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

Yanbu.

I feel so sorry for the british based businesses that are now fucked because their products have now become more expensive to EU customers.

Agree!

And these dicks can also pay for the ridiculous wraparound childcare I will have to find to continue my job as a single mother when my au pair has to leave. My life is utterly fucked thanks to Brexit.

It’s an absolute fuck up, but no one who voted for it will acknowledge it.

You are completely right OP.
I'm not ever going to just "get over" brexshit. Most ill informed, ignorant, marrow minded, bigoted decision ever. Twats.

Sadly we of the 48% are fucked

ClareBlue, I live in a leave-voting town near Salford and know many leavers, particularly older people. Most people said they were voting leave because Cameron wanted them to vote remain. It was literally a protest vote for them. I know 2 people who did admittedly vote to stop freedom of movement due to competition for jobs, as one has insecure employment in gig economy and another is on a 0 hour contract as an agency worker in a warehouse. Brexit hasn't yet solved their problems unfortunately, nor will it do.

No town or city voted 100% leave, therefore remainers weren't all metropolitan elites. I'm tired of that stereotype, I was a working class, northern remainer.

Sympathies OP, when buying new bedroom furniture for the DC's last year I noticed on lots of U.K. websites when you got to the checkout the items shipped directly from the German manufacturer. I do try to buy local where I can but we are a services based economy so of course we don't make everything here.

Brexit eh, such a good idea that Lord Frost admitted yesterday the government are thinking of employing a consultant to help identify the positives of Brexit

So you never buy anything from the rest of the world either? Get a grip!

@Miljea

The Indian variant is with us because of Brexit.

Ok I'm as remain as they come but what?! Each country has decided their own border rules and lockdowns during Covid. We can lay a lot of blame at brexits door but not sure about that

The reasoning behind brexit causing a surge in Indian variant is because the government delayed adding India to the travel ban list as Johnson was due to to travel there for some Brexit trade agreement. Cases became too bad and he had to cancel anyway. They added Bangladesh and Pakistan to the list around 2 weeks before India despite them have significantly lower cases than India. Many flights arrived during the 2 week delay.

What are your relatives in NI having to “endure” ..... ? (And, no, I won’t pay your import duty).

Maybe the people who are alive because we weren't tied in to the blundering EU vaccination program could chip if for your bill?

@MrsExpo, how have you missed every need report?

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OP, as Brexit is now over, buying from the EU is now considered treason. Please wait while the Police arrive to arrest you.

If you have that much trouble reading I'm surprised you can stretch to designer items from Germany

@ItWasTheBestOfTimes you literally just made all that up

Found one on ebay in 5 minutes 46mm located in Darlington uk price 11.99 free postage

Literally made all what up?

This is so tiresome now, we left, we can't go back. Instead if sniping maybe we should be working together to make the best of it.

Don’t bother trying to have any reasonable discussion OP. I’ve been there. All you’ll get is, “Buy our very own British stuff, innit,” amid some nonsense linking of Brexit to the vaccine. The country could be in shreds and they’d just chant, “sovereignty.” You’ll get nowhere.

If my family want to visit me in France I have to fill a form in a month before and pay €30 for a stamp. And visitors to all EU countries from the UK now have to prove they have enough money to stay in the country for the time booked.
€120 per day or less if a hotel is already booked.
That is purely down to Brexit.

@Saddlesore

As I thought - you completely miss the point. Yes, I should have checked but I doubt this item is available to ship from within UK anyway. My point is, just a short time ago we had the freedom to buy anything from the EU and had no import duty. So are Brexit voters happy to stump up (not for me, obviously)?

I voted remain - but you are being bloody ridiculous. Europe is a small part of the world, and if you didn't check where your items are coming from, then it could have been India, China, or the USA too. People have always had to check where an item is coming from. That hasn't changed. The only thing that has changed is the number of places we now have to pay import taxes etc from.

@sophiasnail

Maybe the people who are alive because we weren't tied in to the blundering EU vaccination program could chip if for your bill?

There's still less deaths in EU countries.

@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

Presumably you campaigned to stay in the EU and really those who did only have themselves to blame for not running a more successful campaign.

There seems to be an awful lot of posters fully fixated on op's mistake of not looking at where the item was being shipped from, when surely the salient point is that - we now have to find out where our ordered goods are being shipped from, and then pay a lot more for those goods.

I feel like that's quite an important point, worth debating. You don't have to be wealthy to occasionally buy imported goods, either directly or from a uk supplier, and have noticed that they're more expensive.

Saying 'buy British' is daft. We don't manufacture everything. We do have less choice now, and many things are more expensive. I get that some people think it's worth it, because they believe that we've gained some important things too, but denying it or implying that it's not important seems ridiculous to me.

@quizqueen

The UK government was happy to negotiate a reciprocal Free Trade Deal with the EU but they are not so keen to do so, so you should be blaming the EU for import taxes, not Brexiteers.

Nice try at deflecting but as I'm sure you remember the reality was the UK was in a Free Trade arrangement with the rest of Europe until Brexit, it was part and parcel of being in the Customs Union...

Problem for the UKwas that being in the customs union goes hand in hand with allowing Freedom of Movement for Labour purposes and who's to blame for not wanting that?