Is this not for non EU, non Schengen residents, ie UK, for entries into EU, and Schengen countries.
I have had to do this every time I enter Thailand. And I think a few other countries have it as well
the difference between the ets crap the eu is spouting out and the stuff in thailand laos vietnam etc etc etc is that their stuff actually is fit for purpose and is designed to stop/track criminals etc rather than just ■■■■ the law abiding citisans about and achieve nothing while letting thousands of criminals through.
For some reason whenever I go away I always get singled out…I must have ‘‘that look’’ about me 
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Leaving Newcastle airport I was singled out to be frisked…ok no real problem tbf.
Entering Poland I was again singled out, asked if it was my 1’st visit to Poland (my 3rd but it was a new passport with no stamps) they then told me to stand in front of a screen and photographed me and was told to put my hands on a plate.. presumably for fingerprints…
Leaving Poland I was again singled out, frisked, and some sort of device ran across my shoes and hands…drugs? explosive residue?..who knows.
Nothing wrong with strict checks btw…as I said it’s a pity it wasn’t prevalent in the UK.
I get it about every 3rd trip, the swipe and swabs, and my medication shampoo sets machine of. But never been frisked, must be my good llookst, unlike the these Cumbrian Geordie types 
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If I carried shampoo they would deffo be suspicious.
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Must admit errors were made…In this case about damage being done to the UK economy by Brexit. Some, or many, of the damage forecasts were wrong
A new study from a group of economists has now been published in the USA. It is in the form of an NBER Paper https://youtu.be/dKNHsRIMaps?si=uP2NFXCOajwEr47G so may be revised.
The document is here. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w34459/w34459.pdf
It is new (November 2025) so has more data than previous studies. The initial ripples of Brexit have calmed down and we are easier able to see long term effects.
The authors are from Bank Of England, Deutsche Bundesbank, Kings College London, University of Nottingham, University of Stanford.
first 2 sentences of the report…
The views do not necessarily represent those of the Bank of England, the Deutsche Bundesbank or their Committees. The authors would like to thank the Economic and Social Research Council for financial support under grant numbers ES/P010385/1, ES/X013707/1, ES/V004387/1
in other words bunch of people paid to find something wrong with it.
A bunch of people who are professionals ie they do this stuff full time and do not exist on fresh air. They are paid by financial institutions which is all declared, to provide expert insight so those institutions can make sound decisions.
The document is up for peer review.
Being paid for summat does not automatically mean it is suspect.
Being funded by offshore billionaires does mean everything Farage says is wrong.
Being funded by Russians does not mean everything Johnson says is wrong.
They are both very wrong ,very often, but that is only partly because of their paymasters.
Oh sweet Jesus !….. I’ve been bored to death all bloody morning about the kin budget on the radio already, if I started to read all that crap it would tip me over the edge.
….I may give it a miss whilst this paint dries.
@Franglais If you can be arsed you will need to precis or condense it, ….if you can’t be arsed then dont…..not fussed, but either way my low boredom threshold is nearing it’s limit .
So the perceived content..
I’m asking myself is this another Franglais…. ‘‘I need to be right and I told you so’’ excercise?
Or
Is it the near hand impossible concept of Franglais saying ‘‘I could have been wrong’‘….
My money is on the former rather than the latter due to past TN experience…..perhaps I will never know.
Either way I find it a bit puzzling that our very own TN political commentator and expert, on the day after a bloody awful budget by a bloody awful all time worst govt is being ignored by him in favour of digging up the age old ‘‘boreathon’’ of Brexit……10 years now is it?
A wannabe fantasist politicians attempt of ‘‘Burying Bad News’’ maybe?
Or of course if anybody else has taken 10 mins out of their life they will never get back, they may explain it to me.
professionals like we were told reves was
i bet if i could be bothered i could find a report that says smoking had health benefits and doesnt cause cancer funded by the BTC so according to you thats solid evidence and i can carry on smoking… can i give your telephone number to all the people ■■■■■■■■ at me to give up from friends and family to my doctor.
yet that was the third sentence of thanking various proper institutions that said brexit was good for years no mention of what the review said… funny that
If you thought that the budget was bad? Why not post your take on it, up on the Politics thread?
The report, as I stated, is from November 2025…so not old news at all. It is looking at the real world effects of Brexit on the UK today. Not looking at predictions from years ago.
Personally I found the graphics at the end of the report very useful.
But maybe the summary page 32 is enough?
6 CONCLUSION
This paper presents a comprehensive economic analysis of the UK’s decision to leave the European
Union. We employ both macro and micro approaches to evaluate the implications for GDP,
investment, employment, and productivity. Our macro analysis is based on comparing the UK’s
economic performance against a set of comparable countries, using a range of different weighting
methods to estimate what the UK economy might have looked like without Brexit. Our micro
approach employs a difference-in-differences estimation using firm-level data from the Decision
Maker Panel survey, matched with firm accounts. The micro approach is likely to better capture
the causal impact of Brexit, but it may miss the impact of general equilibrium spillovers.
We estimate that by the start of 2025, the UK economy was approximately 8% smaller than it
would have been without Brexit, based on macro data, and 6% smaller using firm-level micro data.
Investment is estimated to have been 12-18% lower, employment 3-4% lower and productivity
also 3-4% lower than it would have been if the UK had not voted to the leave the EU.
We show that Brexit generated a large, broad and long-lasting increase in uncertainty. This
contributed to lower business investment, in particular, but it also may have reduced productivity
too by restraining innovation and spending on potentially productivity enhancing forms of capital
expenditure. We also show how the time and resources firms devoted to preparing for Brexit were
strongly correlated with lower productivity. These channels have potentially been more important
than the effects of reduced trade with the EU, at least initially, although the ways in which Brexit
affects productivity will change over time and the trade effects may well become more important.
The UK’s experience of Brexit also has some parallels with the recent implementation of new
tariffs on goods entering the United States in 2025. There are few other examples of increases in
trade barriers between major developed countries, and like Brexit, announcements on tariffs have
created uncertainty about what future trading arrangements could be and what the process towards
a long-term solution might look like. In the case of Brexit, there was a substantial economic impact
on the United Kingdom.
Errr Thanks (I think) ….maybe I will, it won’t take long.
I think he already has!