How has Brexit actually affected you so far?

[kabbes]

I swear every other bank holiday some git from the CBI pops up to say how he has calculated how many millions are lost to business because of the bank holiday. Cunt off.

He gets his pound of flesh from me every fourth February, though, when I have to work a whole extra day for no extra money.

 

[moon]

My department at work was shut down at the end of last year and around 50 people were made redundant, they claimed this was due to Brexit...

 

[William of Walworth]

I swear every other bank holiday some git from the CBI pops up to say how he has calculated how many millions are lost to business because of the bank holiday. Cunt off.

One of Corbyn's best promises during the GE was to promise some more Bank Holidays. Hope that eventually happens, as much to annoy the anti-Bank Holiday business classes as anything else

The actual dates of his proposed extra holidays were a bit off for me -- national Saints' days in Wales (1st March, a bit too near Easter if it falls early), England (23rd April, a bit too near Easter if it falls late, and too near the early May BH as well) and Scotland (30th November, a bit too near Xmas?). Was there one other on his list?

I'd personally go for including these : one in mid February (because there's a bloody long time beween New Years Day and Easter), the last Monday in June (guess why ), one in mid October (because there's a bloody long time between August BH and Xmas).

Maybe we could also have Corbyn's ones in addition to those

I appreciate that very little of this has anything to do with Brexit ...

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

One of Corbyn's best promises during the GE was to promise some more Bank Holidays. Hope that eventually happens, as much to annoy the anti-Bank Holiday business classes as anything else

The actual dates of his proposed extra holidays were a bit off for me -- national Saints' days in Wales (1st March, a bit too near Easter if it falls early), England (23rd April, a bit too near Easter if it falls late, and too near the early May BH as well) and Scotland (30th November, a bit too near Xmas?). Was there one other on his list?

I'd personally go for including these : one in mid February (because there's a bloody long time beween New Years Day and Easter), the last Monday in June (guess why ), one in mid October (because there's a bloody long time between August BH and Xmas).

Maybe we could also have Corbyn's ones in addition to those

I appreciate that very little of this has anything to do with Brexit ...

Once we've seen off the rotters from France and elsewhere every day will be a bank holiday!!!!


We'll have £350m a week to chuck around, fuck work, let's party!!!

 

[not-bono-ever]

Tory Millionaire Says Brexit Is Good For Young People As They Will Be Able To Work Longer In Shops | HuffPost UK

Harris thinks brexit is great so kids cane come out of school and work longer hours in his shops and go up chimneys as well

 

[phillm]

Checked my little story and cannot find where it does not make sense. Laid out my thoughts below:-


Moved to central Portugal. Bought house and two acres of land. Savings on council tax allows me to take my wife out at least three to four times a month so better relations there. Savings on cost of living allowing me to save money again instead of losing it to the British tax system.

1. Savings on council tax? In Uk I was paying nearly £200 a month for a three bedroomed flat. In Portugal I am paying 70 euros a year! Now that makes sense to me.
2. Taking the wife out when possible. Makes wife happier and the old saying "Happy wife happy life" is quite true. So that also makes sense.
3. Cost of living? Electric is about the same cost as UK. Weekly shop down to about 70 Euros in Uk £90. So that makes sense to me.

Taken out some private medical insurance at less than half the cost of the same in Britain. Keeping in mind that I will have to review that as Brexit progresses (EHIC and NHS bad management).

1. private medical insurance in UK £200 a month. In Portugal 48 euros a month. Saving again makes sense to me.
2. Reviewing the situation as Brexit progresses also makes sense to me nothing stays the same forever.

Able to afford diesel for my car as prices seem to be about 20% less than UK, the prices also follow the barrel price, so oil price on news drops, price at pump drops within a day or two.

1. I enjoy dring my car, with the lower prices here I can drive it more. Portugals policy on renewable energy helps enormously here. They went four days in 2016 on nothing but renewables, they have also driven down their reliance on fossil fuels by over 40% in the last few years slowly divorcing themselves from hikes in oil prices. Now that also makes sense to me.

Looking into Portuguese income tax to see if it is better to move investments\pensions, I suspect it will be better to move what I can.

1. My investments etc are in £sterling at the moment they do not all have to be. Some can be moved to what is now, to me, a more stable Euro that will stabilise part of my income.
2. Returns on investments in UK are taxed in the UK. If Portuguese tax is cheaper makes sense to move them to EU and pay less tax. Makes sense.

Heating bill for winter less than 10% of same in UK so happy there.

1. Need to keep warm when it is cold. Reducing my heating bill is a big saving. Also makes sense.

All in all the pound has to collapse a long way before there are any serious consequences to my standard of living. Another point of course is that with the land I can now harvest my own olive oil, apples, oranges, pears, sweet chestnuts and just about any vegetable I care to grow so driving down my cost of living even more and in the case of olive oil and chestnuts raising my standard of living.

Hope I have covered all the points if not please elaborate on what does not make sense.

Don't let Stanley Edwards know you have a gaff in Portugal - or you may end up with 'Old Man Living in a Shed'.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Tory Millionaire Says Brexit Is Good For Young People As They Will Be Able To Work Longer In Shops | HuffPost UK

Harris thinks brexit is great so kids cane come out of school and work longer hours in his shops and go up chimneys as well

Anything to stop them injecting crack in to their eyeballs must be a good thing

 

[not-bono-ever]

Don't let Stanley Edwards know you have a gaff in Portugal - or you may end up with 'Old Man Living in a Shed'.

Please don't drag him into this thread for fucks sake!

 

[krink]

How has Brexit actually affected you so far?

I've been called a racist/fascist a lot more often. That's about it so far.

 

[bimble]

Jaffa Cakes packet size reduced in latest 'shrinkflation' move

 

[friendofdorothy]

my money is worth a lot less in europe now ...

 

[Riklet]

My money (euros) is worth a lot more now, which is handy.

Also it now mostly works out cheaper to pay in pounds for flights with most of the budget airlines, so im saving my quids for them...

 

[NoXion]

The reduced value of the pound is apparently responsible for business slowing down at the company I work for. Yesterday they called a big meeting and informed us they would be getting rid of the night shift and making redundancies.

So I could end up losing my job because the current government are a bunch of bungling fucking idiots while the neoliberal shitehawks in Brussels are smelling blood.

Nice.

 

[nuffsaid]

It's diminished the entertainment factor I gain from the news, and it's making me consider moving abroad quicker than I was planning to.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

I work at a university. The number of students from European countries has fallen dramatically, so I'm facing redundancy.

Thanks a lot, leavers.