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NEW::::: Gove confirms a de facto internal border in Kent - (this is something transport industry been v worried about)

Truckers will have to have a "Kent Access Permit" to get into the county says Gove. It will use police and ANPR to enforce


     

I remember being mocked on here for suggesting that Kent was going to be turned into a giant lorry park. Well not only has that become a reality, It sounds like they expect a rolling queue of 7,000 all the time, give or take. The costs will be absolutely xxxx colossal, and that is just for lorries waiting to get out of the UK.... who knows what is going to happen to all the produce & medicines trying to come inwards but I heard one MP in Westminster today saying pharmacies are struggling to source insulin after Jan 1.

Nothing as such to do with Brexit, but I find it somewhat disturbing that Insulin is not produced in the UK at all, especially since we have some very large pharma companies??  If we are to gain anything positive out of Brexit, however small, then it should be bringing production of some things back to the UK, especially those things that can first be made there and secondly are currently made in countries that offer no benefits such as cheap labour to produce them cheaper.  Prescription drugs are surely one of those things as they are currently imported from France, Germany, Japan etc.

Since the BSE scandal the UK hasn't made insulin in large enough amounts to supply anyone and is unlikely to ever again. Brexit isn't going to sudden ly see the UK producing more of anything never mind insulin. Its not what its architects intended.