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Amazon’s UK FBA operations will be split from the EU

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Re: Amazon’s UK FBA operations will be split from the EU

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Post by d4rti »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #42
smcl wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really wish someone bothered to hold his feet to the fire on that one. He just got to chuckle and shrug it off, and the reaction from most seems to be “lol oh that’s our Boris”

The way my British friends told me, nobody really took the brexit vote seriously and treated it like a Lord Buckethead, Boaty McBoat Face joke. At least until the mic dropped and the consequences of their joke vote became clear.

I took it seriously. In my social group, the bigger problem I saw was delusional Lexiteers. They're due to get literally nothing they said wanted out of Brexit.

I hope one day we can rejoin, and it doesn't break the UK into pieces, but right now I can't see the Union surviving.

Re: Amazon’s UK FBA operations will be split from the EU

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Post by dijit »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #42
smcl wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really wish someone bothered to hold his feet to the fire on that one. He just got to chuckle and shrug it off, and the reaction from most seems to be “lol oh that’s our Boris”

The way my British friends told me, nobody really took the brexit vote seriously and treated it like a Lord Buckethead, Boaty McBoat Face joke. At least until the mic dropped and the consequences of their joke vote became clear.

For a lot of people it was a protest vote. They knew Cameron wanted them to vote one way so they did the opposite, it was a vote against the status quo.

For other people they genuinely believed the scapegoating the UK media had done for 20 years+

For others, a minority, they thought that this was a way of pushing the EU to reform some of its more silly practices (like moving parliament around for no reason)

Re: Amazon’s UK FBA operations will be split from the EU

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Post by [deleted] »

SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #27
intsunny wrote: post #3

I fail to see the "bombshell" here. This is what everyone expected when leaving the EU single market. The only bombshell would be if the UK negotiators managed to prevent a hard Brexit. Given the current track record of their leading political party, this seems unlikely.

In context of Brexit, the inevitable consequences of the UK's actions is quite often a "bombshell" to the UK. The denial is strong.

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Re: Amazon’s UK FBA operations will be split from the EU

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Post by mrtksn »

intsunny wrote: post #3

I fail to see the "bombshell" here. This is what everyone expected when leaving the EU single market. The only bombshell would be if the UK negotiators managed to prevent a hard Brexit. Given the current track record of their leading political party, this seems unlikely.

UK had a great think going on but meritocracy creates both winners and losers.

In a mixture of losers with cocky winners, you have people who overestimate their abilities and people who are bitter.

The bitter ones demand protection against the people who come over and over-compete them, so you introduce non-meritocratic barriers like nationality. Starting on 2021, Polish and Bulgarians and so on will be barred from coming over and compete with the local workers.

The winners are cocky, many of them are really the best - UK has a great talent pool. They have a great thing going on for them, and they believe that they can overcome EU, USA and China.

The protection demand of the lower skill people seems to be served, shortly UK will start building it's non-merit based workforce(unless UK residency is a merit).

The time comes to put the winners on test. This is indeed a bombshell to the cocky ones, the people who had a good thing going on for them and believed that due to their expectational abilities everything will be about the same or better.

I still think that the UK would be able to find it's place in the new world order but many people will face bombshells as their freedoms and abilities to do business will get a haircut.

EU's skilled ones will be protected from UK's in a similar fashion of UK's less-skilled are about to get their protection. It is not as meritocratic system as before but that's what people wanted.

Re: Amazon’s UK FBA operations will be split from the EU

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Post by d4rti »

Havoc wrote: post #26

Exiting single market means no longer being in the single market. Who could have predicted that? This whole thing is an embarrassing own goal

Dan Hannan and a bunch of the other dishonest brexiteers deliberately misled people into thinking they could be.

Re: Amazon’s UK FBA operations will be split from the EU

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Post by drogon50 »

nightcracker wrote: post #24

Another americentric post, seeing the upvotes it gets. This really isn't newsworthy. Amazon in Europe is small, having 50% in the US). For example, in the Netherlands people are much more likely to shop at Bol, Coolblue or Wehkamp.

It's more about not being able to sell as easily as now, from the UK to the EU, which has a population of 443m.

It's yet another headwind for smaller UK companies, that will see their potential serviceable available market (SAM) get smaller, unless they spend extra. This will also significantly increase the time for the goods to arrive to EU destinations.

You calling this "americentric" is also weird. It's going to be the same situation for all other e-commerce sites, no?

Re: Amazon’s UK FBA operations will be split from the EU

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Post by corty »

netcan wrote: post #51
Ambroos wrote: post #28

This is not going to be fun for Ireland. Ireland doesn't have its own regional Amazon, but the UK one would have great fast shipping. I wonder if shipping from Amazon DE or FR will be more popular in the future.

There are services that take delivery in newry (northern ireland) and deliver to dublin. Presumably, they'll still work. Shipping to ireland often costs more anyway, and not everything ships outside the UK.

Yes, that was also expected: Northern Ireland becoming a smugglers' haven...

Re: Amazon’s UK FBA operations will be split from the EU

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Post by Eyght »

IAmEveryone wrote: post #4

Sometimes, I feel like to achieve closure, I'd really need a thread where the people endlessly and repetitively insisting that Brexit is easy, would not impact trade, and would be worse for the EU than for the UK would show the grace of admitting that they very wrong, so very and obviously wrong. Similar for the beneficial effects of Hydroxychloroquine, for California basically having achieved herd immunity in May, a…

Watch the same people that spread dangerous misinformation turn around and blame someone else when the consequences of their actions comes back to bite them.

Re: Amazon’s UK FBA operations will be split from the EU

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

tannhaeuser wrote: post #59
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh yeah, and the current pandemic and its economic effects aren't helping the UK's brexit issues.

Not to add insult to injury, but it's been said that coronavirus actually plays into the hand of current UK gov as they have a scape goat if things go south.

Corona is the scapegoat everywhere across the globe for poor economic choices governments and corporations made. The UK is not unique here.

Re: Amazon’s UK FBA operations will be split from the EU

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Post by corty »

d4rti wrote: post #65
Havoc wrote: post #26

Exiting single market means no longer being in the single market. Who could have predicted that? This whole thing is an embarrassing own goal

Dan Hannan and a bunch of the other dishonest brexiteers deliberately misled people into thinking they could be.

It is a politician's modus operandi/job to mislead in order to achieve political goals. It would have been the job of the press to point out the problems and the job of the public to form a qualified opinion.

Only the politicians did their jobs, unfortunately...

(And yes, I'm a cynic)

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