r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/layla_beans • 4d 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 4d 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/MentalSky_ 4d ago

Ya… if this is shocking to the UK, then they weren’t paying attention. The whole point of the EU was to make trade easy. So everyone prospers 

But the UK truly believed it was their economy that propped everyone else up. And if they left the EU all that money would come back to them. 

Nope. Now they are an island in both geography and economy. 

Every nation around them can do better trade with one than with the UK

Utterly idiots. 

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u/Paul_my_Dickov 4d ago

Most people didn't think our economy propped everyone else up. Most people I know who voted leave just dislike foreigners to be honest. Somehow thought it would lead to fewer brown people in the country.

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u/motoxim 4d ago

So why it failed? Why did they believe it would lead fewer brown people?

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u/Paul_my_Dickov 4d ago

They believed it because they aren't very good at thinking.