Still waiting for those examples of empty shelves & rocketing prices in supermarkets. I’ve been asking for a month. Surely you could find some by now.
Try answering civilly if you can manage it.
i dont like to crow on benefits of brexit or staying in EU, i feel it's a pointless task we are where we are so lets get on with it.
i do however chuckle at the EU's handling of their vaccine programme because they have given brexiteers the best present they could ever have asked for, and they and the 27 countries within the EU know it.
The EU will never collapse, they have spent the last 30 years integrating themselves so tightly it would be almost impossible to break free. There may be one or 2 other countries that might decide to follow suit in the distant future depending on how well the UK appears to do over the next 5 years, possibly Italy or maybe Hungary, but generally european governments are happy with the EU, they dont share the same want of sovereignty as the UK or US do,
The Euro currency wont collapse either, if they dont get the vaccine caper sorted quickly then they may lose a bit against the £ and $ but it will only be short term.
I suppose this is what annoys the european leaders the most as towards the end of last year all their modelling showed the UK's recovery to lag the EU by some margin, now however with the success of the vaccine, it has possibly turned the other way, those who can get their economy up and trucking the quickest will prosper the most short term, which will also give leverage to brexiteers.
onto the pricing, i have noticed costs of goods have dramatically increased this past year. My weekly shopping bill was around £70, the past 6 months have seen this increase to £100 per week.
Special offers have all but disappeared on anything half decent, whenever i want to buy something the price has increased significantly or it is impossible to obtain.
i believe most of this is Covid related rather than Brexit related, however we cannot say it has not had some form of impact, because it naturally will, additional time on paperwork has to be paid for somehow. Recently for work we've had to purchase some bits from europe on an emergency basis, this should be with us within 2-3 days. I've had a set of cylinder liners stuck in customs for a week, and TNT and UK Customs are having a tiff with each other, and we have no power to move it along, usually we account for this but on this ocassion it was unforseen, it would have been quicker for us to have purchased the items from the states, even with them still having to pass through customs.
the brexit paperwork is a shamble of sheite i'm not really sure why it appears more difficult to obtain goods from europe than it is from other countries on WTO terms, its even easier for uk fishermen to sell fish to the USA than it is to the EU.
final word, i dont believe i'm wholly worse of with brexit i think without covid the problems would be less compounded, but at the same time, we arent wholly better off without the EU.
i'm certain the UK and EU will reach a more encouraging middle ground once both sides have stopped puffing their chests and the EU stop being petty and petulant.
My hope now is that biden camp are willing to work with the UK swiftly on a trade deal that wont sell out our NHS and keep chlorinated chicken firmly in the US.
