Ordered a few new accessories from Gopro last week.
Didnt realise Gopro were based in the EU.. no mention of this on the Gopro shop.
Will that mean a VAT bill / import duty?
My shipping status update this morning from UPS… Your parcel is delayed due to a Brexit related disruption.
Same happened to me when ordering from the Asics outlet. Didn't have to pay any extra but it did take 10 days or more to arrive. They quoted 10/15 days so no worries.
Residents can apply for a French one provided they take a theory test – in French.
Oh, that is just brilliant 🙂
Oh, that is just brilliant
Isn't it just...🙂
As above, though, I'm sure what with Brits abroad being such culture vultures, I can't see a driving theory test in their adopted language being a problem...
Immigrants should assimilate after all - according to the gammons.
In my experience, the number of brits living in France who've been here for 20-odd years and who seem to be proud of the fact that they can hardly speak a word of French is surprisingly high. How on earth do they manage? I struggle a bit, but can't imagine how I'd get on with no French at all. They must all have someone to do it all for them, but I can't see that being allowed for the driving test!
BBC News: Brexit: UK 'risks falling behind' EU on workers’ rights
Really!
Wasn’t that the point behind the Brexit lies?
Wasn’t that the point behind the Brexit lies?
Yes. It was to cause a one-off rupture with the restrictions on employee exploitation that are part of being in the EU and to also starve public services of cash so the private sector (Tory mates) can feed on bits of it (the ones that are profitable in the short term).
The Honda Swindon thing is the perfect metaphor. The tories are hailing it as a triumph. But what is, in effect, happening is (made up numbers) 100 skilled jobs with an annual wage bill of £3.5m are being replaced with 120 lower skilled jobs with an annual wage bill of £2.7m. These replacement jobs will also be less secure because lower skilled jobs nearly always are - the lower the skills required the more people can do the job.
Welcome to Amazon Britain.
Once again, after talking something up (Britain not only maintaining its role in international science programmes after Brexit, but increasing it) the government acts in the exact opposite way....
https://www.google.com/search?q=science+funding&source=lnms&tbm=nws
>> (for prosperity and international readers, here's those search results) >>
UK scientists warn of 'catastrophic' impact of funding cuts
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/31/uk-scientists-funding-cuts-grants-foreign-aid
Government warned against making ‘catastrophic’ funding cuts to British science
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/covid-uk-science-funding-latest-b1824573.html
UK's 'science superpower' status under threat over cuts to global health research
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/uks-science-superpower-status-threat-cuts-global-health-research/
Science funding under threat, as universities ‘alarmed’ by UK government’s silence
https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2021/03/universities-urge-clarity-on-future-of-science-and-innovation-funding/
Details on science funding scarce in latest UK budget
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/details-on-science-funding-scarce-in-latest-uk-budget/4013340.article
Research cuts put UK’s reputation at risk, say academics
https://www.ft.com/content/860ff4aa-fab0-4046-9196-2e151807d70e
UK universities call for Johnson to halt research funding cuts
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/mar/16/uk-universities-call-for-johnson-to-halt-research-funding-cuts
UK research into malaria set to be halted after government cuts vital funding
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/malaria-uk-research-covid-africa-b1824334.html
‘Devastating’ cuts to UK Research and Innovation funding for science
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/devastating-cuts-to-uk-research-and-innovation-funding-for-science-m638l6zh3
‘We must adapt’: EU research chief on Europe’s €100-billion funding programme
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00834-1
^^^
But that will be rubbished by their bots and stooges as 'Remoaner Propaganda' and 'Elitist Misinformation'.
And the morons who spend more than thirty seconds every morning trying to work out which shoe to put on which foot will buy it. And they don't care anyway.
They've just had a discussion on Five Live with a selection of business owners from different sectors of the economy who trade with the EU.
All said the same. They recounted the same sorry tale of mountains of new paperwork, where none was required before, and the obviously massively increased costs and huge delays due to the time all this additional bureaucracy now takes.
It absolutely defies all logic that a country has voluntarily impose all this on itself. This UK has hobbled its own businesses and simply made them all uncompetitive in a global market. If another country had imposed these conditions on us, there would be uproar.
In response to all theses business owners pointing out the folly of all this, the government spokesman refused to even acknowledged any of it, let alone engage with it, and just reiterated the standard statement
"The UK has taken back control of our .... blah, blah ****ing blah...."
didn't they get the Johnson memo "**** business" ?
did they own up to which way they voted in the GE by any chance ?
John Le Carre.
Urbane, intelligent, sophisticated, worldly, erudite, fair-minded, progressive, realistic.
No wonder he didn't like Brexit. It is the very opposite of his best character traits.
The Brompton is with the douane:
"Nº ID ou ajrnmnt Ein/Tva/Eori/Pers importateur requis pour dédouanement. Nous nous efforçons d’obtenir ces informations."
Pre-Brexit I reckon it would already be with me, DPD or UPS from the UK was generally three days. Friction free my arse.
Urbane, intelligent, sophisticated, worldly, erudite, fair-minded, progressive, realistic.
That would be his Irish roots. 😃
Just like Liam Gallagher.
That would be his Irish roots.
I don't recall ever seeing him with a pig under his arm....
Meh the mass deportations of ex-pats from Spain cos they never registered before Brexit and don’t have papers.
“Possession of a residence document is not a prerequisite for lawful residence in accordance with Union law because under Union law the right of residence is conferred directly on EU citizens by the Treaty and is not dependent upon having fulfilled administrative procedures.
CAB Spain
So not really getting those mirror/sun stories although the local Tesco were having issues with getting sausages so that may have traumatised some people to rush back to the U.K. without actually checking their rights.
My Spanish supermarket is still getting cheddar under their own brand (but made in the u.k.) and the imported Branson pickle trade still flourishes.
Critical point being " EU citizens" - ex pat brits no longer are EU citizens
Critical point being ” EU citizens” – ex pat brits British Migrants no longer are EU citizens
Ties in with withdrawal agreement thou
Those protected by the Withdrawal Agreement who have not yet acquired permanent residence rights – if they have not lived in the host state for at least five years – will be fully protected by the Withdrawal Agreement, and will be able to continue residing in the host state and acquire permanent residence rights in the host state after accumulating five years of residence.
I said this would happen a couple of years ago to my Brexit voting mates who lived in Spain - what a Turkey. They own a villa that they bought from cashing in their lucrative share save scheme when one of the public utilities was sold.
Ties in with withdrawal agreement thou
Well, in the UK you had to apply to make use of that protection, it wasn’t automatic. Haven’t some EU countries reciprocated and applied the same bureaucratic gotcha?
and will be able to continue residing in the host state and acquire permanent residence rights in the host state after accumulating five years of residence.
yes - buy conforming to the usual requirements including doing the paperwork, having health insurance, paying taxes etc
Well, in the UK you had to apply to make use of that protection, it wasn’t automatic. Haven’t some EU countries reciprocated and applied the same bureaucratic gotcha?
They launched a new TIE card that you had to apply for if you didn’t already have an old green residential card.
(Extra tick box for withdrawal rights).
Where I’m going is that retirees that lived here before Brexit and even without paperwork wouldn’t necessarily be deported according to the Spanish cab.(course if you can’t be assed to engage)
If your working and tax avoiding ymmv.
Pal of mine had to apply for residence here having been here under EU rules for many years and running her own business. the kafkaesque bureaucratic expensive nightmare that ensued was ridiculous
Covid hasn’t really helped the mind bending Spanish bureaucracy tbh.
Just looking to order a few bike bits. Everything I want is 25% more expensive than it was when I looked back in December. The computer screen tempts me with images of the same products at nearly half the price in that there Euroland but it all seems so tantalisingly out of reach....When I say yes, computer says no.
Perhaps the government is pushing us to the point that it will be cheaper to get your local blacksmith to forge a cassette for you than importing one, bringing traditional industries back to life sort of thing.
Perhaps the government is pushing us to the point that it will be cheaper to get your local blacksmith to forge a cassette for you than importing one, bringing traditional industries back to life sort of thing.
It seems that brexit cheerleader Redwood thinks the government aren't doing enough to encourage those blacksmiths
https://twitter.com/johnredwood/status/1378343409774166020?s=19
John isn’t very sharp, is he?
He still hasn’t figured out that he, along with his Brexity chums have just voluntarily placed a load of additional costs and regulations on our fishing and farming industries if they want to just carry on selling to their largest market
It’s actually staggering to realise that people this thick have managed to get where they are. That’s establishment nepotism for you, I suppose
Let alone the fact that anyone with any sense will just save up a bit more and still by the stuff from overseas. Save by..... maybe not going to the pub or not eating out as often etc etc.
Brexit utopians really are the thickest of the thick. As thick as two short planks glued together with pig shit sat in a vat of pig shit.
It’s the Brexiteer’s suggestions that our fisherman should now concentrate on selling frozen food to half-way around the world rather than premium quality, fresh-seafood to Europeans who are happy to pay for it.
What John hasn't realised is that you can't have your cake and eat it, which is presumably what he thought would happen.
John will never realise it either because like most Brexiteers he’s so dense that light bends around him
Perhaps the government is pushing us to the point that it will be cheaper to get your local blacksmith to forge a cassette for you than importing one, bringing traditional industries back to life sort of thing.
They just want you to be quiet, keep flying the flag and buy it from Amazon. Asset-stripping (especially public assets) takes time before their inevitable exit/replacement by another greedy mob (dressed as pseudo-neo-liberals in some ‘New Populist’ attire). By which time division and confusion shall reign. We’re decades away from the point where a few inconsequential Brexiteers may look back with 20/20 vision and think ‘hold your horses...’. At which point, there was no point.
Predictably:
Friday and Saturday nights' events didn't make it into the British media until now, curious.
Events in NI were on the BBC yesterday
But not on Saturday or last week when what are described in my local press as "riots" started.
On Friday, there were violent scenes in the Sandy Row area of Belfast as well.
In Derry, police have been subjected to sustained attacks across several nights in the last week in loyalist areas of the Waterside part of the city.
There were 27 police officers injured on Friday night across Belfast and Derry.
It was in the Guardian on Saturday.
People rioting about the effects of something they voted for and their political leaders championed despite overall opposition to it in the region, it’s kinda brilliant in its own moronic way.
July is going to be a right barrel of laughs there.
I dispute that, Kilo. Feel free to post something dated earlier than my link. They sometimes hide importatn events away in the minor stories but I read every headline on the home page Saturday night.
John being a slick political operator earlier.
Brexit: created and pushed by cynics, believed in by idiots.
Ffs, doesn’t google work in France;)
Sat 3 Apr 2021 14.10 BST
Stormont’s first minister has joined calls for calm after riots in Belfast, urging young people “not to get drawn into disorder” and parents to protect their children.
Thank you, Kilo. And no Google doesn't work and nor does the relevant article system on the Guardian site because without you link I still can't find it. Not the first time either.
The endless brain farts of Redwood on twitter speak to a chronically stupid man
I'm amazed how he gets through life, let alone how he became an MP
