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“We are experiencing some supply problems with both Carling and Coors, which means that some pubs do not have the products available".

Exclusive: New figures show a sharp fall in food and drink sales to the European Union in the first half of this year has led to the industry being £2bn down on pre-pandemic levels, with post-Brexit trade barriers believed to be the principal cause.

SaintK wrote: ↑Thu Sep 02, 2021 3:42 pm Those little bumps in the road to our prosperity are not getting mended

Exclusive: New figures show a sharp fall in food and drink sales to the European Union in the first half of this year has led to the industry being £2bn down on pre-pandemic levels, with post-Brexit trade barriers believed to be the principal cause.

https://www.politicshome.com/news/arti ... n-report

cheese exports to non-EU countries in H1 were up 14% on the year.

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:26 am More Brexit shit, literally!

PayPal raises fees between UK and Europe

PayPal is introducing new fees for payments between businesses in the UK and those in Europe, from November. British businesses will be charged a 1.29% fee for payments from the European Economic Area and vice versa.

Most currently pay about 0.5% in similar charges, which have remained unchanged since before the UK left the EU customs union and single market. PayPal said it was now incurring extra costs, such as the rise in interchange fees between the UK and EEA.

European rules capping credit and debit card interchange fees at 0.2% and 0.3% no longer apply to UK businesses.

And both Visa and Mastercard have announced they will raise them fivefold from mid-October.

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 6:20 pm I see the DUP are threatening... Something... If the Brexit deal doesn't get renegotiated the way they want.

dpedin wrote: ↑Sat Sep 11, 2021 12:03 pm Brexit becomes real for Embra middle classes now ... Mellis cheese shop in Morningside has run out of Comte cheese. Deliveries from France badly interrupted and stock has run out. Thankfully found a small supply in Waitrose up the road though! Should I stock up?

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 7:45 pm

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 6:20 pm I see the DUP are threatening... Something... If the Brexit deal doesn't get renegotiated the way they want.

As ever; Mel Brooks has been good enough to give us a hint



Because, as you, & I know; the EU & Irish Governments are well able to read newspapers; & opinion polls too; & they know that the DUP is thick as pigshit; but they still aren't thick enough to flush their well paid jobs in Stormont down the crapper; which is what'd happen if there was an election in the next 3-6 months !

Of course in 6-9 months, then, it'll be a lot harder for the DUP, & the other mouth breathers to sustain the outrage about any disruption, because I expect most of the businesses to have re-organized their supply chains by then to avoid the UK border, as much as possible.

The cherry on the cake is that if there is an election called; the Unionist vote will fragment; & the Shinners will have a majority; & get FM, & the bloodletting inside the DUP will be epic.

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Sat Sep 11, 2021 3:51 pm

dpedin wrote: ↑Sat Sep 11, 2021 12:03 pm Brexit becomes real for Embra middle classes now ... Mellis cheese shop in Morningside has run out of Comte cheese. Deliveries from France badly interrupted and stock has run out. Thankfully found a small supply in Waitrose up the road though! Should I stock up?

If they start messing with Valvona & Crolla’s stock there will be hell to pay.

dpedin wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 4:44 pm

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Sat Sep 11, 2021 3:51 pm

dpedin wrote: ↑Sat Sep 11, 2021 12:03 pm Brexit becomes real for Embra middle classes now ... Mellis cheese shop in Morningside has run out of Comte cheese. Deliveries from France badly interrupted and stock has run out. Thankfully found a small supply in Waitrose up the road though! Should I stock up?

If they start messing with Valvona & Crolla’s stock there will be hell to pay.

It was bad enough when my golf club couldn't get its usual supply of premium frozen chips, nearly a feckin riot! Not sure how much longer we can hang on, Christmas could be a blood bath.

Boris Johnson is to announce the return of imperial weights and measures, making it legal for market stalls, shops and supermarkets to sell their goods using only Britain’s traditional weighing system post-Brexit

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:56 pm Christ alive...

Boris Johnson is to announce the return of imperial weights and measures, making it legal for market stalls, shops and supermarkets to sell their goods using only Britain’s traditional weighing system post-Brexit

robmatic wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 7:21 am

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:56 pm Christ alive...

Boris Johnson is to announce the return of imperial weights and measures, making it legal for market stalls, shops and supermarkets to sell their goods using only Britain’s traditional weighing system post-Brexit

Surely this will just open the way for retailers to rip off consumers, because nobody under the age of 60 has a clue about imperial measures. Yes, people will know what a pint or pound looks like, but they aren't used to doing the rest of the mental arithmetic that goes along with it. I'd have to google how many ounces are in a pound.

robmatic wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 7:21 am

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:56 pm Christ alive...

Boris Johnson is to announce the return of imperial weights and measures, making it legal for market stalls, shops and supermarkets to sell their goods using only Britain’s traditional weighing system post-Brexit

Surely this will just open the way for retailers to rip off consumers, because nobody under the age of 60 has a clue about imperial measures. Yes, people will know what a pint or pound looks like, but they aren't used to doing the rest of the mental arithmetic that goes along with it. I'd have to google how many ounces are in a pound.

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 7:56 am I can't be the only person who has realised that markets only really trade in imperial units anyway? The fact they've stuck a kg sign down in front notwithstanding.

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 8:52 am There's something fascinating about the transitory nature of nostalgia. No doubt in 40 years time the Tory government will call for the return of maroon passports.

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:26 am More Brexit shit, literally!

Rinkals wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 7:49 am

robmatic wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 7:21 am

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:56 pm Christ alive...

Surely this will just open the way for retailers to rip off consumers, because nobody under the age of 60 has a clue about imperial measures. Yes, people will know what a pint or pound looks like, but they aren't used to doing the rest of the mental arithmetic that goes along with it. I'd have to google how many ounces are in a pound.

Indeed.

There doesn't seem to be any practical benefit (apart from making it harder to detect fraud).

However, the older generation, who remember using these measures and who voted for Brexit, probably hanker after an era when there were twenty shillings in a pound, so it's probably a popular move with them.

inactionman wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:23 am

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:26 am More Brexit shit, literally!

Is that 'the' Feargal Sharkey?

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:16 am

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 8:52 am There's something fascinating about the transitory nature of nostalgia. No doubt in 40 years time the Tory government will call for the return of maroon passports.

Another twenty or so years and my cohort will be pensioners, demanding the reissue of the Super Nintendo, check flannel shirts and decrying the reboot of Spaced.

SaintK wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:52 am

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:16 am

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 8:52 am There's something fascinating about the transitory nature of nostalgia. No doubt in 40 years time the Tory government will call for the return of maroon passports.

Another twenty or so years and my cohort will be pensioners, demanding the reissue of the Super Nintendo, check flannel shirts and decrying the reboot of Spaced.

Some of us are unlikely to be here at all in 20 or so years

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 10:22 am I don’t know about the other stuff but I’ve been wearing checked flannel shirts for fifty years.

I’ve been fashionable at least three times.

inactionman wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:23 am Is that 'the' Feargal Sharkey?

Calculon wrote: ↑Sun Sep 19, 2021 8:21 am Do young people like school kids still use stones and feet for weight and height in the UK?

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Sun Sep 19, 2021 8:22 am The main issue for consumers is one of standardization and the opportunity for deliberate confusion: if one place is metric and another imperial only for example; which is cheaper, £1 per lb or £2 per kilo? But then those insistent buying in imperial probably wouldn't care if they were overcharged for the privilege. Anyone remember how metrication and decimalization was viewed as a way to increase prices by stealth?

And this is less about "choice" per se than a distraction exercise and the chance of an apparent post Brexit win even though as is patently obvious through our formal adoption of the metric system in 1965 and continued use of miles and pints this is not a "victory" against EU legislation.

Well, any trader who insists on selling only by weight or liquid in imperial units, I shall insist on buying by the pennyweight and gill.

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Sun Sep 19, 2021 8:08 am The UK weights and measures system is stupid, we never fully adopted the metric system, so people of my generation are comfortable with grams and kilos but count body weight in stones, height in feet and inches, but measure for building in m, cm and mm, oh and there’s another thing, we used to buy timber in metric feet (300mm) units.

Counting in tens and hundreds is far easier than 3s 12s 14s and 16s, mm are far easier to read than 8ths and 16ths.

Oh and whilst I’m at it, a cubic meter of water has mass of one tonne, a tonne = a thousand kg, 1 litre of water = 1kg. 1ml has mass of 1 gram.

What could be simpler?

I can’t be arsed doing the same for pennyweights ounces pounds stones tons