Seems it was worth while all along then! :hehe:
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Indeed. So Polish lamb farmers cannot call their product "Gower salt marsh lamb". Enormous win. Our total global lamb exports are almost £400m, the Gower salt marsh lamb exports must be in to the tens of thousands of pounds! And now they are protected from some charlatan flogging their own lamb under that banner - there is no evidence of that happening but still, a huge win.
EDIT: Oh yeah I remembered. Lamb exports to the EU are shafted because of Brexit anyway. Thus undoing the fine work described above. All because of all of that pesky detail as regards how international trade actually works which were widely warned about during the referendum campaign. Like this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-55719498
Ideal opportunity for Clarkes Pies , watch this space ( P.M.A.)
At an individual level it's obviously not a gamechanger in isolation, but it is one of a huge number of small reductions in the quality of life/increase in cost of life that are a direct consequence of a small majority of ignorant people being too stupid or lazy to figure out what they were voting for. I can just as easily trivialise at an individual level the scale of whatever you think you were escaping by voting for Brexit.
I suspect that despite the widely reported issues that we all face because Brexit many (including you ) are completely blind to what is happening. And there has been absolutely nothing that I can see to balance out any of the damage done.
Find a positive. Nobody else has.
Oh I an see changes, i can see the cost of living has risen, i can see produce missing from the shelves ( though that is partly due to lack of drivers by all accounts ) in the grand scheme of life, The roaming charges dont really bother me, and i certainly understand moaning about it on a football message board will not alter it
will we have worse times before they get better, it was never going to be easy sailing, we are also in a pandemic, so lets see what pans out, i will certainly be making the most of life, not fretting about roaming charges of £10 for 30 days if i holiday in europe
Why is it going to get better? What did you have in mind?
And why are we missing drivers?
It's not just drivers by the way. If you get a couple of pieces of info wrong in 1000 on your customs declarations it can take a day off the shelf life of 40% of a supermarket's product. And that is now, before the increase in customs obligations in Oct. In short- importing certain types of food becomes unfeasible.
Making the most of life is always good advice and we all will. But the most of life got worse for all of us.
You've still not suggested a positive by the way
Part of the shortage is also due to covid restrictions with less new drivers taking tests. Normally about 40k tests are taken, last year it was just 15k. Average age if HGV licence holders is 55 so there's not the usual numbers of new drivers replacing those retiring.
Agree- the delays for tests is crazy. Even your standard driving license testing is a massive bottleneck. Just look at what instructors with booked test spots.are charging! But there is also a longer term, seemingly permanent drag on supply chains to the UK post Brexit. And it is going to get a lot worse in Oct. Because of Brexit
Remember this?
Well:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58462351
Funny now the line out of the people duped into voting brexit is it’s just getting worse before it gets better. When a couple of years ago all the things that are shite now were called project fear.
It’s almost like the people who voted for it didn’t actually care about facts but just getting whipped up into a frenzy about something they didn’t give a shit about 12 months prior.
Can’t wait to see what the next bullshit line is. Empty shelves are good because people were too fat anyway.
Had Polish lamb for tea. Tasted a tad salty but that’s Gover lamb for you :hehe: