EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Had the same thing from China, but it was stuck in Amsterdam for a week.

There will be adequate food.

DHL are doing a great job for UK > US at the moment. I had something arrive from London in 2 days, cheap too.

Most of the delays have been where Royal Mail cover delivery in the UK.

The US package I mentioned was USPS > Royal Mail

I think Fedex have their own customs clearance setup.

Yeah. For my thing the FedEx option was 30% cheaper for International shipping over UPS and 40% cheaper than USPS. Always worth exploring the options as they always vary widely.

I thought it was the Guardian that was famed for its typos. DF was just racist but they found the Spell Checker.

Getting a bit tired of this. Have noticed a pattern with stuff I've ordered from abroad. Not just from within the EU. The item gets to our border within 24 hours and the just sits at Heathrow for a week.

I ordered something from the US about ten days ago. It made it to Heathrow in about 17 hours. Still no sign of it.

Thanks to Brexit, it's now cheaper and faster for me to order stuff from the US than the UK. Mental.

Oz, circa 2004

Not to be shallow but the more foxy Polish barmaids the merrier I say.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56932551

You voted for it, you own it. Happy happy fish.

That article reads surprisingly like a press release put out by a private company trying to put pressure on the government...

Edit - to be totally fair to them, they've been banging this drum for a couple of years but it's still a private company that employs something like 80-100 people, not the collapse of an entire industry (which has already happened and is continuing)

Good to see at least one independent coastal state has benefited it's fishing industry through Brexit.

I was thinking about that sort of thing this morning - and you could make a case for Brexit having been a decent success for many countries, however the UK is not one of them.

I know nothing of this issue, but presumably we used to fish those waters under an EU deal with Norway. That deal likely remains in place, so the capacity we used to bennefit from could now presumably be used by another EU member - Denmark/Sweden being the geographically obvious options.

For Norway to not end up net out of pocket on the whole thing they would have had to have shrunk the rights for EU boats, and given them to the UK . I can't see how this would be a sensible thing for Norway to do.

It is yet another example (as if more were needed) of the absolute stupidity of this whole endeavour.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/may/01/uk-restaurants-pubs-brexit-staff-covid?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

People from mainland EU no longer coming to UK to work in hospitality.

I wonder why... ;)

Now it means working conditions / wages will go up a bit. But will the "they took ar jebs!!" brexiters move in to do this? Improvement in wages may still mean low compared to rent etc.

It's almost as if people aren't taps you can turn off and on...

People from mainland EU no longer coming to UK to work in hospitality.

And most other jobs. One of the most frequently mentioned places for people I know to say they wanted to work/live was London. Berlin and the USA are now top of that list. Rightly or wrongly they view the UK as a hostile country to them. I know the PEOPLE aren't but the government definitely is.

Rightly or wrongly they view the UK as a hostile country to them. I know the PEOPLE aren't but the government definitely is.

Well, some of the people aren't. Quite a few are.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/05/tory-quarrels-betrayals-uk-post-brexit-future-barnier-eu

The people have spoken... and it was a pretty clear "fuck off, forruns".

I do like Berlin...

'The Great Illusion' must be beach reading for this thread..

Only relevant aftermath from Brexit is an extra 20%+ mandatory tax charged on aliexpress...

That's not a Brexit dividend though - it's a change in EU import rules which we were in the process of implementing, and brought into force around the same date as the end of the Brexit transition period.

Meantime the EU27 have delayed their implementation of the same regulations until later in the year, I think because of covid.

Wasn't aware of that, but anyway I thought one of the main Brexit motivations was free trading with everyone (where possible) so why charge vat on imports from China?

I think they only charge the VAT up to a certain amount, maybe the £135. I think above that you are
supposed to pay it on import which usually doesn't happen unless you pick DHL shipping or similar.

They'll be dancing in the streets in Petrograd tonight.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/05/uk-hits-back-at-french-threat-to-cut-jerseys-electricity-supply