{"id":6195,"date":"2022-01-23T11:49:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T11:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=6195"},"modified":"2023-11-04T16:06:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T16:06:46","slug":"1st-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/1st-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been thinking about Brexit again over the last few days, I issued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.policyforum.labour.org.uk\/commissions\/commissions\/economy\/europe-and-the-future-trade-and-co-operation-agreement\">my personal short term manifesto<\/a>, and read the <a title=\"Npw annoyingly behind a paywall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/f63397e8-db92-447e-9ce9-fd7d75882326\">British Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s puff<\/a> in the FT. I comment on the one benefit identified so far, Crown logos on pint glasses. Otherwise, here are some notes,<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here are the demands, the first five are mine,<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A pan European visa for creative workers<\/li>\n<li>Rejoining Erasmus, the Higher Education exchange<\/li>\n<li>Rejoining Horizon Europe, the R+D programme<\/li>\n<li>A reciprocal common voting system to allow Brits in Europe and EU people in the UK the right to vote<\/li>\n<li>changes to Northern Ireland Protocol that eases intra-UK trade, complies with the Good Friday Agreement and maintains the Common Travel Area.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The BCC demands,<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A new veterinary deal to ease bi-directional trade on agricultural goods<\/li>\n<li>A pan European VAT similar to Norway<\/li>\n<li>Rejoin the common quality mark scheme, it seems crowns on glasses aren&#8217;t so cool if you make them (I have just checked my pint glasses bought last year have crowns.)<\/li>\n<li>Relax the travel visa rules for business<\/li>\n<li>Relax the rules of origin regime<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The BCC have <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230323152529\/https:\/\/www.britishchambers.org.uk\/page\/bcc-trade-hub\">published<\/a> a trade manifesto<\/p>\n<p>i have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.policyforum.labour.org.uk\/commissions\/commissions\/economy\/europe-and-the-future-trade-and-co-operation-agreement\">posted mine to Labour&#8217;s NPF Site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been thinking about Brexit again over the last few days, I issued my personal short term manifesto, and read the British Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s puff in the FT. I comment on the one benefit identified so far, Crown logos on pint glasses. Otherwise, here are some notes,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[137,140],"tags":[1006,138,1066,1211,1335,1771,1584,141,1563,1256,1770,1769],"class_list":["post-6195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economics","category-politics","tag-brexit","tag-economics-2","tag-immigration","tag-innovation","tag-international-trade","tag-non-tariff-trade-barriers","tag-northernireland","tag-politics-2","tag-postbrexitdeal","tag-research","tag-vat","tag-voting-rights"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pint-1st-steps-unsplash-w1024.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6195"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9426,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195\/revisions\/9426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}