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Pearcey74
·Always use DHL or FEDEX, no issues at all, never use Royal Mail or USPS (Or the countries own postal system).
Sorry guys! But I'm never going to buy a watch again from the UK.
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perks713
·Just cross your fingers that when it finally starts moving inland, the train it's on doesn't get looted
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Dr.Sascha
·Having completed his life's work, Nigel Farage has now retired from politics.
Yes, he's now moved on to giving b.s. financial advice. I imagine it starts with: "first thing you should do is find yourself a nice, fat oligarch to glom on to." Really, for any of these Tory/Brexit clowns, is it ever about anything but finding ways to turn mediocre ability, utter lack of morals, and complete disinterest in the common weal into financial gain for them and their pals? With any luck, the next COVID variant will be tailored to target only the Chumocracy.
https://fortuneandfreedom.com/author/nfarage/
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S.H.
·Royal mail then French post has worked very well for me as usual this past year at work. Delivery time got back to what it was pre brexit.
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Shabbaz
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TimeODanaos
·Yes, he's now moved on to giving b.s. financial advice. I imagine it starts with: "first thing you should do is find yourself a nice, fat oligarch to glom on to." Really, for any of these Tory/Brexit clowns, is it ever about anything but finding ways to turn mediocre ability, utter lack of morals, and complete disinterest in the common weal into financial gain for them and their pals? With any luck, the next COVID variant will be tailored to target only the Chumocracy.
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marpro
·It's a thing lately. Bought a stupid mainspring from cousins for 10£ + 3£ of an untracked letter as shipping. It took 35 days and I was charged VAT + a flat fee for the postal customs processing, which costed more than the spring itself. 😁
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billythekid
·the whole world is .ucked
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aggie
·Are custom rules different for parcels shipped from Northern Ireland?
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Evitzee
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You get to have your country in your own control instead of being run by a bunch of unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. Whether your politicians will take up the mantle to govern in the best interests of the UK citizens is up to the voters.
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Gopher
·Wow, I imported two watches to the US from the UK in the last month. The first was shipped on a Wednesday and arrived Thursday evening (cleared US Customs in less than an hour after landing). The current one was shipped Monday and it finally cleared US Customs this morning and is scheduled to arrive tomorrow afternoon. I was complaining that it sat for over 24 hours before clearing. I had to make a half dozen phone calls to FedEx to get it moving.
Guess I should feel lucky and relax!
Guess I should feel lucky and relax!
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Omegafanman
·Unfortunately if you look at his history in detail he has spent his life wriggling out of problems and I sadly would not be surprised if he managed to side step his latest fiasco 😡
Breaking news...... we thought they were relaxing the rules but new lockdown mandates rules announced ;0)....
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tikkathree
·Damn Brexit. Everything was fine before. Why would you destroy a perfectly running system just because you need to feel like a island!?!
We like being an enterprise zone: for those enterprising enough to get into France and then find their way to Calais where they are encouraged to be enterprising enough to get into small boats and.....
Covid and/or Brexit: which to blame?
There was a convenience to small transactions in either direction before brexit and now the whole thing with imports and exports is completely not fit for purpose: I guess there's roughly the same level of beurocratic competence globally.
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Dr.Sascha
·You get to have your country in your own control instead of being run by a bunch of unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. Whether your politicians will take up the mantle to govern in the best interests of the UK citizens is up to the voters.
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2016/05/britain-eu-and-sovereignty-myth
Now, there is a grain of truth in all the Brexit BS, which is that the UK can further deregulate their financial markets, which were already among the lightest-regulated in the Western world (hence the movement of the financial capital from NY to London following the catastrophic 2008 crash--itself a product of rampant deregulation, etc., etc.). But does this benefit the average UK taxpayer at all? No. Much of that money is in the hands of the top 1% or foreign investors, none of whom have any interest in supporting the service or light manufacturing sectors that provide the bulk of employment in the country. UK's #1 export? Financial services.
Meanwhile, public investment in the sectors that do affect the lives of most Britons (e.g. NHS, transportation, education) continues to plummet, house prices in the capital continue to spiral upwards (creating "generation rent") and more university graduates than ever are being pushed into the precariat and the gig economy. It will continue to be the case as long as the Tories, who never cared about the British working class to begin with (viz. Thatcher, who started this whole mess), remain in power.
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Shabbaz
·Nope and nope. The whole "sovereignty" thing is largely a misconception, since the overwhelming majority of domestic legislation was implemented with absolutely no input or direct influence from the EU. The real joke is that in order to trade with what is, by a vast margin, their largest supplier and consumer (the EU), the UK needs to achieve regulatory alignment anyway. Only now, they have no control over those policies at all. So, in a very real way, the UK traded actual power/influence for the illusion of sovereignty. Despicable idiots like Farage cloaked this all in rah-rah nationalism and ginned up anti-immigrant sentiment, and no sensible person would argue that more racism and xenophobia is what a country like the UK needs, I hope! The UK was notable in that it was the only W. European nation with slightly positive population growth, which is exactly the demographic trend that a service-based economy needs to be sustainable over the long term. It's already declining, post-Brexit, but a shift to non-EU immigration might counterbalance that (though again, the anti-immigrant sentiment evoked by Farage and others will not be good for that, either).
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2016/05/britain-eu-and-sovereignty-myth
Now, there is a grain of truth in all the Brexit BS, which is that the UK can further deregulate their financial markets, which were already among the lightest-regulated in the Western world (hence the movement of the financial capital from NY to London following the catastrophic 2008 crash--itself a product of rampant deregulation, etc., etc.). But does this benefit the average UK taxpayer at all? No. Much of that money is in the hands of the top 1% or foreign investors, none of whom have any interest in supporting the service or light manufacturing sectors that provide the bulk of employment in the country. UK's #1 export? Financial services.
Meanwhile, public investment in the sectors that do affect the lives of most Britons (e.g. NHS, transportation, education) continues to plummet, house prices in the capital continue to spiral upwards (creating "generation rent") and more university graduates than ever are being pushed into the precariat and the gig economy. It will continue to be the case as long as the Tories, who never cared about the British working class to begin with (viz. Thatcher, who started this whole mess), remain in power.
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ChrisN
·Despicable idiots like Farage cloaked this all in rah-rah nationalism and ginned up anti-immigrant sentiment, and no sensible person would argue that more racism and xenophobia is what a country like the UK needs, I hope!
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If you've lived in various countries, you wouldn't think this - I have and can tell you that from my experience, the UK doesn't have the widespread racism of some other countries. There are numerous studies that show the UK is not an outlier in this within Europe and you can probably find some rather than relying on your inbuilt prejudice.
I didn't read the rest as this comment means that anything else you say is not worth reviewing.
Chris
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Dr.Sascha
·You italicized "more" which seem to imply, to me at least, that you consider the UK to already be a racist and xenophobic country. This is just false.
If you've lived in various countries, you wouldn't think this - I have and can tell you that from my experience, the UK doesn't have the widespread racism of some other countries. There are numerous studies that show the UK is not an outlier in this within Europe and you can probably find some rather than relying on your inbuilt prejudice.
I didn't read the rest as this comment means that anything else you say is not worth reviewing.
Chris
Well, given that I've written two books on the history of immigration and lived in the US, UK, Canada and France for many years, I have to politely disagree! "Racism" is an inexact term in any case, and racial prejudice is relative, both to other countries and in different regions of the UK. For example, overall, racism is less violent and pervasive than it is in the US, and by a great margin. But, on the other hand, anti-racism is less a part of national culture than it is in Canada, which very much defines itself by racial tolerance (albeit not always with success). Within the UK itself, London, the large cities, and the university towns are diverse and largely progressive places. In parts of the deindustrialized midlands and near-north on the other hand, especially as you move away from the urban areas, the prejudice against South Asians and black British, even when there are sizeable communities present, can be quite strong. Racialised football hooliganism, while on the decline, is still quite strong in some communities and regions. And there's ample evidence that police forces practice quite heavy-handed racial profiling, even in London (one might say, especially in London). One comment of a colleague, who is in a mixed-race marriage and is from South Africa (so hardly someone inexperienced with racism in its most virulent form) really stands out: "thank god for London. I don't think my husband and I, being who we are, would feel safe living anywhere else in England. It's not Cape Town, but it still has a long way to go." This sentiment is very much in line with the observations of my other co-workers who are from minority groups (and they're often way less polite about it).
So is the UK better than a lot of other places? Sure, in parts. But Brexit was, to a great degree, founded on the deep resonance that anti-immigrant rhetoric still evokes in much of the electorate.
Perhaps the most accurate way to put it is this: Britain is a former imperial power, and ideas about race were essential to the way its empire was governed (in much the same way that class prejudice has been infused into its cultural and political practice for many centuries). However, since the middle of the twentieth century, it has become an increasingly diverse and inclusive nation. But it still struggles both with its history of deep racial divides and with racial tensions that unscrupulous politicians happily stoke for political gains. Islamophobia is a rather stark example of this.
A couple of illustrative articles on both racism and anti-racism in Britain:
https://www.vogue.com/article/britain-is-racist-there-i-said-it
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/13/world/europe/marcus-rashford-soccer-racism-mural.html
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cvalue13
·You italicized "more" which seem to imply, to me at least, that you consider the UK to already be a racist and xenophobic country. This is just false.
For what little it may be worth, viewed from the (even) U.S., the U.K. does seem to have its fair share of racism and xenophobia.
Certainly at least enough worth discussing, such that it seems an a bit unfair on your part to suggest that anyone with any version of the belief is completely discredited on any other of their views.
Perhaps you already dislike the UN, and so all their views are already similarly discredited?
Or perhaps there’s not even discussion warranted as to why it is that just 0.1% of active professors in the UK are black women, compared with 68% who are white men?
If nothing else, we can all agree it’s a topic to not prematurely prohibit from debate.
