Brexit benefits – lets start a list

BTW my residency application is totally different beast to what you would now have to do as I was here prior to Brexit day and the Withdrawal Agreement protects some of my rights (other than freedom of movement so 10 years of residency needed to get that back with a Spanish passport)

If you were applying for a NLV – non-lucrative visa you’d probably get it within 30 to 60 days.

Digital nomad visa would be within 15 to 45 days.

Dunno about the other visas but they are going to be way more fun.

Anyway enough about me and visas, let’s get adding to that substantial Brexit benefits list.

Finally found one…

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1806216/British-fishermen-Brexit-bluefish-tuna

Only one caught so far but it’s a start.

The only reason that Bluefish Tuna fishing can restart is that the 15-year-old EU commision ban has been successful in allowing the species to recover from overfishing.

Say “thank you” to the EU.

Still waiting. Still not holding my breath.

cloudnine – not personal to you but…I shouldn’t have clicked on your link to the express.
One fish – and it’s a ‘brexit benefit’; brexit bollocks.
Picture of chunky fish referred to twice as being 30lbs; piss poor journalism and editing as it’s a 300lb fish.
Good solid reporting there from the daily arsewipe.

The whole ‘fishing’ thing is a dead cat on the table anyway. Absolutely no-one cared about fish until the Daily Usual Suspects made a big song and dance about it. We don’t eat most of the fish we catch, we sell it. To some large land mass or other nearby, historically at least.

Apparently the freedom to pollute our rivers is a Brexit bonus

England’s rivers at risk as Michael Gove rips up rules on new housing https://t.co/KWEhvrJV3s

— John Crace (@JohnJCrace) August 28, 2023

We don’t eat most of the fish we catch, we sell it. To some large land mass or other nearby, historically at least. – Not the shellfish any more due to the EU food safety import rules meaning we are no longer compliant to sell to any of our previous main markets.

Apparently a Brexit benefit was being able to set up a trade with India.

Which still hasn’t happened.

So still no benefits and I don’t expect that to change. Ever.

The sooner we’re back in the EU, the better.

Not the shellfish any more due to the EU food safety import rules meaning we are no longer compliant to sell to any of our previous main markets.

It depends on the processing (or lack of it) and where the fishing takes place. Only Scottish scallops on sale in the supermarket in France when I was last there. Speed and cost (so much for cutting red tape) is hitting UK suppliers hard, but they still have to sell to EU countries. The alternative is to just give up and close up.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/export-live-fish-and-shellfish-for-aquaculture-and-ornamental

Found another one! Bike-discount.de are shipping to Northern Ireland, and I didn’t pay any tax or import fees on the purchase. 

Not really a benefit though, I mean they did do that before brexit too.

My wife’s previously brexity friend acknowledged that it was a terrible mistake.

She didn’t go as far as admitting that she voted for it though, despite telling us that she did back in the day.

Not really a benefit though, I mean they did do that before brexit too

Considering the disaster it has been I am taking some return to the status quo as a massive win. 

I flew into Malaga last week. Sailed through immigration with the Irish passport in about 2 minutes, then had to wait ages for bags. The gammonista however had to queue for ages for immigration but were utterly overjoyed to find their bags waiting for them on the belt at the end.  Tenuous benefit is tenuous.  

It’s the NI benefits. Just need to get the Tories out over here, so the DUP have no leverage to try and get rid of those NI benefits in the name of Brexit purity.

Ah here’s another benefit
(I think,I heard that the total UK wine production equates to one days consumption in the eu)

The government plans to change the legal definition of wine following Brexit, to reflect demand for low-alcohol versions of the drink.

Under rules the UK inherited from the EU, wine typically has to contain at least 8.5% alcohol by volume (ABV) to be marketed as such.
The EU relaxed its rules on the definition of low-alcohol wine in late 2021 – a change that did not apply in the UK because it copied over EU laws after it officially left in 2020.

Other changes announced by the government include ending the EU ban on the sale of piquette, a low-alcohol French drink made from fermenting crushed grape skins and water, by the end of the year.
It added the move would give vineyards “more options to improve profitability”, and respond to a “growing market” for lower-alcohol products.

So we’re changing our definition to match the new EU one?

What’s the Brexity Benefit here?

The fact that WE DECIDED TO DO IT OURSELVES?

Take that, Johnny EU person.

Pretty much but going a step further so the waste from wine production. can be used to make some more fine quality ‘Wine’.

I think the biggest issue is the waste of time bothering with it as the market it affects is er minuscule compared to the damage they have caused to other parts of that trade.

Be interesting to see how more of these locked in 2020 rules get sold as Brexit benefits.

Meanwhile in France 😀 😀 😀

https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2023/10/french-vignerons-destroy-spanish-wine-in-protest-against-cheap-imports/

I think the French are doing a better job of ‘Frexit’ and they are still in the EU. lol!

Yorkshire tea bags and salad cream are super cheap in Australia. There’s your balance of trade 

Salad cream is shit, although you’re in Australia so everything culinary is relative.

That Salad Cream doesn’t look like the stuff we get, care to take a photo of the ingredients list so we can compare, and where’s it made?

It always used to be called English Salad Cream when I was there and it tasted the same.

Fun fact. Games workshop (that place that sells warhammer 40k figures) is worth three times the entirety of the UK fishing industry.

I got to hold up the queue in the post office the other day as I posted a parcel to my daughter who’s studying in France. I had to open up the box and itemise the contents, and then reseal it. A full 15 minutes, then I proudly announced to the queue it was all thanks to Brexit! The miserable old sods ( many who probably voted for it) didn’t seem impressed. Sod em!

The miserable old sods ( many who probably voted for it) didn’t seem impressed. Sod em!

So you held a load of people up by 15 mins because you didn’t prepare your package properly and then glibly told them it was because of brexit and you’re better than anyone who voted for it. They probably just thought you were a massive cock.

That Salad Cream doesn’t look like the stuff we get,

You’re right, and whilst the packaging on the Yorkshire tea does look the same. It tastes different!

Kwarteng left a little Brexit Bonus for the tiny minority:

Banker’s Bonus Limit is to be scrapped from October 31st.

It’s a tough one isn’t it?

Trying to be objective…. the skills flight post referendum meant that we’ve continued to have good employment figures given the circumstances. They’ve been rising over the last few months as the inflation / cost of living crisis bites, but it’s still half of what it was 10 years ago and historically very low. This not only means jobs, but most employees have managed to secure higher wages to off-set inflation, much to the dismay of the BOE, and maintained employee rights etc. This was a stated benefit from the pro-Brexit left, and it’s really not what the likes of Farage and Rees-Mogg wanted. Bittersweet. 

 

Due to HMRC rules, and some of the EU retailers lack of **** about them, we can effectively import stuff for less than £135 ‘duty free’.

Best of all though, the Tories are ****. They’ve upset the natural order of things, the UK bounces from Centre-Left, to Centre-Right every 10-15 years and it ensures a certain amount of balance. Brexit was a fundamentalist theory, not an accepted fact, in fact every expert pretty much agreed it would go about as badly as it has. Labour have either been lucky, or played it right, they ousted their fundamentalists, but the Tories really leaned into it, they went so far they couldn’t separate fact from fiction so we got 4 PMs in 4 years, billions wiped off the economy and the public saw them with their veil lifted – suddenly Rees-Mogg, Liz Truss, Johnson et al lost their “oh they’re posh and educated, they must know what they’re doing” disguises and we all got to see the madness for real. When they lose the next election, which seems almost certain, it won’t be business as usual, they won’t be able to lick their wounds and come back in 8-12 years, they could conceivably be knocked into 3^rd place and spend a century in the wilderness. Lloyd George was a Liberal, and the last PM who wasn’t Labour or Tories – 1922

Kwarteng left a little Brexit Bonus for the tiny minority:

Banker’s Bonus Limit is to be scrapped from October 31st.

Loved reading about that, the world’s worst financial crisis ever, fuelled by greed, none of the guilty punished, in most instances the guilty were helped by tax payers, and now, the one little thing that caused uproar for bankers, their bonus limits, has been removed again, so yet again, the riskier you play with other peoples money, the more money you can make, lets see how this one ends, especially at a time when we’re pretty much on a downward curve with asset prices, debt ratios and inflation!

It’ll all be terribly awesome..

I can see this causing massive problems again in ten years time..

So you held a load of people up by 15 mins because you didn’t prepare your package properly and then glibly told them it was because of brexit and you’re better than anyone who voted for it. They probably just thought you were a massive cock.

TBH there’s probably a Brexit benefit (for France)when it gets collected, once they put the handling fees and taxes on it 🙂

Credit to @Onzadog, but we found a benefit.

Chavs can’t afford as many fireworks, so instead of fireworks lasting all the way to xmas, it’s actually quite peaceful for an October.

UK opted out of the EU clean water regulations, so now we have our own water quality rules, but no one knows what they are. So now we might have much better minimum rivers and lakes quality water than permitted in EU (tap water too?).
Or maybe worse

So now we might have much better minimum rivers and lakes quality water than permitted in EU (tap water too?).

Yeah, this is an “up to 50% off” claim isn’t it. If we were bound by the EU’s minimum standards, we wouldn’t be prohibited from setting our own higher minimum standard.

Or maybe worse

Place your bets.

Best bet is not to measure it, and then claim we’re doing great.

Or maybe worse

Place your bets

Considering they are all now about 90% human shit, I’m going to say worse.

Speaking of which, apparently Therese Coffey’s nick name is ‘Nelly the Effluent’, which made me smile!

Or maybe worse

Ya think?

Considering they are all now about 90% human shit, I’m going to say worse.

Oh, the waterways, right. I thought for a moment you meant the Cabinet.