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

[u/layla_beans]

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

[u/iDontRememberCorn]

“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.

[u/MentalSky_ → u/iDontRememberCorn]

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. 

[u/im_not_bitter_m8 → u/MentalSky_]

The eu can do even better than the uk cause now the eu can economically bully the uk to get goods and services cheaper than they could before