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Brexit has been the second most idiotic thing the UK has done in 500 years. Allowing Australia into the commonwealth is close to being surpassed.
This was all foreseeable in 2016 but politicians lied and the British electorate is as stupid as ours. I honestly battle to have any sympathy.
The end outcome is likely to be 5 or 10 years time the next generation of UK electorate will drag the country back into the EU but on worse terms than they had 5 years ago.
In email comms with a colleague in the UK that was considering being in Jhb around Nov:
I presume you guys won't be visiting Jhb around AfricaCom time at this stage as between our respective governments both countries aren't assured to have petrol, electricity and rational covid quaranteen rules being available concurrently in both countries.
This was all foreseeable in 2016 but politicians lied and the British electorate is as stupid as ours. I honestly battle to have any sympathy.
The end outcome is likely to be 5 or 10 years time the next generation of UK electorate will drag the country back into the EU but on worse terms than they had 5 years ago.
In email comms with a colleague in the UK that was considering being in Jhb around Nov:
I presume you guys won't be visiting Jhb around AfricaCom time at this stage as between our respective governments both countries aren't assured to have petrol, electricity and rational covid quaranteen rules being available concurrently in both countries.
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Dave
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and the Express was one of the biggest cheerleaders for Brexit in the lead up to the referendum.
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It’s a funny situation at present, of the supermarkets Sainsbury’s seem to be worst affected followed by Tesco. Weirdly Asda and Aldi seem to be operating almost as normal with no shortages, I suspect because they have their own distribution fleets while the others rely on external trucking companies.
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Intel not considering UK chip factory after Brexit
Boss Pat Gelsinger said the chip-maker would "absolutely" have considered the UK if it was part of the EU.
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Aren't Asda and Aldi German, whilst Tesco and Sainsbury's are British?
Just seems that European companies and pro-Euro organizations are better prepared for the continuous inevitable series of Brexit caused or aggregated cluster fucks that are going to happen.
Dave
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All are actually British in the way you mean (all are fully British subsidiaries and have in-country warehousing and distribution), but parent wise Asda is part of Walmart so American and Aldi is German owned (even though it's a truly multinational company stretching from the USA through Europe and into China and Australia).
Of the four Aldi is probably the biggest champion of British produce.
In my opinion the biggest issue is that Asda and Aldi run their own delivery fleets while Tesco and Sainsburys rely on external companies (and are more exposed to driver shortages).
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Walmart sold earlier this year to TDR Capital and ISSA brothers giving majority stake back to British owners
Walmart completes sale of Asda
Walmart Inc. has finalized the acquisition of its U.K. supermarket chain.
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ah confused Asda with Lidl
those bloody europeans all look alike
Come to think of it I don't think I've ever been in an Asda store, most food shopping Ive done in London has probably been at Waitrose
Pretty sure you are right about the delivery fleet issue
being somewhat faceteous but I am also strongly inclined to suspect that a lot of pro-Brexit and England first type companies that love their Eastern European labour force are going to be in the soup.
No reason you can't be pro-Euro and in favor of British produce. I mean nobody makes pork pies better.
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How the UK became the sick man of European tourism | CNN
Tourists are returning to Europe, but the UK tourism sector has crashed due to a combination of the pandemic and political problems, according to the travel industry
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Nothing of that has to do with what they did in regards to quarantine...How the UK became the sick man of European tourism | CNN
Tourists are returning to Europe, but the UK tourism sector has crashed due to a combination of the pandemic and political problems, according to the travel industry
Also no mask mandates indoors for a lot of the stuff, if I need to get on a plane two weeks later, not going to want to test positive.
And then:
That means ~115 EUR pp for a trip, rather just go to Spain, Italy, France, etc.
And if it's for English, Ireland is right next door.
It was a stupid move.
And that's a 4% contraction, not impact on future growth.Richard Hughes said leaving the EU would reduce the UK's potential GDP by about 4% in the long term.
He said forecasts showed the pandemic would reduce GDP "by a further 2%".
"In the long term it is the case that Brexit has a bigger impact than the pandemic", he told the BBC.
Impact of Brexit on economy 'worse than Covid'
The boss of the UK's forecaster says Brexit will be worse for the economy than Covid.www.bbc.com
Dave
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Just to clarify a point, Irish citizens can still travel to the UK on their ID card.
Common Travel Area between Ireland and the UK
This document discusses the Common Travel Area between Ireland and the UK, an area which is not specifically provided for in legislation.
Johnatan56
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Sure, was talking about non-Irish.Just to clarify a point, Irish citizens can still travel to the UK on their ID card.
Common Travel Area between Ireland and the UK
This document discusses the Common Travel Area between Ireland and the UK, an area which is not specifically provided for in legislation.www.citizensinformation.ie
Dave
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We had another Brexit bonus announced today, Visa has decided that as the UK doesn't have to be treated as EU and is increasing merchant fees way above the EU mandated cap. To such an extent that Amazon UK has announced it won't be accepting Visa Credit cards anymore.
I presume it's a pressure tactic to force the charge down, so we'll see what happens.
I presume it's a pressure tactic to force the charge down, so we'll see what happens.
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Amazon is offering customers 20 pounds to change from Visa as they default payment card. Quite a bit of money...
Dave
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I've got an Amazon Mastercard CC so they probably won't offer me that.
/goes to look
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Is Mr Brexit getting the boot tonight?