Haha thanks for the correction. That’s exactly what I meant but in hindsight I’ve got no idea why I phrased it like that 
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Praise be to Brexit
Can’t see it been opt in, if treasury pass it, it’s all in
Edit - Monzo could add a toggle though to opt out 
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The toggle police will be passing through soon, best to keep this quiet 
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This is the most surprising bit for me:
Fewer credit cards in the UK are contactless (46%), compared to debit cards (62%).
I thought both would be at least in the late seventies, with debit cards hitting the 90% range.
This made me laugh a bit, someone from Marseille buying a shelf from Next hit with import duties.
I’m sure they sell shelves in your local county just buy one.
The VAT rules are changing across the EU in a few months to make sure consumers pay VAT etc.
The only Brexit related element is that the system has come into effect now in the UK and will come in slightly later elsewhere
So customers better start getting used to it.
Is nothing sacred anymore, pray for the Irish
Weird one for me! I ordered some hand sanitiser spray online then got an email saying that as it is coming from Spain they need my passport number to get it through customs?! They absolutely don’t so I went back to their website (in case the email was a rogue member of staff phishing) and send them a message to cancel my order.
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Ah the irony, the “deal” held up over fishing rights and not said fishermen can’t get the fresh fish caught into the EU quick enough
Good one Boris you’ve got pretty much every retailer and delivery company saying it’s too confusing and not as tariff free as stated.
Have to see if things get better once retailers know how to navigate the system.
Haha I laughed out loud at those idiotic fishermen. Despite the fact that 96% of the fishing industry is controlled by a handful of multinational conglomerates, some of whom sell their fishing rights to EU companies anyway, and Harrods brings in the same amount for the UK economy as the entire fishing industry, it’s so pleasing to be able to point and laugh at people who genuinely believed they could have their cake and eat it.
Genuinely can’t wait for more and more people to slowly realised we made a massive mistake in demanding out of the EU.
The UK, broken up into its separate constituent parts by then, will be back in within a generation.
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I actually kept getting annoyed at this great fishing argument, it’s an entirely small part of the economy. It’s not been something big for a long long time now.
Yes a few costal towns would maybe lose out but it doesn’t exactly bring in the jobs to the country.
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It’s just one of the only parts of the Brexit deal that a lot of people can understand. Trade tarriffs, arbitration courts, VAT arrangements etc make people’s eyes glaze over. But these foreign boats are coming into our water and taking our fish is something you can easily rile people up about.
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It actually happened, think I posted a few weeks back now that it was a possibility from a different news article
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“No, everything will be confiscated. Welcome to Brexit, sir, I’m sorry.”
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Yeah I did chuckle at that, someone with a sense of humour at least
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“I don’t think anyone expected the rug to be pulled from under them so quickly.”
Exceptionalism at its finest. Everyone campaigning for Remain said this would happen, that you can’t leave a club and expect to stay in with no changes. Critics called it Project Fear, but now it’s more like Project We Bloody Told You So.
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Agreed, and what does he mean ‘so quickly’ - Brexit was confirmed 4 years ago and it’s been pretty clear since then that freedom of movement was going to be ending. 4 years is not exactly ‘sudden’.
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Unfortunately many of those campaigning for Brexit insisted that there was no way that Brexit meant leaving the Single Market or Customs Union.
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Surely the one thing everyone agreed on was that it would be the end of freedom of movement though?