Over 40% of British exports have disappeared from European shelves since Brexit. Government’s new trade red tape likely to hit long-term productivity, trade economists warn.

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  1. Brexit voters have a lot to answer for…. Yet they are getting inflation busting pensions…. Whilst leaving everyone behind them poorer

  2. If you shoot yourself in the foot by voluntarily harming your own country, it’s not exactly surprising…

    Covid probably masked and delayed a lot of the impact of Brexit, so it’ll still likely be another few years till we really see and feel the full impact of it. And with the way things are going now, that’s just gonna make things way worse for everyone.

  4. It’s not because of brexit, it’s those durn europeens punishing us for wanting to break free from their totalitarian regime and regain our sovereignty!
    /s for those that need it…

  6. tHe eASiesT dEAL IN tHE woRLD

    Same guy David Davies not has a “simple solution” to deal with immigrants.

    I trust him to fuck it up.

  7. I thought the point of Brexit was to minimalize trading with the rest of Europe so we can trade with other countries a million miles away and contribute more to global warming which will help us grow the most British tea imaginable which will then give us our sovereigntea?

  9. In terms of farm produce and food the Irish have been able to step in and capitalise.

    For example British sections in EU supermarkets have Irish made produce instead of British. Creative packaging can even trick brexiteers on the Costa del Sol, e.g. British Isles Bacon or West Coast Cheddar…

    Edit: oh and stuff like Cadbury’s is made in places like Poland anyway

  10. A Finnish supermarket chain used to sell Tesco products among others, but after Brexit the had to stop. They switched to Carrefour.

  12. Ooh I haven’t cut n pasted this for nearly a week.

    Nobody could have predicted this, absolutely nobody, out of nowhere it came. Total shock!

  14. China doesn’t have a formal trade deal with the EU, which the UK does, but still manages to be the EU’s top trading partner.

  16. I love how the OP added ‘Governments new trade red tape’ and not the EUs new red tape when it’s the single market rules that put up the trade barriers lol.

    But ofcourse the EU are completely blameless it’s all brexiteers fault for being racist fascists…

  17. But the EU still needs us more than we need them. Right?

    The fact is that people did not want to consider the reality of Brexit, only the fantasy they had constructed in their minds as to what it could be. They voted not for a Brexit that would actually happen but for one that could only work in the their head, one that differed from other Brexit voters at the same time. Warnings were dismissed as Project Fear because people do not want to hear facts, only soundbites that back up their feelings. They can say they were lied to or that they did not vote for this, however the reality is that the facts were out there for them to find but they wilfully chose to ignore them. This is just the price of that.

  18. Absolutely stupid decision. We can’t get anything into Germany at the moment because of some sort of red tape that it’s really difficult to discern. Something to do with packaging or something. All the parcels get sent back. With other EU countries, there’s loads of customs charges and rules that are so complex they’re like reading ts&cs – i.e., you need a lifetime to read it all, so you pay £30 because you think you’re paying customs, but then your customer then gets charged another £30 on their end. Before, you’d just pay delivery. Now, fill out this form, register with x, y, z, stick this sticker on, write this number down. Adds time and money.

    Brexiters: you’re a bunch of hairy bumholes.

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