Lisa O’Carrol’s article – “Brexit stage left: British band tells of farcical barriers encountered on EU tour”, The Guardian, 10th August 2022- shows the Government’s incompetence and ineptitude with regard to Brexit, the music industry, and sound planning. Instead of asking “where are we now? Where do we want to be? How are we going to get there and what resources do we need? They developed a negotiating position that was more concerned with restricting the movement of musicians and road crew than securing the future of a 5 billion pound industry and the finest exponent of soft power the UK has at its disposal. Instead, the music industry has been saddled with red tape and pettifogging restrictions. The Government refused to listen to the expertise of the music industry and blundered on to their supposed ” sunny uplands of a global Britain” which is quickly transforming the UK into Air Strip 1 in George Orwell’s 1984. The Government needs a realistic action programme that assists and encourages the uk music industry to export – and it needs it now.
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