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[The Joker 10]

3 hours ago, West 77 said:

Brexit is being credited for a big growth in the British cheese industry.  This was discussed on Dragon's Den.  Brexit has brought about new opportunities for British business.

You are talking out of your backside.

 

Again.

 

Brexit is being credited with a big collapse in the British cheese industry.

 

One British cheesemaker says the lack of a trade deal has lost him  £250,000 of business due to the additional paperwork and health certificates required,  which requires a £180 health certificate on a £30 gift pack of cheese.

 

And as for so-called "emerging markets" including Canada and Norway, those counties' duties are in excess of 200%, amounting to £178 extra on a £50 gift pack, and £190 on a £30 gift pack.

 

Read it and weep:

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/27/brexit-the-biggest-disaster-that-any-government-has-ever-negotiated

Brexit: ‘the biggest disaster any government has ever negotiated’

Exclusive: British cheesemaker says Brexit and subsequent trade deals have cost his firm £270,000

A British cheesemaker who predicted Brexit would cost him hundreds of thousands of pounds in exports has called the UK’s departure from the EU single market a disaster, after losing his entire wholesale and retail business in the bloc over the past year. Simon Spurrell, the co-founder of the Cheshire Cheese Company, said personal advice from a government minister to pursue non-EU markets to compensate for his losses had proved to be “an expensive joke”

 

It turns out our greatest competitor on the planet is the UK government because every time they do a fantastic deal, they kick us out of that market – starting with the Brexit deal,” he said.

 

Spurrell predicted in January that Brexit would cost him £250,000 in sales. “We lost £270,000, so I got one thing right,” he said, describing the post-Brexit EU trade deal as the “biggest disaster that any government has ever negotiated in the history of trade negotiations”.

 

His online retail business was hit immediately after the Brexit negotiator David Frost failed to secure a frictionless trade deal addressing sales to individual customers in the EU.

 

Spurrell said he had lost 20% of sales overnight after discovering he needed to provide a £180 health certificate on each order, including gift packs costing £25 or £30. He said the viability of his online retail had come to a “dead stop”.

 

After he embarked on a personal crusade to draw attention to the plight of UK exporters involving almost 200 media interviews around the world, he was invited to an online meeting with Victoria Prentis, a minister at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. She suggested that emerging markets could compensate for the Brexit-related hole in the Cheshire Cheese Company’s finances.

 

Spurrell said he had pursued new business in Norway and Canada but post-Brexit trade deals sealed by the government had put barriers in place.

“We no longer have any ability to deal with the EU as our three distributors in Germany, France and Italy have said we have become too expensive because of the new checks and paperwork.

 

“And now we’ve also lost Norway since the trade deal, as duty for wholesale is 273%. Then we tried Canada but what the government didn’t tell us is that duty of 244% is applied on any consignment over $20 [£15].”

 

That meant Canadian customers who ordered a gift pack worth £50, including transport fees, were asked to pay £178 extra in duty when the courier arrived at their door, Spurrell said. “As you can imagine, customers were saying: ‘You can take that back, we don’t want it anymore’.”

Norwegian duty on a £30 cheese pack amounted to £190 extra, he said.

 

Spurrell is now pursuing the domestic market with greater vigour but says the cost of marketing has gone “through the roof” because all his competitors are having to do the same.

 

 

[Magilla 510]

3 hours ago, West 77 said:

This was discussed on Dragon's Den.

"...because you can't get French cheese"

 

 

[geared 299]

I'm surprised people even bother replying to such an idiotic troll.

 

Hit the ignore button, it's what it's there for.

[Magilla 510]

3 hours ago, West 77 said:

French cheese is still available but British cheese producers are benefiting in this pro Brexit age.

"...because you can't get French cheese" was the claim made on Dragons Den

 

59 minutes ago, geared said:

I'm surprised people even bother replying to such an idiotic troll.

 

Hit the ignore button, it's what it's there for.

Hey, if they want to repeatedly make a complete arse of themselves... who am I to stop them

[hackey lad 3,928]

1 hour ago, geared said:

I'm surprised people even bother replying to such an idiotic troll.

 

Hit the ignore button, it's what it's there for.

Have you hit the ignore button for him ?

[Longcol 592]

Looks like the price of wine could rocket under proposals to "simplify" duty post brexit...................

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/wine-excise-duty-sunak-brexit-b1989237.html

[melthebell 862]

Im confused, wernt Brextremists that are pro immigration restrictions hailing that we should be like Australia? and be tough on immigration?

 

Seems some...like farage are now moaning about the "big bad" Aussie government LOL

 

[The Joker 10]

5 hours ago, West 77 said:

Nonsense

 

French cheese is still available but British cheese producers are benefiting in this pro Brexit age.   Brexit has brought new opportunities for all British business.

Another rectally-derived comment from you.

 

British businesses have shrunk their potential market from the 300 million people of the EU, down to the 60 million people of the UK.

 

I fail to see how that could ever be construed as a benefit or an opportunity.

 

[sadbrewer 20]

3 hours ago, Longcol said:

Looks like the price of wine could rocket under proposals to "simplify" duty post brexit...................

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/wine-excise-duty-sunak-brexit-b1989237.html

Hardly rocketing...29p extra duty on a 13% bottle of wine...49p on a 14%.

Edited January 9, 2022 by sadbrewer

[geared 299]

14 hours ago, hackey lad said:

Have you hit the ignore button for him ?

Yep, if all they are going to bring to the discussion is petty insults then stuff em, not even worth the time to read what they post.

 

I urge others to do the same, block the Trolls, don't even give them the time of day.

[L00b 441]

Any readers involved in light haulage with EU-bound loads-

 

 

-the deadline is May, not March, so you have a little over 4 months left to adapt/prepare (i.e. find an alternative logistic solution for your light goods, if you’re using a LH transport provider).

Edited January 10, 2022 by L00b

[geared 299]

While this is not a direct consequence of Brexit,  with us now being out of the EU we get to sit on the sidelines and watch while they start slinging mud over the usual North Vs South problems that have long plagued the bloc.

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-11/the-euro-is-facing-a-make-or-break-year

 

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countries in the euro are required to try and cap their debt to 60% of GDP

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Italy’s will have ballooned to about 155% of GDP this year

Such is the ineffectual state of successive Italian governments that politicians have done nothing to reform either the financial system or anything much else. 

 

Edited January 14, 2022 by geared