New Brexit Trade Barrier Out This Friday

So, despite having left the single market four years ago, we're still being treated to brand new trade barriers being raised against British businesses. And this is going to keep happening as a result of natural divergence until it's reversed. The General Product Safety Regulations are going to create extra costs and admin for businesses wanting to sell to the EU. This will hit small businesses hard.

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[Faluzeer]

Strange, I seem to recall Brexiters first proclaiming and then celebrating that after Brexit we would be Rule Makers and not Rule Takers.

[zobv]

As correctly stated at the end of the video, we were as a country convinced by supposed free trade advocates to leave the only truly free market in the world.

The problem is that the Tories' definition of a free market is one which distributes wealth upwards into the hands of the ultra wealthy as efficiently as possible, and the single market doesn't fit the bill.

[stephaniewilson]

And the papers will blame Labour, of course.

[CRingsing]

I run a small horticultural business, sold to most of the EU (via Amazon) before Brexit.
With Brexit a reality, we can no longer just ship to the 425m people in the EU, but have to follow the official export rules for plant products. We were way way way too small to climb that mountain. So we decided to close our 5 international amazon sellers accounts in EU, and concentrate on domestic…

Even domestic sales (of plants) is however affected by Brexit. Northern Ireland (which we have now also stopped selling in) require plant products to be declared, due to the risk of goods finding its way into Republic of Ireland, so the same nonsense as with EU applies to sales in NI. But that’s not the end of the nonsense.

Sales to the Channel Islands is also affected as all goods now must be customs declared for shipping to the islands. Courier costs has gone up massively, so we have now stopped selling to the Channel Islands altogether.

The logical consequence of all this is that we now are looking for suitable locations in the EU to move our business to. With a maybe 1y effort, we can again sell to the largest unrestricted market in the world, + sell into the U.K. where no real checks are being doing re imports from the EU. There is absolutely zero sign that anybody in the U.K. is taking an interest in small businesses and their ability to grow in what nowadays is a global market. Just not if based in the U.K.

[michaellawrence]

The brexit nightmare rolls on and on and on

[misterbacon]

Welcome to Brexitland! The lies which will be existing forever. The EU will always be the UK's biggest trade partner....

[dwdei]

"Brexit is happening today" - Phil perfectly captures exactly why it is a misdirection to claim that "reopening the Brexit debate" (which is ongoing, unresolved and only going to get noisier) will "reopen wounds" (which have never closed, which are suppurating and which are spreading their new infections across the organs of state).

[alexanderromanov]

I have heard that the UK wants to do a deal with the EU to try to improve the future of the UK.
Usually when negotiating both parties have something the other wants. The negotiation, is the coming to an agreeable compromise in exchange together. As the entire planet sees this situation, the European Union has a market of 450 million healthy, wealthy, educated, ordered, motivated, well protected customers, that occupy a continent with excelent infrastructure, tourist attractions, social welfare arrangements, universal healthcare, natural resources, an intercooperational living, working regime, and advantageouse trading arrangements with all other important countries and groups worldwide to offer, and the United Kingdom has a magic bean. So, obviously the European Union will have to buckle under pressure from Lord Frost or that other quarterwit with white hair and no pencil or notepad. What could go wrong?

[hefeydd_]

Phil, when we left the EU, I can’t recall the exact words, but I think I said something like this. Those who foolishly left the EU and own small to medium-sized businesses within a decade will face direct consequences as a result of Brexit. Consequently, these small to medium-sized businesses will suffer as a result of Brexit. I remember someone replying to me, accusing me of gaslighting Brexit, but I was simply stating the truth.

[garybarrett]

As an Irishman I am bewildered why there is no political desire to undo Brexit? Can someone in England explain why this is? It just seems to be endless disaster for the UK to me so why are the politicians continuing with it?

[helenamcginty]

So many people in England seem to forget that Britain is a small island off the coast of Europe.
Even in my far distant schooldays our geography teacher pointed out that Britain is smaller than Lake Superior in the USA.
We no longer have any coal, iron ore or steel mills capable of using them to make stuff other countries want. Thatcher sold off our oil fields at bargain basement rates.
If our business leaders could see further than the next dividend round and invested for the long term Britain, not China, would be developing Graphine, discovered by English scientists.(Another of B Johnson's failures).
Shory sighted money men should not be involved in government or running businesses.

[hollyexley]

Small businesses being hit so hard. I lost 25% of my business just before Christmas.

[nutsymcgregor]

It’s almost like the free market advocates don’t care about customer choice and competition but think “free” only means free of regulation.

[catsandcrafts]

I was a regulatory affairs consultant before I retired. I tried to tell people how the regulations work. Did they listen?

[obtuse]

The fundamental overlook from brexit was THAT BORDERS HAVE TWO SIDES. 😂

[oskarh]

When you win you keep quiet about it, like that football win that England hasn't mentioned once in the last 60 years.

[Ant.Gib.]

Those Brexit benefits are neverending....

[sovietspaceship]

I love how we literally just voted ourselves out from having any say in this, for very literally zero benefits for anyone involved except grifters like Farage. It will go down as possibly the biggest blunder in the history of mankind with very few things coming even remotely close.

[verttikoo]

What is really fun is that UK has now 27 different sets of rules.

[markcampbell_elliott]

So Brexit was supposed to allow the UK to secure all these amazing new trade deals that it wouldn't get if it stayed in the EU. So far the EU has secured new trade deals with Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay and has trade deals on much better terms with both Australia and New Zealand and the UK has new deals with ??? and on what terms ???