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Fuck shitty Brexit. It's a catastrophe.

Kimi Karjalainen and his brother Marko poured their life savings into Bone Machine Brewing Co when it opened in Pocklington, East Yorkshire, in 2017 before moving to Hull, as part of the craft beer revolution that swept Britain.

“The entire investment, not including time and labour that we gave for free, was about £70,000,” Karjalainen said. Four weeks ago, it was gone. “That was my parents’ retirement.”


“It just got too much – Brexit,” Karjalainen said. “We were heavily geared for export. We’d be selling to Finland, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Netherlands, Italy, Spain. We had Hungary in the pipeline. And it all disappeared with Brexit.”

Post-Brexit trading arrangements with European Union countries meant that Bone Machine’s craft beers needed to be accompanied by expensive and time-consuming paperwork.
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www.theguardian.com

‘It all disappeared with Brexit’: Craft beer boom ends as more than 100 UK firms go bust

More than a hundred breweries have shut in the past two years as new trade barriers were compounded by Covid and tax changes
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
Ax^ said:
tbf lots of ex pat were fooled into voting for brexit by shithawk rags giving the idea of freedom from the shackles of the EU

just a shame the daft twat did not expect the EU to start treating them the same way they wanted immigrants treated back home :facepalm:
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I'm sure that's all true and fair, but it should be remembered that most expats living within the (rest of the) EU, if they voted, voted remain.
 
the vote was more or less 50/50 of the population of the UK

so a quick search of brexit folks annoyed about the brexit vote realities

not all of them where clever enough to spot the consequences of the lies they were being fed

sure the Germans have a word that encompasses the feeling you should have for them but hey ho
 
more second homers nad people going back and forward really I suppose

than ex.pats who were not eligible to vote
 
if you fly indirect you will be hit by not being able to claim compensation


Lufthansa for example flys all over the place from Frankfurt
 
Ax^ said:
if you fly indirect you will be hit by not being able to claim compensation


Lufthansa for example flys all over the place from Frankfurt
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And the Frankfurt to UK leg you'll be covered.

Non-EU carriers flying to the EU or UK from outside are not covered, they are if their flight is from the EU/UK, but not the other way round.
 
editor said:
Fuck shitty Brexit. It's a catastrophe.




www.theguardian.com

‘It all disappeared with Brexit’: Craft beer boom ends as more than 100 UK firms go bust

More than a hundred breweries have shut in the past two years as new trade barriers were compounded by Covid and tax changes
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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The article itself listed a multitude of reasons for this business going under. Brexit was one but was not posited as the main one nor as being particularly influential. Still, good old Guardian eh?
 
TopCat said:
The article itself listed a multitude of reasons for this business going under. Brexit was one but was not posited as the main one nor as being particularly influential. Still, good old Guardian eh?
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Seems you're having trouble reading the article:

“It just got too much – Brexit,” Karjalainen said. “We were heavily geared for export. We’d be selling to Finland, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Netherlands, Italy, Spain. We had Hungary in the pipeline. And it all disappeared with Brexit.”
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Post-Brexit trading arrangements with European Union countries meant that Bone Machine’s craft beers needed to be accompanied by expensive and time-consuming paperwork.

“Everyone was saying ‘it’s too complicated to import anything from the UK any more’,” Karjalainen said. “In terms of pure output, that was about 30% to 40% of what we made. In terms of income, it was probably more than half.”
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Here's the reality of Brexit:

British firms are increasingly pessimistic about the benefits of post-Brexit free trade deals, according to the government’s own research.

The Department for Business and Trade’s survey of more than 3,000 companies revealed that three out five (58 per cent) now think the free trade deals will have no positive impact on their business.


That’s up from 54 per cent in the previous year – a sign of growing dismay about the opportunities the agreements can offer, despite promises that Brexit can help boost “global Britain”.


Less than one third (31 per cent) of businesses believe trade deals would have a positive effect, down from 33 per cent the previous year.

It comes as the latest public polling shows most voters are gloomy about Brexit’s impact on Britain’s juddering economy. Some 61 per cent believe the UK’s exit from the EU has left the country worse off.
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In 2017, almost three in four (73 per cent) companies said there was a lot of demand for UK goods and services – but the figures dropped to 55 per cent in the latest survey. And 49 per cent cent said there had been less demand for goods and services since Brexit, an increase from 39 per cent in the previous survey.
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It comes as the latest public polling revealed growing support for a second Brexit referendum on EU membership. Nearly half of Britons want another in the next 10 years, the latest YouGov survey showed.

More than a quarter of people (26 per cent) support a referendum by as soon as the end of 2023. And some 20 per cent of people who voted Leave want another referendum within the next 10 years.

When asked how they would vote if there was a referendum on rejoining the EU, half of the participants said they would vote to rejoin. By contrast, only 30 per cent said they would vote to stay out, while seven per cent said they would not vote.
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www.independent.co.uk

Brexit trade failures revealed by government’s own research

Survey of exporters shows there is increased pessimism about the benefits of post-Brexit trade deals
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
 
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