Brexit

A member on here showed me another example.

Something he ordered online cost the best part of 40% extra when it arrived due to An Post fees & charges (probably an extra dose of VAT).

Ive bought a couple of things online in the past week, if at all possible I bought from Irish suppliers.
I couldn’t be arsed seeing if I would be hit for fees or not.

The joy of online purchase is supposed to be convenience, extra fees and/or delays remove this convenience.

Irish suppliers will benefit in time.
 
Do any of the uk residents on here believe if things don't go well in the next 5 years for the uk economy,that their would be a referendum to rejoin the European union?

I imagine there is already a movement/grouping hoping,maybe even orchestrating such a event.

Under a labour government.
 
CavanJacks said:
Do any of the uk residents on here believe if things don't go well in the next 5 years for the uk economy,that their would be a referendum to rejoin the European union?

I imagine there is already a movement/grouping hoping,maybe even orchestrating such a event.

Under a labour government.
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Sit down and actually think what would happen if that actually happened

From the eu perspective
 
CavanJacks said:
Do any of the uk residents on here believe if things don't go well in the next 5 years for the uk economy,that their would be a referendum to rejoin the European union?

I imagine there is already a movement/grouping hoping,maybe even orchestrating such a event.

Under a labour government.
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Any couple that remarry WithIn a comparable time period That it took to get divorced should both be committed !
 
WestCorkBoy said:
Speaking to a few machinery dealers this week, they are all pulling their hair out trying to get parts. The consensus is bypass the UK (and UK businesses) as quickly as possible and establish an alternative supply chain. Local builders providers sent out a list of price increases largely due to brexit and the increased cost if transport, and raw materials. Brexit is already costing Irish and UK businesses a lot of money. Interested to hear of any upsides.
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What parts?
We’re continually told we don’t have a manufacturing industry anymore.

Every 2nd post on here is someone quoting what they bought out of the UK ,the door isn’t going to shut it very early days.
 
A lot of it coming through UK companies, but not made in the UK. One was a Valtra dealer, another was a large parts wholesaler who would ship all over the world. Supply chains will adjust as more direct routes to Europe are developed, but it will cost money.
 
scoffcruddle said:
What parts?
We’re continually told we don’t have a manufacturing industry anymore.

Every 2nd post on here is someone quoting what they bought out of the UK ,the door isn’t going to shut it very early days.
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The reason people in Ireland buy stuff from the UK is that a lot of companies have their distribution centres for both based there and those companies source their products from across the world. The UK and Ireland were generally grouped together for economies of scale and that both were English speaking with more or less common practices of working. Just as a simple example look at the John Deere website it serves both markets.
 
I hope I am wrong in this, but it just doesn't look good for the UK in the near term.
Population is shrinking at it's fastest rate since WW11.
Economy is shrinking at it's fastest rate since WW11.
Debt growing at it's fastest rate since WW11.
The Union bursting at the seams.

10 years of hard work and sacrifice recovering from the profligacy of Blair and Brown has been burnt on the alter of Brexit, your economy has gone from the best performing economy in Europe to the worst in 4 short years and now the s#!t€ storm of Covid has your economy under water, again l hope I am wrong and "This time IS different", but "this time" never has been different before.
 
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I hope I am wrong in this, but it just doesn't look good for the UK in the near term.
Population is shrinking at it's fastest rate since WW11.
Economy is shrinking at it's fastest rate since WW11.
Debt growing at it's fastest rate since WW11.
The Union bursting at the seams.

10 years of hard work and sacrifice recovering from the profligacy of Blair and Brown has been burnt on the alter of Brexit, your economy has gone from the best performing economy in Europe to the worst in 4 short years and now the s#!t€ storm of Covid has your economy under water, again l hope I am wrong and "This time IS different", but "this time" never has been different before.
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I don’t think the U.K. as an entity can be saved now. It’s gone too far down the rabbit hole of brexit.

www.thenational.scot

Scottish independence poll registers 'massive' 72 Yes support in under-35s

THE vast majority of younger voters support Scottish independence, The National can reveal.
www.thenational.scot www.thenational.scot
 
gone said:
I hope I am wrong in this, but it just doesn't look good for the UK in the near term.
Population is shrinking at it's fastest rate since WW11.
Economy is shrinking at it's fastest rate since WW11.
Debt growing at it's fastest rate since WW11.
The Union bursting at the seams.

10 years of hard work and sacrifice recovering from the profligacy of Blair and Brown has been burnt on the alter of Brexit, your economy has gone from the best performing economy in Europe to the worst in 4 short years and now the s#!t€ storm of Covid has your economy under water, again l hope I am wrong and "This time IS different", but "this time" never has been different before.
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No country is looking good at the moment, covid has wrecked everything!! Unfortunate brexit and covid have come together.

Its no good saying this, that or the other is going to happen because we simply don't know what the future holds, its bound to be bumpy for a while, think everyone expects that. The EU would be hoping we struggle for obvious reasons.
 
Win said:
No country is looking good at the moment, covid has wrecked everything!! Unfortunate brexit and covid have come together.

Its no good saying this, that or the other is going to happen because we simply don't know what the future holds, its bound to be bumpy for a while, think everyone expects that. The EU would be hoping we struggle for obvious reasons.
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I agree mainly with the rest, but no more than the "EUSSR" brexiteers wishing for the EU to implode are just a noisy minority, people looking the UK to fail are just a very small minority in the EU.
There is a very big difference between people fearing that the UK will be in trouble because of the double whammy to the economy from Brexit and Covid and wishing the UK ill
 
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Win said:
No country is looking good at the moment, covid has wrecked everything!! Unfortunate brexit and covid have come together.

Its no good saying this, that or the other is going to happen because we simply don't know what the future holds, its bound to be bumpy for a while, think everyone expects that. The EU would be hoping we struggle for obvious reasons.
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Brexit is actually making our economy look good and covering a lot of the loses from Covid, we are picking up a nice share of the companies that had their EU headquarters in the UK and now have to have a presence in the EU.
 
Cork said:
A member on here showed me another example.

Something he ordered online cost the best part of 40% extra when it arrived due to An Post fees & charges (probably an extra dose of VAT).

Ive bought a couple of things online in the past week, if at all possible I bought from Irish suppliers.
I couldn’t be arsed seeing if I would be hit for fees or not.

The joy of online purchase is supposed to be convenience, extra fees and/or delays remove this convenience.

Irish suppliers will benefit in time.
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For most consumers, the withdrawal of Parcelmotel is also a serious downside now for online shopping.
 
nashmach said:
For most consumers, the withdrawal of Parcelmotel is also a serious downside now for online shopping.
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Absolutely. Lots of the crowds I get stuff off don’t necessarily ship to ireland or if they do it makes items pricey. Parcel motel was ideal and reasonably priced.
 
I got tools from the UK this week. They were shipped on Tuesday and I got them today (Thursday) by DPD. I got an email and text Wednesday morning requesting customs fees to be paid online. I paid them and all was good then. Not a problem on this order, 1.7% tariff as goods are going to a 3rd country and DPD charge 5 euro for collecting it. Plus Irish VAT @21%, but that can be claimed back. Order value was £330.
 

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I got tools from the UK this week. They were shipped on Tuesday and I got them today (Thursday) by DPD. I got an email and text Wednesday morning requesting customs fees to be paid online. I paid them and all was good then. Not a problem on this order, 1.7% tariff as goods are going to a 3rd country and DPD charge 5 euro for collecting it. Plus Irish VAT @21%, but that can be claimed back. Order value was £330.
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Did you have to pay any UK vat to the supplier?
 
newhollandtm1400 said:
I got tools from the UK this week. They were shipped on Tuesday and I got them today (Thursday) by DPD. I got an email and text Wednesday morning requesting customs fees to be paid online. I paid them and all was good then. Not a problem on this order, 1.7% tariff as goods are going to a 3rd country and DPD charge 5 euro for collecting it. Plus Irish VAT @21%, but that can be claimed back. Order value was £330.
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im kinda surprised by the amount of time from when it was shipped to when it was delivered. hearing stories on the news and such of traffic to the ferries being backed up
 
c4l said:
im kinda surprised by the amount of time from when it was shipped to when it was delivered. hearing stories on the news and such of traffic to the ferries being backed up
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scaremongering
was talking to a wagon driver yesterday and he said things went as bad as made out
 
I dunno if I'd say scaremongering, more so old news.

Mixed loads were a major problem where one bad pallet was holding up the whole truck. but no courier company could afford to get caught like that too many days in a row. Youd have to expect at this stage that nothing is going into the truck that doesn't have the paperwork right.

It wont take supply chains too long to settle down
 
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