Biggest post-brexit issue

The biggest issue for us all will be what excuse will the lazy gits use for sitting at home all day when they can't blame immigrants 'taking their jobs'?

 

Wetherspoons aren’t serving Jagermeister in pubs anymore.

 

This is good news! I lose hours of memory and dignity on that stuff!

 

Very principled is Tim Martin. So pro Brexit he’s stopping selling jagermeister, champagne and French brandies in his outlets.

Way to go mate, stand up for your principles.

Problem is his principles don’t stretch to removing products that might effect his profits - so Heineken, Stella, Carlsberg, Kronenbourg, birra moretti, becks, kopparberg ciders, all sorts of other stuff are still available... as are Guinness and Magners.

An English version of jagermeister, replacing French brandies with American and Australian ones and not selling champagne, but doing other fizzy wines, but still knocking out the eu produced beers and ciders he sells gallons of hour upon hour shows him up - and his agenda up - completely.

If you want to be a hardline Brexiteer, up to you. If you want to use your business as a tool to emphasise that, your call. Don’t pretend it’s not just a ploy to get yourself in the news though, if you’re ceasing to sell eu produced goods (other than uk ones), then do it. Don’t just stop selling the ones which you don’t think will affect your wet sales.

 

Just finished watching it. If a fraction of those things happen it will be terrifying and will absolutely cripple us. I am still holding out hope that nothing changes and would like to think the govt wouldn't walk away if it meant half of the problems highlighted.

I'm conscious that there was nobody pro-brexit in the discussion - that left it a little unbalanced.

 

Aren’t most of those beers produced in Britain under licence

 

My biggest worry is whether Brad Potts will sign a new contract

 

Anecdotally, already recruiters are asking if people are able to continue working in the EU for a surprising number of UK - making UK natives second class citizens.

 

Haven't we had enough political squabbling.

 

In the short term I'm just hoping he's fit enough to be available today.

 

I didn't get a say in it, but will have to deal with the consequences.

Can we stay? Probably.
Will applying for a permanent residency pass be a pain? Very likely.
Do we have any certainty about our future and status despite it only being a few months away? Not at all.

Fun times...

 

Some of them - not all I don’t think, and even if so, it doesn’t really reduce the hypocrisy.

I don’t even see why being pro-brexit means you can’t buy eu produced goods anyway, just seems a bit pathetic.

I was and am a strong believer we should have (and still should) remain, but I don’t think all those who disagree shouldn’t have a Volkswagen, buy a wardrobe from IKEA or eat Camembert. That’s not really the point of leaving is it? I don’t get him at all. Seems a bit petty. Surely even the staunchest Brexiteer still wants to be able to trade with the rest of the eu?

That said if he still knocks a steak dinner with a pint out for as cheap as he does I’ll still trade with him. Not the greatest quality food but for what you pay it’s good value. I’m not overly arsed what lagers and/or brandies he sells. Usually has a few decent beers on tap and comparatively cheap too.

 

He was on the radio recently explaining this decision and to be fair to him he put his point across in a very articulate and convincing way. This is a very brief summary of the points he made. https://www.metro.news/eull-be-selling-less-at-wetherspoons/1099875/

 

I worked in France for a number of years prior to the EEC morphing into the EU. After five years of holding a Work Permit, I was offered French citizenship, which I duly accepted, and unlike in the US did not have to surrender my U.K. citizenship.

 

It's what's holding us back too: the Dutch government doesn't allow for dual citizenship...

Accepting UK citizenship to protect and even extend our rights here as full members of society would mean giving up our Dutch citizenship, something I strongly feel that, esp in 2018, we should not have to.

Like Runner said: we didn't get a vote but are really in an awkward position despite owning a home, both having a full-time job, paying taxes, but we'll just have to let this monstrous Brexit wash over us and have us put away as not even second class inhabitants of this country.

It's just rubbish.

 

As pointed out below he intends to honour his contracts...most of the products you mention are already or can be produced in the UK.
Perhaps most interestingly though is the fact that Kopparberg have just announced they are to build a new production facility in the UK...their first outside Sweden.

 

Not having a dig in any way shape or form, but could I ask what made you become a Dutch citizen?...assuming that you are not Dutch by birth.

 

Being born there...

 

Haha....your reply was just too quick for my edit