I'm sure that this talk of excessive paperwork and lorry queues is a myth. Nowhere in the world of business does anybody refuse a high value sale. Money talks and deals are done.
Food is generally not considered a high value item. Electronic components or whisky would be. The issue is that any vehicle sent here is probably going to be stuck waiting for customs clearance at Ashford from between 7 (about the shortest time I've seen published) and 90 hours plus. A vehicle waiting on a lorry park isn't earning money, whilst a lorry going through a customs post between, say, the Netherlands and Germany (zero
minutes, both ways) is. So, if you own trucks, where do you think you'd rather send them?
In the same vein, there are a lot of European truck drivers who simply won't come here any longer - the delights of Ashford and have had a left a very negative impression of the UK on them
I posted this a few years ago, it was a letter to the Daily Telegraph from a Devon businessman.
And what kind if business was that? I see no sign of that in your letter. No sign of whether it is a high value product. No sign of the size of the company, or of the type of product they sell. Any money they are a largish firm selling a product which contains components from a minimum of source countries and which is not a food product.
Against that I'll give you two examples from the media of firms which have lost out big time because of Brexit. These include the
Old Dairy Brewery, (£600k down to £2k per annum exports to the EU) and
The Cheshire Cheese Company whose owner eventually
sold the business because he couldn't make it work any longer.
In both the cases I've given the businesses are named - in your instance the firm and the author of the letter are not. How believeable is that, then?
