Re: Brexit Consequences
Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2021 12:13 pm
I jumped out of a plane with no parachute and it was fine, therefore when I jump out of it at 5000ft what could possibly go wrong?
I ordered a case of wine from Italy, thinking it would take ages to get here. It took 3 weeks from order to delivery, the same as usual. I'd better order more before it has duty slapped on it. That's my excuseLittle waster wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 3:35 pmNo Italian wines in Morrisons yesterday.
Could be for any one of a dozen reasons but without anything to go on I'm going with Brexit.
I couldn't find a cabbage - also Morrison's. From where do the supermarkets source cabbages this time of the year? I thought that was something we grew fairly well in this country.Little waster wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 3:35 pmNo Italian wines in Morrisons yesterday.
Could be for any one of a dozen reasons but without anything to go on I'm going with Brexit.
I think during the winter/spring many vegetables in the UK come from places like Spain or even Africa. My cousin used to pick lettuces for McDonalds and spent ~6 months in Lincolnshire and ~6 months in Spain. (I suppose technically he was the gang-master for the Ukrainian & Belarusian pickers.)Rich Scopie wrote: ↑Sun Feb 21, 2021 11:51 amI couldn't find a cabbage - also Morrison's. From where do the supermarkets source cabbages this time of the year? I thought that was something we grew fairly well in this country.Little waster wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 3:35 pmNo Italian wines in Morrisons yesterday.
Could be for any one of a dozen reasons but without anything to go on I'm going with Brexit.
One of the British Isles anyway, the one we like to call Little Britain.
Well I suppose it's a positive Brexit story. Or at least it's not a story of foreign firms abandoning Brexit Britain. It's their recognising that they now need an office here if they want to work here and deciding to do that rather than walk away. So it's an extra cost which, on balance, they have decided to swallow. Hooray, I guess.Brightonian wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 9:48 pmBrexit: 1,000 EU finance firms 'set to open UK offices'. Global Britain, with sunlit uplands? Or just money laundering? Or something else?
FIFYBird on a Fire wrote: ↑Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:28 amLots of dodgy tax jurisdictions on that list - Ireland, Netherlands, Cyprus and Luxembourg all heavily represented.
Now that the EU is clamping down on tax avoidance they need somewhere else to help big corporations and billionaires avoid contributing to society. Looks like the UK is that place.
Apparently not...Woodchopper wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 6:17 pmThe Turing Scheme, the UKs replacement for Erasmus, will be much cheaper. Lower living expenses, travel grant is means tested and no tuition fees.
https://twitter.com/maxfras/status/1368 ... 02208?s=21
We all knew what we were voting for, sunny uplands with no downside, cake and unicorns and friendship to all nations.