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

[quote DoubleTweenQueen]@MarshaBradyo Why not read the whole piece?
And diverged from what?[/quote]
The EU combined approach to ordering

@CherryPavlova

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.

Would you prefer to be at pace with EU?

I was impressed with U.K. vaccine task force two main objectives. First is here, then global situation. We will turn to ROW when crisis is not so dire.

Emergency medicines approval and then ordering/rollout are somewhat different things. It's not the first time UK did not act with the EU, but still operate under EU law as it's right as a nation state. Anything else is politics on both sides, but legally Brexit has nothing to add.

Legally it does not. I’m interested in whether attitudinally Brexit played a part. As a member state we were in process of diverging which may be tied in.

Or perhaps we would have done exactly the same without that. If we have precedent then yes could be the case.

Vaccines were not an issue in November 2020.
They will not be an issue by November 2021

Import / export clearance paperwork and cost and delay
and employment rights
will be an issue for ever

Pharmacies can’t source a specific brand of medication my DM takes. She’s had to swap to a different brand, which has different side effects and has made her ill.
There’s also a massive delay with delivering some equipment she uses to manage her health condition. The NHS lets her order it direct from the European manufacturer, but Brexit is now causing issues. It’s causing her a huge amount of anxiety and distress.

And on a selfish note, a luxury item I was planning on buying for my 30th has now increased in price, is subject to customs fees/duties and a delivery date isn’t guaranteed.

Loads of empty shelves in Homebargains ( or shelves filled with Christmas stock?)

DS can't study in Maastricht, something his grammar school have always recommended.

Other DC can't work in Europe due to permits required.

My colleague has just retired after a full career in education. She can't now go and live full time in the house she has owned for 20 years bought in preparation for retirement.

Uncle struggling in Spain. He is ok, fully registered, home owner. Been there many years. His partner lives with him but has never registered there...now can't. Health care, driving, etc is going to be really difficult and may mean she will need to return here.

School cleaning staff, cooks and caretaker have returned to Europe. We really, really struggle to recruit to these jobs.
I'm hoping that the 'they've stolen our jobs' brigade will get off their ar**ses and apply for these jobs. ( they never have before!). I can't keep schools open and running safely without these vital staff members.

Some supermarket prices seem to be going up. And I've been waiting almost 6 weeks for a parcel that I thought was coming from the UK but turned out to be coming from The Netherlands. I believe a lot of people are having problems with parcels being sent from the other side of The English Channel.

On a personal level: DD and her boyfriend were hoping to get summer jobs either this year or next but can't as the places they used to work at will only hire EU passport holders now.
Not the biggest problem in the scheme of things but it will be a massive pain taking dog with us when we visit family in the EU. It was so useful having the per passport scheme before.
E111 cards - not sure what's happening with that yet? It might be impossible for my parents to travel to visit relatives in the EU as they are elderly, have complex health issues and may not get affordable health cover.
DH and I had hoped maybe to retire to his home country one day, but don't know if he'd be allowed back to the U.K. with an EU passport if we ever needed to come back? We'll be on a modest income so wouldn't qualify if there's an earnings threshold.

I buy online from certain English businesses, they haven´t got warehouses in the EU as far as I can see so stalling making any other orders as would be hit by extra charges. So currently looking for alternatives. A big shame, it´s like my last ties to Britain are being severed.

Had 2 returns stuck in customs so long that the company has refused to refund me and I'm £240 out of pocket.

Had 2 orders significantly delayed and 1 not arrived at all (ordered before Christmas), assume it's been sent back though I don't know that and the company is being slow to respond.

Not much.

Fresh fruit and veg has been a bit hit and miss but tbf it always is at this time of the year, but this morning Sainsbury’s had all what I needed - lettuce and cucumber from Spain, tomatoes from Morocco, also got all the loose oranges, lemons and bananas that I needed.

I live in Kent, near to M2. The dual carriageway down to it has got a couple of lay-bys which European licensed trucks used to park up in a lot, noticing now it’s mainly British licensed trucks parked up.

Aubergines, I cannot get aubergines

So, so far there's been one positive (something to to do with post EU aid?), a few who haven't really noticed a difference yet, and a whole load of negatives.
It's going well, isn't it?

Considering we have only been part of the EU for 47 years, how did we cope for the centuries before that?

Our lives were very different. Importing things was expensive. We didn'T have a huge choice of produce from so many different European countries, wine was a rare treat for most families, not a regular thing etc etc
One of the things the single market did was make everything very much easier to move around with minimal paperwork.

People who are saying, triumphantly, that Brits will still be able to go on holiday in the EU are completely missing the point of what FoM is. I've given up explaining it. There's no point any more.

47 years ago, what proportion of British electronics were manufactured in China?

oh, silly me

@soisolated You are joking? Shit show because of a present? Dear God

Another good one here

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/feb/17/national-theatre-to-halt-europe-tours-over-brexit-rules?CMP=ShareiOSAppp_Other

We have a German fish tank stuck at the border, and the parka was going to buy my DS has gone up over £40 to £160 due to import taxes.

People locally on Facebook have been pondering why there are no strawberries in the supermarket 🤔

DH works in England for a Dutch company. The Dutch Government offers major tax incentives for R&D, but the work must be carried out in an EU country. The R&D department in England is almost certainly going to be closed, or at least massively reduced in size, and DH will probably lose his job.

A pair of boots return to a retailer in France - required 4 customs firms! Pet passports Recruitment costs.

Oh you vaccine jingoists...it takes two jabs to be considered fully inoculated. As of today, the UK has 0.8% of its population fully covered, i.e. having had the second shot. 24 out of 27 EU countries are doing better than that.

Yes, the UK roll-out for initial jabs was swift, though as others have pointed out, that doesn't really have much to do with lack of EU membership. It DOES have everything to do with it being a full-court press for political reasons. BoJo&Co simply could not have yet another catastrophic Covid-related failure and so poured massive resources into trying to get one thing, just one thing, somewhat right. Delaying the second jab in order to be able to win the percentage-of-population-with-at-least-one-shot sweepstakes is, well, a bit cynical imho.

I have to apply to live in a country I've been living in for 19 years.
I can't use UK websites (for books) for delivery to France. Well, I can... but it costs 5/6 euros extra for postage.

The more obvious for me is that I cannot access the full content of my netflix subscription..long story short, my account is EU based which is fab for my kids to pick up my native language. Since Brexit, content has slowly disappeared and I discovered there is a EU law on digital service portability which doesnt apply anymore to the UK.one little example of such an inward looking culture that is taking place in the UK, goes with refusal to join the Erasmus scheme, the refusal to join a Visa free scheme for artists etc.the UK govt despises the idea of cultural integration with Europe, they still live in British empire fantasy land

Sorry if it's already been pointed out but the poll is 52% to 48% (is that MNHQ having a little joke.??)