Wanted: Brexit grand fromage. £120k a year. Perks? Hmmmm… No 10 Downing Street - the home of the UK Prime Minister - is looking to hire a big cheese at the Brexit Opportunities Unit to bring a fresh new oomph and zing to Whitehall. The 17-page job spec (downloadable here) – with perks including hybrid working, childcare benefits, a generous pension, and a loan to buy a bike – is …
"£93,000 - £120,000"
"Contract subject to negotiation; the role can be arranged on the basis of permanent appointment, loan, secondment or fixed-term assignment for a minimum of two years where it is in the mutual interest of the candidate and the Cabinet Office."
So you can negotiate yourself outside IR35? Anyone spoken to HMRC?
"...assignment for a minimum of two years where it is in the mutual interest of the candidate and the Cabinet Office."
In the event of an untimely parting of the ways, the candidate can avail of a free box to take away personal effects and bombshells...
@gandalfcn
"For them maybe but not for the country. There is a difference."
Really? Are you in the UK or EU (believe me it could colour your perspective). If the UK were to rejoin that means none of the opt outs that remainers were clinging to as one of the few reasons to remain. With those there isnt a majority to be in the EU so why would the country want to rejoin without them?
One of those serious opt outs being the Euro. That currency causing so much harm and causing the EU proper to struggle (polite wording for crisis).
While of course the benefits of leave are already showing publicly the harm of remain is also visible just over there. Even the Swiss have just dropped their years of negotiation to join the EU because it isnt worth it.
@codejunky
I think you are missing the point.
This would be the Great British Union and Great British Market, that will work to Great British Rules of Fairness ie. you play by the rules, but we do what we like because we're sovereign.
But you are probably right, the Conservatives, over many years, have demonstrated their ability to cock things up and then compound matters...
@Roland6
"This would be the Great British Union and Great British Market"
As I said, the EU is far too illiberal and requires too much subsidy.
"you play by the rules, but we do what we like because we're sovereign."
Sounds very much like the EU playbook. One of the reasons to vote leave.
"But you are probably right, the Conservatives, over many years, have demonstrated their ability to cock things up and then compound matters..."
I dont reserve that ability to the Conservatives. Labour aint much better and they are only the electable parts of government. At least its not compounded to EU levels though (just look at any of their crises)
>"you play by the rules, but we do what we like because we're sovereign."
Sounds very much like the EU playbook.
Selective observation I see, it is part of the UK's and US's playbook with respect to international treaties etc. witnessed most recently at the G7 Summit...
@Roland6
"Selective observation I see, it is part of the UK's and US's playbook with respect to international treaties etc. witnessed most recently at the G7 Summit..."
Not being selective at all. Just reminding you that the EU isnt worth having much trust in either.
Probably fair to assume that one of the limitations of the position is the inability to start negotiations to rejoin Europe?
Unless the tectonic plates shifted recently, the UK is still part of Europe.
It isn't in the EU any more. But that's a different thing.
You boys are so negative. This is a wonderful opportunity. I should be able to do this from here, which means that I can still do my current job, so that I can do the Happy Dance due to getting paid twice. I can send in a few papers on how the United Kingdom can remain a united kingdom when the Scots and possibly Ulster depart, and how to keep Wales and Cornwall on side. Failing that, just think of the wonderful business opportunities involved in replacing every single official form with forms which say ‘Kingdom of England’ rather than ‘United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’. And the splendid opportunity of getting BoJo the Nobel Peace Prize, for having done the impossible: getting both Eire and Ulster to hate his guts at the same time for the same actions. A glorious future awaits!
As the AC you're replying too, I agree with your rhetorical question.
Hence the obviously sarcastic post!
You'll need to try and understand Brexit logic if you want an answer, but English Empire Entitlement is the most likely answer.
You see, brexiters voted to remove EU's access to the UK, but to keep our status the same.
They expected to stop paying the gym membership, but still use the pool.
@AC
"You see, brexiters voted to remove EU's access to the UK, but to keep our status the same."
I would love to know who these people are. I hear about them and am sure there must be someone out there fitting this description but from what I see its remainers mentioning this hypothetical brexiter who wants to remain in the EU (read that oxymoron).
"They expected to stop paying the gym membership, but still use the pool."
Actually the EU kept pissing in the pool so we wanted to stop paying gym membership for 'facilities' that are undesirable. See vaccine procurement, financial crisis, migration crisis and increasing reliance on Russia.
I realise that this is maybe a desperate gesture, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
May I suggest that, purely in order to save the NHS, someone tell Dido Harding to apply?
I know, I know, but honestly, we need the NHS, and whoever gets the Brexit Advisor Leading Liberation of Soaring UK Prosperity* job is going to be awful at it anyway. And even Boris would have to sack her after a short while.
*Unfortunate acronym, sorry about that
May I suggest that, purely in order to save the NHS, someone tell Dido Harding to apply?
She heard you already...
https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/07/dido_harding_nhs_ceo/
"...park his car somewhere else ..."
If he did not sort out his driving licence in time, he'll no longer be doing that unless he passes a local driving test.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jun/18/brexit-still-isnt-done-but-we-certainly-have-been
So rather than Brexit, it becomes all trendy with a lower-case 'brexit' or go the whole Standard Life and call it 'brxt'. Or perhaps something from the left field like 'gooseberry'.
Add whale song and scented candles for the full Strategy Boutique experience.
As a Yank, I've seen insurrection and secession movements, trade agreements and trade wars, and an even more bigly leader.
I'm retired so I don't have a career to ruin.
I've been a consultant so I know how to say "brilliant idea sir!"
I figure a few massive committees to include the views of all stakeholders should tide me over for the better part of a year while I collect my salary and then I'll resign in protest of something. There's always something.
Welcome to the new British Office for Opportunities in Brexit.
Well, thanks to Liz Truss, at least there will be a welcome in Japan, though crossing the Channel is likely to be out.
I think this a a good thing. Someone to look at how things are going to have to change after spending 47 years in the EU.
How being independent will mean sorting out our own rules and regulations. How we are going to interface with the rest of the world. What our obligations and commitments will be without the support of the rest of Europe.
The government is now totally in charge of the ship and if we're to avoid the reefs and sail happily in the Tory Blue waters of free enterprise unfettered by the chains of the octopus-like bureaucracy that was our immediate past then I'm all for it.
It would, also, have been a much better idea to have looked at all this and more before pulling on the eject handle.
For some reason, this discussion brought to my mind the once-famous government job of "President of the Board of Trade". Not something I've heard anything about for many years, but it would seem to be pretty much what's needed now; someone to guide and inspire and enable "Trade". Not "Brexit", that's history, nothing can be done about it now.
Whimsically, I referred to Wikipedia <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_Board_of_Trade> and found that not only does the job still exist, there's an incumbent. Someone called Elizabeth Truss, who's been in post for nearly 3 years. I wonder what she's been doing and is it her "thinking" that the successful applicant is expected to "change"?
I suspect that the 'thinking' the successful applicant is expected to change includes:
The belief that Brexit is an unmitigated disaster for the UK.
The feeling that the Northern Ireland accord with a de facto customs border in the Irish Sea is a major problem.
The belief that all of those British Commonwealth countries may be somewhat less than eager to sign up to free trade deals favouring their old invaders, sorry, colonial overlords, sorry, country that brought civilisation, railways and White Supremacy to their uneducated masses.
The belief that closing UK borders to foreign seasonal fruit pickers and casual labourers from the EU will harm the UK economy.
Or the belief that Boris and the current UK government have no idea what they are doing and are basically 'winging it'.
<Thinks, I wonder if 'Thought Leadership' is explicitly mentioned in the job description.>
"Too bad there wasn't any real preparation in advance, or even proper negotiation of its terms."
I think you can have both leave and remain agree to that. Cameron did his best to stop any preparation from being possible and May started promising only to chicken out and try to remain.
Oooohhh look, another pro-Brexit comment from an Anomalous Cretin. Why do none of you dare to display an account name? Are you afraid?
Your grasp of the English language is appalling, your racism is obvious, and you also seem unable to count. You probably should have stayed at school a bit longer.
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