“Britain’s small businesses should expect trade with the EU to be “permanently damaged” from 1 January, the refrigerated supply chain trade body has said, after new customs checks take effect that it says will make imports from the bloc “more expensive, less flexible and much slower”.
Amid growing public dismay at the negative impact of Brexit, the Cold Chain Federation said speciality food imports could face the same 70% decline that affected exports of food by small businesses this year after Britain quit the EU single market and customs union.
Extra costs that amount to £300 to £400 for each consignment will mean sales of food to EU countries in small batches could become uneconomic, said the CCF, which lobbies on behalf of firms that transport frozen and chilled goods.
“The big casualty of these trade barriers is the business that needs to import small and frequent quantities across borders – a palette load of speciality cheeses or boxes of onion powder. This is the sort of trade that is going to suffer,” said Shane Brennan, the federation’s chief executive.
(…)
UK food and drink exports to the EU fell by 24% in the first nine months of 2021, according to figures from the Food and Drink Federation, which said the slump helped knock the sector’s exports by £2.7bn between January and September compared with pre-pandemic levels.
(…)
The Institute of Directors said its economic confidence index had tumbled from -6 in November to -17 this month, a sign of nervousness among business owners about the UK’s economic prospects.
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It said three-quarters of company directors expected costs to rise in the next 12 months, and most said they would raise prices to either fully or partially offset the rise in costs.”
> … knock the sectors exports by £2.7bn between January and September.
Yeah but we get to put the crown mark back on pint glasses. So 6 of one, half a dozen of the other really.
Oh, we could anyway? Well now it at least feels more patriotic!
Bit late to do anything about it now. Should have raised it earlier really.
Ah just go outside your houses and clap, that’s the British way of fixing things. Eejits.
Brexit is just the gift that keeps on giving.
Well d’uh, that was pretty much the description of Brexit. “Leaving the EU” and all will do that.
Ooh, that’s today! How exciting. Thanks, Brexit. Happy New Year!
Come on, Project Fear is so 2016. It’s 2022; about time we stopped listening to experts. /s
Chill, it’s fine. They knew what they were voting for and definitely won’t be shouting about “the EU punishing us” for the natural consequences of leaving.
New Years gift from brexit and bojo. We are so lucky!! /s
Brexit is an unmitigated disaster that anyone who was paying attention could have easily predicted. How 51.7% of the voting public who actually bothered to cast a vote could have been so deluded into thinking this was a good idea is honestly baffling to me.
So project fear was actually project reality, huh?
Who honestly could have seen this coming? Apart from the experts who made it their life work to predict and model things such as this…
6 years after the vote now. What a waste of time and money this whole farce has been.
You see how new articles about Boris *Bringing Back the Pint* are coming out?
Do you think Boris is stupid enough to actually think its a win?
He is very smart or has a genius advisers to keep people who vote for them happy. It does not matter if its a win, succes or as coherent as 5 years old gibberish, it wins stubborn morons votes
Brexit, the gift that will never stop giving. No matter how much you tell it to stop.
Yeah, but fucking SOVERRRITY.
Start loving it, you bigoted, racist, short-sighted fucks.
I have NO sympathy.
Brexit would solve all of the UK’s problems but the strange thing is, I don’t feel like the Daily Mail commentators are any happier since Brexit despite often dedicating their entire username to Brexit.
Ignorant racist majority fucks own country to spite the foreigners.
> The big casualty of these trade barriers is the business that needs to import small and frequent quantities across borders – a pallet load of speciality cheeses or boxes of onion powder
No wonder it’s been a nightmare to find onion powder recently! I swear it’s the only jar in the herb section that constantly missing
This has been like seeing a train wreck in slow motion
I’m expecting swathes of companies to announce no fulfilment orders with the UK this month. Maybe even Amazon, considering they won’t process UK Visa CC payments now.
So this is only going to push food scarcity and prices up further, whilst we’re beginning to really feel the economic effects of the pandemic. I hope everyone who’s doing well this year can remember to donate food because it looks like a lot of people are going to start struggling soon.
This isn’t even the worst of it.
The second half of 2022 is where shit gets real.
Oh no, if if isn’t the consequences to my deplorable countrymens actions
Anyone who thought about this could have worked this out to begin with, unfortunately thinking about what the result was going to be was never actually considered.
The fact there was no actual plan in place should have been a large clue not to vote for it.
This was always about getting the UK out of the EU and away from the new tax rules that was being brought in across Europe meaning there was no where to hide in 2016. We never lost our sovereignty and we alway had the right to veto any law that we didn’t agree with, so it was all a con…
I STILL have people i know who try to justify voting for brexit, all two of them.
It’s the sunken cost fallacy, they don’t want to admit they didn’t use their brain and that Brexit was literally the worst fucking thing we could do.
I can’t forgive these people, I’m sick of forgiving people like this multiple times for their own stupidity.
Don’t waste key strokes typing in this group. Brexiters don’t hang out here, they congregate only where there’s positive Brexit talk, which i imagine is hard to find.
Brexit, voted for by those most likely to be taken out by Covid-19.
The only reason I do not go on a murderous ramage through John Lewis in Dudley is because of that very slim chance I get to sit on a cloud (with our Lord and Saviour, ~~Jesus Christ~~ Andy Street) and watch how this all pans out.
The historiographer in me says “let’s see, shall we?”
Every other part of me is screaming “YOU DUMB FUCKING CUNTS!”
Brexit was beneficial for the top 1% to maintain their power, motivated by racism and presented with lies. And when the oppression gets worse, when money, healthcare, education, etc gets harder to acquire, the Tories will have manipulated the majority of the country into wanting it.
Rise above the manipulation. Rise above the oppression, it’s blatantly there for everyone to see. For the UK to actually get out of this fucking rut, we need to defeat the Tories.
My food body is telling me I ate too many mince pies
In 2016, Boris Johnson said EU red tape was “costing UK businesses about £600m a week in unnecessary regulation”. So glad he got rid of all that red tape with his own deal and made us richer.
My brother who voted for brexit has gone through the various stages of mood in his responses whenever I challenged/challenge him on Brexit.
Firstly he was stubborn, it was the right call because of x,y,z.
Secondly it was joking, a way to divert any probing questions. “The answer is to grow lots of potatoes” among his regular jokes.
The most recent is now anger. His response to me was “get over it bro, you sound like all the other people who just won’t give up moaning about it. If you hate it so much just move to the EU then”
I think I’m entitled to keep showing people the consequences of their decisions. It’s not like he brought me a crap birthday present that I can just get rid because I don’t like it. This is a decision which makes ALL of our lives measurably worse, continues to do so and actually still getting WORSE as we hit more milestones for deals ending.
How can you deal with people who firstly can’t admit they are wrong and then just get angry when they start to see they are wrong.
Lastly he is currently on a global jaunt because he has no ties, no mortgage or girlfriend or job. Doesn’t want to come back to UK as it is “shit”….
Yes… and you help make it more shit.
But wot about are sovrunty?
Seriously, fuck those Brexiters. Clueless gullible cunts just wanted less brown people in their “cuntry”. A lot of the votes were engulfed in xenophobia, bigotry and hatred. And then came the hooligan stage: “we won, get over it”. They will be paying the price. Turkeys voted for Christmas.
>Future Britons will find it hard to believe that anyone voted to stay in the EU
>By the spring of 2016, many electors were thinking that the EU was moving in completely the wrong direction. With some polls even predicting a Vote to Leave, a highly nervous UK government resorted to a series of scare tactics. Hysterical claims were made about house prices, **food prices**, World War Three and other nonexistent bogeymen. The American president was prevailed upon to campaign for the UK to remain – even though, as he was repeatedly reminded, the US would not dream of compromising its independence in the manner required of EU members.
29th May 2016 Countryfile
>Boris: No. Well, we’re not leaving Europe, we’re leaving the EU system. And what we’re saying is, they send us about £18bn worth of food, we pay about £18bn to them for their food, and we sell about £7bn worth to the continental Europe. So, from their point of view, what’s not to like? It’s a great deal.
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“Britain’s small businesses should expect trade with the EU to be “permanently damaged” from 1 January, the refrigerated supply chain trade body has said, after new customs checks take effect that it says will make imports from the bloc “more expensive, less flexible and much slower”.
Amid growing public dismay at the negative impact of Brexit, the Cold Chain Federation said speciality food imports could face the same 70% decline that affected exports of food by small businesses this year after Britain quit the EU single market and customs union.
Extra costs that amount to £300 to £400 for each consignment will mean sales of food to EU countries in small batches could become uneconomic, said the CCF, which lobbies on behalf of firms that transport frozen and chilled goods.
“The big casualty of these trade barriers is the business that needs to import small and frequent quantities across borders – a palette load of speciality cheeses or boxes of onion powder. This is the sort of trade that is going to suffer,” said Shane Brennan, the federation’s chief executive.
(…)
UK food and drink exports to the EU fell by 24% in the first nine months of 2021, according to figures from the Food and Drink Federation, which said the slump helped knock the sector’s exports by £2.7bn between January and September compared with pre-pandemic levels.
(…)
The Institute of Directors said its economic confidence index had tumbled from -6 in November to -17 this month, a sign of nervousness among business owners about the UK’s economic prospects.
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It said three-quarters of company directors expected costs to rise in the next 12 months, and most said they would raise prices to either fully or partially offset the rise in costs.”
> … knock the sectors exports by £2.7bn between January and September.
Yeah but we get to put the crown mark back on pint glasses. So 6 of one, half a dozen of the other really.
Oh, we could anyway? Well now it at least feels more patriotic!
Bit late to do anything about it now. Should have raised it earlier really.
Ah just go outside your houses and clap, that’s the British way of fixing things. Eejits.
Brexit is just the gift that keeps on giving.
Well d’uh, that was pretty much the description of Brexit. “Leaving the EU” and all will do that.
Ooh, that’s today! How exciting. Thanks, Brexit. Happy New Year!
Come on, Project Fear is so 2016. It’s 2022; about time we stopped listening to experts. /s
Chill, it’s fine. They knew what they were voting for and definitely won’t be shouting about “the EU punishing us” for the natural consequences of leaving.
New Years gift from brexit and bojo. We are so lucky!! /s
Brexit is an unmitigated disaster that anyone who was paying attention could have easily predicted. How 51.7% of the voting public who actually bothered to cast a vote could have been so deluded into thinking this was a good idea is honestly baffling to me.
So project fear was actually project reality, huh?
Who honestly could have seen this coming? Apart from the experts who made it their life work to predict and model things such as this…
6 years after the vote now. What a waste of time and money this whole farce has been.
You see how new articles about Boris *Bringing Back the Pint* are coming out?
Do you think Boris is stupid enough to actually think its a win?
He is very smart or has a genius advisers to keep people who vote for them happy. It does not matter if its a win, succes or as coherent as 5 years old gibberish, it wins stubborn morons votes
Brexit, the gift that will never stop giving. No matter how much you tell it to stop.
Yeah, but fucking SOVERRRITY.
Start loving it, you bigoted, racist, short-sighted fucks.
I have NO sympathy.
Brexit would solve all of the UK’s problems but the strange thing is, I don’t feel like the Daily Mail commentators are any happier since Brexit despite often dedicating their entire username to Brexit.
Ignorant racist majority fucks own country to spite the foreigners.
> The big casualty of these trade barriers is the business that needs to import small and frequent quantities across borders – a pallet load of speciality cheeses or boxes of onion powder
No wonder it’s been a nightmare to find onion powder recently! I swear it’s the only jar in the herb section that constantly missing
This has been like seeing a train wreck in slow motion
I’m expecting swathes of companies to announce no fulfilment orders with the UK this month. Maybe even Amazon, considering they won’t process UK Visa CC payments now.
So this is only going to push food scarcity and prices up further, whilst we’re beginning to really feel the economic effects of the pandemic. I hope everyone who’s doing well this year can remember to donate food because it looks like a lot of people are going to start struggling soon.
This isn’t even the worst of it.
The second half of 2022 is where shit gets real.
Oh no, if if isn’t the consequences to my deplorable countrymens actions
Anyone who thought about this could have worked this out to begin with, unfortunately thinking about what the result was going to be was never actually considered.
The fact there was no actual plan in place should have been a large clue not to vote for it.
This was always about getting the UK out of the EU and away from the new tax rules that was being brought in across Europe meaning there was no where to hide in 2016. We never lost our sovereignty and we alway had the right to veto any law that we didn’t agree with, so it was all a con…
I STILL have people i know who try to justify voting for brexit, all two of them.
It’s the sunken cost fallacy, they don’t want to admit they didn’t use their brain and that Brexit was literally the worst fucking thing we could do.
I can’t forgive these people, I’m sick of forgiving people like this multiple times for their own stupidity.
Don’t waste key strokes typing in this group. Brexiters don’t hang out here, they congregate only where there’s positive Brexit talk, which i imagine is hard to find.
Brexit, voted for by those most likely to be taken out by Covid-19.
The only reason I do not go on a murderous ramage through John Lewis in Dudley is because of that very slim chance I get to sit on a cloud (with our Lord and Saviour, ~~Jesus Christ~~ Andy Street) and watch how this all pans out.
The historiographer in me says “let’s see, shall we?”
Every other part of me is screaming “YOU DUMB FUCKING CUNTS!”
Brexit was beneficial for the top 1% to maintain their power, motivated by racism and presented with lies. And when the oppression gets worse, when money, healthcare, education, etc gets harder to acquire, the Tories will have manipulated the majority of the country into wanting it.
Rise above the manipulation. Rise above the oppression, it’s blatantly there for everyone to see. For the UK to actually get out of this fucking rut, we need to defeat the Tories.
My food body is telling me I ate too many mince pies
In 2016, Boris Johnson said EU red tape was “costing UK businesses about £600m a week in unnecessary regulation”. So glad he got rid of all that red tape with his own deal and made us richer.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/11/boris-johnson-launches-the-vote-leave-battlebus-in-cornwall
My brother who voted for brexit has gone through the various stages of mood in his responses whenever I challenged/challenge him on Brexit.
Firstly he was stubborn, it was the right call because of x,y,z.
Secondly it was joking, a way to divert any probing questions. “The answer is to grow lots of potatoes” among his regular jokes.
The most recent is now anger. His response to me was “get over it bro, you sound like all the other people who just won’t give up moaning about it. If you hate it so much just move to the EU then”
I think I’m entitled to keep showing people the consequences of their decisions. It’s not like he brought me a crap birthday present that I can just get rid because I don’t like it. This is a decision which makes ALL of our lives measurably worse, continues to do so and actually still getting WORSE as we hit more milestones for deals ending.
How can you deal with people who firstly can’t admit they are wrong and then just get angry when they start to see they are wrong.
Lastly he is currently on a global jaunt because he has no ties, no mortgage or girlfriend or job. Doesn’t want to come back to UK as it is “shit”….
Yes… and you help make it more shit.
But wot about are sovrunty?
Seriously, fuck those Brexiters. Clueless gullible cunts just wanted less brown people in their “cuntry”. A lot of the votes were engulfed in xenophobia, bigotry and hatred. And then came the hooligan stage: “we won, get over it”. They will be paying the price. Turkeys voted for Christmas.
From the Telegraph [article](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/22/future-britons-will-find-it-hard-to-believe-that-anyone-voted-to/) 22 May 2016 by Boris Johnson
>Future Britons will find it hard to believe that anyone voted to stay in the EU
>By the spring of 2016, many electors were thinking that the EU was moving in completely the wrong direction. With some polls even predicting a Vote to Leave, a highly nervous UK government resorted to a series of scare tactics. Hysterical claims were made about house prices, **food prices**, World War Three and other nonexistent bogeymen. The American president was prevailed upon to campaign for the UK to remain – even though, as he was repeatedly reminded, the US would not dream of compromising its independence in the manner required of EU members.
29th May 2016 Countryfile
>Boris: No. Well, we’re not leaving Europe, we’re leaving the EU system. And what we’re saying is, they send us about £18bn worth of food, we pay about £18bn to them for their food, and we sell about £7bn worth to the continental Europe. So, from their point of view, what’s not to like? It’s a great deal.
Mhmm…