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.
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/
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
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.
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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
Interesting that of the 5 posts I have put on this thread, only one has appeared. I wonder why?
Too late my friend, they are already here, since Blair opened the floodgates.
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.
PippaZ Just as well as it is impossible to see your chart on your posting!
toppie what do you think of Trump?
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.
More exciting news, U.K. has permitted the use of previously banned pesticide which kills bees , pollutes rivers and waterways. Such progress.
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
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
I wonder how the Beatles managed to work in Germany pre EU?
MaizieD
^ chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2021/^
The only people I see on here looking for affirmation are remain voters. How many who voted to leave EU are on this or any other Gransnet thread looking for affirmation? Its just the ‘usual suspects’ Even the article posted affirms this.
We're not looking for affirmation, Joelsnan. We're just telling you all how very pissed off we are and making sure that anyone who cares to read what we post is aware of what a dogs breakfast it all is. Leave voters are mostly avoiding us because they really don't want to know what damage their vote has done.
I am still AGOG to hear about all the exciting new opportunities that Brexit offers us; so are quite a few other people.
And now, having metaphorically spat at Joelsnan I have to post that I am in agreement with what she has posted about the emergency permission given to sugar beet producers to use neonics coated seed this year to control the insects which infect the sugar beet with the virus. The sugar beet *don't flower' before they are harvested so the bees won't be getting poisoned pollen or nectar from them.
On the other hand, I think her faith in our government to be 'up there with the best in environmental matters' is touchingly misplaced. They only can't totally remove the ban because that would adversely affect the Level Playing Field that has been agreed with the EU and get tariffs slapped onto our exports to the EU. If they 'could' remove the ban I'm sure that they would...
Prior to the EU it was all a very different place - rules and regulations have grown and changed over 40 years.
I was only saying how things are changing for musicians in this day and age not 40 plus years ago. Musicians who are TCN do work in the EU but their visas etc are quite different.
Still one thing I applaud the Brexiters for.
They haven’t rubbed our nose into a single success story since we left.
Not a single one.
Don’t worry someone will come along and herald all the success stories of trade deals done - which before they do - they are exact rubber stamps of the ones we had before ( not all of them natch) . As for the UKs marvellous environmental record- why is it only 16% of our rivers meet EU standards? - because of the farming lobby which thinks it’s ok to let slurry and pesticides flow freely and thinks nothing of destroying the insect ecosystem. Not to mention the catastrophic decline in wildlife. It’s taken huge pressure to get ONE river in the U.K. to get to bathing quality standards, and even that is threatened.
A lot of bands that many people have forgotten about tour Europe as they still have a fan base there albeit now having day jobs as well. A friend of my daughters is a sound engineer and often worked abroad: I need to ask her if it has affected his work. Musicians have been talking about the problems brexit will cause them for a long time.
Although neonicotinoids have been widely demonized the effect on Bees is very limited and where use I’d permitted beekeepers have no problem putting hives close to flowering crops, here is a conclusion from one research study -
Overall, the majority of laboratory and semi-field research demonstrates neonicotinoids can be harmful to honey bees; however, the majority of field studies find only limited or no effects on honey bees.
However, other insects are another matter, there is a large decline in insects in general, you don’t get the flies in the house or splattered on the car windscreen you had a few years ago. There is something in the environment causing this decline, neonicotinoids have been blamed but although evidence is far from proved they are a definite candidate because their use has been widespread.
In Europe they have been banned for several years to insect populations should recover, if they don’t it’s something else!.
Well we’d all better get used to the new way of doing things outside the EU.
In the Sunday Telegraph there’s an article saying Boris has tasked a team of 20 civil servants to take out rules & regulations from swathes of documents. It’s been called ‘Operation Bleach’.
Apparently Labour are only paying lip service to Brexit and would rejoin in a heartbeat if they come to power.
Boris obviously wants ‘Brexit to Stay Brexit’.
UM Did you see Starmer on Marr this morning - not the impression he gave but things can change in four years.
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