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olkipukki:

--- Quote from: fcb on December 23, 2020, 11:22:55 am ---Anyone else have an opinion?

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I guess your starting point would be https://www.gov.uk/transition   ::)

"From 1 January 2021, you can charge customers VAT at 0% (known as 'zero rate') on most goods you export to the EU. "  :popcorn:

https://www.gov.uk/prepare-to-export-from-great-britain-from-january-2021 *

* Assuming you're in GB, not UK  :-DD

fcb:
Cheers olkipukki - we've spent several hours today and yesterday watching .gov.uk webinars and reading through .gov.uk stuff.

Guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens, was half expecting Boris to delay for another 6 months. The French border shutting has hardened the UK governments resolve to power through at any cost I suspect.

Cerebus:

--- Quote from: fcb on December 23, 2020, 12:28:25 pm ---Cheers olkipukki - we've spent several hours today and yesterday watching .gov.uk webinars and reading through .gov.uk stuff.

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Back in the 60s/70s the Civil Service published a little series of books on how to present information for public consumption, how to design forms, how to present statistics fairly and honestly and so on. They were published via HMSO and were universally excellent. Anyone in the Civil Service who had to produce something for public consumption was pointed at those books, and, for the most part, the Civil Service was a shining beacon of clarity when it came to telling you what you needed to know.

They seem to have completely forgotten all of this, and trying to get the sort of information that everybody needs out of Government nowadays is a confusing, messy, shitshow. I have a suspicion that 'digital transformation' is at the heart of it and that the old guard don't 'get' digital media and the pimply faced youths that have taken over from the previous generation of information officers consider it beneath them to read the books and use the principles that served so well for so many years 'because dead tree stuff'.

SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on December 23, 2020, 01:18:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: fcb on December 23, 2020, 12:28:25 pm ---Cheers olkipukki - we've spent several hours today and yesterday watching .gov.uk webinars and reading through .gov.uk stuff.

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Back in the 60s/70s the Civil Service published a little series of books on how to present information for public consumption, how to design forms, how to present statistics fairly and honestly and so on. They were published via HMSO and were universally excellent. Anyone in the Civil Service who had to produce something for public consumption was pointed at those books, and, for the most part, the Civil Service was a shining beacon of clarity when it came to telling you what you needed to know.

They seem to have completely forgotten all of this, and trying to get the sort of information that everybody needs out of Government nowadays is a confusing, messy, shitshow. I have a suspicion that 'digital transformation' is at the heart of it and that the old guard don't 'get' digital media and the pimply faced youths that have taken over from the previous generation of information officers consider it beneath them to read the books and use the principles that served so well for so many years 'because dead tree stuff'.

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We are living in an era of incredible incompetence in government, supported by the kinds of people who didn't have much say historically (for good reasons).

coppice:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on December 23, 2020, 01:18:32 pm ---Back in the 60s/70s the Civil Service published a little series of books on how to present information for public consumption, how to design forms, how to present statistics fairly and honestly and so on. They were published via HMSO and were universally excellent. Anyone in the Civil Service who had to produce something for public consumption was pointed at those books, and, for the most part, the Civil Service was a shining beacon of clarity when it came to telling you what you needed to know.

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Sir Ernest Gowers "The Complete Plain Words", written in response to his civil service experiences, has been a standard text book for presentation of technical information courses that are part of UK STEM degree courses.

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