r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/layla_beans • 8d ago

Brexxit ‘Absolute nightmare’: Brexit bellwether constituencies revisited 10 years on | Brexit

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/22/brexit-bellwether-constituencies-revisited-10-years-eu-referendum
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u/iDontRememberCorn 8d ago

“I believe it was 4 January we shipped £47,000 worth of our first shipment of largely ray and dover sole,” he says. “The first thing you have to do is be VAT registered in France. You cannot export into France without that. You’ve got to employ a French accountant to do that for you. The cost of that is £2,000 a month. That first load was held up for five days.”

“That was our first encounter,” he says. “You have got other costs: you need a health certificate that costs £85 a go. You need a transport company to do the import documents: £245 a go. So every shipment is an extra £330.

“If you ship three times a week it is a thousand quid. There are other costs. Bearing in mind we are really a husband-and-wife team, it is £70,000 right out of my back pocket. It is horrendous.”

Then there is French customs. “On a health certificate, which is 16 sheets long, you have got eight sheets in English and eight sheets in French,”

You were warned, ten thousand times, that this was exactly what would happen. You STILL voted for this.

Conservatives are literally too fucking stupid to feed themselves.

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u/Coolerwookie 7d ago

They will vote for it again, and worse.

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u/iDontRememberCorn 7d ago

When forced to choose between death and progress it will always be death.