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A big thank you to those who voted for Brexit

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Dinahmo Thu 07-Jan-21 16:03:15

I've just been reading about the additional charges that people buying goods from the UK are having to pay on purchases arriving in EU countries. So much so that many retailers are no longer selling to people in the EU. The list is long but includes M & S, John Lewis and Fortnums. I buy a variety of things from the UK, including clothing and health supplements. I am no longer able to do this. But it's not just me and other Brits living abroad, it's everybody in the EU.

So, those cheesemakers will have a hard time and I will no longer be able to buy the very good quality cheddar from my local supermarket (which the French like to, not just Brits) because it will be too expensive.

Joelsnan Sat 09-Jan-21 22:31:08

welshwife
I wonder how the Beatles managed to work in Germany pre EU?

Joelsnan Sat 09-Jan-21 22:29:09

vegansrock
If you read this article you will note that the pesticide is approved for emergency use by the EU, and that is exactly how it has been approved for use in the UK, specifically for sugar beet crops which are suffering a devastating virus.
Strange how some have so little faith in our own people to be environmentally aware when in fact UK is up there with the best with regard to green issues.
www.thenational.scot/news/18999483.bee-killing-pesticide-banned-eu-approved-uk-government/

Welshwife Sat 09-Jan-21 22:16:56

The govt have also refused the EU offer of allowing musicians to work in the EU without need for a visa apparently because they do not wish to extend that offer to EU musicians working in the U.K. I believe the musicians will need a visa for each country they visit.

vegansrock Sat 09-Jan-21 21:48:22

More exciting news, U.K. has permitted the use of previously banned pesticide which kills bees , pollutes rivers and waterways. Such progress.

PippaZ Sat 09-Jan-21 20:46:10

Toppie

PippaZ Just as well as it is impossible to see your chart on your posting!

Meow!

That's why I put the full address on.

Whitewavemark2 Sat 09-Jan-21 20:27:36

toppie what do you think of Trump?

Toppie Sat 09-Jan-21 20:25:21

PippaZ Just as well as it is impossible to see your chart on your posting!

PippaZ Sat 09-Jan-21 20:24:06

Toppie

Maybe you should move back here as the EU will implode within 5 years. You can then buy anything you want, particularly with over 200 extra WORLDWIDE trade deals now in place.

Do you have a link with the Almighty Toppie? You seem incredibly sure.

It wouldn't surprise me if we saw some changes in that time, after all very little remains unchanged over 5 years.

What are the 200 trade deals by the way? It would be interesting to hear the details.

Toppie Sat 09-Jan-21 20:16:05

Too late my friend, they are already here, since Blair opened the floodgates.

Toppie Sat 09-Jan-21 20:13:05

Interesting that of the 5 posts I have put on this thread, only one has appeared. I wonder why?

Whitewavemark2 Sat 09-Jan-21 20:09:12

One in ten foreign criminals could be missed after EU alerts dropped
Up to one in ten foreign criminals could be slipping into Britain unnoticed under the post-Brexit security regime.Law enforcement agencies lost use of the Schengen Information System II [SIS 11]
thetimes.co.uk

Whitewavemark2 Sat 09-Jan-21 19:54:41

Toppie

Maybe you should move back here as the EU will implode within 5 years. You can then buy anything you want, particularly with over 200 extra WORLDWIDE trade deals now in place.

???

Toppie Sat 09-Jan-21 19:29:24

Maybe you should move back here as the EU will implode within 5 years. You can then buy anything you want, particularly with over 200 extra WORLDWIDE trade deals now in place.

varian Sat 09-Jan-21 18:15:57

petra

Varian
Your right!! There wasn't anything unexpected about it. They were informed in Jan 2020.

March 2016

www.spanishpropertyinsight.com/2016/03/08/spanish-inheritance-tax-part-ii/

Dinahmo Sat 09-Jan-21 17:00:56

Another whinger agreeing with Chris Grey

Pantglas2 Sat 09-Jan-21 16:27:53

petra

Varian
Your right!! There wasn't anything unexpected about it. They were informed in Jan 2020.

I agree Varian & Petra - there was nothing “unexpected” about this!

Most property owning Brits I know in Spain have taken residencia over the last four years so it won’t affect them as they’re obviously living in their properties and the few that haven’t (like me) will continue to abide with the 90/183 rule.

Lots rent of course, so they’ll hardly be bothered by non-residents taxes.

sodapop Sat 09-Jan-21 16:16:38

Thanks MaizieD another whinger agreeing with you here smile

MaizieD Sat 09-Jan-21 16:01:58

I like this, from Chris Grey's blog, flagged up by PippaZ above. I think it explains a lot, Galaxy

^Several factors lie behind this Brexiter need for affirmation. It is in part an insecurity, based perhaps on a lurking knowledge that what they have brought about is so damaging. Related to that, for some it is ‘remainer negativity’ which is the cause of any damage or, at least, which has soured what was supposed to be a moment of triumph. A stronger version of that is, to the extent that Brexiters believe themselves to have been a ‘resistance’
movement that has enacted a national liberation, they expected the whole of the country to welcome it, and are genuinely bemused that at least half the country does no such thing. And at least for some of the most vociferous Brexiters that links to a populist authoritarianism, in which opponents are derided as traitors and saboteurs.^

chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2021/

petra Sat 09-Jan-21 15:59:26

Varian
Your right!! There wasn't anything unexpected about it. They were informed in Jan 2020.

Galaxy Sat 09-Jan-21 15:54:47

Having a different opinion to you does not equal whinging.

Galaxy Sat 09-Jan-21 15:54:16

Having

MaizieD Sat 09-Jan-21 15:52:23

Sparkling

It’s early days. You can either live with it and see how things go, make the best of it. You can hanker after the golden days and become a persistent whinger. Change your buying habits is another option as is going to live in a country that has a more agreeable living standard.

That's rubbish.

It's my democratic right to whinge and I'll do it wherever I want to and for as long as I want to.

I love the 'hankering after golden days'. So you're actually acknowledging that Brexit has destroyed them grin

If I want to change my buying habits I prefer to choose to do it, not have unwanted change thrust upon me.

As to 'go and live in another country'; why didn't all you EU haters do it while we were under the dreadful yoke? The truth is that being in the EU didn't materially affect most Leavers in the slightest.

varian Sat 09-Jan-21 15:37:01

Nigel Farage: ‘If Brexit is a disaster I’ll go and live abroad’

www.politico.eu/article/nigel-farage-if-brexit-is-a-disaster-ill-go-and-live-abroad/

Sparkling Sat 09-Jan-21 15:27:54

It’s early days. You can either live with it and see how things go, make the best of it. You can hanker after the golden days and become a persistent whinger. Change your buying habits is another option as is going to live in a country that has a more agreeable living standard.

David0205 Sat 09-Jan-21 15:15:37

I would love to take up the opportunities of leaving the EU in fact I would be first in the queue, but at present I’m too busy finding out how much I am going to loose