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The best and the brightest....

Stephen Barclay - Brexit secretary tweeted this today. Seems like it finally dawned on someone....The car industry’s ‘just in time’ supply chains rely on fluid cross-Channel trade routes. >1,100 trucks filled with car parts cross seamlessly from EU into UK each day. We need to start talks now on how we make sure this flow continues if we leave without a deal.

Matt Palmer ● 2630d8 Comments

I don't know about "talks" but this has been going on for ages and lots of plans in place.  I really think we should try to trust Boris and stop listening to Momentum.

Bunny Payne ● 2630d

@BunnyWhat on earth has this got to do with Momentum?? You seem to have missed the point, it seems to have just dawned on the Brexit secretary (judging by his own words - today!) that the car industry could have some serious issues after a hard Brexit.

Matt Palmer ● 2630d

Stephen Barclay is a Conservative, not a member of Momentum."Try to trust Boris". Good luck with your endeavours. Have you tried hypnotism?

David Ainsworth ● 2630d

Phew, enlightenment arrives just in time!And there was was me thinking that when BJ said “f*** business” he was just summarising his strategy.

Jonathan Callaway ● 2630d

I feel that there is so much negativity on social media which is politically biased.  Accepted that maybe not so many people on this site are social media aficionados, but there's a lot of dangerous stuff going out there in the internet universe.

Bunny Payne ● 2630d

Bunny,it's a quote from the brexit secretary himself, on his own Twitter feed.

Matt Palmer ● 2630d

"Bunny,it's a quote from the brexit secretary himself, on his own Twitter feed."Yeah, but he's not political, he's a Conservative.

David Ainsworth ● 2630d

@Bunny. Sadly the negativity arises from the fact that some of the statements from Barclay, Raab, Patel, and some others - even Johnson - seem to be <choose your  own four letter term> clueless about how business works ... waking up to JIT now is probably too late - some of us were talking about it months ago. It's probably why even Mrs May saw the practicalities of a no deal Brexit and seeing sense deferred Brexit.  I really feel sorry for Justine Greening who seems to understand the practicalities having to work with such ignorance ...Nothing to do with Momentum; well, other than they probably work on the  shop floor and would understand the relevance and importance of JIT ...Sorry, Bunny, it's difficult not to feel so negative when Brexit ministers make such banal statements so late in the day ...

Michael Ixer ● 2630d