Biggest post-brexit issue

What a classic exchange hee hee!

 

We moved here just over 7 years ago, well before the whole Brexit shambles. If we were to make the same decision now, we might not move, actually, probably not, but we're here now, settled, invested, come on, even have a Barnsley season ticket....

I'd go for UK citizenship if I could have it next to my Dutch nationality, but I can't. There is/was talk of the government allowing it as an exception for those affected by Brexit, but it's gone a bit quiet on that subject....

 

all those beers and ciders you mention are actually brewed in this country

 

You also missed the edit.

 

Could the Dutch Government could solve that one easily?

 

Listening to the first one made me want to drive to Aldi and stockpile tins ready for the apocalypse... i might give the second a wide berth!!!

 

They could decide to allow it, be it for an exception. The question is whether they'll do it.

 

Even people like Farridge the garage admit that we will financially be worse off after Brexit. That means we will have less cash to spend in Wetherspoons and everywhere else, their profits will diminish. . Still, at least we will have our country back, a depressingly poor one at that. Then none of the foreigners will want to move here - the result they all wanted.

 

Oh come on, stop moaning.... You'll have blue passports too!!!!

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...made by a Franco-Dutch company...

 

He claims the EU applies tariffs to 93% of countries (ones that the EU has no trade deal with). Those are WTO rules. If we leave without a deal tariffs will apply to 100% of countries that we don't have a trade deal with. We don't have any trade deals, having been in the EU. By the time we have a few in place many jobs & businesses will fail. How long do you think it would take to get a trade deal with the Trump administration & what kind of deal would it be?There may well be gains in some sectors. As most people have stated, most foreign beers / lagers are brewed under licence anyway. Spirits are a different ball game, but most of those made outside the EU will be unaffected, as they are already subject to tariffs, like Bourbon, Rum, etc

 

I'm only 10 mins in, but as you said it is a tad unbalanced.
What is clear is that the only one who actually owns a business is the chap with the white vans fleet....there are some huge business owners who disagree.
Sorry I can't provide the link but Google the Guardian article entitled

" who are the British Business leaders still backing brexit"

 

Trade this trade that, probably only a half of what matters, information, knowledge bases, skill set sharing, research across all industries and services such as anti terror, all affected by cutting our noses off to spite our face.

 

EU funding to make up for everything London does not spend on Northern communities....

 

None of that needs to cease...people cooperate or buy from and sell to each other because they want to, or need to, there is no reason for that to change.

 

And I’m sure it won’t, why on earth would you choose to make it more difficult and more expensive though

 

It's difficult to say economically, but I'm absolutely devastated to be losing freedom of movement. I'd never have met a few of my best friends or most fondly remembered partners if it hadn't been for the freedom to live and work abroad that the EU brought.

Apart from that, though, I don't want there to be any possibility that I'll be trapped in this country - I run a business, so am unlikely to be able to move abroad with work, and it's difficult to know what immigration tests will be applied but I'd imagine that it would involve having a job or skills from some sort of list. This bothers me to such an extent that I've drawn up an exit plan which involves winding down or selling my business in time for me to get out before the transition period ends. I don't particularly want to, and I'm not entirely sure that I'll use it, but it's definitely an option.

 

People lived and worked abroad quite easily before we joined the EU.

 

It goes both ways btw. If you would want to take up Dutch citizenship, they would only allow you if you gave up your British citizenship. In Dutch law, the only exception would be if you were unable to give up your other nationality (for example it's impossible in Turkish law to give up your nationality).