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

Dh's firm had to make 10% of the firm redundant directly due to Brexit. Only time they've had any redundancies in their 50 year history.

The travel restrictions are effectively hiding one of the biggest Brexit impacts, which will perhaps be the most obvious to everybody once travel does start up again. It's going to be a different experience entering/leaving the UK, for sure.

According to the woman in Pets at home I spoke to, the distinct lack of cat food is due to Brexit..

I've noticed some shelves in supermarkets are emptier than usual but not to the point I can't get what I need.

I make wedding albums and my supplier is in the EU. There's now additional costs getting them in to the UK and shipping is taking ages, my parcels regularly bounce around Germany for ages.

Once upon a time I would photograph destination weddings in the EU but now I turn these enquiries down because you need a working visa from the country in question plus you're likely to have to purchase a carnet to get to get your equipment into the country. It's just not worth the extra expense and hassle. Plus many couples don't expect these fees and get annoyed when you ask them to cover them.

My French tights subscription has been cancelled because they can no longer get their products to the UK. I know it's only tights, but I really liked them and always got compliments.

@soisolated

Cost of sending birthday present to my niece now more expensive than the item and took six weeks to arrive, and had to pay tax on receipt. What an utter shit show Brexit is

What, just because your cost of posting something has gone up?

Has it taken a microsecond now vaccinations are embedding and children are imminently returning to school that you here complaining about materialistic things?

"Brexit is shit, I can't get my double micro-organic hens' eggs from the farm I like to get them from in Milan..."

Temporarily living in EU country so caught up in all this Brexit shite...

Issues with residency, driving licence, car insurance, pet passport issues, passport validity (need 6 months but if renew early now lose those months), health insurance, some Uk shops no longer deliver here or pay more duty/charges, banking problems.

@Sgtmajormummy

I’ve had to re-establish my healthcare, tax and National Insurance position with regards to fixed residency. It involved documents I hadn’t seen for 25 years, like our marriage certificate. I have kept my British citizenship and DH is now my guarantor in this country. FGS, I’ve been a fruitful member of society and contributing to the economy for decades. All dismissed due to a decision I HAD NO VOICE IN!

Does the average UK citizen realise Brexit wasn’t just about sovereignty, it effectively meant cutting off compatriots in Europe? I think not.

No, not really. Tough?

Oh and if could pop over to UK, can no longer being back certain treats that have meat/dairy in them, and as M&S shelves are bare can’t get life essential Percy pigs or decent brew tea bags!

Waited an extra month for something I ordered that couldn't be offloaded from the ship because it couldn't dock.

Food has got more expensive.

Absolutely nothing. I always tried to buy British wherever possible anyway.

I was concerned about supplies of my medications after reading all the scaremongering hypothesis but there is no problem with them.

I suppose in one way, the pandemic was timely as I assume that any issues with travel will be ironed by the time it’s over. I doubt countries like Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy will want their economies to be decimated even more.

@SunscreenCentral

Not in the UK but the extra tariffs mean that my eBay habit has been severely affected 😆 Most of the stuff I used to buy came from UK (eg a tapestry kit cost an extra 38e in January) but many people have switched to eBay.fr or eBay.de There’s talk of Amazon setting up properly here too but considering their treatment of staff I don’t see that as a bonus. Things in the north are more fraught which is a direct result of Brexit, v worrying.

Funny, though, when the ROI (or Irish Free State) went of on its own there was no hand wringing, was there? Plucky little Ireland no longer in the tyrant's pocket as the UK no longer made laws for it? Funny how the UK had to bail Ireland out in 2010 not the EU. And you tried voting out in sonething like 2006 and they made the Irish vote again???

@redpencil77

Has it taken a microsecond now vaccinations are embedding and children are imminently returning to school that you here complaining about materialistic things?

"Brexit is shit, I can't get my double micro-organic hens' eggs from the farm I like to get them from in Milan..."

What has UK vaccine policy got to do with brexit, bearing in mind EU countries are able to make their own decisions on vaccine approval & purchase, and the UK policy was implemented while still in transition ?

@LockdownLiv

Absolutely nothing. I always tried to buy British wherever possible anyway.

I was concerned about supplies of my medications after reading all the scaremongering hypothesis but there is no problem with them.

I suppose in one way, the pandemic was timely as I assume that any issues with travel will be ironed by the time it’s over. I doubt countries like Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy will want their economies to be decimated even more.

Scaremongering is the word

Food costs have jumped. Very random things have vanished from the supermarkets, both the UK chains and Irish supplied like Lidl and Dunnes.

Buying anything on Amazon is a crap shoot. Same with the big UK retailers.

The political/sectarian tensions are ratcheting up and I'm getting very fucking tired of being the UK government's chew toy.

I can't get chlorinated chicken anywhere

I'm seeing lots of complaints about deliveries taking longer, more expensive etc....and honestly my first thought was "good!". We should be trying to buy local over shipping in things, no wonder the environment is fucked if are buying tights from France rather than a local shop

No Polish builders or other East European workers.
Need Int. Driver's License for Europe etc.

I work in care. We've always had a high turnover of staff and a reasonable number of EU carers. We now have a lot less EU people applying, the staff turnover is still just as high meaning we are chronically short staffed. Covid on top of that is killing us. Agency staff are rota in most, if not all days whereas previously we rarely used them.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrr(etc)

The actual vaccination programme, not its implementation. When folk were fearing for their health being picky over curtain colours or other such meaningless commercial rubbish was furthest from their minds.

Now that its under way the facile and shallow clearly are using Brexit as an easy target to say how shit their life is because they can't get sonething that their little tiny minds believe they can't live without amd for sone reason the fault lies with other people.

You did without your triple chocolate chunk hair dye, or whatever, for a year, you can do without it now, pay a little more or find an alternative. First world problem.

Mainly export issues, some import issues.

Nothing so far. But as PP have said, I tend to buy British wherever possible.

No fresh herbs or lemons in our supermarket due to brexit.

Loads of lemons in Lidl yesterday, they're on offer and I bought a bag. Maybe a shortage just because it's pancake day....?

@Terfy

I'm seeing lots of complaints about deliveries taking longer, more expensive etc....and honestly my first thought was "good!". We should be trying to buy local over shipping in things, no wonder the environment is fucked if are buying tights from France rather than a local shop

But the delays and increase in prices work both ways. For small businesses in the UK their marketplace has shrunk. Even if more people buy local it won't help compensate for the business they have lost from other countires who now won't buy due to delays and increased prices.