To ask what impacts of brexit you have seen in your day to day life?

[Bregxit]

Any whether good or bad
Yabu-yes I have
Yanbu-no I haven’t

The clothes I ordered from France were 6 weeks late, but that's it tbh. So far.

weekly emails about lack of drugs and alternative dosing regimes for replacements, which aren't ideal, but patients need something. Really getting on my nerves.

Company I work for has lost it's biggest distributor and pretty much all customers as not economically work exporting to Europe anymore, with the consequent redundencies

European customers (UK fine).

My husband's work load more or less doubling so that he's regularly working til gone midnight. He works for a company that buys components from the EU, manufacturers in the UK (well, for now) and sells both here and abroad. The legislative burden literally doubled overnight and component supply has become unreliable. Many companies in his sector are considering moving to EU countries. Those blue(ish) passports better be good.

My dual nationality kids won't be able to travel to the uk on their ID cards anymore. I'll have to fork out for passports for them (either uk or second nationality).

None.

I love in a part of the UK either lots of French, Spanish, Italians, Scandis. I think there is a noticeably fewer number around but still plenty nevertheless.
Aside from that none.
I was very anti Brexit, but given the roll out of the Covid vaccine, I'm beginning to wonder if I got it wrong. Part of me, the glass half empty part thinks we haven't seen anything yet, however. The calm (if you could call a pandemic calm) before the storm, if you will. Crippling depression etc. I hope not.

can't type live, where there are

Oh, and my family and friends who work(ed) in the Performing Arts are suffering doubly. Huge numbers of jobs lost due to Covid and the few contracts that are being advertised almost all say "EU passport holders only". It's always been a difficult field to get work in but now it's almost impossible to even get auditions.

Persona
And that must mean there are no benefits to being outside the EU State Aid rules.
We have a Prime Minister who said fuck business
If you think that he will magically support UK business now
you have not been reading the business press.

I've had 2 orders not reach me

I was very anti Brexit, but given the roll out of the Covid vaccine, I'm beginning to wonder if I got it wrong.

As pointed out upthread the decision the UK gov took with regard to the mechanism they used procure vaccines was always available to HMG, regardless of whether Brexit had happened or not.

My in laws are probably coming back to live in the U.K. This is not a positive impact.

Previously they only really came over for family weddings and to use the NHS.

The alternative plan to coming back entirely is to regularly stay with us for 90 days at a time.

As pointed out upthread the decision the UK gov took with regard to the mechanism they used procure vaccines was always available to HMG, regardless of whether Brexit had happened or not.

Out of interest why didn’t other EU countries do the same? Apparently they started the process of doing it individually but EU stepped in. Was this just persuasion or more than that?

Is there not an import tax on some goods from the EU? Not sure what tax but DD said she bought from Vestaire and had to pay tax. Not now worth shopping from EU. It’s very sad.

The government would be mad to hand out stay afloat money to falling industries. The only reason they will do it is to buy votes. In the new blue seats!

The people who have not seen a difference are stuck in a fairly narrow world. They don’t travel, don’t work in trading companies and don’t have DC with wider horizons I think. So bring in or out made little difference. Voting for Brexit just stuffed other people and made us poorer. Status quo for them but don’t care about others.

Out of interest why didn’t other EU countries do the same? Apparently they started the process of doing it individually but EU stepped in

Not sure I'd portray as the EU "stepping in", that's open to being misconstrued by some as a ban.

It was more of a desire/plea from some in high office to avoid a vaccine war, and there were definitely internal domestic policies in play in some countries ("lets not rush, one of our own producers will come up with something shortly..." oh merde.....).

One version of events here:

www.politico.eu/article/europe-coronavirus-vaccine-struggle-pfizer-biontech-astrazeneca/

Not I did deliberate on what to say as I thought I’ll get air quoted 😬

Maybe our trajectory made us less susceptible to plea. Or maybe we were not included at all in that part

Thanks for link - actually maybe answers are in that will read later

Covid vaccine has nothing to do with Brexit, however much some people are desperate to claim the contrary.

Scientist colleagues from EU decamping back to country of origin - some due to partner in another sector being redeployed back to EU as their company shifts out of UK; some as they see their flexibility for settling here hampered.

Niche hobbies on hold as small suppliers from EU no longer shipping to UK.

Apart from that, am still hoping to buy a second home in France and apply for extended visa so I can spend more time with my family, which should be doable.

So far, can't see any actual positives to Brexit. No surprises there really. Zero personal benefits.

Covid vaccine has nothing to do with Brexit, however much some people are desperate to claim the contrary.

Double why do you think we took a different approach to rest of EU?

Buy British
Where does cotton grow in the UK?
Where does rubber grow in the UK?
Where are the rare earth metal mines in the UK ?

@MarshaBradyo www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4759

[quote DoubleTweenQueen]@MarshaBradyo www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4759[/quote]
Yeh that doesn’t answer the question on why you think we diverged. It’s just general vaccine information and process.

What’s your opinion on why we diverged from rest of EU? Do you have one

The problem with vaccine nationalism is it increases risks and economically impact of disease. The UK popularist ' we are doing the best' attitude is that it increases cost to life and economy. Far better to work globally to reduce risks more equitable as we would all benefit in longer term.

@MarshaBradyo Why not read the whole piece?
And diverged from what?