EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

For what it's worth from someone who doesn't know, it sounds quite likely that you will... You probably also won't be entitled to a load of the customer service / rights that you're used to (apparently we can no longer rely on being able to send something back and expect refunds and so forth).

It'd certainly be worth a call to see if they have a veiw.

Happy days!

Did you see TUV is now getting votes from the DUP, lol, just what we need more "bitter orange"

Not surprising and not good news. More polarisation does not help this country. Brexit is going to cause more probs, CIRA seem to be raising their profile, border poll is getting a lot of traction and Covid funerals. Nightmare

Thanks all. I am not sure of the duty for furniture into Sweden. I’ll update the thread when I hear back from the retailer.

It would be the EU common external tariff, if the furniture is either insufficiently British in terms of origin, or if the manufacturer/exporter has not registered and certified the item as originating in the UK.

If it does qualify then you have local VAT and so on, so you'd want to make sure that the seller wasn't charging you UK VAT.

I just had to pay €10 customs for a jumper my mum knitted and sent to me here in Sweden. The joys. She could've probably labelled it better, but just so you know, you'll likely get screwed. And that's if postnord manage not to lose it of course.

At least DUP / SF are down votes as a whole but yeah could have done without this sort of brexit with a bonus border 🙄

Ouch that sucks. And Postnord are real pieces of work..

An interesting (and this is not something you’d normally associate with him) interview with Philip Hammond on Brexit, full of fascinating bits of information;

https://ukandeu.ac.uk/brexit-witness-archive/philip-hammond/

It’s a good read. Doesn’t have much time for May does he?

The situation in NI has taken another turn:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-55895276

Mid and East Antrim Council says it has withdrawn staff from Brexit inspection duties at Larne Port due to concerns for their safety.

DUP mayor Peter Johnston said party group leaders had taken the decision on Monday afternoon.

He cited "menacing behaviour" referencing growing tensions over the NI Protocol.

He told a council meeting that staff assisting with checks had raised concerns about "suspicious activity".

"We have no option but to withdraw them [staff] in order to fulfil our duty of care," said Mr Johnston.

In a statement, the council said there had been an "upsurge in sinister behaviour" in recent weeks, including graffiti describing port staff as "targets", and what appeared to be attempts to gather workers' personal information, including license plates.

Yeah that's not good.

Thanks extreme Tory Brexit / DUP.

That’s an excellent interview, thanks

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/beekeeper-in-brexit-row-with-government-over-threat-to-burn-15m-baby-bees/02/02/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=sfeu&fbclid=IwAR2p1vtN9-o7EDLCtlK5j4xDPKoRKAJ6lTmDrecsalulNt2Uuzln2eifrWU

Italian Bees > Going into NI (all fine) > Now it's not clear if they can go into GB thanks to the UK govs usual underestimating the finer details of Brexit. Hope the man can get his bees.

Needs Nicolas Cage style wicker man "not the bees" photo edit with head of Boris Johnson if you ask me.

The bit near the end where they temporarily allow a nasty pesticide, I don't know what to think... it is temporary and also allowed under EU rules. Perhaps it really is necessary.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/02/northern-ireland-leaders-to-discuss-brexit-tensions-with-uk-and-eu?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

It's almost as if the sea border wasn't trivial and annoying Gove will claim credit to fix the mess he sold and denied, but hopefully something can be worked out.

EU shellfish import ban permanent, UK fishing industry told.

Perhaps the government could do an infomercial on how to shuck an oyster so we can better reap these Brexit dividends.

Brexit dividend: cheap oysters for all! We'll soon bring the replacement rate up from it's current 1.6 to 3.6! We're going to have to, because 900,000 Brits retired this year whilst 700,000 left school, so now that we've shut off immigration and encouraged the younger generation who can do so to emigrate we might just be fucked.

The UK government previously said it thought the restrictions on exports of bivalve molluscs - such as mussels, clams, cockles, scallops and oysters - would end on 21 April.

This was because Brussels was "expected" to change its rules on that date to allow unpurified shellfish in from non-member states.

But it has emerged - as first reported by Politics Home - that the European Commission wrote to leading UK companies on 13 and 19 January to tell them the current arrangement was in fact permanent.

Somebody posted an article last year how the EU will crush various UK industries one by one with regulations. Looks like it already started.

Cheaper scallops would be a win TBH.

Not gonna happen though is it? Darn.

They might go up in price if the scallop fishing fleet shrinks and it becomes a niche thing.

McDonald’s should do a po’ boy sandwich to use em up

Meanwhile, the UK is using its newfound freedom to do things the EU would never have allowed it to do!

The proposal was condemned by the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO), which described it as taking a “sledgehammer” to the fishing industry, already suffering from export delays for fish and shellfish post Brexit.

Dale Rodmell, assistant chief executive at the NFFO, said the fishing community had not been warned about the move. He said: “This changes the whole calculus on where it was expected the balance would lie for sustainable fisheries access in meeting site conservation objectives. The proposals amount to a further sellout of fishing. It augurs ominously for other areas and for fishing communities in our increasingly crowded seas.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/02/big-day-for-uk-seas-as-bottom-trawling-ban-in-four-protected-areas-proposed

Here's to happier and longer lives for scallops and all other animals and plants on Dogger Bank, and, of course, the protection of 'particularly British activities' there.

You see. It's not just the fish that are happier. The shellfish are too.

Can we force all of the people who voted for this shitshow to register so that the rest of us can gather outside our houses at 8 every Thursday and give them a slow clap, like what happened in the first lockdown but y'know with more snarc, sarcasm and an even more heightened sense impending doom. Once we all get tired of that we could move on to tarring and feathering the cunts.

That might genuinely be the first Brexit upside I've seen, if we really wouldn't have been allowed to ban bottom trawling as EU members.