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Dec 22, 2020 7:43:51 GMT
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Post by smogquixote on Dec 22, 2020 7:43:51 GMT
Hopefully inbound mail from France isn’t too badly fucked or else I’m in trouble
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Dec 22, 2020 8:54:33 GMT
Post by Lord Emsworth on Dec 22, 2020 8:54:33 GMT
Hopefully inbound mail from France isn’t too badly fucked or else I’m in trouble Pourquoi mon ami? |
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Post by smogquixote on Dec 22, 2020 18:01:20 GMT
Hopefully inbound mail from France isn’t too badly fucked or else I’m in trouble Pourquoi mon ami? Spent a lot of money on a rare folk LP and it’s not moved on my tracker in days, customs tax applies after the 31st as well. |
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Dec 24, 2020 10:25:24 GMT
Post by Lord Emsworth on Dec 24, 2020 10:25:24 GMT
So a deal to be announced this evening?
Hopefully at the very least the food shops will still have stock in 2021
I'm taking my positives where I can find them
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Dec 24, 2020 13:31:45 GMT
Post by politician2 on Dec 24, 2020 13:31:45 GMT
The strangest headline about the deal is the one in the Daily Express – not a newspaper I normally read: www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1376425/brexit-fishing-news-uk-eu-boris-johnson-trade-deal-von-der-leyen-fisheries-quotas-latest"We can eat EVERY damn fish in our waters"? We don't actually want to: British people either dislike a lot of the fish in our waters (mackerel regularly features in lists of "most hated foods") or like them a lot less than our Southern European neighbours (king prawns, crabs, lobsters). That's why we export most of the fish we catch to the EU and import most of the fish we eat from them. In any case, my reading of the deal is different: we compromised on fishing to get a better outcome on regulatory standards and dynamic alignment, which is the right way round. Dynamic alignment is an important issue (though why the a Conservative government chose to argue endlessly over state aid baffled me – Conservatism broadly opposes state aid), whilst fishing is of only symbolic importance. |
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Dec 24, 2020 14:24:49 GMT
Post by politician2 on Dec 24, 2020 14:24:49 GMT
Another odd newspaper comment: in an otherwise fairly normal article about travelling in the EU post-Brexit, the Independent notes "pet passports will run out at the end of the year, making journeys with cats, dogs and ferrets to the EU more complicated". How many people travel with ferrets? Or does the Indie have a particularly strong readership in Yorkshire?
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Brexit
Dec 24, 2020 14:28:02 GMT
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Post by personunknown on Dec 24, 2020 14:28:02 GMT
Ferret smuggling.... could be an earner.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Dec 24, 2020 15:10:06 GMT
"We can eat EVERY damn fish in our waters"? We don't actually want to: British people either dislike a lot of the fish in our waters (mackerel regularly features in lists of "most hated foods") or like them a lot less than our Southern European neighbours (king prawns, crabs, lobsters). That's why we export most of the fish we catch to the EU and import most of the fish we eat from them. In any case, my reading of the deal is different: we compromised on fishing to get a better outcome on regulatory standards and dynamic alignment, which is the right way round. Dynamic alignment is an important issue (though why the a Conservative government chose to argue endlessly over state aid baffled me – Conservatism broadly opposes state aid), whilst fishing is of only symbolic importance. Re - fishing this info was in the Guardian the other day.... The UK's 12,000 small boat fishermen are more significant for picturesque tourism than the value of their catch. Whilst the overall UK quota is historically unfair the greater injustice to our fishers is our own government’s allocation of quotas to large companies. Two-thirds of the UK’s quota of fish goes to just three multinationals. A Greenpeace report found a quarter of Britain’s quota was owned by five families, all in the Sunday Times rich list. Boats under 10m long get just 4% though they account for 77% of fishers. Britain is almost alone in allowing holders of the UK quota to sell it to foreign companies: so one Dutch ship, landing its fish in the Netherlands, had the right to catch 23% of the UK’s quota. British “slipper skippers” were allowed to put their feet up and live off the earnings from selling their quota to foreign companies. If concern for our small boat fishing fleet had really been any impediment to a deal, the government should have got tough on preventing this sell-off. And where was the pledge to take the quota off the giant companies and to give to smaller fishers? |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jan 1, 2021 7:14:59 GMT
Britain is now out of the EU. But this is a day of sadness, not of glory, for we shall always be part of Europe
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Jan 1, 2021 9:19:57 GMT
Post by zeopold on Jan 1, 2021 9:19:57 GMT
Britain is now out of the EU. But this is a day of sadness, not of glory, for we shall always be part of Europe So begins the most squalid and shameful phase of British history since the Iraq war. |
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Jan 1, 2021 10:36:55 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2021 10:36:55 GMT
Britain may be out of the EU but that's just the start as you'll find that within the next few years Ireland and Scotland will be out of Britain leaving the little Engerlunders squabbling amongst themselves over who is more English?
Poor lambs.😂
Meanwhile, Starmer signs up to a shit deal instead of a shittier deal(ie no deal)to placate his dwindling racist voter base.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jan 1, 2021 16:03:38 GMT
Yuh, the legitimacy of Britain has been irrevocably damaged and both northern Ireland and Scotland are likely to abandon the sinking ship
Be interesting to see how rabid Brexiteers react to the need for a hard border between an independent Scotland back in the EU and England and Wales out of it
This year's most popular catch phrase will be "this isn't what I voted for"
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Post by personunknown on Jan 5, 2021 18:09:28 GMT
Only 5 days in.
I deal with two vinyl wholesalers in France. One is no longer selling to the UK as they will not sign up to having a British VAT number and the other has increased its postal charges for a package of 6 LPs from £9.50 to £14.15
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Jan 5, 2021 20:51:45 GMT
Post by zeopold on Jan 5, 2021 20:51:45 GMT
^^ That sucks, Pers. I suspect that this will be the pattern for a lot of small traders  |
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Jan 6, 2021 4:29:15 GMT
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Post by smogquixote on Jan 6, 2021 4:29:15 GMT
Only 5 days in. I deal with two vinyl wholesalers in France. One is no longer selling to the UK as they will not sign up to having a British VAT number and the other has increased its postal charges for a package of 6 LPs from £9.50 to £14.15 Yes I’m encountering similar issues, I need to change my nationality for every enquiry as most vendors don’t ship to U.K. now. At least now we can get to work on building the ethnostate that half the dumb fucks who voted for Brexit believed they’d end up being closer to... I’ve got a box ten LPs coming from USA which I’m very much looking forward to paying about £100 to have shipped over as well! |
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