday after Britain had left the EU. Lorry driver Most is feeling the dire consequences. He has been on the road for six days. Actually, he wanted to […]
Brexit: British supermarket chain in EU sees bare shelves and early closures
February 10th, 2021 Awake Goy A specialist supermarket selling British produce in the EU is struggling to keep food on its shelves because of post-Brexit supply problems. Stonemanor, a small chain of UK food stores in Belgium, has experienced significant shortages of scones, shortbread and other favourites bought by expats and Anglophiles. Shelves normally filled with goodies like custard creams […]
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No Comments »‘Brexit carnage’: UK fishing sector protests extra red tape outside EU
January 19th, 2021 Awake Goy Trucks owned by Britain’s fishing sector descended on Westminster on Monday to protest against the Brexit red tape they claim is suffocating their businesses. More than a dozen large lorries — one bearing the words “Brexit carnage!” — drove past the Houses of Parliament in central London and parked outside Downing Street, home to British […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: brexit, carnage, extra, fishing, outside, protests, sector No Comments »Brexit red tape is leading to shortages in some UK supermarkets
January 16th, 2021 Awake Goy Almost two weeks after the UK’s exit from the EU truck drivers are being forced to wait, for days in some cases, for the correct paperwork to ship goods out of the UK. The changes to customs rules threaten to leave UK supermarkets with shortages of some products. “It’s not good,” explained UK-based Polish lorry […]
‘Outrage’: Row after pro-Brexit group moves its website back into EU
January 16th, 2021 Awake Goy A group that campaigned for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union has claimed, without evidence, that its website has been shut down by the Irish government. The official webpage for the Leave.eu campaign was unavailable on Friday evening. The pro-Brexit group has faced criticism for migrating the address of its .eu domain name […]
Brexit: Spanish people working in Gibraltar cautiously optimistic after last-minute Schengen deal
January 6th, 2021 Awake Goy Despite Brexit, the number of EU citizens, many of them Spanish, who work in Gibraltar has grown from 12,000 to 14,000 in the last four years. But uncertainty about the future rules governing the border between Gibraltar and the neighbouring Spanish city of La Línea reared its head in recent weeks. Cross-border workers breathed a […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: brexit, cautiously, gibraltar, optimistic, people, spanish, working No Comments »Spain: British anti-Brexit bar throws mock EU goodbye party
January 2nd, 2021 Awake Goy Britons living in Spain throw a “celebration-commiseration” to mark the end of the Brexit transition period. Many of those present at the socially-distanced event in Jimera de Libar in Málaga province, Andalusia, voted to remain in the European Union and expressed their disappointment in leaving the 27-nation partnership. As of January 1, UK citizens no […]
Lessons from Britain’s Brexit breakthrough
January 1st, 2021 Awake Goy January 1, 2021 by Melanie Phillips – JNS.org Read on for article This New Year’s day, Britain finds itself in a position that few expected even as late as last week. Melanie Phillips With the arrival of 2021, it regains its status as an independent, sovereign nation governed by laws passed by its own democratically […]
Boris Johnson’s Dad Applies For French Citizenship After Son’s Brexit Deal
January 1st, 2021 Awake Goy PARIS, Dec 31 (Reuters) – The father of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday he was in the process of applying for a French passport to maintain his ties with the European Union after Brexit. Stanley Johnson, a former member of the European Parliament who voted Remain in Britain’s 2016 referendum, told RTL […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: after, applies, boris, brexit, citizenship, french, johnson No Comments »With Queen’s Assent, Brexit Deal Becomes Law With Hours To Spare
December 31st, 2020 Awake Goy The queen has given the Brexit trade deal her royal assent, meaning the legislation has now officially become law – just hours before the U.K. fully and economically leaves the European Union. For the last 11 months, the U.K. and the EU have been in a transition period during which the U.K. had left the […]
Life after Brexit: What will change for people in 2021 when the UK is free of EU rules?
December 29th, 2020 Awake Goy Major changes will kick in on both sides of the English Channel in the New Year when the full effects of Brexit will be felt. The United Kingdom officially left the European Union in January 2020, but a post-Brexit transition period has kept most existing arrangements in place. Once this expires on December 31, EU […]
Fishermen: Boris ‘Bottled It’, Brexit Deal ‘A Defeat’ for ‘Sacrificed’ Industry
December 28th, 2020 Awake Goy Barrie Deas, chief executive of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO), says Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal is “a defeat”, with the Tory accused of having “bottled it” on fishing and “sacrificed” the country’s long-suffering fishermen. “When push came to shove, despite the legal, moral and political strength of our case, fishing was sacrificed,” Deas […]
Posted in European Union Tags: boris, bottled, brexit, defeat, fishermen, industry, sacrificed No Comments »UK And European Union Reach Brexit Trade Deal Ahead Of Deadline
December 25th, 2020 Awake Goy The United Kingdom and the European Union have finally reached a provisional deal for post-Brexit trade, avoiding what would likely have been massive economic disruption. After months of negotiations leading up to the Dec. 31 deadline, U.K. and European Commission officials concluded what had been long and tense negotiations, striking a deal on trade across the […]
With Time Running Out, EU And UK Near Post-Brexit Trade Deal
December 24th, 2020 Awake Goy BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union and British negotiators closed in on a trade deal Wednesday with only a disagreement over fishing remaining, raising hopes a chaotic economic break between the two sides on New Year’s Day could be averted even as soon as before midnight, officials said. After resolving a few remaining fair competition issues, […]
Agreement on post-Brexit trade deal expected on Wednesday — EU sources
December 24th, 2020 Awake Goy Britain and the European Union are expected to conclude a deal on a future trade relationship by the end of Wednesday. European sources have told Euronews that talks are “in the end phase” and an agreement is expected within hours. European Commission Chief Spokesperson Eric Mamer tweeted around midnight that negotiations were continuing through the […]
‘Deal is done’ reports say, as UK & EU apparently strike post-Brexit trade accord after 11th hour talks
December 24th, 2020 Awake Goy A post-Brexit trade deal between the EU and UK have been reached, the media is reporting, according to sources from No. 10 Downing Street. Reports came out of Downing Street, the prime minister’s residence, on Wednesday that a trade deal between the UK and EU has been agreed. However, these reports have been challenged and […]
The Brexit bonanza for Spain: Cottage industries spring up to help bewildered expats navigate new paperwork
December 20th, 2020 Awake Goy Spain has the highest number of British residents of any EU country with at least 300,000 registered with authorities while many more are thought to live there without notifying the government usually for tax reasons. As the deadline of December 31 approaches when Britain departs the EU, companies are charging Britons huge sums to negotiate […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: bewildered, bonanza, brexit, cottage, industries, Spain, spring No Comments »UK and EU remain far apart in post-Brexit trade talks as deadline looms
December 20th, 2020 Awake Goy British and EU negotiators are continuing talks over the weekend but remained divided on Sunday. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office said Sunday that the EU is “continuing to make demands that are incompatible with our independence. We cannot accept a deal that doesn’t leave us in control of our own laws or waters.” The […]
Brexit: MPs quiz senior UK minister Michael Gove and chief negotiator David Frost
December 17th, 2020 Awake Goy The UK’s Brexit negotiator David Frost is taking questions virtually at the Committee on the Future Relationship with the EU. Negotiations between the UK and the EU are coming to a head, with the transition period set to end on December 31 – less than two week’s time. At this point, if no deal has […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: brexit, Chief, David, michael, Minister, negotiator, senior No Comments »COVID, VACCINES, BIDEN, BREXIT, CHILD ABUSE …
December 17th, 2020 Awake Goy Unknown commented – We have 2 friends who due to the NHS Covid in March had their Chemotherapy stopped in the last couple of weeks Scans show they now cannot be saved..a young local Mum of 3 died recently and the coroner said. .It was totally due to the Cancellation of her Chemotherapy…? there are […]
BREXIT, COVID, BIDEN …
December 14th, 2020 Awake Goy Prof. Jean-Bernard Fourtillan Unknown commented – Accomplished pharma professor thrown by France into psychiatric hospital, Soviet-style, after questioning official covid-19 narrative Prof. Jean-Bernard Fourtillan spoke of his concern that the COVID-19 crisis was fabricated and is being used to impose a dangerous vaccine on the world population Early on December 10, Jean-Bernard Fourtillan was taken […]
UK, EU say post-Brexit trade talks will continue past Sunday deadline
December 13th, 2020 Awake Goy Brexit negotiations will continue despite a self-imposed Sunday deadline to get a deal before the UK leaves the EU. “It is responsible at this point in time to go the extra mile,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Sunday. The negotiations will continue in Brussels, she added. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson […]
What will happen to the UK after Brexit – deal or no deal?
December 12th, 2020 Awake Goy Amid all the Brexit fog, two things are certain – that leaving the EU will make the country poorer and that Boris Johnson will never, ever, admit that fact. His granite-hard exit terms, mean businesses – and the poor people of Kent, soon to be the lorry-park of England – face huge delays and disruption, […]
Brexit: EU nations ‘told not to ease pressure on UK’ to force Johnson back to negotiating table in 2021
December 12th, 2020 Awake Goy As hopes for a Brexit trade deal fade, Brussels has reportedly told EU member states not to entertain the prospect of any individual agreements with the UK that could ease its hardship if it crashes out of the bloc in three weeks. The alleged aim is to force a chastened Boris Johnson back to the […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: brexit, force, johnson, nations, negotiating, pressure, table No Comments »Brexit Talks On Knife Edge As UK, EU Seek To Avoid ‘Catastrophic’ No-Deal
December 7th, 2020 Awake Goy Negotiations between the U.K. and European Union over a post-Brexit trade deal remain on a knife edge Monday, in what is likely to be one of the most intense days of talks since they began months ago. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, agreed both sides would […]
Brexit news: Talks paused over ‘significant divergences’ with plans to discuss ‘state of play’ tomorrow
December 5th, 2020 Awake Goy EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier walks to a conference centre in central London on Thursday for trade talks Brexit talks have been paused due to “significant divergences” that still remain, negotiators have said, with plans for the UK and EU to “discuss the state of play tomorrow afternoon”. Both Michel Barnier and David Frost shared […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: brexit, discuss, divergences, paused, plans, significant, talks No Comments »Brexit talks paused after London and Brussels fail to reach agreement – Michel Barnier
December 5th, 2020 Awake Goy Brexit trade talks between the EU and the UK have come to a halt after Brussels and London failed to reach an agreement on Friday, the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier has said. Taking to Twitter, Barnier confirmed that after “intense negotiations” in the British capital, he and the UK’s chief trade negotiator David Frost […]
Brexit: New ferry freight route opens between France and Ireland
November 29th, 2020 Awake Goy A new freight ferry route linking Ireland and France will open after the end of the Brexit transition period, offering “direct and paperless transport between EU countries”. DFDS, a Danish international shipping and logistics company, said Friday that it would start operating sailings on the route between Dunkirk and Rosslare on 2 January 2021. The […]
EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier arrives in London for face-to-face trade talks
November 28th, 2020 Awake Goy The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has arrived in London for another round of Brexit talks with his UK counterpart David Frost. Before he arrived in the British capital, he told a meeting of EU envoys: “We are not far from the take-it-or-leave-it moment.” He also tweeted the message, that the “same significant divergences […]
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