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Post by registerme on Jun 5, 2021 12:12:14 GMT
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ilmoro
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Post by ilmoro on Jun 5, 2021 12:31:45 GMT
There was a good one the other day where they were complaining about the EU punishing us with new VAT rules ... those would be the same EU VAT rules the UK introduced on 1 Jan so I guess we got our 'punishment' of them in early.
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Post by jonno on Jun 5, 2021 12:50:00 GMT
Long ago on this thread, the grand old saddle maker Brooks England was the remoaners' poster child for everything evil about Brexit. They were finished, gone, kaput; never to be seen again. Guess what? ? Lo and Behold they are back up and running again resuming ALL orders to the UK. As I have said many times, I was a borderline remainer, but I have always believed that any British company worth it's salt would come to terms with the new arrangements; the imposition of new regs were not going to put a company running since 1866 out of business that easily. I would fully agree that the Govt was completely hopeless in helping businesses prepare for the changes but let's be honest, most decent businesses thrive DESPITE government intervention, not BECAUSE of it!
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Post by michaelc on Jun 5, 2021 13:57:26 GMT
I understand Michael Gove's son was particularly keen to see the football match, so his father went with him... They've now been pinged by track'n'trace... www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57355599Still, I'm sure they'll be fine, having observed sensible precautions at all times... No posing for photos with other spectators... Oh. On the plus side I'm glad to see he travelled easyjet like the rest of us. Still, I wonder how he was "randomly" selected for the daily testing instead of quarantine like the rest of us.
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Post by adrianc on Jun 5, 2021 19:59:51 GMT
On the plus side I'm glad to see he travelled easyjet like the rest of us. Some years ago, we flew from Banjul, Gambia to Gatwick. All one class, very cramped seats, not Easyjet... but not far off. There was a Gambian "big man" of some kind on board. He had a row to himself at the front, with the two rows behind left empty AND the three the other side of the aisle. They basically got used as a waiting room for those waiting to have an audience with him...
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Post by captainconfident on Jun 6, 2021 11:22:00 GMT
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Post by captainconfident on Jun 6, 2021 13:27:17 GMT
Long ago on this thread, the grand old saddle maker Brooks England was the remoaners' poster child for everything evil about Brexit. They were finished, gone, kaput; never to be seen again. Guess what? ? Lo and Behold they are back up and running again resuming ALL orders to the UK. As I have said many times, I was a borderline remainer, but I have always believed that any British company worth it's salt would come to terms with the new arrangements; the imposition of new regs were not going to put a company running since 1866 out of business that easily. I would fully agree that the Govt was completely hopeless in helping businesses prepare for the changes but let's be honest, most decent businesses thrive DESPITE government intervention, not BECAUSE of it! That's all very well but if you read my post from a few months ago, I have had to cease trading and am currently out of work and the company I founded is in liquidation. It was a decent business. £4m pa turnover. We were worth our salt. Trading since 1992. Directly the result of being cut off from our European customers by Brexit. Hey ho. Gloating about 'remoaner' complaining might seem made more jolly with emojis but these are real peoples' livelyhoods you are making light of.
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Post by jonno on Jun 7, 2021 8:22:13 GMT
Long ago on this thread, the grand old saddle maker Brooks England was the remoaners' poster child for everything evil about Brexit. They were finished, gone, kaput; never to be seen again. Guess what? ? Lo and Behold they are back up and running again resuming ALL orders to the UK. As I have said many times, I was a borderline remainer, but I have always believed that any British company worth it's salt would come to terms with the new arrangements; the imposition of new regs were not going to put a company running since 1866 out of business that easily. I would fully agree that the Govt was completely hopeless in helping businesses prepare for the changes but let's be honest, most decent businesses thrive DESPITE government intervention, not BECAUSE of it! That's all very well but if you read my post from a few months ago, I have had to cease trading and am currently out of work and the company I founded is in liquidation. It was a decent business. £4m pa turnover. We were worth our salt. Trading since 1992. Directly the result of being cut off from our European customers by Brexit. Hey ho. Gloating about 'remoaner' complaining might seem made more jolly with emojis but these are real peoples' livelyhoods you are making light of. Erm............... where was I "gloating"? Far from "making light" I was celebrating the fact that a fine old British business had developed and SURVIVED.I really didn't realise that your opposition to Brexit was based purely on how it would affect YOU. Some people can see the benefit of something even if they may not directly benefit from it; it's called empathy. I didn't vote for Brexit, nor have I personally benefited but I've accepted it and moved on. I wish you good luck and hope you can do the same.
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Post by registerme on Jun 7, 2021 21:34:33 GMT
It's not really Brexit, but it is... kind of funny anyway .
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Post by registerme on Jun 10, 2021 17:06:23 GMT
Not sure if these "leaks" have been confirmed yet but...
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Post by bracknellboy on Jun 10, 2021 17:18:28 GMT
Not sure if these "leaks" have been confirmed yet but... well it was all over the front page of todays Times. Maybe not that widely read, but I'd still call that fairly well 'leaked'.
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Post by agent69 on Jun 10, 2021 17:26:27 GMT
Not sure if these "leaks" have been confirmed yet but... well it was all over the front page of todays Times. Maybe not that widely read, but I'd still call that fairly well 'leaked'. The Times disclosed today that Yael Lempert, America’s most senior diplomat in Britain, told Lord Frost, the Brexit minister, that the government was “inflaming” tensions in Ireland and Europe with its opposition to checks at Northern Irish ports.
Another non-story? Move on people, nothing to see here.
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Post by captainconfident on Jun 10, 2021 21:36:25 GMT
well it was all over the front page of todays Times. Maybe not that widely read, but I'd still call that fairly well 'leaked'. The Times disclosed today that Yael Lempert, America’s most senior diplomat in Britain, told Lord Frost, the Brexit minister, that the government was “inflaming” tensions in Ireland and Europe with its opposition to checks at Northern Irish ports.
Another non-story? Move on people, nothing to see here.
How wonderful for the UK Government, to have such a staunch defender. Are you Michael Gove? A former customer of my former UK company has given an interview which gives a flavour of the problems we ran into. www.thelocal.se/20210609/gothenburg-business-is-struggling-under-post-brexit-bureaucracy/?fbclid=IwAR0n8A9LwFcWKzyaLc9ssjSv-PMcuX7nDYXfU0BJ1FqpXVLdANjNk6_8iSI
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Post by bracknellboy on Jun 11, 2021 8:21:55 GMT
well it was all over the front page of todays Times. Maybe not that widely read, but I'd still call that fairly well 'leaked'. The Times disclosed today that Yael Lempert, America’s most senior diplomat in Britain, told Lord Frost, the Brexit minister, that the government was “inflaming” tensions in Ireland and Europe with its opposition to checks at Northern Irish ports.
Another non-story? Move on people, nothing to see here.
Might I suggest that the above is a fairly classic example of selective reporting ? Elsewhere in the same article, you find the following: "In a move without recent precedent, Lempert said she had been told to take the step of issuing London with a demarche, a formal diplomatic reprimand seldom exchanged between allies" In put that out there purely in the interests of balance.
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Post by agent69 on Jun 11, 2021 8:37:01 GMT
In Jnauary and February there were lots of stories like this about exporters having problems. However, I don't recall too many stories in the last 2 or 3 months.
The news item you linked to is about one shipment worth less than £10k, that was stopped at the port because of an error in the way that the product was labelled. The article contains vague and misleading comments about the effect of Brexit on trade with Sweden, such as:
- 80 percent of Swedish companies which trade with the UK have had or expect problems with post-Brexit bureaucracy (so possibly zero problems actually encountered too date)
- More than 40 percent of the companies said they’ve experienced or expect major problems with customs duties (so again possibly zero problems too date).
Overall, I don't dispute that Brexit has created additional hurdles to be cleared when trading with the EU, but I don't think this particular example should be used to justify claims that we are all going to hell in a handcart.
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