Brexit: What do you think will happen?

[kawakid]

[Polarbear]

Should shut Val up for a bit.
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[Easy-X]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Slighly off-topic but I watched the No.10 broadcast on Twitter, but put the telly on in the background with the sound off. Now I know the BBC isn't the government's mouthpiece but you'd think the nation's broadcaster would have interrupted their programming for this momentous announcement of a deal. Nope!

Boris apologised for interrupting Disney's Cars 3 and I'm not sure if he believed that was the case or whether it was a sly dig at auntie.

The broadcast ended and coincidentally it was time for the news, where we heard more from Laura Kuenssberg than we did from the Prime Minister!

In amongst the usual negative commentary they found time to show the Downing Street cat catching a pigeon this morning and then letting it slip away. Presumably a metaphor.

[Val]

[Rob W]

[Riejufixing]

[chickenstrip]

Him and Guy Verhofstadt
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[chickenstrip]

On the plus side:
Sturgeon is unhappy
Nigel Farage seems reasonably happy
Femi is unhappy

On the worrying side:
Dominic Grieve is happy


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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Actually Sturgeon is probably secretly happy there was something to gripe about to keep the dream of independence alive. One fifth of Scottish seed potato exports at risk, or at least not specifically factored into this deal. I'm not sure why.

Edit: once we've got all the fish we'll need more chips anyway.

[chickenstrip]

[MCN]

[chickenstrip]

I wonder if EU citizens agree with the ever closer ties with China the EU seem to be pursuing?
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Early days, reasons 'n' all that, but still.... ahahahaha!

BBC ABANDONS LIVE BREXIT BLOG FOR LACK OF BAD NEWS

[Shaft]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

200 trucks seems low. Maybe that's through one gate?

[stinkwheel]

Tell you what though guys, the VAT arrangements UK government have come up with are TOTAL clusterfuck.

Basically if you are buying for stuff from the EU valued at under £135, they expect the SELLER to register with HMRC (for a fee!) then add the VAT at source and pay it to the UK government.

Unsurprisingly to me, many of them have are now refusing to sell low value goods to the UK. Which is frankly, what I would do too. If i had a business, I certainly wouldn't pay the German government for the privelage of collecting tax on their behalf, never mind the admin nightmare it would entail.

I've also heard of a few cases of total misunderstanding where the EU company is adding the UK VAT to the local VAT instead of zero rating it. (So in Germany where VAT is 19%, goods that cost £10 +VAT would normally be sold at £11.90 locally, they should now be charged at £12 in the UK because we have 20% VAT but they are actually being sold at £14.28, charging VAT on the VAT).

It's easier for me to buy stuff from India than the EU now because I just have to go online when the goods hit the UK and pay the VAT and any applicable duty.

I'd imagine online sales platforms like ebay will take up the admin for this themselves but for direct sales of low value goods from the EU, you can probably forget it for the time being.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I saw the VAT thing, it's very strange.

[Easy-X]

Didn't I mention this in a thread back in October...

https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=331566
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[barrkel]

I also mentioned it - https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=4730553#4730553 - with snippet from the Times showing that foreign exporters to UK would need to register with HMRC.

[chickenstrip]

It seems that the European Parliament is not happy with the new China deal negotiated by the EU Commission. I find myself for once agreeing with Mr. Verhofstadt on something!

And no, I don't now want us back in the EU
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[doggone]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

The BBC was running a story a few days ago focussing on the absence of M&S Percy Pig sweets in NI at the moment, thanks to Brexit.

[Jewlio Rides Again LLB]

[doggone]

Another Brexit bonus