Irish Bulbs

 3 years, 6 months and 6 days ago (1,286 days) HM sat on her wool (or vegan) sack in Westminster and declared the EU referendum was now part of her Government's plan and finally on 17 December 2015, she signed the Act - that was 1,082 days ago.

There followed the total incompetence of Cameron to tell his folk just how much he got out of the discussions he then held with the EU before he hit the button - unprecedented  special priviledges that even the other EU countries adopted. There followed a non binding referendum opinion poll in which 34.7% of British voters toicked a box to leave the EU and as we now know, mostly based on misinformation, unfounded immigration fear and a total lack of knowledge what the EU was. One of Cameron's sticking points was he demanded more say in Eurozone currency decisions and the EU turned him down!

Since then we have had dozens of so-called experts doing Operation Fear and publishing doom and gloom totally fabricated  forecasts while a bunch of clueless twats have been publishing scientifically researched fact sheets promising a yellow brick road path to £trillions of gold but without a single waypoint on the map of how to get there.

I know lots are BOB'd (Bored of Brexit) but the worst thing would be to give up now and simply sign up to anything that's second best. We do know a lot more now than in June 2016 but more is coming out every single day. As I write (17:13 GMT) only 7 emails have come today from HMG - it is Monday and they need time to remember their passwords ("Junckers" but most can't spell it correctly).

Today's offering includes one on asking for help on "The Nutrition Amendment". The consultation covers legislation relating to:

+ Medical Food (England) regulations 2000
+ Kava in Food (England) Regulations 2002
+ Food Supplements (England) Regulations 2003
+ Processed Cereal based Foods and Baby Foods for Infants and Young Children (England) Regulations 2003
+ Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula (England) Regulations 2007
+ Addition of Vitamins Minerals and other Substances (England) Regulations 2007
+ Nutrition and Health Claims (England) Regulations 2007
+ Food for Particular Nutritional Uses (Addition
of Specific Nutritional Purposes)(England) Regulations 2009
+ Food for Specific Groups (Information and Compositional Requirements) (England) Regulations 2016


I don't think I should tell you about another one covering a tiny aspect of  Road Haulage ( we have already had dozens on other aspects)  dealing with ECMT international road haulage permits which will now be required and cover 43 countries in the EU and with EU agreements.

Another one deals with EU funded research and funding projects in the UK which will be dependent on the handouts from future UK governments? DO you want to see some of them? NO? What the hell, here are some:

EU programme/Department responsible
European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF)/DEFRA
European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) /DEFRA
European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) /DEFRA
European Social Fund (ESF) /BEIS
European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) /BEIS
European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) /BEIS
Competitiveness of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (COSME)/BEIS
Erasmus + / DfE
Horizon 2020 /BEIS
European Defence Fund (including Preparatory Action for Defence Research and European Defence Industrial Development Programme)/
MoD
Connecting Europe Facility/DCMS/DfT/BEIS/CEF
Employment and Social Innovation/DWP
LIFE/DEFRA
Creative Europe/DCMS
Rights, Equality and Citizenship/MoJ
Health for Growth/DHSC
Europe for Citizens/DCMS
Consumer programme/BEIS
Hercule III/HMRC
Galileo/BEIS
Copernicus/BEIS
JET/BEIS
Nuclear Fusion (ITER)/BEIS
Research Fund for Coal and Steel/BEIS]
Euratom/BEIS
Asylum, Migration and the Integration Fund (AMIF)/HO
Food and Feed/DEFRA
European Development Fund (EDF)/DfID]
EU-Turkey Refugee Facility/DfID
EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa/DfID
Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI)/DfID
Humanitarian Aid/DfID
EU Aid Volunteers Initiative/DfID
European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI)/FCO
Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)/FCO
Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace (IcSP)/FCO
Partnership Instrument/FCO
European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR)/FCO
Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA)/FCO
Instrument for Greenland/FCO
Instrument for Nuclear Safety and Cooperation (INSC)/BEIS
Civil Protection Mechanism/CO
Guarantee Fund for External Actions/HMT
Fiscalis 2020/HMRC
European Solidarity Corps/DCMS

Where are all the civil servants going to appear from to deal with this? And that's just funding.

God can no longer help the UK

I got a bit of help this evening from Ryanair coming into land while out on the dark evening dog walk. The last few 100m we had to do with the mobile phone torch clambering over and between shrubs and fallen trees in the forest where there is no path. I guess I could have tried Galileo GPS.