To ask anyone who voted for Brexit to pay my import duty

[Saddlesore]

I ordered a household item online and paid no attention as to where it was coming from (because I never did before). It turned out it was being shipped from Germany and I have to pay import duty and fees to receive it. WTAF!
I’m just having a rant because I fail to see how our lives have improved after Brexit - and don’t get me started on what my relatives in NI are having to endure. And no, Brexit did not deliver a triumph to the UK on vaccines because we would have been just as free to negotiate their delivery to us within the EU.

So, for anyone who voted for Brexit, have your lives really improved and are you happy that UK consumers now have fewer choices and more expensive ones at that?

So, while this is rather tongue in cheek, here goes:

Yes - YABU to want Brexit voters to pay your import fees
No - YANBU to want Brexit voters to pay your import fees

I suspect it's one of those things you don't think about it until it happens to you.

I moved from the UK last August and after the transition period ended I just don't bother anymore ordering from my favourite British webshops. Even with duty prepaid it still ends up being stuck in customs for weeks and it's just not worth the hassle. Shame as I really like ordering British crafts and supplies.

For all the people saying people should buy British... It works both ways. I really want to but EU shops are getting my custom now.

YABU

I didn’t vote for loads of shit that happens in the country. I don’t ask others to pay for it. Don’t like a democracy, don’t live in one.

Perhaps OP can pay the millions of people in blue collar jobs whose wages have been supressed the difference between what they would be getting if they didn't need to compete with thousands of others. Very easy to pontificate if you have a nice, cushy middle class job that can't easily be replaced or a salary that is only going to ever go up.

British crafts shops are the best, and the sheer volume of choice everywhere in the UK from clothes, crafts and food was something I noticed when I moved overseas too cute I remember coming back and walking around the supermarket in a trance and at the sheer scale of choice and variety.

I think the continued obsession and almost tunnel vision being displayed by some with this simply being about duty/charges on craft items is spectacularly missing the underlying point, but perhaps understandable given the subject of the OP.

Maybe the penny will drop later in the year (or given charges, will that be the sound of a pound heard dropping?)

That’s no how referenda or elections work.
Otherwise I could get a refund from all the cunts who voted for this government with its deliberate policy to make me shut down my micro business and go and get a “regular” job.
I’ve lived with the consequences of other people voting for different things most of my life. It is adult life in a democracy YABVU

Bleargh. Import fees are a total pain in the ass. I get your frustration. I live in the EU and since brexit every single parcel that has been sent from home as managed to get slapped with import duties of around £15 because nobody at the post office is telling people to tick the "it's a gift" box on the declaration. It is possible to get the waived but it is a real faff.

I also had a parcel posted beginning of December take ages to leave the uk, to the extent that it arrived in my country after brexit and was returned to sender because of incorrect customs declaration 🤦🏻‍♀️

Today I found out that British passport holders can no longer use their mobile phones for boarding passes when travelling in the EU.
You must have a printed boarding pass with Ryanair, not sure of other companies.
You also have to have full travel insurance, a return ticket and proof of sufficient funds.

@Melitza

Today I found out that British passport holders can no longer use their mobile phones for boarding passes when travelling in the EU. You must have a printed boarding pass with Ryanair, not sure of other companies. You also have to have full travel insurance, a return ticket and proof of sufficient funds.

Its the will of the people.

What’s the problem with not using a phone to board a plane?

@Jahebejrjr

What’s the problem with not using a phone to board a plane?

It’s an unnecessary inconvenience and a waste of paper printing a boarding card when you have the technology to download it.

Nobody said it was a problem.

Obviously some people do think it’s a problem. I don’t get it.

@badg3r

Bleargh. Import fees are a total pain in the ass. I get your frustration. I live in the EU and since brexit every single parcel that has been sent from home as managed to get slapped with import duties of around £15 because nobody at the post office is telling people to tick the "it's a gift" box on the declaration. It is possible to get the waived but it is a real faff.

I also had a parcel posted beginning of December take ages to leave the uk, to the extent that it arrived in my country after brexit and was returned to sender because of incorrect customs declaration 🤦🏻‍♀️

Note that the gift declaration just changes the threshold. Import VAT can still be due on gifts depending on value

@Melitza

Today I found out that British passport holders can no longer use their mobile phones for boarding passes when travelling in the EU. You must have a printed boarding pass with Ryanair, not sure of other companies. You also have to have full travel insurance, a return ticket and proof of sufficient funds.

Is it just British passport holders or people with British phone contracts? What about EU permanent residents and local phone contracts? I must admit I’d not heard this but have yet to get on a flight anywhere.

Is it just British passport holders or people with British phone contracts? What about EU permanent residents and local phone contracts? I must admit I’d not heard this but have yet to get on a flight anywhere.

As of right now it seems to only be a Ryanair "thing" - it's mentioned on their website (if you look hard) but I've not yet heard of any similar restriction at any other airline.....best wait and see.

Given the boarding card is normally stored on the phone on an airline specific "app I'm not sure it's an issue with phone contracts.

I think it's passport. Dh is non eu and iirc he had to have his printed. Online is just for EU/EEA people I think.

Mellassa

To fully answer you question, I should have added this from the Ryanair website:

".Mobile boarding passes are available to EU/EEA Nationals. Eligible customers must hold a valid passport or national identity card issued by the government of a European Economic Area (EEA) country....."

It's all here:

www.ryanair.com/ee/en/useful-info/check-in/boarding-cards

You need to scroll down the page to find the EU/EEA bit.

The money has gone to the government, so perhaps you will get the benefit of it what with your kids being in schools, going to hospitals etc etc

Or maybe I will chip in when all dog owners are forced to pay a levy to clean up dog sh t in parks

"Mobile boarding passes are available to EU/EEA Nationals. Eligible customers must hold a valid passport or national identity card issued by the government of a European Economic Area (EEA) country....."

The Ryanair website appears to have been updated since yesterday - to include UK nationals as well;

Mobile boarding passes are available to UK/EU/EEA Nationals. Eligible customers must hold a valid passport or national identity card issued by the government of a UK or European Economic Area (EEA) country...

The Ryanair website appears to have been updated since yesterday - to include UK nationals as well;

It has indeed, well spotted.