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Archie Gemmill Goal said:
All my attempts to grow bananas, oranges and peaches to substitute imports have so far failed. But I'm sure now we are out of the EU and not constrained by EU rules I will have 400 days a year of sun.
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I have an eight month old lime tree on my windowsill that I'm tending obsessively in anticipation of cocktails to come. I'm not convinced it's a suitable basis for a commercial venture though.
 
Archie Gemmill Goal said:
All my attempts to grow bananas, oranges and peaches to substitute imports have so far failed. But I'm sure now we are out of the EU and not constrained by EU rules I will have 400 days a year of sun.
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We can grow bananas and coffee beans in Ireland.... :)
 
Why would they leave the UK in the first place? Now that the EU is gone they live in the land of milk and honey with unlimited resources that needs not trade with anyone eve5 right?
 
Lukraak_Sisser said:
Why would they leave the UK in the first place? Now that the EU is gone they live in the land of milk and honey with unlimited resources that needs not trade with anyone eve5 right?
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I left the UK 23 years ago but as soon as Covid restrictions are lifted I'm heading right back. Can't wait to feel that sovereignty.
 
malbui said:
I left the UK 23 years ago but as soon as Covid restrictions are lifted I'm heading right back. Can't wait to feel that sovereignty.
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You can proudly show off your new Blue passport as you triumphantly return home. You can pick it up from the French manufacturer 'en route' as we say in England. Of course after so long away you will have to familiarise yourself with the mother tongue vis-à-vis the foreign phrases other lesser languages import.
 
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*brexiteer mode on*
The food parcels WERE so bad because of EU rules forbidding a better package
The food parcels ARE so bad because of EU rules preventing the needed stuff entering.
*brexiteer mode off*

It's really easy
 
This is a Brexit related comment in the twitter thread

"That’s because there’s to many mouths to feed with all the invaders coming over in dingys theres not enough to go round!"
 
Just had a notification from UPS that there is a parcel for me. Because it is from the UK unless I have a Finnish ID I will have to pay €17.85 per diem after three days. This never happened before. They are calling it 'Customs Clearance'.

I hope they deliver to my door as my car is underneath a whole pile of snow and the oil light is flashing.

I don't really understand why a non-Finn would have to pay customs clearance from the UK. That doesn't quite make sense.
 
Vixen said:
Just had a notification from UPS that there is a parcel for me. Because it is from the UK unless I have a Finnish ID I will have to pay €17.85 per diem after three days. This never happened before. They are calling it 'Customs Clearance'.

I hope they deliver to my door as my car is underneath a whole pile of snow and the oil light is flashing.

I don't really understand why a non-Finn would have to pay customs clearance from the UK. That doesn't quite make sense.
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It is down to where the goods are going from and to not the nationality of the recipient.
Although there is no customs duty between the UK and the EU there may be import taxes (VAT) there will also need to be a customs declaration. I suspect companies like UPS will offer to do the customs declaration for sellers giving them the choice to pay UPS for completing the declaration or passing on UPS's cost to the customer.

As all of this is new for trade between the UK and EU I expect rampant profiteering until people get used to the charges and we get proper competition. I suspect the Finnish ID is part of that profiteering.
 
Mojo said:
Fresh seafood exports from Scotland to EU halted until 18 January
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World beating export delays!

What a win for the fishing industry. The fish they can catch they don't have a local market and can't export. The fish they can sell locally they can no longer catch because they can't do quota exchanges and no longer have access to EU waters or waters off countries like Norway that have deals with the EU.


This super-trawler has been sitting in port since Dec because it has no rights to catch fish anywhere.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-55621259

The 81m (266ft) vessel, which has been moored in Hull since December, catches up to 2.3m fish in each week-long trip, in waters off the coasts of Norway, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.

Its owners, UK Fisheries, said Kirkella supplied between 8-12% of all fish sold in UK fish and chip shops
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lomiller said:
World beating export delays!

What a win for the fishing industry. The fish they can catch they don't have a local market and can't export. The fish they can sell locally they can no longer catch because they can't do quota exchanges and no longer have access to EU waters or waters off countries like Norway that have deals with the EU.


This super-trawler has been sitting in port since Dec because it has no rights to catch fish anywhere.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-55621259
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"Downing Street has said Boris Johnson maintains confidence in the fisheries minister after she admitted not reading the post-Brexit trade deal with Brussels when it was agreed because she was busy organising a nativity trail."

linky

ffs
 
GlennB said:
"Downing Street has said Boris Johnson maintains confidence in the fisheries minister after she admitted not reading the post-Brexit trade deal with Brussels when it was agreed because she was busy organising a nativity trail."

linky

ffs
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Ye gods, the EU really dropped the ball there. They could have put in a clause that a part of the agreement is that the UK starts using the Euro and it would have been signed.
Good thing the UK elected such competent leaders to return them to Imperial Glory.
 
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