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Watching an LBC clip on Twitter is my idea of hell (not a dig at you), so apologies if I'm responding without having "read the article", but: if there's money to be made shipping to the UK, they'll have people sitting in queues, surely? It may mean shipping will cost more to get things between the EU and Britain, but the idea that companies will just forgo business doesn't really make sense to me.
His point is (and I've not seen the clip, but read around this subject to a degree) is that at the moment the UK is just another European country, no more and no less hard/expensive to get too, apart maybe from the stow-away situation that the Daily Mail has done so much to stoke.
After the end of the year the challenge (basically, expense) of getting into and out of the UK is much, much higher - and you can make the same money you made beforehand by just choosing to take a load to Bruges rather than Bath.
Ultimately this will be resolved of course - via inflationary pressure driven by scarcity of hauliers. We the consumer will just pay more for stuff and the lorries will deliver it.
But, there's going to be an adjustment period before the amount we're willing to pay equals what the hauliers are willing to accept in order to sit in a lorry park in Kent for four days.
Given (as has been said) that these guys are paid by the Km not the hour then the cost of UK kilometres is going to increase markedly I would think.
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You can see something similar with the Rose bikes situation. They stopped selling bikes to the UK just because of the hassle of switching brake levers. They had increased demand in markets
that they could sell directly to without the extra cost.
A lot of smaller businesses will probably be in a similar situation with increased cost. I read
something about the flower and plant business being affected by this.
The crazy thing is that even after the pound crash in 2008 and 2016 it was still cheaper to order most stuff from European shops but this will probably end soon.
sohi
Watching an LBC clip on Twitter is my idea of hell (not a dig at you), so apologies if I'm responding without having "read the article", but: if there's money to be made shipping to the UK, they'll have people sitting in queues, surely? It may mean shipping will cost more to get things between the EU and Britain, but the idea that companies will just forgo business doesn't really make sense to me.