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14 Jan, 663 tweets, 391 min read
17. #BrexitReality 🧵: Ireland-Wales trade down 70%
18. #BrexitReality 🧵: "On 4 January billions of euros of business left the UK for the EU"... "Britain is now losing its very strong position in trading of European equities in London” independent.co.uk/news/business/…
19. #BrexitReality 🧵: More on trucking backups...
20 #BrexitReality 🧵: Music orgs "had been repeatedly reassured that a Brexit deal would protect touring performers... in an industry worth £5.8bn a year to the UK economy." But instead UK rejected EU offer to allow visa free tour for musicians...
21. #BrexitReality: Will become more expensive to down Brexit related sorrows:
22. #BrexitReality good thread and article here by @Joe_Mayes & @lizzzburden on how new Brexit red tape is strangling UK-EU trade
23. #BrexitReality £50 an hour for truckers to park as they wait for new Brexit customs red tape before they can access ports for crossing to EU
24. #BrexitReality: long 🧵 from a wine importer in Wales explaining how Brexit is strangling his business with red tape and will lead to price increases for consumers 👇
25. #BrexitReality: @guardian piece on Brexit damage to British entrepreneurs: “companies like ours in the UK are not going to be able to do ‘end sales’ to customers in the EU any more. Particularly, small orders for anything under £100 will be completely impossible,” says Paul”
26. #BrexitReality - business travel headaches 👇
27. #BrexitReality more on fishing woes- stuck in port... (h/t @ChamonMerijn)
28. #BrexitReality “it is stupid but it is Brexit” . Sounds like a new motto for the whole mess. 👇
29. #BrexitReality: good 🧵from @ColdChainShane on declines in UK-EU trade 👇
30. #BrexitReality Peterhead fish market turned ghost town
31. #BrexitReality @LSEnews study predicts UK exports to EU will drop by more than one-third & total UK trade will drop by 13%, & per capita income will fall by 6% because of hard Brexit trade deal 👇
32. #BrexitReality Where's the beef? "No matter how much better we get at filling in the forms, it's really not fit for purpose. This is going back to the dark ages in terms of a process really, in this digital age." bbc.com/news/business-…
33. #BrexitReality: 😱 Horror! Belgian beer prices in UK set to rise: "UK is set to slap on VAT of 20% on top of a new export tax of 17.5% for orders over 150 euros. That means a case of 18 bottles of top-end Deus beer will go up from 234 to 320 euros" courthousenews.com/brexit-paperwo…
34. #BrexitReality: Brexit = rotting pig heads. “Most of the delayed meat will have to be destroyed and dumped on landfill, which is set to cost traders hundreds of thousands of pounds, Lindars warned.”
35. #BrexitReality: story of end of exports for one Oyster farmer
36. #BrexitReality: big price hikes on Portuguese wines in UK
37. #BrexitReality: “EU hauliers and transport companies are turning their backs on UK business because they are being asked to provide tens of thousands of pounds in guarantees to cover VAT or potential tariffs on arrival in Britain.”
38. #BrexitReality: “about 20% of U.K. small and medium-sized enterprises have suspended exports to the EU, according to research by accounting firm UHY Hacker Young.”
39. #BrexitReality: online shopping costs shoot up
40. #BrexitReality: "Meat processing plant Randall Parker Foods in Llanidloes, Powys, warned it may lose a third of its 150 workers unless new border controls change... & could lose a third of his business "which will make the company seriously unviable". bbc.com/news/uk-wales-…
41. #BrexitReality: more on damage to online shopping trade... "The new rules have put thousands of specialist online businesses at risk as consumers on both sides of the Channel balk at having to pay the hefty import fees." theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
42. #BrexitReality: British shoppers paying a third extra for goods from EU- and as @JohnOBrennan2 points out 👇 @thetimes suggests this is “unexpected” when in fact experts said these sort of price increases would happen with a hard Brexit
43. #BrexitReality: “he has had to lay off over 50 oyster fishermen and women because Defra hasn’t even created the form that allows them to export to Europe after Brexit.

...even with Covid we were doing well. Brexit is a death sentence,” he said” 👇
44. #BrexitReality: not as dire as other issues listed here, but a new problem for higher income Britons... harder to get that mortgage for a holiday home in France (& they’ll either need to limit the length of their visits or apply for a visa) (h/t @Mij_Europe )
45. #BrexitReality No more Cheshire Cheese exports to EU...
46. #BrexitReality: excellent 🧵 from @BenChu_ on how Brexit is disrupting e-commerce, severely damaging thousands of small U.K. businesses that depend on sales to EU customers ImageImage
47. #BrexitReality: great piece by @lukemcgee highlighting many of the sectors damaged by #BrexitReality - “logistics firms are skeptical that both importing and exporting is going to be viable for many businesses in the long term”👇
48. #BrexitReality: Brexit leads to massive tariffs on bananas from Ghana- “If this issue continues for weeks, it will put the jobs of over three thousand workers mostly in rural communities at great risk.” independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
49. #BrexitReality: the new border on the Irish Sea (which @BorisJohnson lies about & pretends doesn’t exist) is causing problem for UK horticultural businesses- “Some plant businesses in GB have stopped making sales to NI customers.”
50. #BrexitReality: More on wine cost increases for U.K. consumers caused by Brexit, from @pmdfoster & @JudithREvans in the @FT (h/t @Mij_Europe )
51. #BrexitReality: “Close to 30 per cent of small British firms have stopped shipping goods to the EU amid widespread confusion about customs forms & extra costs...
number of SMEs who have no option but to halt exporting to the EU could continue to grow” independent.co.uk/news/business/…
52. #BrexitReality: one of Devon’s largest fish exporters "Brainwashed by Brexiteers". "The reality is we're now January 20, we're yet to send a consignment to Europe from Brixham. It has just been an absolute nightmare" (h/t @RussellEngland)
53. #BrexitReality: @adavies4 on how trade is being rerouted by bypass UK (h/t @RussellEngland)
54. #BrexitReality: “British businesses that export to the continent are being encouraged by government trade advisers to set up separate companies inside the EU in order to get around extra charges, paperwork and taxes resulting from Brexit, the Observer can reveal.”
55. #BrexitReality: “HMRC estimates that Brexit demands that British companies complete 215m additional, often highly complex, documents a year... The cost of that alone on British businesses is thought to be around £7bn a year.” Good overview of Brexit costs by @andrewrawnsley
56. #BrexitReality this 🧵focuses on economic costs of Brexit that have already hit, but a huge long term cost of Brexit may be break-up of the UK. Many predicted this as risk of Brexit, & new polls confirm that majorities in Scotland & NI now want referendums on break-up of UK
57. #BrexitReality: @DanielThomasLDN & @NicholasMegaw report in @FT that MasterCard will increase fees more than fivefold when a shopper in UK buys from an EU based company, sparking alarm among companies that rely on online payments. (h/t @FrancescoNicoli)
58. #BrexitReality @tobyhelm reports that new VAT charges on UK—EU trade & bureaucracy are forcing UK businesses set up new companies in EU. “The only way to avoid the Brexit barriers was move back into the single market. “If you don’t, you are screwed in so many ways,” he says”
59. #BrexitReality Scottish dairy suspends deliveries to N. Ireland: "We just don’t have the resources to undertake the paperwork required." Remember that @BorisJohnson lied & said there would be no checks on goods going from GB to NI. (h/t @DGDimitrakop)
60. #BrexitReality @SJAMcBride reports that in N.I., "About 100 small corner shops and larger convenience stores are losing more than 400 items from their shelves because of the Irish Sea border" (border that @BrandonLewis continues to claim doesn't exist)
61. #BrexitReality: More Brexit induced pain for the UK financial services industry (h/t @DGDimitrakop) bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
62. #BrexitReality Consumers discover costs of new customs duties on orders from the EU theguardian.com/money/2021/jan…
63. #BrexitReality - more customs chaos👇
64. #BrexitReality: @pmdfoster & @JudithEvans1 report in @FT on how more than 100,000 British piggies can’t get to market in EU because of #Brexit border problems. See his 🧵👇
65. #BrexitReality @pmdfoster & @DanielThomasLDN in @FT: “A month after the UK left the EU’s single market and customs union, British SMEs are still working out whether they can afford to maintain once-thriving export businesses with the bloc.” ft.com/content/13f0f1…
66. #BrexitReality @britishpoultry says new Brexit trade hurdles, if not resolved, “likely to have a catastrophic impact on our national food security & 🇬🇧business viability.”👇
67. #BrexitReality @lizzzburden - "Truckloads of British pig meat waiting to be shipped to Germany ...perished at UK ports this month.. [story] barely made a ripple in the UK, as the country’s first month outside the EU was overshadowed by the coronavirus" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
68. #BrexitReality “I am wondering whether I have been weirdly transported to another planet where exporting my goods to Europe has been banned. The process of exporting has become a complete sham– nigh on impossible, even - Mrs. Sault h/t @RussellEngland expressandstar.com/news/business/…
69. #BrexitReality Some would say this is just small potatoes 😉... but here is another UK industry hurt by Brexit: "How Scottish seed potato exports to the EU got left behind by Brexit" thecourier.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/f…
70. #BrexitReality Johnson gov will try to blame it on Covid or "teething problems", but beyond those factors, hard Brexit is causing structural decline in UK-EU trade: "Road freight between Britain and the EU is down by more than a third year on year" theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
71. #BrexitReality "businesses are warning that the “teething problems” Boris Johnson described...are in fact symptomatic of endemic disruption that will force many businesses to restructure and will mean the end of some British businesses altogether." theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
72. #BrexitReality More problems caused by new Brexit border on the Irish Sea- “Eight days for carrots to get to Belfast with complex Brexit checks”
theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
73. #BrexitReality “In just one month of post-Brexit trading, British logistics expert Jon Swallow has seen exports dive, prices rise and customers so desperate that he is practically offering a counselling service.”
74. #BrexitReality “steel industry is going to be subjected to 25% tariffs on every tonne of steel that we export to the EU above a certain quota... If the UK can't get an exemption, or its quotas expanded, it will cause huge problems for the UK steel sector." h/t @DGDimitrakop
75. #BrexitReality one Scottish meat wholesaler’s story 👇
76. #BrexitReality More bad news for shellfish industry from @politicshome “This is not a teething issue, this is the government removing all our teeth and leaving us unable to eat...This is not new EU policy. This is the government not doing their job to safeguard the industry”
77. #BrexitReality Article & 🧵 from @pmdfoster: UK fashion industry facing ‘decimation’ over Brexit trade deal. Open letter from fashion industry execs & icons said, “Brexit was strangling the complex international supply chains and relationships that underpinned their industry”
78. #BrexitReality more on fish forms (and long term problems for UK traders) from @faisalislam (h/t @DavidHenigUK for this one)
79. #BrexitReality “UK’s cattle- and horse-breeding businesses could be at risk because of a government decision to cut funding for a Brexit inspection post for livestock at Portsmouth harbour,” @lisaocarroll reports theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
80. #BrexitReality London’s boutique investment managers are struggling to negotiate new post-Brexit rules...in order to continue serving their European clients. “We are hamstrung by Brexit. We can’t sell our products into Europe from our UK HQ.” ft.com/content/e8f51c…
81. #BrexitReality “A delivery of 15 million baby bees to the UK [imported to pollinate UK crops] could "be sent back or destroyed" because of post-Brexit laws, the man trying to import them has said.” Image
82. #BrexitReality “[UK] Firms are also experiencing supply chain disruption with 61% of businesses facing problems either importing or exporting to and from the EU. A third (32%) of supply chains are affected in both directions.” 👇
83. #BrexitReality Irish Sea border arrangements mean N. Ireland must apply EU rules on products from GB...soil, which can carry pests and diseases, is among products that are completely banned. “It basically means we can't sell plants now into N Ireland” bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
84. #BrexitReality ...not just “teething problems” ... @adampayne26 reports on Gove admitting to serious problems caused by new checks on GB-NI trade
85. #BrexitReality The UK Art & Antiques market suffering from Brexit as new VAT, administrative & transport costs damage profitability. “It just makes things extremely difficult...punishing hard-working artists and honest tradesmen in their galleries"
86. #BrexitReality: Second hand clothing exporters and charities hit by #BrexitReality:
87. #BrexitReality. Brexit deal @BorisJohnson agreed to (which imposes checks on the Irish Sea) is such a disaster for UK that he is asking for extension of temporary grace period for light touch regulation & exemptions on checks on GB-NI trade until 2023 news.sky.com/story/brexit-b…
88. #BrexitReality N. Ireland man’s plastics business threatened with ruin due to new impediments to trade caused by @BorisJohnson’s hard Brexit deal 👇
89. #BrexitReality: This one isn’t about a specific industry but a systemic problem causing big delays for all traders: @Joe_Mayes 🧵discusses how @BorisJohnson gov failed to train enough new customs agents to handle Brexit red tape. Tens of thousands more needed.
90. #BrexitReality Scottish “Exporters must "negotiate" 18 different steps to send products to Europe, while importers face another eight steps, he told MSPs.” “That is a real nightmare” scotsman.com/news/politics/…
91. #BrexitReality “Costs and paperwork are spiralling because of Britain’s new deal with the EU, designers and executives say” “It’s been an absolute disaster.” ft.com/content/9fb6b5…
92. #BrexitReality @adampayne26 on “reports time-sensitive cancer drugs were destroyed due to post-Brexit border delays... “ & “drugs manufacuter based in Wales had been forced to move its production to Ireland in order to circumvent friction at the UK border with the EU.”
93. #BrexitReality Customs red tape back ups at ports... “If we don’t resolve these problems quickly... the ports won’t be able to cope” 👇
94. #BrexitReality Forensic account of Brexit paperwork nightmare bbc.com/news/business-…
95. #BrexitReality “There have been no live exports of any [cattle, sheep or goats] since 1 January,” said John Royle, the NFU’s chief livestock adviser.” 👇
96. #BrexitReality @pmdfoster on how new Brexit rules will kill au pair industry
97. #BrexitReality British shop near Brussels closed for first time in 39 years as they can’t get in shipments of stock from UK 👇
98. #BrexitReality Scottish fishermen in “fits of despair” over Brexit damage to their business
99. #BrexitReality “It is now increasingly clear that the “tariff free” trade that business was promised was a lie. From customs to higher transport charges, the costs of doing business with our biggest trade partner are only going one way. The wrong way.” standard.co.uk/business/busin…
100. #BrexitReality “The volume of exports going through British ports to the EU fell by a staggering 68% last month compared with January last year, mostly as a result of problems caused by Brexit, the Observer can reveal.” theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
101. #BrexitReality “The UK’s haulage industry has called for “urgent intervention” from the government to address what it says are enormous challenges facing critical supply chains because of Brexit.” From @pmdfoster & @PickardJE ft.com/content/f75142…
102. #BrexitReality “in addition to the businesses that are suffering, Hammond predicts “the cost … will be pretty much 100% absorbed by exactly the demographic profile that voted Leave, then voted for Boris Johnson, having never voted Tory before.” 🤦‍♂️theguardian.com/business/2021/…
103. #BrexitReality Quick run down of how various sectors of U.K. economy are being hit by #BrexitReality in the @guardian theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
104. #BrexitReality “The North East Chamber of Commerce, the region's biggest business group, said post-Brexit costs and disruption around exporting goods into Europe are affecting about half of its 2,500 members.” 👇
105. #BrexitReality Dutch Kebab House in West London closed for now as it can’t get in supplies due to Brexit
106. #BrexitReality “non-tariff export barriers are threatening the future of many small British exporters & are interrupting the supply of food & agricultural products into Northern Ireland from the rest of the country.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
107. #BrexitReality More shellfish woes...
108. #BrexitReality "ICE plans to move its 1 billion-euro daily market for European carbon emissions contracts to the Netherlands from London in a blow to the U.K.’s attempts to build a green finance powerhouse after Brexit" (h/t @JohnHol32019188) bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
109. #BrexitReality “UK importers brace for 'disaster' as new Brexit customs checks loom.
Exporters badly hit already but KPMG says ‘biggest headaches’ have yet to come’ for importers” theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
110. #BrexitReality Striking video footage of empty British shop outside Brussels which hasn’t had a single delivery of food from UK in 5 weeks 👇
111. #BrexitReality More news on empty British shops in EU. “Fortnum & Mason has suspended all EU sales due to costly and time-consuming paperwork””John Lewis has also halted sales to the bloc due to new customs paperwork.” dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
112. #BrexitReality “Across the UK, hundreds of small businesses are grappling with the time, cost and hassle of navigating trade to and from the EU... the transition to the new reality of post-Brexit trade has left many worried for their future.” forbes.com/sites/catherin…
113. #BrexitReality More on the economic damage to music sector with post-Brexit restrictions on touring musicians 👇
114. #BrexitReality “Thousands of jobs could be moved from London’s financial districts as banks including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Citigroup and BNP Paribas are continuing to shift staff away from London as part of their Brexit plans” fnlondon.com/articles/incon…
115. #BrexitReality... more on damage to music industry from @operamagazine (h/t @DavidHenigUK )
116. #BrexitReality “chairman of JD Sports said the red tape and delays in shipping goods to mainland Europe meant "double-digit millions" in extra costs... company might open a distribution centre overseas ... and that would mean job losses in the UK.”bbc.com/news/business-…
117: #BrexitReality “Ministers have been urged by industry leaders to radically rethink a post-Brexit chemicals regime, amid warnings it could cost £1bn to implement, drive business away and lead to “additional and repetitive animal testing”.
ft.com/content/b28a44…
118. #BrexitReality 🤦‍♂️ “Amsterdam surpassed London as Europe’s largest share trading centre last month as the Netherlands scooped up business lost by the UK since Brexit.” ft.com/content/3dad4e…
119. #BrexitReality 🏍🏍👇
120. #BrexitReality 🐖"National Pig Association policy adviser Charlie Dewhurst said members had reported delays due to "excessive bureaucracy" and new rules governing exports since Britain officially left the EU" bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
121. #BrexitReality “Half of British exporters to the EU are facing difficulties with mounting Brexit red tape and border disruption after a month of the new rules, according to one of the most comprehensive business surveys since leaving the bloc.” theguardian.com/business/2021/…
122. #BrexitReality 🌷🌸🌺 “Fresh Produce Consortium estimates that new customs rules & tariffs, post-Brexit, will add £100 million to the cost of importing cut flowers into the UK... wholesale price of stems in the UK is set to rise by between 5% & 10%” itv.com/news/2021-02-0…
123. #BrexitReality 🥩”British meat processors are registering businesses in the EU in order to bypass post-Brexit export delays, with flows just 50% of normal levels and costs soaring... The move means Britain is losing jobs, the industry group warned” reuters.com/article/britai…
124. #BrexitReality “Companies highlighted increased administration, costs, delays and confusion over how to follow the wave of new UK and EU rules...Some said they would move switch away from international trade altogether, or move operations overseas”👇
news.yahoo.com/brexit-busines…
125. #BrexitReality Seems the lying Brexiteers of @BorisJohnson govt don’t want to face up to the enormous damage they’ve inflicted on UK so they won’t publish impact assessment of their disastrous trade deal with EU bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
126. #BrexitReality “Brexit could cost London’s economy £9.5bn (€10.8bn) a year, new research suggests. The capital’s service sectors will bear the brunt of a downturn, according to a study published by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.” irishexaminer.com/world/arid-402…
127. #BrexitReality “EU commission said UK’s exit on terms agreed by Johnson’s government would generate a loss in GDP by the end of 2022 of about 2.25% in UK compared with continued membership. In contrast, the hit for EU is estimated to be about 0.5%” theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
128. #BrexitReality “Food exports to the European Union fell by as much as 60% at the start of the year as traders and officials struggled to adapt to post-Brexit arrangements, MPs have been told.” news.sky.com/story/food-exp…
129. #BrexitReality Universities are forecast to lose an estimated £62.5 million per year in tuition fees as a result of Brexit...And the number of European Union students at U.K. universities is predicted to slump by more than half." forbes.com/sites/nickmorr…
130. #BrexitReality 🐎 “additional costs post-Brexit include: a £420 charge to clear the Calais border; £186 in vet's fees; £110 export customs clearance at Dover; £230 import customs clearance on arrival in France;£1,000 per horse in VAT payments” bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/a…
131. #BrexitReality “Businesses across Britain are now contending with paralyzing confusion and unfamiliar bureaucratic hurdles.” nytimes.com/2021/02/12/wor…
132. #BrexitReality “ since 1 January, new demands for paperwork have saddled [Nicolas Hanson, managing director of high-end pasta-making firm La Tua Pasta] with an extra £50,000 to £75,000 in costs.” bbc.com/news/business-…
133.#BrexitReality new 🧵from @DanielLambert29 who has been explaining over the past month how Brexit is damaging his wine business: 👇
134. #BrexitReality “Britain is in an economic and political crisis brought on by Brexit.” @NickCohen4 on how government & opposition in UK refuse to acknowledge #BrexitReality. 👇
135. #BrexitReality “Despite repeated assurances that the government understood the need for frictionless travel after Brexit, hugely increased bureaucracy & costs look set to devastate the present– and the future– of musicians and music-making in the UK” theguardian.com/music/2021/feb…
136. #BrexitReality “Disruption to trade seen in the first weeks of Brexit cannot be dismissed simply as “teething problems”, but represents the first signs of structural issues which will cut UK GDP for years to come, senior economists have said.” independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
137. #BrexitReality “Fashion company boss says only way for many firms to survive as costs soar is to open bases in France, costing vital UK jobs” theguardian.com/business/2021/…
138. #BrexitReality Classic🚗market problems... 👇thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/art…
139. #BrexitReality When asked about harm to UK companies caused by Brexit, Raab says 1. Things will improve greatly in 10 years, 2. Problems are fault of EU. The delusions and lies from Brexiteers never stop. 🤦‍♂️
140. #BrexitReality ✈️ “British cargo, charter and leasing airlines say they are losing contracts and business to EU rivals after the Brexit deal failed to ensure a promised level playing field.” theguardian.com/business/2021/…
141. #BrexitReality “Many small UK gin and whisky distillers and suppliers are struggling to ship their products to EU customers seven weeks after the introduction of post-Brexit trading rules, the industry has warned.” From @pmdfoster & @MureDickie in @FT ft.com/content/0dd148…
142. #BrexitReality “Around a third of the company’s turnover, he told me, came from trade with people in EU countries... “It’s been absolutely disastrous since Brexit,” he said. “We’d been doing quite big numbers, but they’ve declined rapidly.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
143. #BrexitReality “New post-Brexit trade restrictions have pushed up the cost of parts and raw materials for two thirds of small British manufacturers surveyed last month, and a majority reported some level of disruption.” reuters.com/article/britai…
144. #BrexitReality 👷🚜 “Despite the UK construction sector having a broadly domestic focus, the impact of Brexit is likely to become apparent soon the firm said... Smaller firms are more likely to suffer from rising costs and longer delivery times.” building.co.uk/news/smes-to-b…
145. #BrexitReality Thread on red tape nightmare one man is facing to get permit to work in Belgium for over 90 days post-Brexit: "The cost is between £425.50 and £665.50 and a minimum of 6 weeks to get all documentation and the permit processed."
146. #BrexitReality “Trading in euro-denominated swaps has dropped by nearly 30 % since the end of the Brexit transition period... Most trade has shifted to New York, Amsterdam, and Paris, as EU platforms.” cityam.com/post-brexit-on…
147. #BrexitReality The Office for National Statistics report, “shows a sharp escalation in Brexit problems”. "35% of businesses experienced importing challenges because of disruption at UK borders & 25% of exporters recorded disruption at border” craftbusiness.com/news/view/35-o…
148. #BrexitReality “Brexit trade disruption fuels boom at French and Irish ports. Customs paperwork diverts trucks from UK ‘land bridge’ on to EU-Ireland sea routes” from @FT ft.com/content/164afe… Image
149. #BrexitReality “Before, we were able to travel to Europe visa-free. Now we have to pay hundreds of pounds, fill in form after form, and spend weeks waiting for approval – just so we can do our jobs,” theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
150. #BrexitReality and a great thread on Brexit damage to the creative sector from @pmdfoster 👇
151. #BrexitReality 🎭 “The National Theatre has said uncertainty over obtaining visas and work permits in mainland Europe has led it to shelve plans to tour there.”
152. #BrexitReality Nice video compilation highlighting contrast between Brexiteer promise of no new non-tariff barriers to trade and Brexit reality of massive new barriers 👇
153. #BrexitReality "With the end of the transition period and Brexit formalized, it’s inevitable that London will continue to lose ground in the battle to be the world’s leading financial center," the company wrote in its 2021 report. uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/new-york-…
154. #BrexitReality “Director of trade facilitation at British Chambers of Commerce Liam Smyth said the extra time and cost of trade with Europe had resulted in an exodus of British business from the market, which he feared would increase as time goes on.” theloadstar.com/trading-with-t…
155. #BrexitReality “The bottom line, though, is that on a vital economic interest, the UK can only wait for the EU to rule. It has lost, not taken back control.” ft.com/content/3a7bc2…
156. #BrexitReality 🌳"Orders for almost 100,000 trees have been cancelled by Northern Ireland buyers because of a post-Brexit ban on the plants being moved from Britain...Leaders in the business say it is a major setback for tree-planting programmes" theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
157. #BrexitReality "78 "Brexit" companies moved to the Netherlands last year, the same number as in 2019... A record 550 businesses are currently in discussions with the agency about a relocation or expansion in the Netherlands" businesstimes.com.sg/government-eco…
158. #BrexitReality @GeorgeWParker story in FT shows how #BrexitReality is proving that the long-standing Brexiteer claim that UK economy was being strangled by EU red tape was a big lie ft.com/content/63d443… Image
159. #BrexitReality 💄Cosmetics/Perfume business: "The cost of new regulations means we’ve had to pause sales to the EU, losses are mounting and the government isn’t listening" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
160. #BrexitReality “Some shoppers have found their purchases from EU stores getting more expensive.
It's because not all charges are covered by a Brexit trade deal between the UK and EU.” bbc.com/news/explainer…
161. #BrexitReality 👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓👨‍🎓👇
162. #BrexitReality hits Exeter
163. #BrexitReality "The course, run in conjunction with the international players’ union, had previously cost £300 per student... the Danish university which hosts the course confirmed that UK passport holders would now have to pay £8,650 to complete it" theguardian.com/football/2021/…
164. #BrexitReality 👚👖👗 "Could Brexit Destroy British Fashion? Already pushed to the breaking point by the pandemic, designers, manufacturers and retailers claim the newly-negotiated Brexit deal is a disaster." nytimes.com/2021/02/19/fas…
165. #BrexitReality in other words, far fewer EU students will be coming to UK universities 👇
166. #BrexitReality More on Scottish seed potato 🥔 woes. One farmer’s story. He used to sell 45% of his potatoes to the EU. Now he can’t sell any there (or to Northern Ireland).
167. #BrexitReality from @lukemcgee “Boris Johnson's government is 'gaslighting' Britain about the realities of Brexit, critics say“
168. #BrexitReality 🌸💐🌺🌷👇
169. #BrexitReality “Shellfish workers in Cornwall say some are at risk of losing their homes because of an overnight ban on exporting their product to the EU.”👇
170. #BrexitReality “In just seven weeks, freight volumes have plunged by 50%. The port’s owner, Stena Line, part of the shipping line owned by the Swedish Olsson family, is warning that the slump could be permanent.” theguardian.com/business/2021/…
171. #BrexitReality “British fishing has been absolutely clobbered. Exporting and importing goods has become a headache. Financial services have been left out in the cold” thetimes.co.uk/article/brexit…
172. #BrexitReality “They said that the fashion world faced “decimation” because of the Brexit deal, with designers facing “a mountain of paperwork” to import material and export clothes, with many professionals unable to work in fashion capitals on the continent.” 👇
173. #BrexitReality 🚴🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️"British pros urge government to negotiate visa-free permit to race in EU after being left in lurch by Brexit" cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/br…
174. #BrexitReality "Thanks in part to Brexit, Lithuania is becoming a fintech hub as a growing number of UK-linked digital financial companies are getting licences there so they can continue to operate in the European Union" au.finance.yahoo.com/news/uk-fintec…
175. #BrexitReality "POLICE from more than 30 constabularies all over Britain - including Cheshire - have been redeployed to Kent to help the authorities manage Brexit traffic chaos" warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/19104031.…
176. #BrexitReality UK trade with Germany 📉
177: #BrexitReality good THREAD from 🦪 fisherman debunking UK gov misinformation about why he can’t sell oysters to EU: there is no new EU ban, just application of longstanding EU rules for 3rd countries that UK helped create when it was a member state!
178. #BrexitReality 🥩 “Supermarkets bringing meat products from Great Britain to Northern Ireland face new bureaucracy from Monday.
The change is a consequence of Brexit and the Irish Sea border.” bbc.com/news/uk-northe…
179. #BrexitReality 📪✉️ “As of December 31st 2020, when the Brexit transition period officially ended, the cost of sending packages between Germany and the UK went up, and there's more paperwork involved.” thelocal.de/20210222/what-…
180. #BrexitReality 🥪🥃
“Businesses lose millions as export costs soar after Brexit
Some food and drink companies have seen their income shrink by as much as half.” news.stv.tv/politics/busin…
181. #BrexitReality a small personal story from @IanDunt about new VAT charges Britons now may have to pay when receiving gifts in the mail from family & friends in the EU 👇
182. #BrexitReality “Sussex medicines firm takes production line abroad in white van to beat Brexit ban.
UK assembly line at standstill as pharmaceutical company sets up in Amsterdam and plans EU expansion”@lisaocarroll in @guardian via @DavidHenigUK tweet👇
183. #BrexitReality @SamuelJohnsnon just alerted me to this "Digby Jones Index -The index of jobs lost through Brexit that Lord Digby Jones said we wouldn’t lose" published by @YorksBylines tracking stories of Brexit woes similar to those in my THREAD👇 yorkshirebylines.co.uk/the-digby-jone…
184. #BrexitReality 🍷 claret. “Brexit has changed a lot of things in the UK. We are working on it and we do not have yet our complete solution..This mirrors the delays & extra costs caused by additional form-filling reported widely by UK wine importers”
ft.com/content/f5c833…
185. #BrexitReality “students arriving in EU countries must submit large amounts of paperwork to obtain visas...& proof of more than €6,000 in their bank account in Austria, Italy and Portugal, or of an income of €700-€800 a month in Germany, Denmark and Sweden” @rachela_hall
186. #BrexitReality 🐕‍🦺🐈“The UK’s pet food industry is struggling to export to the EU because of red tape, vet shortages and hauliers refusing to accept animal-based products in case they are stopped at the border.” Story from the outstanding @pmdfoster ft.com/content/88b457…
187. #BrexitReality “Muir puts the cost of an annual EU carnet for a race truck at between £4000 and £5000. ...Does all this make it unattractive for smaller teams running out of the UK on shoestring budgets? Yes. Does it make it impossible? Maybe.” motorsportmagazine.com/articles/motor…
188. #BrexitReality “Brexit is closing doors for UK architects working in Europe... London’s position as the global hub for international architectural services ... is now under threat.” architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion/b…
189. #BrexitReality “Devastating, unviable, admin overload: UK stage companies count cost of Brexit.
New visa rules, taxes and transport restrictions are some of the hurdles British dance and theatre organisations must now overcome to tour Europe” theguardian.com/stage/2021/feb…
190. #BrexitReality 👞 At Tricker’s, a 192 year-old maker of English luxury shoes beloved by Prince Charles and Japanese fashionistas, relief at averting a no-deal Brexit quickly turned to dismay at the new price of doing business with the European Union” reuters.com/article/uk-bri…
191. #BrexitReality "Delays importing and exporting goods to and from the EU have worsened since Brexit was introduced at the start of the year and will result in stock shortages and price rises for consumers, according to a report." - @lisaocarroll theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
192. #BrexitReality Brexit ends au pair industry in UK. @BAPAA_Chair via @pmdfoster 👇
193. #BrexitReality more on problems for 🚴‍♂️🚴🚴‍♀️🚵‍♀️🚵‍♂️🚵👇
194. #BrexitReality: “The decision to leave Erasmus+ is a true injustice, taking opportunities away from young people who need them most. This doesn’t sound much like ‘levelling up’ to me, and it is a decision that must be reversed. It’s the least our young people deserve.”👇
195: #BrexitReality “the EU has made clear that it expects European banks to reduce their exposures to the UK and wants them to move their euro-denominated trades into the bloc by mid-2022, when the permit, known as equivalence, lapses.” ft.com/content/03588e…
196. #BrexitReality “complaints are multiplying, from seafood sellers & pork exporters to fashionistas & musicians. Some of these are teething problems, but most are the consequence of Boris Johnson’s decision to prioritise sovereignty over market access” economist.com/britain/2021/0…
197. #BrexitReality 🎸Guitars: “The first hints of the chaos came when buyers purchasing from European online retailers .. began complaining they were suddenly being asked to pay extra charges for VAT, import duty and a ‘handling fee’,“. guitar.com/features/opini…
198. #BrexitReality “Nearly a quarter (23%) of UK exporters to the EU have said they plan on reducing or eliminating their activity in the bloc in the next 12 months, following the ratification of the UK-EU Trade and Co-operation Agreement.” uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/brexit-eu…
199. #BrexitReality “International financial services firms have migrated £1.2 trillion worth of assets and relocated 7,500 jobs from Britain to the EU since the referendum”, cnn.com/2021/02/25/inv…
200. #BrexitReality Story from last month on how Brexit creates big problems for people in UK trying to sell goods to EU via Amazon. “cost of Brexit will be measured in: 1.VAT customs threshold changes. 2New tariffs based on ‘rules of origin.’“ sellerengine.com/how-will-brexi… Image
201. #BrexitReality 🐖 “British producers have to fill in export health certificates in duplicate, in the language of every country the cargo passes through. They have to be signed off by a vet at every step. The amount of paperwork is “eye-watering”. economist.com/britain/2021/0…
202. #BrexitReality "Scotland’s salmon farmers have incurred losses of at least £11 million as a direct result of the changes brought about by Brexit, the trade body for the sector announced today." thefishsite.com/articles/scotl…
203. #BrexitReality "Welsh exports to Ireland are being blocked by extra paperwork and costs at customs, says CBI Wales." bbc.com/news/uk-wales-…
204. #BrexitReality Report from @UKandEU: "The authors also warn that duplication will add to businesses' costs in a host of areas" “Although the UK has gained regulatory autonomy in theory, it faces formidable constraints to diverge in practice” -H Kassim politico.eu/article/uks-br…
205. ✈️ “UK aerospace industry feels it is in limbo over how the country’s new aviation regulations interact with those of the EU...In the absence of these details, some of the key parts of the industry are unable to work and therefore are losing business” theloadstar.com/uk-aerospace-i…
206. #BrexitReality "Businesses hit by punishing new red tape at Britain’s borders are paying the price for Boris Johnson’s hard Brexit, David Cameron says.... warning the “bureaucracy” was the inevitable result of leaving the EU single market." independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
207. #BrexitReality “We've seen lots of stories from angry shoppers who've been hit with extra charges since the start of the year – one MoneySaver told us they'd had to pay almost £100 extra.” moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/buyin…
208. #BrexitReality More on 🎶 "It feels like an absolute car crash," Ellis said. "They finally got the Brexit agreement sorted out — and it turns out... that there's no provision to enable musicians to be able to go and work in Europe. It's devastating." theweek.com/articles/96846…
209. #BrexitReality “Four Brexit red tape horror stories.
Brexit correspondent @lisaocarroll distils a few of the post-exit bumps facing individual British firms that she has investigated for the Guardian” 👇 prospectmagazine.co.uk/economics-and-…
210. #BrexitReality Excellent from @jillongovt “so far, the available evidence has done nothing to undermine the expectation of most economists that a settlement that puts significant barriers in the way of trade will reduce how much trade there is.”
prospectmagazine.co.uk/economics-and-…
211. #BrexitReality From @lisaocarroll another story in arts workers “Theatre designer warns of obstacles for arts workers in Europe post-Brexit” theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
212. #BrexitReality some must see TV on problems for an exporter: “A third of the business goes directly to 150k expats and Europeans right across the EU. But- and you’ve guessed it- Brexit has put the kibosh on that.”
213. #BrexitReality 🐆🦁🐫🐠🦒“British zoos are struggling with post-Brexit paperwork rules, undermining conservation efforts both in the U.K. and the EU.”
politico.eu/article/brexit…
214. #BrexitReality "UK nat'ls not registered as Spanish residents can only stay for up to 3 months out of every 6. Britons have been advised to register for healthcare as residents in Spain & have until June 30 to change driving licences to Spanish ones" euronews.com/2021/02/28/bri…
215. #BrexitReality “Belfast Port and Northern Irish hauliers are losing out because of red tape associated with duties which do not need to be paid, Quay Cargo Services said.” thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/national/…
216. #BrexitReality “Brexit makes online orders from England an expensive pleasure”. Gives example of Austrian who ordered sweater for her daughter in a British "Harry Potter" shop for €45.95, but after all post-Brexit taxes & fees, paid €109.45 for it derstandard.at/story/20001245…
217. #BrexitReality “Richard Ballantyne, the chief executive of the British Ports Association, agreed. 'We are thinking more than half the facilities in the UK are not going to be ready by July, possibly more.” portsmouth.co.uk/news/politics/…
218. #BrexitReality “One of Sheffield’s best known climbing brands has set up in Holland to avoid damage from Brexit” thestar.co.uk/business/consu…
219. #BrexitReality “UK factory production slows amid Brexit and Covid disruption. Almost 60% of manufacturers report longer delivery times from suppliers, holding back output” -@RJPartington theguardian.com/business/2021/…
220. #BrexitReality Another must read article & 🧵from @pmdfoster in the @FT - this time on Brexit damage to workers in the travel/tourism industry 👇
221. #BrexitReality a little exchange between a dog food company and the Secretary of State for Trade Policy👇
222. #BrexitReality 🎣 “Brixham fishers take Brexit hit. Export delays have caused price of catch to drop, along with wages in historic Devon harbour” theguardian.com/business/2021/…
223. #BrexitReality “City firms revealed in the final months of 2020 that they planned to shift nearly £100bn in assets to the EU, taking the total value of assets lost to the bloc since the Brexit vote to £1.3 trillion” -@kalyeena theguardian.com/business/2021/…
224. #BrexitReality "on Jan 1, 90% of its business disappeared overnight as the UK left the European Union.The company’s finance director, Lisa Cooke, said there had already been 15 redundancies with 30 more to follow – almost a third of its workforce." worthingherald.co.uk/business/littl…
225. #BrexitReality “MPs were told that some fishing firms are even looking at relocating parts of their operation to the European Union in order to by-pass costs and bureaucracy, with Brexit changes expected to hit profits by as much as £500,000 per year” uk.news.yahoo.com/brexit-red-tap…
226. #BrexitReality "EU border disruption to cause economic hit - and Brexit deal to see '4% shrinkage in long-term' OBR judges the Brexit trade deal will see "a long-run loss of productivity of around 4% compared with remaining in the EU". -@GregHeffer news.sky.com/story/budget-2…
227. #BrexitReality UK to break intl law again to deal w/ problems caused by Brexit- “Disruption to supermarket & parcel deliveries & refusal of some high street chains to deliver in N. Ireland have heightened tensions among loyalists & unionist parties” amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/m…
228. #BrexitReality Johnson's lies about N.I. Protocol slam into reality: "Loyalist paramilitary groups have told British & Irish govs they are withdrawing support for Good Friday agreement in protest at N. Ireland’s Irish Sea trade border w/ rest of UK"
229. #BrexitReality 🧀🍫 "Fine food retailers have faced Brexit-related supply problems and price rises after the UK finally started life outside the EU." gff.co.uk/brexit-causing…
230. #BrexitReality 🚛🚚 "‘roaming permits’ that allow UK abnormal load hauliers to operate in France have been rendered invalid by French law following Britain’s exit from the EU’s rules, despite warnings to UK gov that the issue needed to be addressed" lloydsloadinglist.com/freight-direct…
231. #BrexitReality 🚛🚚 More on damage to road haulage industry...👇
232. #BrexitReality Links to some personal testimonials on YouTube hosted by a group in Liverpool by small business owners in 🧀, 🏍 , &🍷 trades who’ve seen their businesses severely damaged by Brexit 👇
233. #BrexitReality Investment ⬇️. UK’s new infrastructure bank “fails to make up for the funding provided by the European Investment Bank, which has invested around £5 billion a year on average in the UK... UK lost access to the EIB when it left the EU.” independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
234. #BrexitReality More on Scottish seafood. 🐟 🍣 “The Scottish seafood industry is warning of lasting damage from Brexit as overseas customers look elsewhere for supplies amid delayed deliveries and cancelled orders and other bureaucratic logjams.” intrafish.com/aquaculture/cu…
235. #BrexitReality ✈️ “Post-Brexit, a UK carrier must seek agreement from airlines of both countries before it can obtain a permit, owing to the UK becoming a third country and no longer having the rights to fly from the EU to other nations.” ft.com/content/bb3b3d…
236. #BrexitReality “the new French figures indicate that the frictional barriers and uncertainty created by Brexit have dealt a heavy blow to commercial activity between the UK and the EU, its biggest trading partner.” ft.com/content/5b8028…
237. #BrexitReality "Exporters count the costs of Brexit in delays and red tape. Away from the pandemic, businesses are struggling to get used to life outside the European Union" thetimes.co.uk/article/export…
238. #BrexitReality This one deserves a special place in the pantheon of Brexit own-goals. 🤦‍♂️ “We cannot rely on UK supplies at the moment. We’re fully reliant on Irish supplies.” “That means a British supermarket will, by degrees, become an Irish one “ h/t @SamuelJohnsnon 👇
239. #BrexitReality “The world's largest daffodil farm, which is based in Cornwall, is being forced to let hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of flowers rot after encountering troubles hiring staff since Brexit.” theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/we…
240. #BrexitReality Now #BBCBreakfast also covers the story of the daffodils rotting in the fields due to labour shortage caused by Brexit
241. #BrexitReality Taking back control? "Ministers are preparing to relax post-Brexit plans for border checks on food & other imports from the EU because of fears that they will further damage trade & could lead to severe shortages in UK supermarkets." theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
242. #BrexitReality “A Sheffield clothing company faces ruin due to red tape and delays from Brexit which have prevented it delivering to the EU this year.” 👇
243. #BrexitReality “Cabinet Office run by Michael Gove has been officially reprimanded by UK Statistics Authority for using unpublished & unverifiable data in an attempt to deny that Brexit had caused a massive fall in volumes of trade” theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
244. #BrexitReality “Post-Brexit key worker shortage ‘may hamper UK economic recovery’” theguardian.com/politics/2020/…
245. #BrexitReality "The combination of COVID, Brexit and the UK's long-term productivity challenges will put British businesses in an adverse position for the foreseeable future," the report said.” reuters.com/article/us-bri…
246. #BrexitReality 🎣 Danish TV interviews British fisherman who regrets Brexit, “Do you think I would have voted to leave if I had known it was going to cost me another £80,000 a year? Of course not.... We were lied to.” 👇
247. #BrexitReality Surprise, surprise... turns out the “Turing Programme” for student exchange looks like a damp squib which doesn’t come close to making up for what students lost with UK exit from the EU’s Erasmus+. 👇
248. #BrexitReality “British ports say they are not ready for Brexit customs checks...The context for this discussion is to ensure that supermarket shelves remain stocked, and that the fresh food on which the UK relies continues to reach those shelves” theguardian.com/business/2021/…
249. #BrexitReality More on Brexit risks to food supplies from @adampayne26 “Growing concern over food supplies when shops and hospitality reopen this summer could lead the government to relax checks on European Union imports scheduled to take effect in April and July.”
250. #BrexitReality “Barriers to trade caused by Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal are set to cost UK e-commerce importers more than £5 billion a year... New red tape and charges causing ‘major problems’ to 35 per cent of traders relying on parcel deliveries” independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
251. #BrexitReality 🚜👷👷‍♀️🏠“Brexit Construction Fears Rise Amid Exodus of Foreign Workers. Post-Brexit construction could be impacted by the departure of skilled EU workers, and labour costs could rise” homebuilding.co.uk/news/brexit-co…
252. #BrexitReality 🚤⛵️“Vendors could face £5k costs when selling a used boat post-Brexit” sailingtoday.co.uk/news/vendors-c…
253. #BrexitReality “Brexit fallout has continued to hurt commerce with the UK, with federal statistics office recording a 29% plunge in German exports across the Channel. Meanwhile, demand for UK goods in Germany collapsed by more than 56 %.” thelocal.de/20210309/trade…
254. #BrexitReality “Britain endured one of the largest export slumps of any big economy last year as Covid-19 & Brexit uncertainty knocked international demand for goods.
Exports tumbled by 14.7% in 2020, equivalent to £54 billion” thetimes.co.uk/article/export…
255. #BrexitReality More on drop in UK-German trade from @RJPartington “imports from the UK fell by more than 56% to €1.6bn in January from the same month a year ago, after the end of the Brexit transition period & start of the new trading relationship.” theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/m…
256. #BrexitReality And adding to the last tweet, just to be clear, for anyone who thinks declines are driven more by Covid..... no, it is clearly mostly Brexit. Declines in 🇩🇪 trade with 🇬🇧 are off the charts 📉
257. #BrexitReality 🇯🇵 “Brexit triggers exodus of Japanese firms from UK to EU.
The number of Japanese firms in the UK fell by 12 percent between 2014 and 2019. The U.K. drop is in contrast to a growing number of Japanese firms situating in the EU27.” politico.eu/article/brexit…
258. #BrexitReality 📚📖 “Brexit is affecting speed of delivering books to Europe...& there is confusion over whether books are now subject to duties...Nearly 60% of UK publishing industry’s income comes from exports, Europe being largest market" news.yahoo.com/long-brexit-jo…
259. #BrexitReality Logistics problems. “While ports around the world have suffered disruption due to the Covid pandemic, data from Container xChange showed that the backlog of containers in UK ports has worsened since the country left the European Union.” seatrade-maritime.com/containers/bre…
260. #BrexitReality From @pmdfoster @jimbrunsden @mroliverbarnes “UK food manufacturers are facing millions of pounds in extra costs due to Brexit red tape from next month when the European Commission introduces new layers of bureaucracy on food imports” ft.com/content/154f32…
261. #BrexitReality Bettys confectioner 🍫🥮"Like many businesses, we’re having to adapt to changes brought about by Britain’s exit from the EU, and as we adapt our processes to fit new rules on overseas trade, we won’t be shipping to European countries." bettys.co.uk/gifts-hampers/…
262. #BrexitReality “Trade survey finds 74% of British firms hit by delays with EU markets.
Brexit red tape and disruption to global trade from pandemic leaves businesses ‘severely strained’” theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
263. #BrexitReality “Last week the Chancellor accepted the OBR’s forecasts of a 4% reduction in national income once the full effects of Brexit are felt.

Overall, the net cost of Johnson’s Brexit to the public finances will come in at almost £30 billion each year.”
264. #BrexitReality “UK manufacturers lose revenue and business since leaving EU
Survey shows more than 33% have suffered increased costs as a result of delays and red tape” ft.com/content/ba6452…
265. #BrexitReality “One of the few dairies allowed to make Stilton said it has had to stop sales to the European Union (EU) since Brexit.
Hartington Creamery at Pikehall, Derbyshire, said the paperwork needed for each order was costing too much.” bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
266. #BrexitReality Taking back control? 🤣 UK forced to delay introduction of import checks by 6 months b/c “border post infrastructure will not be ready in time” & “introduction of processes as originally planned could lead to empty supermarket shelves” theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
267. #BrexitReality “Britain’s new trading relationship with the eu will lead to the economy being around 4% smaller than it otherwise would have been, according to the OBR, a view widely shared by other forecasters.” economist.com/britain/2021/0…
268. #BrexitReality Brexit forces firm to ship plants from Ireland to Wales via 1,400 mile detour. Red tape means Neil Alcock’s Seiont Nurseries in Caernarfon has a four-day marathon via France, Holland and England – at £280 a trolley instead of £100” mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
269. #BrexitReality Catastrophe 👇
270. #BrexitReality Here is what the consequences of Brexiteers’ lies for UK trade look like in one graph from @thom_sampson
271. #BrexitReality And by the way the whole 🧵 by @thom_sampson is a must see. It shows the massive collapse in UK exports to EU hits across sectors and across states. ImageImage
272. #BrexitReality Brexit was sold on lies: “Massive drop in UK trade shows extent of Boris Johnson's Brexit own goal. Trade could be a drag on recovery for years to come rather than the high-octane propellent the government promised” @phillipinman theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
273. #BrexitReality UK economy shrinks 2.9%. Tories will try to blame it on Covid, it Brexit is a key driver of the rapid downturn usnews.com/news/business/…
274. #BrexitReality “Trade experts ridicule David Frost for denying his Brexit deal is responsible for exports crash.
Author of agreement accused of ignoring ‘every reputable trade specialist and 100 years of trade theory” independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
275. #BrexitReality 🦐🦪🦀 🚲 🧳 “It’s been tough’: UK exporters on how Brexit has damaged them” theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
276. #BrexitReality Truth sets in: “More Britons believe Brexit has been bad for the economy and trade than good, according to new polling ... the damage caused by leaving the EU’s single market and customs union in January is cutting through with voters.”independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
277. #BrexitReality 📦 “There are at least 140,000 dropshippers in UK... Since the end of the Brexit transition period, dropshippers have been hit by a series of changes that have materially affected their businesses” wired.co.uk/article/dropsh…
278. #BrexitReality “My reaction is absolute dismay,” said Howell. “I can’t believe they could be so stupid to kill U.K. exports, but allow free rein into our country from the EU.” -Story from @Joe_Mayes @Brexit bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
279. #BrexitReality 🐄🩺 “Border checks delay is a ‘betrayal of vets and Brexit” “Michael Gove and his colleagues...assured us that they had a plan to deliver a Brexit that would be in the best interests of our country. We now know this not to be true.” agriland.co.uk/farming-news/b…
280. #BrexitReality “Terry Hughes, owner of the Belgian Monk in Norwich city centre, said that Westminster had to be honest about problems at the border. He said: "The rhetoric coming out from the top and what we're seeing on the ground is different." edp24.co.uk/news/business/…
281. 🍫 “Fans of iconic Cadbury chocolate bars around Europe may soon miss out... From April 21, products such as Dairy Milk chocolate from Birmingham-based Cadbury & McVitie’s chocolate digestives will require Export Health Certificates signed by a vet.” birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/shopp…
282. #BrexitReality “truth will out. Day by bleak day, the epic damage caused by this execrable deception, this shameful Conservative con, becomes ever more evident. No amount of Michael Gove spin can hide the facts.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
283. #BrexitReality “Collapse of trade with EU will ‘last until the summer’.
Delays and confusion at the UK’s ports threatens to put hundreds of small and medium-sized exporters out of business” - @phillipinman theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
284. #BrexitReality “We have increased export paperwork, cash is tied up in raw materials from the EU as we have to hold greater stocks; there has been a massive increase in shipping costs"
independent.co.uk/news/business/…
285. #BrexitReality "My £1m UK small business is in ruins and I see no way out. Tried everything, feel utterly powerless. Trade with EU virtually impossible... I cannot see things improving for years, if at all.” westcountrybylines.co.uk/my-small-busin…
286. #BrexitReality Sussex company Mediwin had sold pharmaceuticals into Europe, but "90% of its business disappeared overnight as UK left EU...finance director said there had already been 15 redundancies, with 30 more to follow – almost 1/3 of workforce" chichester.co.uk/business/susse…
287. #BrexitReality “About €100 billion of Irish securities moved from London to Brussels over the weekend as UK and EU markets deepen their split following Britain’s departure from the single market.” irishtimes.com/business/finan…
288. #BrexitReality 🦀🦞🦐🍤 More on Scottish seafood
289. #BrexitReality 🥑🫐 🥦🥬🍎“Global organic food producers are considering cutting their exports to the U.K as they battle reams of costly post-Brexit red tape and wait for a new digital system that still has no launch date.”
politico.eu/article/global…
290. #BrexitReality 🧪🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬 “For One British Industry, Brexit’s Red Tape Is Just Beginning.
Chemical companies, facing costly new regulations and extra tariffs, are looking to the continent.” nytimes.com/2021/01/18/bus…
291. #BrexitReality “The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express and Daily Telegraph barely cover the EU trade fiascos, says Dr Andrew Jones... Unless people read the Guardian, the Financial Times and a very few others, the Brexit damage is still invisible” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
292. #BrexitReality “SMEs had been the most exposed to the shock, with suggestions that for those selling B2C, Europe “just doesn’t make sense” any more.” theloadstar.com/call-for-more-…
293. #BrexitReality “For smaller companies, warehousing & extra admin staff are unaffordable or unavailable, so they have to work through confusing new processes themselves. For those exporting perishable goods, delays have made trading impossible” newstatesman.com/business/compa…
294. #BrexitReality “Office for Budget Responsibility has estimated UK will suffer a 4% hit to economic output over 15 years after EU referendum of 2016... total cost of that economic damage would amount to £3,600 for every UK household over that period” huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brexit-l…
295. #BrexitReality British consumers could face higher costs when buying from EU as Brexit ends EU cap on interchange fees banks charge to merchants when a customer makes a transaction. Online retailers based in EU likely to pass costs on to UK consumers. telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/1…
296. #BrexitReality “Thousands of British pet owners planning to take their dogs and cats away on holiday with them when borders reopen in May have been told to be ready for “a total pain” getting onerous post-Brexit paperwork filled in” + £110 certificate standard.co.uk/news/uk/brexit…
297. #BrexitReality “One of NI's biggest catering suppliers has told MPs that Brexit and the Irish Sea border means they will buy less from GB firms and more from the EU.” bbc.com/news/uk-northe…
298. #BrexitReality Despite govt propaganda in this BBC article, Welsh auto industry clearly thinks Brexit is hurting it. “Welsh Automotive Forum said new checks on imports & new rules over where car parts can come from could add to customs disruption” bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-…
299. #BrexitReality “A major food supplier said the trading arrangements were "like peeling an onion". "The more you peel the more you keep crying," he said” news.sky.com/story/northern…
300. #BrexitReality 🌾 “Barley shipments- UK's main grain export— totalled just 40,000t in Jan.. compared with average of 232,000t/month over 4th quarter of 2020...slowdown likely a result of new post-Brexit trade procedures with EU.” argusmedia.com/en/news/219678…
301. #BrexitReality “The volume of goods being ferried across the Irish Sea between Britain and Ireland has collapsed since the UK left the EU.” news.sky.com/story/how-brex…
302. #BrexitReality @NPR @planetmoney informing American listeners about how Brexit is hurting 🦪 🧀 & 🍷 industries in UK. npr.org/2021/03/17/978…
303. #BrexitReality “Britain’s professional services grapple with life after Brexit-
Business leaders are bewildered by visa and work permit restrictions imposed by UK-EU trade agreement” ft.com/content/3dee9a…
304. #BrexitReality ✈️🛬👨‍✈️👩‍✈️"Post-Brexit aviation policy has failed UK carriers, it was claimed this week.

Many airlines are struggling to gain EU flight permits, while contending with European competition domestically, said one executive."
theloadstar.com/uk-charter-air…
305. #BrexitReality "Brexit blamed for British exports to Ireland falling 65% in January

New customs rules also a factor in 41% drop in value of goods moving from UK to the EU"

theguardian.com/business/2021/…
306. #BrexitReality “Brussels capped interchange fees for all transactions inside the EU in 2015” but with Brexit... “Visa is to force through a series of post-Brexit fee increases which could place fresh pressure on consumers and small businesses” ft.com/content/4820b6…
307. #BrexitReality 🍷 @BBCNewsnight reporting that wine from EU (source of 55% of UK’s imports) will become more expensive due to Brexit 👇
308. #BrexitReality Some UK book publishers won’t, for now at least, deliver books to the EU at all “due to the increased export costs resulting from the Brexit agreement.” bloomsbury.com/uk/customer-he… 👇
309. #BrexitReality ☕️ 🚚🚀 “extra administrative expenses [due to Brexit] are passed on to Produmax’s customers...This means that the Shipley-based manufacturer risks becoming less competitive compared with rivals in the EU” ft.com/content/e2a57b…
310. #BrexitReality 🍣 🥩🧀 “According to the Food and Drink Federation (FDF), among the hardest hit export foodstuffs were salmon, which saw a 98% dip from the year earlier; beef, which fell by 91.5%; and cheese which also declined 85.1%.” uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/brexit-uk…
311. #BrexitReality “Dutch stores that sell British goods in the country have complained about product delays and cancellation, blaming it on the Brexit paperwork chaos.
Retailers have turned to Ireland for products such as bacon and sausages” sports.yahoo.com/brexit-dutch-s…
312. #BrexitReality “Buying a £5,000 bike from Poland has become a Brexit nightmare
I was asked for £2,000 more in duty and VAT to get it delivered” theguardian.com/money/2021/mar…
313. #BrexitReality 🧀🥃🍫”Whisky, cheese and chocolate producers have suffered the biggest post-Brexit export losses in the food and drink sector, new figures from HMRC have shown.” -@lisaocarroll theguardian.com/business/2021/…
314. #BrexitReality Brexit probs with e-commerce returns “While businesses have been focusing on how to get parcels across the border & into the hands of customers, they have been ignoring the uncomfortable reality that parcels may have to come back again” tamebay.com/2021/03/ecomme…
315. #BrexitReality "One of the most influential business groups in the UK is convinced that Brexit is causing "structural" damage to many UK companies by reducing trade & increasing costs" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
316. #BrexitReality Nice overview here of Brexit damage from @JohnSpringford: "a hit to trade of this size entails big structural changes to the British economy, with... businesses going bust, and higher prices for imports eroding living standards." encompass-europe.com/comment/brexit…
317. #BrexitReality Cosmetics 💄 from 🇮🇹 erbolario.co.uk/en/ Image
318. #BrexitReality ⚡️🔌”GB left the EU Internal Energy Market as the end of the Brexit transition period, with this having contributed to a series of high prices over the last few months” current-news.co.uk/news/house-of-…
319. #BrexitReality 🥩 🍖 More devastating numbers on Brexit costs to British meat industry- reported by @adampayne26 👇
320. #BrexitReality 🐖🌭 “After two disastrous attempts since January to send British pork to Germany...the firm behind Helen Browning’s Organic says it has been forced to drop its support for UK farmers and switch to Danish suppliers.” theguardian.com/environment/20…
321. #BrexitReality “Modelling Giant Warns Of "End Of" British Industry Over Post-Brexit Work Permits”... “It is now virtually impossible to get British models into Europe," Horner continued. "25% of our revenue comes from Europe” -@Kate_M_Proctor politicshome.com/news/article/b…
322. #BrexitReality 🐖 OMG- this pork chop to Paris graphic is peak #BrexitReality 👇
323. #BrexitReality Crazy infographic in @guardian on the 26-step red tape nightmare meat exporters face with every shipment to EU since Brexit theguardian.com/politics/ng-in…
324. #BrexitReality More on new shipping charges due to Brexit: "shoppers are facing new charges for receiving parcels from retailers based in the EU, with payment often requested by delivery companies via text message or email." goodhousekeeping.com/uk/consumer-ad…
325. #BrexitReality 💶💷🏦 Rather odd article that acknowledges Brexit damage to UK financial services -“Already, thousands of U.K.-based jobs and trillions of pounds’ worth of trades have moved across the Channel”- but tries to play it down politico.eu/article/brexit…
326. #BrexitReality Various labour shortages due to Brexit: I was today years old when I learned there was “a job that entails assessing the anuses of chicks to determine whether they are male or female” & that Brexit would mean a shortage of these workers theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/br…
327. #BrexitReality 🌼 more on the daffodil harvest worker shortage... itv.com/news/anglia/20…
328. #BrexitReality “The Welsh government has warned that post-Brexit trading patterns threaten the viability of the country's Irish Sea ports.
Trade flows from Ireland to Welsh ports have collapsed since January.” bbc.com/news/uk-northe…
329. #BrexitReality 🥩 More on meat industry woes from @JudithREvans & @pmdfoster “UK meat producers face up to £120m a year of extra long-term trading costs and the loss of at least a fifth of their total export trade because of post-Brexit requirements” ft.com/content/af02f9…
330. #BrexitReality 🐟 🐠 🦞 🍤 🦪 Mega-Thread on damage to fishing industry from a @BBCNews editor- @bbcmartynoates
331. #BrexitReality Great article & 🧵 from the inimitable @pmdfoster on Brexit damage to small businesses. “UK small business and consumers run into trainload of Brexit issues.
Duties, VAT & handling fees make sending even modest items between EU & Britain much more difficult”👇
332. #BrexitReality 🧳 ✈️ “The UK government has conceded that Brexit has created barriers to business travel in a report published Wednesday by the House of Lords” businesstravelnews.com/Global/UK-Gove…
333. #BrexitReality 🎶 🎸 🎤 “UK artists left in “limbo of chaos and confusion” in attempting to book post-Brexit European tours.
"Without suitable remedies, we will see our world-renowned industry start to wither" nme.com/news/music/uk-…
334. #BrexitReality General Brexit damage: “More than half of UK firms have faced disruption due to Brexit, poll finds.
The figure rises to 80% for businesses that do a moderate or large amount of trade with the EU, a survey has found.”news.sky.com/story/more-tha…
335. #BrexitReality Never forget that Brexiteers like @DavidDavisMP blatantly lied & said there would be no downsides to Brexit, only upsides. This data below from @Foodanddrinkfed shows the devastating reality of Brexit for the British food industry 👇
336. #BrexitReality 🍺"Covid restrictions and Brexit have been blamed for Wooha Brewing Company falling into administration with the loss of 12 jobs." dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2021/03/covid-…
337. #BrexitReality 🍷“cost of transporting wine has also increased enormously since Jan 1...partly because new bureaucracy has added to journey times. ..partly to compensate for the many empty loads travelling from UK now that exports to EU have shrunk.” ft.com/content/fc2e5a…
338. #BrexitReality 🧀 “Spurrell has been been left with a £250,000 hole in his export trade with Europe but says that Prentis told him in a meeting on Tuesday there was nothing she could do to ease the barriers” -@lisaocarroll theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
339. #BrexitReality Brexit legal nightmares: “Without the benefit of mutual recognition, cross-border insolvency proceedings involving both the EU & the UK will undoubtedly become more complex, time-consuming, & expensive” jdsupra.com/legalnews/uphi…
340. #BrexitReality 🍫 “He said almost overnight, his trade with Europe had been ripped from underneath him” confectionerynews.com/Article/2021/0…
341. #BrexitReality More on 🥩 “UK’s meat industry faces a permanent loss of up to half of all its exports because of ongoing problems with “mountains” of Brexit red tape, a leading trade body has warned.” independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
342. #BrexitReality Little problem with those retirement/holiday home investments: “In France like Price & Wilson in Spain, those living in their holiday homes since January 1 must leave the country by Thursday or face possible deportation and a ban on re-entering the country.”👇
343. #BrexitReality I’m old enough to remember when @tradegovuk promised “innovative jams” might be one of the keys to UK’s post-Brexit economy. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Brexit jam reality is a bit different. From @SJAMcBride 👇
344. #BrexitReality 🍯 “A UK honey exporter is within weeks of closure as hauliers refuse to transport its small loads to the EU due to post-Brexit red tape.” thegrocer.co.uk/brexit/uk-expo…
345. #BrexitReality 🪴 💐 Brexit hits gardening “Almost all house plants sold in the UK are grown in Holland or Belgium.” Gardening tools and watering equipment also tends to come from Europe. “Those are also subject to further delays and increased costs” theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…
346. #BrexitReality “There’s a reckoning coming for some Brits in southern Spain” itv.com/news/2021-03-2…
347. #BrexitReality "More than a fifth of small British exporters have temporarily halted sales to the European Union and 4% have done so permanently, a survey showed on Monday, highlighting problems that have followed the Brexit trade deal." reuters.com/article/us-bri…
348. #BrexitReality Nice video from @PeterStefanovi2 reminding everyone that @BorisJohnson said "There will be no non-tariff barriers to trade" with Brexit, and that that was a complete lie.
349. #BrexitReality Small businesses have reported a marked drop in exports to the EU as another company bemoaned the post-Brexit “nightmare”... We’ve been sold a dud,” she said. “If it weren’t for Covid, people would be shouting from the rooftops.” theguardian.com/business/2021/…
350. #BrexitReality “About a third of sales came from customers in the EU.
"But since the end of January, it's tailed off completely”...an "onslaught of admin" and about 80% of orders to the EU after Brexit have seen customers having to pay extra charges” bbc.com/news/business-…
351. #BrexitReality 👩‍✈️👨‍✈️✈️ Pilots “are now facing the prospect of their licenses not being recognized by EASA and having to re-do all 14 exams, IR, ELP and initial medical again in order to hold the same EASA license that they held before Brexit” aerotime.aero/27564-pilot-li…
352. #BrexitReality An overall review of Brexit damage so far across multi sectors from manufacturing, to fisheries, to healthcare, to financial services 👇euronews.com/2021/03/31/bre…
353. #BrexitReality UK citizens can no longer take on tourism jobs in the EU- at summer camps etc- as many did in the past 👇
354. #BrexitReality No more French au pairs for British families: “French au pair agencies are organising no placements in the UK this year as there is no longer any recognised status for au pairs post full-Brexit. The UK was formerly the top choice” connexionfrance.com/French-news/Br…
355. #BrexitReality 💿💿“VAT, admin, collection charges, plus postage and packaging, for a £20 (€23.40) album runs to about €50, nearly double” the label’s owner told The Loadstar. theloadstar.com/uk-smes-strugg…
356. #BrexitReality In 2020, “Britain had one of the worst GDP declines among developed countries” “the European Commission has estimated that the impact of Brexit on the UK economy will cost Britain 2.25% of its GDP by 2022.” newstatesman.com/politics/2021/…
357. #BrexitReality 🍷”As I’ve said before, it is now easier for me to sell to Japan than the UK,” adds Philip Cox, owner of Romanian winery Cramele Recas” thedrinksbusiness.com/2021/03/in-foc…
358. #BrexitReality A different kind of self-harm, but certainly one that creates problems for UK citizen: “Thousands of Britons across the EU from tomorrow and on will become illegal stayers in the block, as their 90-day visa-free stay ends today.” schengenvisainfo.com/news/brexit-re…
359. #BrexitReality “The reality, which has become clear for all to see, is that Brexit means recreating trade barriers that had not existed for 47 years," said Barnier. reuters.com/article/uk-bri…
360. #BrexitReality Unfortunately, this is not an April Fools joke... rather a trick of historic proportions Brexiteers played on Britons with their lies: “Brexit has been a disaster for Britain as collapsing European trade puts UK firms out of business” businessinsider.com/brexit-is-a-di…
361. #BrexitReality Remember it was @BorisJohnson who chose to put in place the Irish Sea border to resolve the Brexit “Trilemma”:
“Counting the cost of the Irish sea border” bbc.com/news/uk-northe…
362. #BrexitReality “The Brexiteer dream of a shift beyond Europe to "global Britain" is ringing hollow for those who find it more difficult to sell to the EU, without seeing new opportunities coming from elsewhere.” bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…
363. #BrexitReality 🐕🦴”founder of a Scottish dog food business has told how Brexit forced him to move to France after his exports to the EU were halted because of the new trade barriers... no other option than to relocate or face losing the business.”theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
♾. #BrexitReality “Entire British economy announces it will relocate to France after most exports plunge due to Brexit red tape”
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In reality only parts of the British economy will relocate to the EU.
364. #BrexitReality Brexiteers didn’t write this on the side of a bus: “BREXIT is set to cost the UK between £2 and £4 billion in lost food exports across its first full year out of the European Union.” thescottishfarmer.co.uk/news/19201052.…
365. #BrexitReality Brexit = lost money and time 👇
366. #BrexitReality 🐣🍫 “chocolate makers, who should be celebrating one of their busiest times of year, are fuming instead, and all of them cite the same cause: Brexit.
“We’ve lost our entire European trade,” said Aneesh Popat, owner of The Chocolatier” nytimes.com/2021/04/03/bus…
367. #BrexitReality “Almost half [of firms surveyed], 49%, said they expected that to continue in the long-term while nearly a third said they had stopped trading with the EU” reuters.com/article/us-bri…
368. #BrexitReality “for British food importers and exporters, Brexit so far feels like hitting an iceberg. Just three months in, it has raised their costs and threatened their businesses.” npr.org/2021/04/02/983…
369. #BrexitReality 🏛🏠👷‍♀️🏗 “The failure of the British government to fully consider exported services (as opposed to goods) during Brexit negotiations has resulted in unilateral conditions that negatively affect UK architects seeking to work in the EU” archpaper.com/2021/04/brexit…
370. #BrexitReality “From bikes to booze, how Brexit barriers are hitting Anglo-Dutch trade hard” “two out of three companies experience a negative impact of Brexit. They are struggling with increased costs [71%], red tape [63%] & delayed shipments [59%]” theguardian.com/business/2021/…
371. #BrexitReality “Retail investors fled UK equity funds in February to the tune of £1bn — a continuation of a trend that was initially triggered by Brexit in 2016... retail investors have withdrawn roughly £18bn from UK funds over the past five years.” news.yahoo.com/brexit-retail-…
372. #BrexitReality 🎻 “Probably most damaging is the limit of two laden journeys for UK trucks within the EU, making multiple stops on an orchestra tour difficult or impossible.”
“Let’s be honest,” says Rattle, “Brexit has not had any upside in the arts.” ft.com/content/fb4e68…
373. #BrexitReality 🪑Antiques “The antiques industry could be decimated by all of this. Antiques fairs in the UK are usually packed with European goods, and with European dealers selling, which looks impossible now.” - another great one by @lisaocarroll theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
374. #BrexitReality This thread is focused just on the economic self-harm Brexiteers inflicted on the UK, not on other Brexit issues. Even with that specific focus, it is clear that Brexit’s destabilization of Northern Ireland has economic costs. theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/a…
375. #BrexitReality 🚗🛠️Car parts: "Delays & unexpected surcharges as a result of Brexit are causing havoc in the aftersales industry, with independent garages refusing to work on some vehicles and cars stuck in workshops across the country..." cardealermagazine.co.uk/publish/invest…
376. #BrexitReality “90% of businesses have faced disruption since the end of the Brexit transition period.
53% expect their 2021 turnover to be lower than if the UK had remained in the EU – and the average reduction is 29%” mhwmagazine.co.uk/descartes-repo…
377. #BrexitReality 🎭🎻 Good explainer from @UKandEU & @mattockska on Brexit harm to UK arts sector 👇
378. #BrexitReality "IHS Markit released data in February showing that the U.K.’s share of euro swaps (a type of financial derivative) trading has fallen from 40% in July 2020 to 10% in January 2021." cnbc.com/2021/04/06/ban…
379. #BrexitReality “The risk is that people don’t come back, so we have skill and labor shortages and we lose some output, growth and tax revenue permanently,” said Jonathan Portes" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
380. #BrexitReality 🪱🪱🪱 @pmdfoster reports on another company hurt by Brexit - @BASF factory in UK that produces worms for agriculture “has been unable to complete a single successful shipment to its EU customers” 👇
381. #BrexitReality “While Brexit drove most London equities trading to platforms in Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris, some has migrated to New York’s OTC Markets Group.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
382. #BrexitReality “JPMorgan moved around $230bn worth of assets from the UK to Europe and informed around 200 employees that their jobs would need to relocate out of the City to the continent. It still has around 200 Brexit-related moves to complete” fnlondon.com/articles/jamie…
383. #BrexitReality “Northern Ireland would likely be at peace today if Brexit hadn’t undercut unionists’ connections within the United Kingdom.” “As soon as we went down the path of Brexit, someone was going to get hurt.”politico.eu/article/northe…
384. #BrexitReality 👚👗👕 “Refusals and returns represent a major impediment to UK SMEs seeking to re-establish an EU foothold, with many considering the US an easier market.” theloadstar.com/fashion-return…
385. #BrexitReality 🧑‍🌾🪴🌷🌻🌳 Shortages at gardening centres in UK, due to disruption of supplies (plants, etc) normally imported from EU dw.com/en/uk-gardenin…
386. #BrexitReality e-commerce 📉 “Online deliveries to the UK from Europe have plunged 50.7%” “Brexit shouldn’t stop retailers from buying & shipping abroad, yet it’s clear that many retailers are struggling to overcome post-Brexit delivery issues” cityam.com/brexit-eu-onli…
387. #BrexitReality “Brexit has already lowered GDP by 1.4% since referendum... expects GDP will be 4% lower in long-run” “Brexit’s negative impact on GDP & tax receipts expected to outweigh any cost savings from no longer making contributions to the bloc” news.yahoo.com/100-days-brexi…
388. #BrexitReality “German exports to the United Kingdom fell by 12.2% on the year in February and imports slumped 26.9%, the German Federal Statistics Office said. Germany is the UK's biggest trading partner.” reuters.com/article/german…
389. #BrexitReality “Wales' £39m commercial fishing sector will be "devastated" by changes under the Brexit trade deal” bbc.com/news/uk-wales-…
390. #BrexitReality “UK consumers can also be charged additional delivery fees for items from the EU... 11% have been asked to pay additional handling or delivery fees. The survey showed the average charge was £41, with some people paying up to £300.” au.finance.yahoo.com/news/brexit-eu…
391. #BrexitReality Multiple problems emerge for Britons who own homes in EU 👇 ft.com/content/375078…
392. #BrexitReality ⏱⌚️ “It has massively reduced our EU sales from 25% of our business before December to 2-3 % now,” says Joe McKenzie, Xupes chief executive. As a result, sales in the first two months of 2021 were down £600,000 year on year.” ft.com/content/b0bf47…
393. #BrexitReality 🇬🇧-🇵🇹 trade: “The value of goods brought in from Britain fell 56%, compared to a drop of just 10.3% in imports from 27 European Union countries.” esmmagazine.com/retail/brexit-…
394. #BrexitReality “Belfast riots a 'direct consequence of Brexit', ex-Irish PM tells Euronews” euronews.com/video/2021/04/…
395. #BrexitReality On how Brexit led to the violence in Northern Ireland: “Once Britain chose to be outside the single market and customs union while the Irish republic remained inside, there would always have to be a border. The only question was where.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
396. #BrexitReality 🏗⛴📦 “Those who campaigned for the UK’s departure from the European Union promised a freedom from EU red tape. The reality? Since January 1, bureaucracy has hit cross-border trade, and there is more to come.” portstrategy.com/news101/world/…
397. #BrexitReality German coverage “Brexit was completed 3 months ago. The aftermath of the exit from the EU is still noticeable for British-European economic relations - & affects the industries in the UK to a much greater extent than the EU competition” capital.de/wirtschaft-pol…
398. #BrexitReality “Johnson opted to put the border in the Irish Sea to get his Brexit deal over the line. He then chose to lie about it, live on TV, saying there would be no border & that no one would have to fill in any forms...” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
399. #BrexitReality “At the time she said it was “notable” that chancellor Rishi Sunak had failed to set out any practical measures to mitigate the effects of new red tape, which saw UK goods exports to the EU falling by more than 40% in January.” ft.com/content/31b3f1…
400. #BrexitReality And coming in at #400 in this 🧵, a great summary of latest stories on economic consequences of Brexit in @chrisgreybrexit ‘s latest blog 👇
401. #BrexitReality "the difficulties exporters are facing are not just ‘teething problems’. They are structural issues that, if they continue to go unaddressed, could lead to long-term, potentially irreversible weakness in the UK export sector." ph.news.yahoo.com/brexit-coronav…
402. #BrexitReality Tweet from co-founder of Welsh Gin distillery:
"Retail cost of bottle of gin: £43.00
Duty, VAT and clearance costs payable by end customer on receipt: €31.67.
Who is ever going to buy our gin again? " jintalog.wales
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403. #BrexitReality Good summary by @willydunn of latest data on Brexit trade damage: "The BCC warned that “export sales are at some of the lowest levels ever recorded”, and that the export situation “is continuing to deteriorate”. newstatesman.com/business/compa…
404. #BrexitReality 🐄🥩 "EU red meat exports were running at no better than 50% of pre-Brexit volumes in the first 6 weeks of 2021. Many, if not most were operating well below this level at 30 to 40% of pre-Brexit levels and some at zero." thecattlesite.com/news/56765/opi…
405. #BrexitReality 👚 👖 Small business owner in UK who can’t get orders from clothing company in Spain...here is their website showing “We are not currently offering delivery to the UK” companiafantastica.com/en/customer-su…
406. #BrexitReality “it's been 100 days since the UK split from its single biggest trading partner and Brexit is proving to be disastrous for many British exporters, which have rejected Johnson's description of the issues as "teething problems".” cnn.com/2021/04/12/bus…
407. #BrexitReality “Northern Ireland is experiencing its worst bout of unrest in years. It is one of the adverse—but foreseeable—consequences of Brexit.”foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/13/bre…
408. #BrexitReality “UK chain JD Sports Fashion said Brexit has severely tested its operations & it’s opening new warehouses in the EU to avoid hassles of customs checks.
A new 65,000 square-foot site near Dublin will become operational later this year” ajot.com/news/to-avoid-…
409. #BrexitReality Good thread from @thom_sampson on new data on UK trade. Trade with EU recovered somewhat from last months’s huge fall, but remains significantly down compared to past years 👇
410. #BrexitReality “Exports to the EU were 22% lower than February 2019 levels & imports 26% lower... The movements in British trade with the EU were far greater than those for non-EU countries, indicating that Brexit is the most likely cause.” ft.com/content/b71a0e…
411. #BrexitReality “Brexit has already cost £11.5billion in trade, Centre for European Reform think tank estimates” - @standardnews story on report from @CER_EU @JohnSpringford standard.co.uk/news/uk/brexit…
412. #BrexitReality "Breaking free of Brussels bureaucracy was meant to herald a bonfire of red tape for Britain. In the first 100 days of Brexit, the only thing many businesses burned was money." - @lizzzburden & @DeirdreHipwell @Brexit bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
413. #BrexitReality "E-commerce deliveries to the UK from the EU plummeted by over 50 per cent in the first quarter of 2021 in comparison to the last quarter of 2020, research from shipping platform Sendcloud has found." fibre2fashion.com/news/e-commerc…
414. #BrexitReality 🪑 🛋 “Small design firms in the UK are moving their production abroad and setting up businesses in the European Union to get around a slump in business following Brexit.”...
"The UK is no longer a viable distribution hub." dezeen.com/2021/04/14/bre…
415. #BrexitReality "It has been a gloomy week on the sunlit uplands of sovereign Britain, as the only export that appears to be booming post-Brexit is the glut of UK companies rushing to set up in the EU." theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/uk…
416. #BrexitReality Yet another great piece by @lizzzburden @Brexit: “More small companies are likely to go out of business as a consequence of Brexit, a former joint head of the U.K.’s Government Economic Service has warned a new commission on trade.” 👇
417. #BrexitReality “Over 400 financial firms in Britain have shifted activities, staff and a combined trillion pounds ($1.4 trillion) in assets to hubs in the EU due to Brexit, with more pain to come, a study from New Financial think tank said on Friday” reuters.com/business/finan…
418. #BrexitReality More news on the hit to UK financial services industry👇 Image
419. #BrexitReality 🚗Experts had warned the [automotive] sector faced challenges because of Brexit trade changes.
"We can confirm we have entered into provisionary discussions regarding staff reductions and potentially a site closure," the company said. bbc.com/news/uk-wales-…
420. #BrexitReality @thom_sampson on how UK inward FDI is taking a Brexit hit 👇
421. #BrexitReality “The EU's imports from Britain almost halved in the first two months of the year following the UK exit from the EU single market, data showed today.” rte.ie/news/business/…
422. #BrexitReality 🚜 “An East Sussex machinery dealer has stopped exporting abroad because of the “lunacy” involved in obtaining the plant health certificates required since the UK left the EU.” fwi.co.uk/news/machinery…
423. #BrexitReality 🚲🚴🚴‍♂️ “Brexit cost my bicycle business £250,000 extra in just two months, and I can't see any positives'”
“The extra costs of doing trade with Europe have already wiped out the entire 2020 profits of Frog Bikes in Pontypool” walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-new…
424. #BrexitReality “difficult logistics around trading with EU post-Brexit has continued to affect UK’s export volumes, alongside the short-term implications of coronavirus lockdowns. Exports of food & live animals were down about 31% on Jan & Feb 2020” fwi.co.uk/business/marke…
425. #BrexitReality “The shift in business, assets & legal entities will gradually chip away at the UK’s influence in the banking & finance industry in Europe & around the world, as a greater proportion of business is authorised by & conducted in the EU" independent.co.uk/news/business/…
426. #BrexitReality “Project Fear or Project Fact? How EU Trade Has Fared in the Months Following Single Market Exit” Analysis by @JamesBrowneRTC of @InstituteGC distinguishing drop in UK-EU trade due to Brexit from that due to pandemic 👉 institute.global/policy/project… ImageImage
427. #BrexitReality “UK companies making non-branded drugs have already started to withdraw medicines from the Northern Ireland market because they cannot afford to meet the costs of new post-Brexit red tape” from @SarahNev & @pmdfoster @FT ft.com/content/40c52e…
428. #BrexitReality “rules around Product Origin are proving very difficult for businesses to understand and creating a barrier. VAT is also causing issues and, combined with inflated shipping costs has forced many e-commerce retailers to stop shipping” business-live.co.uk/ports-logistic…
429. #BrexitReality 🎻🎼 "the Heath Quartet, which normally tours Europe all year round... has an invitation to appear at a concert in Spain in May 2022, but with four work visas costing £232 apiece (over 30% of their fee), it is a significant pay cut" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
430. #BrexitReality ✈️🛠️"firms are still struggling to secure EU signoff for British-designed parts and approval for maintenance work on planes registered in the bloc" UK aerospace-industry trade lobby ADS said bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
431. #BrexitReality 🧀🧀 “Brexit lands English exporter in supply chain quagmire.
Bureaucracy of trading with EU throws up many challenges for Prima Cheese” ft.com/content/78cd8b…
432. #BrexitReality 🍕New problems for UK food exporters- explained by @adampayne26: “The UK food industry is warning that a deluge of new post-Brexit red tape which comes into effect today will increase export paperwork by a third and make some sales to Europe unviable.” 👇
433. #BrexitReality “The boss of a UK insulation manufacturer says Brexit has cost his business £250,000 - in just the first three months of the year.”

business-live.co.uk/manufacturing/…
434. #BrexitReality 🧀 🥩 🐟 “Dairy, meat and fish in particular are nowhere near pre-Brexit levels, even if you allow for the drop-offs from other factors such as the closure of hospitality.” thegrocer.co.uk/buying-and-sup…
435. #BrexitRealities Latest on Brexit pain for UK business from @FT’s @pmdfoster :“Brexit Briefing’s inbox is still filling up with stories of continuing frustration... Take the fast-growing pet food industry that saw trade volumes with the EU fall one-third in February” 👇
436. #BrexitReality 🐟 “Brexit has caused a whole new set of problems, because 80% of the catch they land usually gets exported to Europe... “Fishermen would say it has been ‘a lash-up’ – it means it’s been really bad,” [the port’s harbour master says] theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
437. #BrexitReality Coverage of Brexit damage to UK from Galicia: “En los primeros cien días del divorcio, las exportaciones a la UE se han desplomado, y más de un billón de euros ha salido de la City hacia otras capitales comunitarias” lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/mercad…
438. #BrexitReality Missed this good🧵 last eeek from @Independent Economics Editor @BenChu_ linking to several stories on Brexit impacts on UK exporters 👇
439. #BrexitReality 🥩 🍖 “Industry chiefs have warned a 25 per cent drop in export sales to the EU could be permanent as customs and certification problems persist at ports.”fginsight.com/news/eu-meat-s…
440. #BrexitReality “Inconsistent & increasingly burdensome post-Brexit bureaucracy is blighting food & drink sales to the EU, the sector warned as it published analysis showing exports to the bloc were down 40% in February compared with a year earlier.” ft.com/content/4fa6e4…
441. #BrexitReality 🥛🐓🍗🥩 @adampayne26 with the data from @Foodanddrinkfed : a brutal picture for UK food & drink exports to EU
442.#BrexitReality “Brexit: Sales of milk and cream to EU down 96% and chicken and beef by almost 80%
Food and Drink Federation pleads with Boris Johnson to ‘urgently’ restarts talks to resolve the crisis” - @Rob_Merrick @Independent independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
443. #BrexitReality 🍾 Sparkling Wine.
“Industry calls on government to take action as new trade barriers threaten export ambitions” “It’s been really difficult to get freight companies to even offer to transport a pallet to the EU” - from @pmdfoster
ft.com/content/fbbdbb…
444. #BrexitReality “In the race for business lost by the City of London because of Brexit, Amsterdam’s stock market has surprised European rivals by carving out the biggest slice so far.” euractiv.com/section/econom…
445. #BrexitReality “We’ve heard from a number of businesses who have seen export volumes fall and are experiencing increased disruption through red tape and additional customs paperwork...This is a critical issue for SMEs in Cumbria.” thebusinessdesk.com/northwest/news…
446.#BrexitReality 🐟🦐 from @BBCRosAtkins 👇
447. #BrexitReality “British exports halve: Brexit deal does not stop trade slump. "Teething problems" seem to become permanent problems” n-tv.de/wirtschaft/Bre…
448. #BrexitReality “The Food and Drink Federation said the new trading arrangement with Europe had cost exporters more than £1.1bn since January” independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
449. #BrexitReality “Every sixth company wants to break off trade with Great Britain” 👇
450. #BrexitReality 🚗 “Hundreds of car parts jobs are set to be axed after a firm announced it was pulling out of the UK.
Toyoda Gosei UK's plants at Gorseinon, Swansea, and Rotherham, South Yorkshire, employ 458 people.” bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-…
451. #BrexitReality 🚗 More on Japanese car companies quitting UK 👇
452. #BrexitReality on Japanese FDI in UK... 👇
453. #BrexitReality @JohnGPeet on @TheEconomist podcast at ‘5:40: “a lot of businesses are finding unexpected barriers in their exports to the EU” economist.com/podcasts/2021/…
454. #BrexitReality “As the EU and Britain try to work out a deal to govern their trade relations after Brexit, the dreams that many British people have of retiring in Spain are being shattered by the new reality – and a whole new set of rules.”
voanews.com/episode/brexit…
455. #BrexitReality 🎭 “More than 300 creative organisations have signed a letter to demand that Boris Johnson delivers on his promise to "fix the Brexit crisis" for their industry.” news.sky.com/story/brexit-a…
456. #BrexitReality @faisalislam 🧵 on Defra Committee report on “considerable trade friction” & “substantial” new red tape leading to “substantive & enduring” post Brexit costs for food exporters.” Shows @BorisJohnson was lying in claiming there were “no non tariff barriers”
457. #BrexitReality “In a new report, MPs on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs stressed that delaying checks on EU food coming into Great Britain had put domestic firms at a “competitive disadvantage” independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
458. #BrexitReality 🚗 “It seems as though we’re seeing more high-skilled well-paid jobs sacrificed at the Brexit altar.” theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/br…
459. #BrexitReality 🎸🎶 “We rely on Europe”: how Brexit will impact Metronomy’s next tour
Without an agreement allowing performers to tour visa-free in the EU, live performances will be a “struggle” – even for established UK bands” newstatesman.com/culture/music-…
460. #BrexitReality “As a chamber of commerce, we expected Brexit would lead to severe trade disruptions, however, the current situation goes far beyond that.” realwire.com/releases/Brexi…
461. #BrexitReality “Smaller manufacturers widely noted that new trading arrangements with EU clients had had a severe impact on sales throughout the first quarter.” seekingalpha.com/article/442195…
462. #BrexitReality “Customs cost more, shipping costs more, but mostly it is the added complications, paperwork and delays.” ft.com/content/c99fda…
463. #BrexitReality 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 “NEARLY two-thirds of Scottish businesses which trade with the European Union have experienced “negative” or “very negative” impacts on this activity since the end of the Brexit transition period on December 31.”heraldscotland.com/business_hq/19…
464. #BrexitReality “Brexit immigration restrictions look set to force the closure of an once-thriving au pair business...The phone is non stop with families needing childcare and I can’t help.”
manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-m…
465. #BrexitReality “Exchange group Euronext .. will concentrate its operations in the EU by moving its computer servers out of the UK.
The UK’s departure from the single market was an important part of the decision to move the servers”
ft.com/content/bda3bf…
466. #BrexitReality “Before Brexit a lot of UK's hospitality workforce was made up of workers from overseas, including from the EU, but hundreds of thousands of foreign workers have left the UK over the last year & it is unclear whether they will return” bbc.co.uk/news/business-…
467. #BrexitReality “The agri-food sectors have been most obviously hit... Nor is it only perishable goods where problems exist; shipping difficulties have added costs to businesses ranging from furniture manufacturers to suppliers of cosmetic ingredients” newstatesman.com/politics/brexi…
468. #BrexitReality 🍣 “teething problems have begun to ease but there is still structural friction. The new checks add cost and bureaucracy, discouraging customers from buying produce they can get elsewhere.” economist.com/britain/2021/0…
469. #BrexitReality “With UK no longer part of the European Common Fisheries Policy, it now deals directly with Norway... on fishing matters.
.... UK government had failed "even to maintain the rights we have had to fish in Norwegian waters for decades". bbc.com/news/uk-politi…
470. #BrexitReality “No big bangs so far, but Brexit silently haemorrhages power and money: far more than the £350m a week on the infamous bus is lost already, Prof Nigel Driffield of Warwick Business School tells me” - @pollytoynbee theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
471. #BrexitReality “Eustice owes our crews & Humberside region an explanation as to why Defra was unable to maintain rights we’ve had to fish in Norwegian waters for decades, never mind land the boasts of a ‘Brexit bonus’, which has turned to disaster” thelondoneconomic.com/politics/brexi…
472. #BrexitReality 🚛🚚👇
473. #BrexitReality “Food exporters have spent a total of 58 years filling out export health certificates so far this year as a result of the new post-Brexit trade rules. UK issued 89,000 certificates this year, up from 806 over the same period last year”
thegrocer.co.uk/brexit/58-year…
474. #BrexitReality “Pubs and restaurateurs agree that there is a particular challenge in the south-east of England and London as a lack of supply of skilled people from the EU, post-Brexit, is causing issues with hiring staff, especially in the kitchen.” theguardian.com/business/2021/…
475. #BrexitReality “Hundreds of crew members without work’ after talks collapse” independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
476. #BrexitReality 🎣 “It has been an unmitigated disaster for most of the fishing industry” 👇
477. #BrexitReality A 🧵on the damage Brexit is doing to one small business in UK - online stationery shop @LandAPaperCo- from its boss @claireontoast 👇
478. #BrexitReality 🧶 UK businesses losing online orders from EU customers due to increased costs and paper work. Stories like this repeated thousands of times...
479. #BrexitReality “Dairy firms say they face a killer combination of increased costs, complexity & paperwork required to export products such as butter, cream & cheese to the EU since Brexit, with some fearing current slowdown risks becoming permanent” theguardian.com/business/2021/…
480. #BrexitReality “A FARMER who sends healthcare products for horses all over Europe says his life has been made a misery by Brexit. Customers are being asked to pay a second VAT charge when parcels arrive & many couriers ask for a “Brexit surcharge” henleystandard.co.uk/news/henley-on…
481. #BrexitReality “Around 100 days after Brexit, most companies are experiencing Brexit effects that are more negative than they expected at the beginning of the year.” yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Brexit…
482. #BrexitReality “for freight transport & logistics industry, the research shows that 99% of respondents to DDC FPO’s survey are facing Brexit-related challenges & nearly 70% expect their operations to be negatively affected for more than 12 months” theloadstar.com/paperwork-is-t…
483. #BrexitReality “The financial district also is suffering from Brexit... More than 440 financial firms have moved some of their operations into the EU, resulting in about 7,400 job relocations and a 900 billion-pound ($1.2 trillion) shift of assets.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
484. #BrexitReality “Quite a lot of people left mainly because of Brexit, and didn't feel like they were welcome anymore. Not just this city, but also the country... restaurants and cafes are still struggling to find the staff." euronews.com/2021/05/05/bri…
485. #BrexitReality “More than three out of five UK firms (61 per cent) are reporting difficulties due to Brexit, resulting in rising costs, higher prices for consumers and reduced competitiveness, according to a new report.”
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
486. #BrexitReality “JPMorgan to Move Another $200 Billion in Assets on Brexit” ...” It has repeatedly said it expects its EU unit to gain market share in areas including trading, investment banking and commercial banking.”
bloombergquint.com/business/jpmor…
487. #BrexitReality “A quarter of British fashion companies have considered relocating all or part of their business, & nearly 60 percent see the country’s reputation as a fashion hub negatively impacted as a result of Brexit” -survey by Fashion Roundtable businessoffashion.com/news/workplace…
488. #BrexitReality “It’s becoming very difficult and we are struggling to get enough au pairs...There’s a huge demand for childcare... I’ve advertised for British live-in nannies and mother’s helps but nobody wants to do this job.” theboltonnews.co.uk/news/19283123.…
489. #BrexitReality 🤦‍♂️ 👇
490. #BrexitReality no commentary necessary. cnn.com/2021/05/06/uk/…
491. #BrexitReality "UK should not be allowed to join Lugano Convention, European Commission has said, in a potentially major blow to judicial cooperation. Law Society added that w/o Lugano access to justice will be denied to those with smaller budgets" lawgazette.co.uk/news/european-…
492. #BrexitReality “UK musicians are now limited to work:
◦90 days/year in 🇧🇪 🇫🇮 🇫🇷 🇮🇸 🇱🇺
◦42 days/quarter in 🇳🇱
◦1 month/year in 🇦🇹 🇨🇿 🇵🇱 🇸🇰
◦2 weeks/year in 🇱🇻 🇳🇴 🇸🇪
All the rest of the EU & Schengen zone, you need a work permit”
accessaa.co.uk/the-trials-and…
493. #BrexitReality “Ireland has already secured around 100 new investments and 6,000 jobs, half of them in finance, as uk-based businesses shift their headquarters out of London so as to retain an eu domicile and access to the European single market” economist.com/europe/2021/05…
494. #BrexitReality “New Gov’t figures released yesterday revealed many businesses are still overwhelmed by impact of Brexit. Over 39% of importers reported they are still struggling w/ new customs duties & 38.6% were battling w/ increased transport costs” londonlovesbusiness.com/uk-importers-a…
495. #BrexitReality "He just wants a market for his fish. The root of the problem, he says, is not the actions of a few French fishers but, ultimately, the UK’s departure from the EU." theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/m…
496. #BrexitReality "Numis is just one of many financial companies adjusting their operations because of Brexit. Banks like JPMorgan Chase & Co. have shifted jobs and assets into the bloc in recent years to cater to EU clients now the UK has left the bloc" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
497. #BrexitReality "headcount at the German-based entity went from an average of 361 in 2019 to 626 in 2020 & pay for the average employee rose from €129k to €232k... JPMorgan said the increased headcount and spending on staff was due to Brexit." efinancialcareers.com/news/2021/05/j…
498. #BrexitReality The ultimate cost of Brexit may be the United Kingdom itself: “62% of Scottish voters wanted to stay... and its preference was simply ignored. Resentments over that have helped revive the push for what is widely known as “indyref2”” nytimes.com/2021/05/08/wor…
499. #BrexitReality “The British Association of Snowsport Instructors says Britons will not be allowed to take the European speed test needed for the top level of qualification required to work in the EU... Because the UK is no longer part of the EU...” planetski.eu/2021/05/07/bad…
500. #BrexitReality 🚚 “An exodus of EU lorry drivers from the UK since Brexit has left the British haulage & logistics industry facing an acute staff shortage & a looming crisis for industrial & retail deliveries.” Another excellent piece from @pmdfoster ft.com/content/4d6b3b…
501. #BrexitReality “with travel restrictions starting to be eased as vaccines are rolled out across Europe, the impact of Brexit on the UK’s services industries is starting to be felt.” ft.com/content/d0c101…
502. #BrexitReality 🚜👷🛠 “Increased labour costs because of post-Brexit emigration and permanent non-tariff barriers hitting imports of construction products into the UK from the EU are driving up input costs” building.co.uk/news/brexit-ri…
503. #BrexitReality "Britain’s economy is on track to suffer more than £700bn of lost output caused by Covid-19, made worse by the government’s mishandling of the health emergency and Brexit, one of the UK’s leading economics thinktanks has warned." theguardian.com/business/2021/…
504. #BrexitReality "Fishing rights were a key part of the argument for Brexit...But in fishing, as in many other sectors, the reality of Brexit has turned out to be very different to the promises that were made." newstatesman.com/business/secto…
505. #BrexitReality “The City of London lost 2.3 trillion pounds ($3.3 trillion) of its lucrative derivatives trading business in March alone, with Wall Street trading platforms gaining the most from Brexit.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
506. #BrexitReality "In many cases, UK entities have been left with reduced profitability" reuters.com/world/uk/brexi…
507. #BrexitReality “It’s clear from my visit that the protocol is presenting significant challenges for many in Northern Ireland,” -David Frost. (In other words #BrexitReality “is presenting significant challenges for many in Northern Ireland”) 👇
508. #BrexitReality @thom_sampson with evidence that Brexit, not pandemic, is hurting UK trade with EU. UK goods trade with EU declined 14% in 1st quarter of 2021 compared to same period in 2020, whereas UK trade with non-EU countries was unchanged 👇
509. #BrexitReality “Following Brexit, British tourists are now eligible for Tax Free Shopping in EU & expected to account for €1.1billion of sales in European stores” businesswire.com/news/home/2021…€2.6-Billion-for-European-Retailers
510. #BrexitReality “Supplies of construction products in UK could come to a “grinding halt” if issues over post-Brexit changes to certification rules are not resolved before end of the year, chief exec of Construction Products Association has warned” housingtoday.co.uk/news/post-brex…
511. #BrexitReality “Swift action is needed to minimise the disruption many Lancashire businesses are experiencing as a result of Brexit, according to one of the county’s top exporters.” blackpoolgazette.co.uk/business/lanca…
512. #BrexitReality “Investment banks are shifting more rainmakers out of London to financial centres across the European Union, accelerating the pace of moves after the pandemic and uncertainty over Britain’s access to the bloc slowed relocations.” reuters.com/business/finan…
513. #BrexitReality “The scale of damage to UK trade with the EU inflicted by Brexit has been laid bare in official figures which showed goods exports to the bloc in the first quarter of 2021 down by 18 per cent compared to the last three months of 2020.” independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
514. #BrexitReality “UK goods exports to Ireland fell by 13% in the first quarter of 2021 compared to the same period last year...Trade across the Irish Sea has become more difficult since the end of the Brexit transition period.” bbc.com/news/uk-northe…
515. #BrexitReality “If EU products can be imported without checks and therefore at a lower cost,” said Dewhirst, “it ultimately impacts on the price British farmers will receive for their pigs.” (nb. Apparently there is a magazine called Pig Progress) pigprogress.net/World-of-Pigs1…
516. #BrexitReality On the damage Brexit has done to UK-EU trade ignore the propaganda from @DavidGHFrost & read the reality from @JohnSpringford at @CER_EU 👇
517. #BrexitReality “Follmann Chemie had planned to invest about £2.5m in Andover, southern England, to boost exports to EU clients. But ... this plan was wrecked by the extra difficulties of shipping goods both ways across the English Channel” ft.com/content/f8db6b…
518. #BrexitReality “Investment giants Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Barclays have started to move a range of senior bankers from their offices in Canary Wharf and the City to financial hubs across the EU.” cityam.com/brexit-transfe…
519. #BrexitReality “Soft fruit farmers fear berries could be left to rot in polytunnels due to a shortage of pickers coming from Eastern Europe.
Increased costs & delays to paperwork are being blamed for discouraging seasonal workers coming to Scotland.” news.stv.tv/east-central/f…
520. #BrexitReality “shift to EU recruitment comes as banks are obliged to have salespeople selling to EU clients based in EU after Brexit...new recruits were split equally between Paris & Frankfurt, w/ Madrid, Stockholm, Vienna & Brussels also benefiting” efinancialcareers.com/news/2021/05/s…
521. #BrexitReality “The value of goods exports to the EU fell to £32.2bn in Q1, down from £39.9bn in the last three months of the year. In contrast, exports to non-EU countries rose to £41.3bn from £40.9bn over the period.” ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/uk-missin…
522. #BrexitReality 🍷🥂 Wine trader @DanielLambert29 back with an update on Brexit damage to his business & how Boris Johnson lied about “frictionless trade” 👇 ImageImage
523. #BrexitReality "hallmarking was overlooked in the Brexit trade deal which has meant that UK silversmiths are finding it difficult to export British silver and gold into the EU. The problems also affect jewelry." msn.com/en-gb/money/ot…
524. #BrexitReality “The two problems exacerbate one another: the pandemic has reduced funding for the arts and music everywhere in Europe, while Brexit will increase the costs of getting and touring there, so an abyss has been opened.” theguardian.com/music/2021/may…
525. #BrexitReality “Brexit is another factor...Even those builders in the southeast who have materials are finding it impossible to recruit skilled workers because the number of construction workers from the EU in the UK has fallen by 42% since 2017” theguardian.com/business/2021/…
526. #BrexitReality “WORK to resurface the Tamar Bridge which had been due to start last month will now be delayed until June because of post-Brexit problems gaining visas for the workers involved” cornish-times.co.uk/article.cfm?id…
527. #BrexitReality “first 100 days of the post-Brexit era has been a “disaster” for the British music industry... 94% of respondents [in survey] had been negatively affected by UK’s post-Brexit trade deal with EU” -@pmdfoster @mroliverbarnes ft.com/content/765520…
528. #BrexitReality “UK ‘faces labour shortage’ as Covid and Brexit fuel exodus of overseas workers
Experts say recovery at risk amid sharp fall in EU workers and dwindling interest in UK jobs from abroad” -@RJPartington
theguardian.com/business/2021/…
529. #BrexitReality Important report from @joshdelyon @swatdhingraLSE @CEP_LSE. 👇
24% of exporting firms report that Brexit caused exports to the EU to fall. 33% of importers report that imports from the EU fell
(h/t @anandMenon1)

cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/…
530. #BrexitReality “David Frost admitted that Johnson’s Brexit deal [which he negotiated & Johnson signed & pushed through parliament] has disrupted deliveries of goods to N. Ireland from mainland Britain & put political stability in the province at risk” independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
531. #BrexitReality “Business leaders in Cumbria are calling on the Government to act to save its tourism industry which has been hit by a lack of foreign workers...due to perfect storm of Government’s post-Brexit immigration policy exacerbated by COVID” thebusinessdesk.com/northwest/news…
532. #BrexitReality “Lost truckers are back clogging up a quiet village because the government is giving them the wrong postcode for the Brexit lorry park.” (& recall that before Brexit they didn’t need a massive lorry park for customs clearance in Kent) thelondoneconomic.com/news/watch-bre…
533. #BrexitReality “Britain’s departure from the EU is creating a deepening rift in London’s interest rate derivatives market, as traders send more of their deals to New York and Amsterdam...
trades worth a notional £2.3tn... were redirected from the UK” ft.com/content/68dbd6…
534. #BrexitReality “although the City will remain Europe’s largest financial marketplace, its Golden Age as Europe’s financial capital is over.” project-syndicate.org/commentary/bre…
535. #BrexitReality Eurostat trade figures courtesy of @jdportes "UK exports to EU fell by 35% year-on-year in 1st quarter of 2021" 👇
536. #BrexitReality More on Brexit harm to British musicians: "Musicians and music businesses warn of ‘time up’ for UK grassroots acts, and European orchestras being resistant to booking UK artists because of ‘paperwork and expense’." classicfm.com/music-news/era…
537. #BrexitReality “Goods imports from Great Britain.::fell 31% in March compared to a year ago to 992 million euros ($1.2 billion)...continuing a trend since the U.K. left the EU. Goods imports dropped 48% in the first three months of the year.” bloombergquint.com/onweb/irish-im…
538. #BrexitReality ✈️ “While the loss of unfettered access to the European Union market has been a huge loss and frustration to UK operators following Brexit, the country’s departure from the bloc will soon deal a blow for UK airspace users.” ainonline.com/aviation-news/…
539. #BrexitReality “UK ecommerce sellers are facing £180m in additional red tape costs as the EU imposes sweeping value added tax reforms on sales from outside the bloc” - @mroliverbarnes @pmdfoster @FT ft.com/content/e21654…
540. #BrexitReality How many EU citizens with settled status in UK, along with newcomers arriving to legally take up jobs they have been offered, are being treated at the border👇. Story by @lisaocarroll.
541. #BrexitReality 🇬🇧🇵🇱: “Losses in British-Polish trade following Britain’s exit from the European Union amount to an estimated EUR 1 billion, the Polish Economic Institute has reported.” thefirstnews.com/article/brexit…
542. #BrexitReality “A survey of more than 700 company directors also found that almost two-thirds were still finding it challenging to adjust to new post-Brexit trading arrangements.” theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/br…
543. #BrexitReality “Before Brexit, UK merchants benefited from a European Commission-enforced cap on credit & debit card interchange fees for all transactions made between the UK & EU. This no longer applies.”
paymentssource.com/news/post-brex…
544. #BrexitReality “Interbank trading drives post-Brexit swap migration- UK venues' share of euro swap volumes declined from almost 40% to 10%” ifre.com/story/2881534/…
545. #BrexitReality Brexit leading to a reorientation of NI trade- sourcing more goods from Ireland & less from GB:
“The lack of restrictions is seen as encouraging businesses to source more products on the island of Ireland, instead of from Great Britain.”bignewsnetwork.com/news/269578994…
546. #BrexitReality “Scottish business groups have warned smaller firms are struggling to stay afloat due to the Brexit deal.” scotsman.com/news/politics/…
547. #BrexitReality “Johnson promised "emphatically" that trade between Britain & N. Ireland would remain unfettered. But ... that has not happened. New paperwork required to ship goods across the effective EU border is costing businesses time & money” ibtimes.com/growing-pains-…
548. #BrexitReality UK hospitality sector faces “Recruitment crisis because of Brexit” thelondoneconomic.com/news/uk-hospit…
549. #BrexitReality HMG’s Sec for N. Ireland admits “We have seen reduced availability & choice on supermarket shelves, cancelled deliveries, retailers temporarily pulling products...” (Ignore the rest where he tries to blame EU for deal his govt signed) telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/2…
550. #BrexitReality “the UK no longer has direct access to an EU intelligence database used... to alert authorities to intercepted shipments & routes being used by counterfeiters.. as a result Britain has been left more vulnerable” inews.co.uk/news/long-read…
551. #BrexitReality “Deutsche Bank is relocating 100 bankers from London to offices in the EU and Asia as Germany’s largest lender accelerates a restructuring of its corporate bank following Brexit.” ft.com/content/891b24…
552. #BrexitReality UK trade with EU plunges in first quarter after Brexit: “UK exports in goods contracted by 18% with EU, & imports collapsed by 22%. UK trade with rest of the world was little changed, with exports edging up 0.4% while imports fell 0.9%”marketwatch.com/story/u-k-trad…
553. #BrexitReality “Brexit ‘to cost us €150,000 more in tax to sell our second home’
Stricter non-EU rules are being applied post-Brexit concerning capital gains on property sales in France” connexionfrance.com/French-news/Br…
554. #BrexitReality “Among businesses that have reported challenges at the end of February 2021, Brexit was the most common reason cited.
This has risen from mid-December 2020. In contrast, the numbers reporting coronavirus as their main challenge fell” independent.co.uk/news/business/…
555. #BrexitReality “Official figures show a drop in EU trade of almost a quarter at the start of 2021 compared with the same period three years ago... the figures confirm Brexit came with reasonably substantial short-term costs.” theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
556. #BrexitReality “Marks & Spencer says Brexit and the Irish Sea border have added about £30m of costs to its island of Ireland business.” bbc.com/news/uk-northe…
557. #BrexitReality “77% of musicians expect earnings to be hit by new post-Brexit touring bureaucracy-
A significant number are not expecting to tour Europe, others are considering re-locating to the EU, & a fifth are considering a career change.” completemusicupdate.com/article/77-of-…
558. #BrexitReality “British Meat Processors Association said it was already seeing a shortage of staff in processing factories & expected that to escalate in the coming months”
“We are hearing that some factories are struggling to keep throughput going” fwi.co.uk/business/marke…
559. #BrexitReality “The research found that the majority of British businesses (56%) believe that the Brexit deal has had a negative impact on their operations..This stands in contrast to the 6% of companies who reported Brexit has been a net positive” businessleader.co.uk/uk-businesses-…
560. #BrexitReality “UK construction hit by delays in post-Brexit certification scheme
Industry warns testing backlogs will threaten economic growth and hold up building projects” ft.com/content/74e73c…
561. #BrexitReality Brexit red tape killing small and medium sized enterprises in Northern Ireland 👇
562. #BrexitReality 🦗🐜🪳🤢”UK’s fledgling edible insect sector in jeopardy after Brexit”
theguardian.com/environment/20…
563. #BrexitReality “For studios looking to hire new talent from the EU moving forward, they’ll soon learn that the costs involved have increased dramatically, with a complicated visa process replacing the old system.” mcvuk.com/business-news/…
564. #BrexitReality “Brexit costs ‘killing EU trade’ for craft gin, say distillers... A recent shipment to Belgium saw the customer incurring VAT and clearance costs payable to the amount of €31.67 (£27.38) on a £43 bottle of gin.” thegrocer.co.uk/brexit/brexit-…
565. #BrexitReality “the average revenue lost from cross-border card payments post-Brexit is GBP 66,812. Just under one in five (18%) of businesses lost between GBP 10,000 and GBP 50,000, while 11% lost between GBP 50,000 and GBP 1 million.” thepaypers.com/online-payment…
566. #BrexitReality “This is further contradiction of the hype we heard from the Brexiteers about ‘taking back control’... The reality is that we have lost control, there is a significant hole in our budget.” farminglife.com/country-and-fa…
567. #BrexitReality “SMEs have warned they are facing an "existential threat" from Brexit red tape, which is costing them jobs and business.
At UK Trade & Business Commission, small businesses said they are worried about increased costs & falling incomes.” news.yahoo.com/amphtml/brexit…
568. #BrexitReality “British exports worth billions of pounds have faced tariffs on trade with EU since Brexit.
Despite the tariff-free deal agreed with the EU, a study by the University of Sussex found up to £3.5bn of British exports had taxes applied” bbc.com/news/business-…
569. #BrexitReality “Farm incomes fall by 20% in a year due to weather, Covid and Brexit.
Farmers are facing stringent cuts to their subsidies, as they no longer receive payments under the EU’s common agricultural policy” theguardian.com/environment/20…
570. #BrexitReality “Tesco to pass Irish Brexit red tape on to suppliers.
Tesco is ordering its suppliers to ship food across the Irish Sea themselves as Britain's biggest grocer tries to avoid being caught in turmoil at the borders.” msn.com/en-gb/money/ot…
571. #BrexitReality “As anticipated, customers linking to Ireland have been eager to avoid the post-Brexit hassles of UK distribution.“ theloadstar.com/demand-for-ire…
572. #BrexitReality “More European staff leaving UK for universities abroad post-Brexit”
timeshighereducation.com/news/more-euro…
573. #BrexitReality”Brexit means the end for many British freight forwarders
About 50,000 drivers are missing... Too few drivers, too much bureaucracy - the British logistics industry has been relentlessly feeling for months what Brexit really means.“ br.de/nachrichten/wi…
574. #BrexitReality “The United Kingdom could suffer the biggest reduction [in growth rate] among G7 countries (a decline of 0.5 percentage point per annum), in part reflecting the additional adverse supply-side effects from 2021 following Brexit.” theguardian.com/business/2021/…
575. #BrexitReality From @FT @LauraNoonanFT & @pmdfoster “Brexit shrank UK services exports by more than £110bn over a four-year period, new research shows, highlighting the far-reaching trade implications of Britain’s decision to break away from the EU.” ft.com/content/20a626…
576. #BrexitReality “Brexit delivered a staggering £113bn blow to exports of UK services even before the sector was left out of the final trade agreement. Aston’s research found that financial services exports were the hardest hit by the 2016 referendum”
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
577. #BrexitReality “Brexit was blamed for a decline in the UK's position in the table measuring countries' ability to train and recruit top professionals. Researchers said uncertainties over Brexit appeared to have damaged the UK’s competitiveness” thenationalnews.com/world/europe/w…
578. #BrexitReality The study of Brexit impact on services trade referred to above: "Using the synthetic control method, we show that in 2016-2019, on average, the UK has been losing 9.2% of services exports or 36.7 billion USD every year" policycommons.net/artifacts/1552…
579. #BrexitReality Boris Johnson: “there’s no question of there being checks on goods going NI-GB or GB-NI”.
“It was of course a bare faced lie” - @PeterStefanovi2
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580. #BrexitReality "The Brexit-backing boss of JD Wetherspoon has urged Boris Johnson to introduce a visa scheme for EU workers as British pubs and restaurants struggle to recruit staff..." 🤦‍♂️
581. #BrexitReality "For Britain's small and medium-sized businesses, trading with European nations used to be easy. After Brexit, that's no longer the case with the emergence of obstacles that didn't exist before." dw.com/en/small-uk-fi…
582.#BrexitReality "the nightly display comes from harsh white lighting at the 66-acre Brexit lorry park in Sevington, dubbed the ‘Farage Garage’ by locals, which can be seen for miles across the county. Resident Anita Adams called it “a monstrosity” theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/eu…
583. #BrexitReality While higher wages = good, no lunch = bad.
“Restaurant owners across the UK have cut lunch and dinner services and raised wages, citing a “calamitous” shortage of labour prompted by Brexit and the aftereffects of the pandemic.” ft.com/content/87214e…
584. #BrexitReality “From farms to factories and hospitality to haulage, many industries are warning they won’t be able to bounce back unless Brexit rules on workers are relaxed.”👇 h/t @HaughtonTim
585. #BrexitReality “UK business is again looking for workarounds to continue trading with the EU, after Germany announced it would be ending VAT exemption for goods valued at less than €22.”
theloadstar.com/new-brexit-blo…
586. #BrexitReality just over five months in, “some of our routes are becoming completely unworkable,” he said, highlighting occasions on which “hundreds of hours” had been spent trying to work out how to send £2,000 worth of goods. “It’s not sustainable” thegrocer.co.uk/food-exporters…
587. #BrexitReality “many thousands of UK host families, language schools, hotels & other businesses around the country, and especially in cities such as Canterbury that specialise in the educational market, risked suffering a significant economic impact” theguardian.com/education/2021…
588. #BrexitReality research by APA on businesses in Scotland found “32% reported a negative or very negative impact on their business since the UK left the EU and 15% cited Brexit supply chain issues as their biggest challenge.”
scottishbusinessnews.net/survey-highlig…
589. #BrexitReality From Frost’s delusional op-ed: ”We underestimated the effect of the protocol on goods movements to Northern Ireland, with some suppliers in Great Britain simply not sending their products because of the time-consuming paperwork required”ft.com/content/eb35a1…
590. #BrexitReality “Theresa May's former chief of staff is "pretty sure it's not true" that the government underestimated the impact of the NI Protocol when it agreed to it....
But Lord Barwell said Boris Johnson's government "knew it was a bad deal". bbc.com/news/uk-northe…
591. #BrexitReality “The report reveals that, between 17-30 May, 9.6% of ‘Transportation and storage’ category companies reported they had now closed permanently; 15% were still temporarily shuttered and just 75.4% had resumed trading,” logisticsmanager.com/covid-and-brex…
592. #BrexitReality “Every day we hear more cases of hardship caused by Brexit. Farmers see the collapse of export markets... & the fishing industry believe they have been sold down the river as they cannot get fresh fish to market because of the delays."cornish-times.co.uk/article.cfm?id…
593. #BrexitReality "European trade is recovering from the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic – but the UK is a “clear outlier” as the impact of Brexit begins to bite." thelondoneconomic.com/politics/uk-cl…
594. #BrexitReality “Fresh produce headed for UK supermarkets is being dumped due to driver shortage linked to Brexit, a major distributor has warned.” thenational.scot/news/19360249.…
595. #BrexitReality “Almost one in 10 suppliers claim they have had supply agreements retrospectively or unilaterally changed by supermarkets because of Brexit, according to a report by the Groceries Code Adjudicator.” thegrocer.co.uk/brexit/adjudic…
596. #BrexitReality “SEI Healthcare Europe, a global professional independent medical education organization, has announced a major relocation from the United Kingdom to Malta ‘to better serve clientele’.” independent.com.mt/articles/2021-…
597. #BrexitReality “owner of a farm in Evesham has criticised the Government & lamented Brexit for causing a lack of migrant workers in the industry...“Don’t try and blame Covid. It’s Brexit and this Government who haven’t got a clue what they’re doing.” eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/19361063.…
598. #BrexitReality “he thinks a lot of people do not yet realise the impact of the UK leaving the European Union, because of Covid. “Once it calms down, I think they are going to start realising they are not going to be able to get any bookings,” thelondoneconomic.com/news/music-sou…
599. #BrexitReality “Recycling collection chaos across Somerset - 'blame Brexit and Covid' says waste firm - Hundreds of households across Somerset where recycling collections have been missed this week will have to wait until the next scheduled pick up.” somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/community…
600. #BrexitReality Sir Elton John has warned MPs that the UK music industry could lose "a generation of talent" because of post-Brexit restrictions on touring the EU." bbc.com/news/entertain…
601. #BrexitReality “Brexit has caused a “massive hole” in the numbers of people coming to the UK to pick fruit in the summer months putting growers “on the brink” centralfifetimes.com/news/national/…
602. #BrexitReality “More than six months into a supposed 12-month exchange period, there is still no agreements on how Brits in France can swap their driving licences for French ones and many people remain stranded with no licence at all.” thelocal.fr/20210611/six-m…
603. #BrexitReality “British Restaurants Are Battling a Staff Crisis, Worsened by Brexit.
A shortage of workers is forcing restaurants to turn away eager customers.”
nytimes.com/2021/06/11/bus…
604. #BrexitReality “Figures show Brexit continues to depress trade with EU
Fall in imports and exports not due to ‘teething problems’ or Covid, says expert” -from @AndyWoodcock independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
605. #BrexitReality “Two years ago, Mr Taylor’s company received about 20 applications a day from people wanting to come over to the UK to work picking fruit, but this year it is down to just two a day.
He said: ‘We are right at the brink now.’” metro.co.uk/2021/06/12/fru…
606. #BrexitReality “Large proportion of drivers in UK are foreign nationals from European countries which have returned to the EU...The acute shortage of HGV drivers is now the direct cause of perfectly good, graded & packed fresh produce being dumped or rotting in cold stores”
607. #BrexitReality “How Brexit left Hull’s fishing industry facing extinction.
The UK’s departure from the EU was supposed to reinvigorate our fishing industry. Instead, it has forced the country’s last distant-water trawler to sit idle”-@carmitstead
theguardian.com/business/2021/…
608. #BrexitReality “An exodus of EU workers from the UK has left the British construction industry facing an acute shortage of labourers in some specialist trades and a looming crisis for the government’s “build back better” strategy.”
ft.com/content/6ddd9b…
609. #BrexitReality "We pay tariffs to Italy, to let our products out of Italy," says beekeeper Samantha Wallace. "And then we pay a tariff to the U.K., which is quite ironic, as a U.K. business." marketplace.org/2021/06/14/in-…
610. #BrexitReality “Australia deal is only expected to boost size of UK economy by 0.02% over 15 years… By comparison, Britain's new trading relationship with the EU is expected to lead to a long-run loss of output of around 4%” cnn.com/2021/06/15/bus…
611. #BrexitReality “British farmers need an estimated 500,000 workers across food supply sector as pandemic & Brexit have driven thousands of foreign pickers away. … the situation has reached crisis point, with fears of empty shelves looming.”countryliving.com/uk/wildlife/fa…
612. #BrexitReality “Goods imports from Great Britain… dropped 20% in April from a year ago to 920 million euros ($1.1 billion), as imports of food, live animals and chemicals dropped, Ireland’s statistics office said in a statement on Tuesday.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
613. #BrexitReality "Army 'must help get food to shops': Lorry driver shortage after Brexit and Covid sparks calls for military to be put on standby to deliver groceries" dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
614. #BrexitReality 🚲 "Since taking over the running of the business from Mick in 2017, the business has had to battle a number of adverse effects from the divisive BREXIT vote in 2016, many of which hit our bottom line hard." prendas.co.uk/blogs/news/tim…
615. #BrexitReality 🥩 🍗“UK meat industry cuts production as Brexit labour shortages bite. …UK meat industry to cut production and warn that it will soon be unable to meet orders unless the government relaxes post-Brexit immigration rules.” From @pmdfoster & @DelphineStrauss 👇
616. #BrexitReality “In a quest to secure continuity in their distribution outside the UK traditionally UK-originating channels have been relocating over the past two years.” broadbandtvnews.com/2021/06/17/bre…
617. #BrexitReality "The Government has held urgent talks over a growing crisis to the UK supermarket supply chain due to the shortage of truck drivers"... "European drivers who were being relied on just haven't come back into the country"
618. #BrexitReality 🧀🥃🍫“British food and drink exports to EU fall by £2bn in first quarter of 2021. Industry body says analysis of HMRC data shows structural rather than teething problems with Brexit” @lisaocarroll theguardian.com/business/2021/…
619. #BrexitReality “UK food and drink exports to EU fall by almost half”

“Dominic Goudie, head of international trade at the FDF, said: “The loss of £2bn of exports to the EU is a disaster for our industry,” - @JudithREvans in @FT 👇
620. #BrexitReality “The UK faces shortages of British-produced meat as problems with recruitment continue, the industry has warned.
Brexit and coronavirus have meant many EU workers have returned to their own countries, putting a squeeze on production.” bbc.com/news/business-…
621. #BrexitReality “Tesco suppliers forced to bin nearly 50 tonnes of food each week due to lorry driver ‘crisis’- The shortage has been attributed to a combination of factors including Brexit, which led to an exodus of EU-based drivers” inews.co.uk/news/consumer/…
622. #BrexitReality 🧵 frim @BBCBusiness on the disastrous impact Brexit is having on UK Food and drink industry 👇
623. #BrexitReality “The Royal British Legion has been forced to abandon poppy sales in the EU because of the extra costs and bureaucracy it faces following Brexit.” inews.co.uk/news/brexit-re…
624. #BrexitReality “UK faces chilled food shortage over summer, logistics industry warns
Shortage of HGV drivers and workers exacerbated by Brexit and Covid is creating ‘real crisis of food supplies’” theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/j…
625. #BrexitReality “The issue of Brexit is getting worse and worse,” says Jon. Before it was getting deliveries in from France, Italy or Spain within two weeks of ordering. Now it is closer to four or six weeks.” the-buyer.net/people/carson-…
626. #BrexitReality “He also said staff from within the EU, who he described as 'the lifeblood of the industry', had returned to their home countries during the pandemic, and haven't returned.” 👇
627. #BrexitReality 🐎🏇 “Horse racing and breeding in the UK is being hit by rules over exports brought about by the exit from the European Union, industry figures have warned.” bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
628. #BrexitReality 🏭 “Brexit ‘madness’ will wreck UK steel industry, Tories warned
Sector faces glut of cheap imports because of recommendation that EU protections should not be renewed.” theguardian.com/business/2021/…
629. #BrexitReality 🌿 “Post-Brexit labour shortages deal blow to UK cannabis production” ft.com/content/496968…
630. #BrexitReality ⚖️ “Brexit has made cross-border litigation harder. While bigger companies will cope, EU and UK citizens and small businesses will suffer” eutoday.net/news/politics/…
631. #BrexitReality 🛠🚜👷‍♀️👷‍♂️“Brexit realities are hitting home [for construction sector]…Labour shortages and import barriers are now joined by certification challenges” building.co.uk/comment/brexit…
632. #BrexitReality “post-Brexit recruitment crisis [affecting food supply] …
Customers have already found it hard to get hold of items including tinned tomatoes and experts are warning things are ‘inevitably’ going to get worse.” metro.co.uk/2021/06/21/foo…
633. #BrexitReality 🪡"sadly as the VAT rules change on July 1st we will have to suspend sending parcels to countries in the European Union, we are simply not able to manage the additional admin that will come in after that date"
634. #BrexitReality 👩‍⚖️👨‍⚖️ “UK’s £60bn legal sector has quickly discovered many [post-Brexit] practical difficulties… across broad areas of law – litigation, family, crime, immigration – practitioners are braced for years of frustration and uncertainty.” lawgazette.co.uk/features/damag…
635. #BrexitReality "More than two fifths of UK SMEs claim that Brexit will or already has resulted in redundancies" smallbusiness.co.uk/brexit-puts-mo…
636. #BrexitReality Pigeon racing: “The rules… would require pigeons to be in the EU for 21 days before racing, as well as a health certificate signed by a vet.” theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
637. #BrexitReality 📱📵🤳 “One of the UK’s biggest mobile phone networks has announced roaming charges for Britons travelling to the EU, in a blow to Boris Johnson’s Brexit celebrations.” independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
638. #BrexitReality “Five years after the Brexit referendum, many British companies now complain about higher transport costs and more bureaucracy. But the biggest problem is a labor shortage.“ dw.com/en/5-years-aft…
639. #BrexitReality “According to the Road Haulage Association, the combination of these two issues has led to a staggering driver shortfall of over 65,000 across UK since January, which is already having a knock on effect on logistics across the country” ajot.com/news/driver-de…
640. #BrexitReality “Mobile operator EE will charge new UK customers extra to use their mobile phones in Europe…
Those joining or upgrading from 7 July 2021 will be charged £2 a day to use their allowances in 47 European destinations from 2022.” bbc.com/news/technolog…
641. #BrexitReality 🧪🔬🧫 “Brexit disruption cost UK £1.5 billion of lost opportunities on the EU science programme” thelondoneconomic.com/news/brexit-di…
642. #BrexitReality "Look at almost any industry and you find too much damage done to fit in this space: vanishing EU workers, no EU arrest warrant or crime data sharing, the loss of Erasmus, EU visitors handcuffed at our airports..." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
643. #BrexitReality “Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency estimates that around 1,000 new jobs have been created so far by financial firms that relocated their operations to Amsterdam since Britain left the EU. The number is expected to continue to grow.” finextra.com/pressarticle/8…
644. #BrexitReality “There's a perfect storm of Brexit & pandemic that’s washing over us right now. Our steaks went up in price 25% yesterday, veg across the board is up 15%.
"Some veg we just can’t get as it’s loss making and no one will supply” liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool…
645. #BrexitReality Brexit 🚚 driver shortage: “The lack of HGV licenced drivers is continuing to cause chaos across the food and drink supply chain…
National wholesaler Brakes has been forced to terminate the supply of goods to a raft of customers this week as a result.”👇
646. #BrexitReality 🚴‍♀️🚴🚴‍♂️ “leading names in British cycling … have signed an open letter calling on the government to assist young British riders whose racing careers have been stalled by post-Brexit travel arrangements.” theguardian.com/sport/2021/jun…
647. #BrexitReality 📙📚📖 Brexit forces @foliosociety to end sales to 17 of the 27 EU member states: “The increased administrative burden and cost of this means that as a small business, sadly, we cannot affordably continue to trade in these countries”
648. #BrexitReality 🥫One of big drivers of food inflation in the UK = “the fallout from Brexit, which has caused shortages of workers on farms and in warehouses and food processing centres, and hindered the flow of goods into the country.” theguardian.com/business/2021/…
649. #BrexitReality 🌷🌷 “Brexit has turned into a blooming disaster, say flower sellers… new “flower passports” have been introduced and there is extra paperwork – and costs – for importers. It means popular stems are selling at “unheard of” prices” camdennewjournal.com/article/brexit…
650. #BrexitReality “food industry, already facing labor shortages because of Brexit and the pandemic…. Meat processors are cutting production and a “catastrophic” dearth of drivers is disrupting food deliveries to supermarkets.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
651. #BrexitReality “The country is facing a summer of food shortages likened to a series of “rolling power cuts” because of a loss of 100,000 lorry drivers due to Covid and Brexit, industry chiefs have warned.” - @lisaocarroll theguardian.com/business/2021/…
652. #BrexitReality “five years after the referendum, and six months from leaving the single market, what's the slogan from businesses most affected? Bureaucracy, delay, cost.” bbc.com/news/uk-scotla…
653. #BrexitReality “Whatever strengths Britain musters through the end of next year will be fleeting because the economy already is a shadow of its once mighty self before Brexit was decided.” - @Matthew_Winkler
654. #BrexitReality “In truth, the gains are either nonexistent or paltry. The losses on the other hand are massive, real and not addressed by ministers.” -@williamnhutton theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
655. #BrexitReality 🎸 “Alister Atkin, who has hand-built acoustic guitars for the likes of Sir Paul McCartney, Ed Sheeran and Bruce Springsteen, complains new trade arrangements are creating a major headache for his business.” kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/new…
656. #BrexitReality “Almost a third of British companies that trade with the EU have suffered a decline or loss of business since post-Brexit rules took effect on January 1, according to a survey conducted for the FT.” @DanielThomasLDN @pmdfoster ft.com/content/eadc7c…
657. #BrexitReality 🚛🚽👊 Fights break out in overflowing Brexit lorry parks…
658. #BrexitReality “Banks are spending billions of dollars beefing up their European Union operations post-Brexit to avoid disruption to some of their activities.” reuters.com/business/finan…
659: #BrexitReality “Most UK brands that sell online say they have lost EU customers in the six months since the end of the Brexit transition period – with two thirds having lost a significant number, new research suggests.” internetretailing.net/international/…
660. #BrexitReality From the owner of @ThePencilCaseCo on how Brexit fees and red tape are harming her business 👇
661. #BrexitReality “US investment banks that relied on London for decades as a launch-pad into Europe’s single market have had little choice but to open entities on the continent, capitalize them & staff them to avoid losing frictionless access [to EU]” bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
662. #BrexitReality “Post-Brexit banks demand sharply higher fees for UK payments.” “While their EU clients are footing the upfront bill, UK firms are suffering – their services are more expensive, and they are losing competitiveness against EU rivals” cyprus-mail.com/2021/06/30/pos…
663. #BrexitReality “Haribo struggles to deliver to UK shops due to lorry driver shortage” theguardian.com/business/2021/…
664. #BrexitReality 🎥🎞📽 “The UK’s withdrawal from the European Union has been “catastrophic” for arthouse cinema in the country, according to Louisa Dent, the managing director of UK distributor and exhibitor Curzon Artificial Eye.” screendaily.com/news/brexit-ha…
665. #BrexitReality “Rishi Sunak, the UK’s chancellor of the exchequer, announced that any hope of a post-Brexit deal to enable the country’s financial sector to operate freely in the EU was dead.” qz.com/2028026/rishi-…
666. #BrexitReality “Lincolnshire-based ski instructor Nick Orgles, said: “Since Brexit, we have all lost our jobs, our passion. The UK government has put nothing in place to allow us to continue to work in the EU” theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
667. #BrexitReality “A company specialising in children’s sports clothing has relocated to avoid the costs and bureaucracy caused by leaving the EU” theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
668. #BrexitReality “Nearly one-third of British companies that trade with the EU have suffered a decline or loss of business; 17 per cent that previously did business with the bloc have halted it, for now or for good” ft.com/content/410100…
669. #BrexitReality “Brexit is the main culprit, higher import-export taxes and changes in the required documents have forced Britons to stop exporting abroad and caused delays in orders made by importers in Cyprus.” cyprus-mail.com/2021/07/04/mar…
670, #BrexitReality “Gosh Comics of London  announced that they were going to have to "temporarily suspend shipping to EU countries while we sort out the confusing mess of new VAT on shipping regulations post-1st July."” bleedingcool.com/comics/gosh-co…
671. #BrexitReality 🎾 “Zoe Alexander, which specialises in tennis clothes for children announced it would be bidding farewell to the UK last Autumn & is now in the process of doing just that” indy100.com/news/brexit-zo…
672. #BrexitReality 🗑♻️🔥 More fallout from Brexit HGV driver shortage: “A council in Kent has told its residents that recycling left out for collection will be incinerated alongside general waste due to a national shortage of refuse lorry drivers.” endsreport.com/article/172131…
673. #BrexitReality “We’ve discovered EU countries have helped at least 2,300 UK companies set up in Europe since the Brexit vote. Some will now pay less tax in UK… the treasury will receive less money” - #BBCPanorama
674. #BrexitReality 🧪⚗️🎨 " 70% of coatings companies believe their trade with the EU, the sector’s main export market, will reduce... more than four in ten respondents (43%) reported increased operating costs" european-coatings.com/articles/2021/…
675. #BrexitReality 🏗️ Construction: "impact of Brexit has already led to disruption, lengthening supply lines for a number of core supplies from Europe...Timber Trade Federation said in May that Brexit-related complications have squeezed UK timber stocks" homebuilding.co.uk/news/construct…
676. #BrexitReality “About 98% of UK fashion and textile companies have experienced increased bureaucracy around exporting & importing after the UK’s exit from the EU, according to a recent survey… 83% had problems with customs clearance following Brexit” fibre2fashion.com/news/internati…
677. #BrexitReality “In three months, we incurred something like £350,000 worth of what we call Brexit costs,” says Callaghan, as he takes the New Statesman on a tour of the warehouse.”
newstatesman.com/politics/brexi…
678. #BrexitReality “Nearly all (94%) of UK brands selling online have lost EU customers in the 6 months since the Brexit transition period ended on 31 December 2020, with 66% admitting they’ve lost a significant number, according to a new survey.” netimperative.com/2021/07/06/uk-…

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1. Very proud to have coauthored this report on the legal case for activating the rule of law conditionality Regulation against Hungary with Kim Scheppele and @JMorijn, at the request of @daniel_freund & @GreensEFA. Quick 🧵below & here is the report 👉 danielfreund.eu/wp-content/upl…
2. Essentially, we did the @EU_Commission's work for it. We drafted a model "notification" under Article 6(1) of the Rule of Law Conditionality regulation, which is the first step the Commission must take to trigger the regulation with respect to a member state
3. The @EU_Commission is supposed to send such a notification to a member state when it determines that breaches of rule of law principles affect or seriously risk affecting the management of the EU budget or the financial interests of the Union
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3 Mar
A momentous day as Orbán leaves the @EPPGroup that has defended & empowered him for a decade as he built the EU’s first autocracy. Having written articles & given interviews on the topic for years, I’m feeling a bit like this 👇 today. 🧵to follow shortly on the whole saga. 1/n
2. First of all we must appreciate what a huge step this is. @EPP / @EPPGroup political protection was crucial in enabling Orban to build an autocracy within the EU. His departure won't instantly free the EU from its autocracy trap, but it is a huge step and cause to celebrate!
3. Europarties providing political protection to pet autocrats is a key pillar of the "EU's Authoritarian Equilibrium." @EPP isn't the only Europarty to have a pet autocrat/aspiring autocrat, but it has been the worst offender. See my article & 🧵here 👇
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I agree 100% with @dreynders’ sentiments here & hope EU will finally act, but so far EU & @EU_Commission specifically have in fact tolerated the destruction of press freedom In Hungary for years - first the closing of independent newspapers, then news websites, now radio
2016 leading opposition newspaper closed nytimes.com/2016/10/12/wor…
2020 Leading independent news website taken over by gov cronies nytimes.com/2020/07/24/wor…
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1. So many stories coming out revealing that Brexiteers sold Brexit on lies and that reality of Brexit is turning out - just as experts had warned - to be a fiasco and an enormous act of economic self-harm for UK. I’ll keep track of some in this Brexit reality thread🧵 👇
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19 Nov 20
Lots of smoke & mirrors in fight over rule of law. Here's my take in @POLITICOEurope on what's really going on: "If European leaders want to escape this autocracy trap, they must begin by standing up forcefully to regimes that try to hold the EU hostage"🧵
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2. First, on how we got here, it all goes back to @EPP appeasement of their pet autocrat Orbán over past decade. "The EPP has protected Orbán for political gain... But this week its pet autocrat turned against his long-time protectors" They are now reaping what they sowed.
3. As those who follow me know, I've been writing about this for years - most recently in my Article on "The European Union's Authoritarian Equilibrium" - summarized here:
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13 Jul 20
A quick, depressing 🧵 on what to expect in next steps toward autocracy in Poland. I hope @fromTGA is right and Poles will defend their democracy. However, I think things will get much worse and Poland will become an autocracy like Hungary 1/n
So far Kaczyński’s PiS government has been following the standard elected autocrat’s playbook very closely, following Orbán’s example of how to get away with building an autocracy inside the EU. Here are the steps: 2/n
As @fromTGA said, so far PiS focused on capturing the courts, turning state media into propaganda arm, & demonizing opposition. Next key steps will be to suppress vestiges of independence in lower ranks of judiciary & to establish PiS control over private media 3/n
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