Christopher Wood would be proud, guys! 
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The beech is dead.
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Pine no more. Cocktails at my place, eightish, just the two of us.
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These puns appear with the treedious inevitability of an unloved season😖
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Leave off, will you, people?
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Oh, fir Heaven’s sake…
Life’s a birch.
This is becoming too much. We need to get to the root of this problem and nip it in the bud.
We’ve all gone barking mad
Oh don’t be such a stick in the mud.
Fir pete’s sake…
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This thread has officially ‘Branched Off’.
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I wooden say we are deprived of news but…
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Oh, fir Heaven’s sake…
Fir pete’s sake…
You’re already ‘Plankattack’ - what more do you need?
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AMC - all I can say:
Absolutely classic!!!
Well, i’m not quite board of this yet.
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Perhaps we should form a splinter group
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Some people would clearly be sycamore.
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Entirely unpredictable as of yet.
Since my professional life concerns itself with customs and tax politics within the EU, I‘ve been following the Brexit talks closely up to the ‘tunnel’ phase, where only the smallest possible circle was involved and regularly briefed.
The agreement that’s currently debated is highly unlikely to pass, but there is effectively no alternative that could command a majority with MPs. How to unlock this situation is debated just as aggressively as the deal in question. If it can be done at all it’s still likely to leave the country torn and at least half the public bitter and resentful.
If the withdrawal agreement (WA) should, against most observers’ expectations, pass the vote, this would effectively mean the status quo would persist during the transition period until a yet to be negotiated treaty could decide the final shape of Britain’s relations with the EU. For BOND 25’s production this should mean no foreseeable problems, though some of the tax refund bills could end up being affected by this final trade agreement, depending on how this part of the subsidies is handled henceforth.
If, however, the WA doesn’t pass the vote and/or a second/third vote, Britain then has to decide how to proceed from there. By default, the current law is that Britain exits the EU 29. March 2019. If parliament cannot or will not form a majority for an alternative, no snap election, no extension of Art. 50, then Britain leaves without deal. Meaning all bets are off and no previous agreements will continue to have any legally binding effects.
In this case the oft cited ‘WTO terms’ would come into effect. Only, they deal primarily with goods, and only in the broadest possible terms. If it were a desirable basis for a country’s trade policy countries wouldn’t bother negotiating for years and years about specific trade agreements.
I can’t at the moment even tell what specific regulations regarding foreign film productions operating on European soil the members of the EU might or might not choose to apply. There’s a wide range of possibilities and consequently no common ground firm enough to even speculate.
If it comes to a no-deal exit chances are such problems will not even show up on the radar of governments for some time, maybe even years. There would be far more pressing questions to be solved then. In turn this means no insurance company will be able to judge the risk of such a production until the dust has settled.
You can talk to professionals from various branches these days, lawyers, bankers, industrialists, fund managers, politicians, top civil servants, they are all either clueless how that would turn out. Or they already prepare for the worst outcome.
Optimistic voices have become either silent or are very rare indeed since the belief that British politics could manage this conundrum smoothly has dwindled away. The solution on the table is not able to convince a majority, nor any other feasible alternative that’s being floated. It’s possible some bright mind could voice the ideal solution after the commons return from recess - but it’s probably not realistic to expect such an outcome.
So, from this point of view…
Yes, in the worst-case scenario Brexit could have severe effects on BOND 25. Maybe even on further films.
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Thanks Dustin. I love the intelligence on CBN.
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