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

No Polish builders or other East European workers.

Utter bollocks. I have two working outside my house right now.

All those comments about increase in food prices, delays in building supplies and furniture, this has been going on for months. It’s got nothing to do with Brexit and everything to do with a global pandemic.

I’m not saying there aren’t Brexit related issues, but it is not responsible for everything.

I work in finance - we used to be able to market anywhere across the EU without needing to register in each country or worry about regulatory issues. We are facing either keeping our funds in the UK and potentially not being able to raise new capital across Europe, so likely a lot less money in our funds and a huge increase in regulatory burden and paperwork registering country by country. The alternative is moving the funds to Luxembourg or Ireland at a cost of approximately €300k extra a year on top of our usual running costs. We will have to raise an extra 15-20 million in assets under management just to cover the extra cost and come out even to where we used to be. Or, it will eat into the fund's performance and we will be less competitive in future, returns down, less tax to HMRC, we will not be hiring people in the UK in future and also not using fund administration here, accountancy, audit, legal, custodian, all those functions will be in the location of the fund in future so moving all those things out of the UK. In some cases we will be breaking relationships with UK service providers we have used for decades solely because of Brexit and hiring service providers for the exact same functions in the onshore EU jurisdiction.

There is literally no upside. We have gained nothing and lost so much.

A shortage of fish fingers?
They have been substituted in my last two Sainsbury's orders.

I couldn’t buy a danish hoodie I really wanted - so got it sent to my family who live In another country and will get it sent on to me - I mean, no big deal but a mildly amusing. Price wise - very small difference.

Flip side - my husbands parents got the vaccine super quick - if we were in Europe they wouldn’t have.

Leave? I would give anything to leave here redpencil77 but it's not so easy now. Sadly I don't have half a million quid to buy property giving me a golden visa.

None. No problems getting fresh produce, lemons and herbs in plentiful supply here.

Pet passports

Pet passports were required when we were in the EU, they've just changed a bit like ours.

I live in Germany, I have found it really hard to buy Cheddar cheese ( my kids will only eat cheddar no other cheese), my daughters birthday card took 5 weeks to arrive from the UK, normally takes about a week.

Last week I had to go and provide information for my residence permit and have my fingerprints and photo taken, I was very impressed with the whole process actually.

Our small pet supply company has had to set up a warehouse inside the EU. Expensive, not sure if we'll break even but we have to try, it's a huge market for us. Our customers have already hinted if they have to pay more in tax they won't bother.
I'm the only employee in the UK so. Yeah.

@poppym12

Leave? I would give anything to leave here redpencil77 but it's not so easy now. Sadly I don't have half a million quid to buy property giving me a golden visa.

Then that's life, how many other people have had to put up with things worse than this. Do the native Americans own their own country? Do the Australian Aborigines or Maori? If you really wanted to, you would find a way, as you clearly are not too unhappy with your situation, you make excuse.

Only if the Xenophobia is directed at the majority who voted for Brexit, nor the small businesses in the UK who are potentially the recipients of business. It's not OK to pity the business overseas yet say that UK businesses have to suck it up.

This message sounds very bitter and angry, but it's so syntactically mangled, that it's hard to grasp the meaning. Can anyone help?

DD’s internships in Brussels and Berlin have been cancelled. They were postponed from last year due to the pandemic and have now been cancelled because she is no longer eligible to work in the EU. I could not be more upset for her and for all young people whose opportunities have been cut off by racists and liars and racist liars.

Importing and exporting have definitely seen delays. Northern Ireland in particular. It is dog's dinner. The Finance sector was forgotten about and will suffer. If they do suffer, tax take falls. So less money to spend on everything else. I cannot see anything good except we were better at investing in vaccines.

@AintPageantMaterial

DD’s internships in Brussels and Berlin have been cancelled. They were postponed from last year due to the pandemic and have now been cancelled because she is no longer eligible to work in the EU. I could not be more upset for her and for all young people whose opportunities have been cut off by racists and liars and racist liars.

There's always fruit picking. But I suppose that's not good enough for your precious little one

So many people saying buy local / buy from the UK instead, without stopping to think about how those buisnesses have been affected.

We are in the UK, yet are unable to buy from it. The chair I ordered was from an English company. So many small UK businesses are suffering.

I'm not seeing many comments about why the impact of Brexit has been positive.......

It’s costing my company huge amounts in terms of paper work
And I have had sales cancelled from the EU - they do not want to pay VAT on their expensive items which before was not applicable. It’s the difference of thousands for them. So I presume they’ll buy from people inside of the EU instead

Funny why stuff is taking so long when I can easily order goods from china and usa and no problem, we have always had goods go through customs from non eur countries and the delays are not weeks etc so why now ?

@redpencil77

Brrrrr(etc) And, again, you were where when Brexit was voted on? Rather cosily sitting on tbe sidelines, methinks, like now, randomly throwing comments in. If a person's worried about their tighs FFS, then it is facile and shallow!

Voting and campaigning for remain. Marching peacefully with thousands of others. Being abused by leavers telling me the chaos & economic decline I wanted to avoid was “project fear”. I did my bit, unfortunately the gullible melts won the vote by a tiny majority and based off that result we landed in this mess. I did my bit to stop it.

Luckily due to my dual nationality with a Schengen state, I - like all the other EU citizens - now have more rights than most in the UK who lost theirs.

Norwegians, swiss and icelanders still have freedom of movement btw

Agree with @JaneNorman, lots of the delays for goods aren’t necessarily due to brexit and are actually a result of the pandemic and production slow down. For example, we are in France and ordered some dining chairs at the weekend from a french company. The company called yesterday to ask us if we wanted to cancel because they won’t have the chairs in stock until December

A huge part of my business was importing from the EU (b to b) and exporting to Europe to customers. It’s made that non-viable so yes Brexit has severely impacted me on a day to day and long term basis. I’m trying not to be permanently angry in my day to day life, but it’s a struggle

redpencil

Why are you so damn rude?

I can’t think of a single positive for Brexit, it has badly impacted our UK business, we have lost a huge amount of European customers due to the excessive import fees and charges, we are impacted by products that are manufactured in Europe and the cost of getting them here. All shipping companies hiked their prices due to COVID issues and now have hiked them again and the delays are impossible.

We have not ever had these issues with global customers or suppliers but anything with an EU country is now a disaster. So many smaller/medium size businesses will just have to shut.

People were asked for how this has affected them...every answer is valid and your constant belittling of people is disgraceful.

I think the cost of some food has definitely increased.

JanetNorman - re. your Polish builders - have they been here for several years and are allowed to get residency? If you look on sites like mybuilder.com there are hardly any - so many had to leave the country. No ''new'' ones coming in. Same with Romanian etc. working on farms, as carers, cleaners etc. - jobs Brits don't want /won't do.