It’s official - we are leaving the customs union.

[jamesbrown]

Indeed it looks like there will be a fudge where the term customs arrangement will be used instead of customs union. The smart money is betting that the complexity of the customs arrangement will mean a long transition period, a very long transition period.

Seems to me that May has been rather specific on the CCT/CET and the CCP. Within that context, the fudge looks rather, well, Brighton rock

[BlasterBates]

Seems to me that May has been rather specific on the CCT/CET and the CCP. Within that context, the fudge looks rather, well, Brighton rock

indeed simply a matter of timing

https://www.ft.com/content/aaeb18e2-...7-42f857ea9f09

why is the pro-Remain faction in the cabinet — including chancellor Philip Hammond, home secretary Amber Rudd and business secretary Greg Clark — so relaxed about this turn of events?

The simple answer is that they do not believe this new customs arrangement is anywhere close to being realised and they think Britain will end up staying in existing customs arrangements with the EU long after the two-year transition period ends.

“This is now a matter of timing,” said one person in the cabinet. “We will move to the new arrangement when the time is right for us.”

[jamesbrown]

indeed simply a matter of timing

https://www.ft.com/content/aaeb18e2-...7-42f857ea9f09

Seems like the right timing might be before 2022.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/550940...-after-brexit/

[meridian]

Seems like the right timing might be before 2022.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/550940...-after-brexit/

Under the officials’ plan, Britain would only fully leave the key Brussels institution once new trade deals are signed.

That may take many years, leaving the UK suffering a disastrous drop in trade once EU barriers go up in the meantime.

A senior Treasury source told The Sun it meant pro-Brexit Cabinet ministers Boris Johnson and Liam Fox would eventually see “their great prize”.

The source added: “They just have to be patient for a few more years and then their prize is there for them”.

But Downing Street aides insisted the PM would not be going ahead with the plan.

Looks like there will be plenty of work during the next 5 years for those of us in supply chain and logistics, reconfiguring systems to deal with customs and new EU plants.

[WTFH]

Looks like there will be plenty of work during the next 5 years for those of us in supply chain and logistics, reconfiguring systems to deal with customs and new EU plants.

Yup. Something I've been saying for a couple of years (but normally met with "it won't come to that" or "it's not that big an issue")

[Eirikur]

Looks like there will be plenty of work during the next 5 years for those of us in supply chain and logistics, reconfiguring systems to deal with customs and new EU plants.

Good that I still have my EU passport as at least half of the work needs to be done on the EU side of things and Brits won't have the right to work there anymore, meaning higher rates for me

[jamesbrown]

Looks like there will be plenty of work during the next 5 years for those of us in supply chain and logistics, reconfiguring systems to deal with customs and new EU plants.

Yep, no doubt.

[BlasterBates]

indeed simply a matter of timing

https://www.ft.com/content/aaeb18e2-...7-42f857ea9f09

Provided Ken Clarke's amendment is voted down.

[jamesbrown]

Provided Ken Clarke's amendment is voted down.

By way of analogy.

Toy tiger sparks armed police alert in Aberdeenshire - BBC News

[BlasterBates]

By way of analogy.

Toy tiger sparks armed police alert in Aberdeenshire - BBC News

or even

Tory traitors vote the government down

of course Corbyn wouldn't support an amendment that has the potential to bring the government down