Political relations between UK-EU

Not sure this the correct thread but I live in SE Spain and occasionally shop for UK things like mustard etc from say Iceland Overseas or local UK produced food items.
Since Brexit the shelves have simply emptied with no deliveries getting through normal routes until recently when Southern Ireland lorries are now stocking the shelves with as much as they want.

Is this opportunism or the way how things now work?

No - its how 3rd country rules work. Deliveries from UK to Spain difficult and more costly thanks to Brexit and increased paperwork ( of the type we were promised wouldn't be needed ) probably makes export too much to be bothered with. Particularly if the load is made up of a pallet load of this - some boxes of that and so on.

The Irish Republic is an EU member. Ferries are now running from ROI to places like Bilbao. They are avoiding the UK land bridge and all the issues that causes them and as a result thanks to Brexit Irish hauliers, Irish wholesalers and ferry companies can prosper mightily and you can get your HP sauce and Heinz beans.
 
No - its how 3rd country rules work. Deliveries from UK to Spain difficult and more costly thanks to Brexit and increased paperwork ( of the type we were promised wouldn't be needed ) probably makes export too much to be bothered with. Particularly if the load is made up of a pallet load of this - some boxes of that and so on.

The Irish Republic is an EU member. Ferries are now running from ROI to places like Bilbao. They are avoiding the UK land bridge and all the issues that causes them and as a result thanks to Brexit Irish hauliers, Irish wholesalers and ferry companies can prosper mightily and you can get your HP sauce and Heinz beans.
Will it work the other way as well,?
By that I mean where I live is mainly agricultural produce like peppers, lettuce tomatoes etc for supermarkets in Europe and especially UK. Is there a niche for ROI to benefit or is the massive investment Spains local transport have made to service UK now under threat,?
 
Will it work the other way as well,?
By that I mean where I live is mainly agricultural produce like peppers, lettuce tomatoes etc for supermarkets in Europe and especially UK. Is there a niche for ROI to benefit or is the massive investment Spains local transport have made to service UK now under threat,?

For now it will - I think we granted the EU a period of grace to the end of March or possibly June where the traffic from the EU doesn't have to fill in the forms. I think we were offered the opportunity of the same but declined.
Its not niche for the ROI its business as usual for trade between EU member states. Where it gets tricky is when the grace period ends anything coming from farms near you and is destined for the UK it either has to join the queue with paperwork in hand at the channel or get on a boat in Bilbao headed for Rosslare. Onward transit to mainland Britain is where the issue lies because there is the Border ( which Gove and Johnson still deny exists ) down the Irish sea and all that paperwork and documentation will be needed.
Oddly the only niche thing is NI as they remain coupled to EU rules so your salads can go to Belfast unrestricted.
Until the ERG and DUP force Johnson to invoke article 16 that is.
 
Will it work the other way as well,?
By that I mean where I live is mainly agricultural produce like peppers, lettuce tomatoes etc for supermarkets in Europe and especially UK. Is there a niche for ROI to benefit or is the massive investment Spains local transport have made to service UK now under threat,?
 
Thalidomide wasn't even a vaccine.

Anyway I got the call earlier and I was offered mine. Off I go for it @ 3.10pm on Monday.

Interesting question. I was offered it today will get it Monday. Which days stats do I go on?

Correct - it wasn't, that's why I said it was an entirely different principle. It is a cautionary tale on testing, but the vaccines so far are not really that similar an issue, and also it's 50+ years of progress and understanding later on.

I'm pretty certain you're a Monday stat.
 
Correct - it wasn't, that's why I said it was an entirely different principle. It is a cautionary tale on testing, but the vaccines so far are not really that similar an issue, and also it's 50+ years of progress and understanding later on.

I'm pretty certain you're a Monday stat.

I just don't want to appear in two days stats - someone might think that means I have had the two jabs ha ha ha
 
fish,fashion,fun,finance, flowers, and fucking sugar-puffs. Has anyone else noticed that since brexit there is no sugar puffs in the shops? Not a word of explanation, they've just vanished. We didn't vote to keep the honey monster out.
 
fish,fashion,fun,finance, flowers, and fucking sugar-puffs. Has anyone else noticed that since brexit there is no sugar puffs in the shops? Not a word of explanation, they've just vanished. We didn't vote to keep the honey monster out.
there's not much of anything. Supermarkets fared much better in the pandemic than they are since Brexit.
 

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