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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 rwmj »

rtempaccount1 wrote: post #115
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.

Indeed they are not. What I find a bit puzzling is that the UK Gov. absolutely had an easy escape hatch from the cliff edge of end of 2020, by saying "we've got to delay due to the pandemic" I don't think many people would have complained if they had. Instead they explicitly rejected that opportunity and carried onwards...

As is often the case with Brexit the real explanation for inexplicable actions of the current government is all about internal Tory party management. I read this article a while back which explains it quite well: https://nicktyrone.com/why-i-believe-the-boris-johnson-gover...

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

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Post by threatofrain »

rwmj wrote: post #89
dariosalvi78 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They confirmed they wanted Brexit in the last elections. They had no excuses when Boris was elected. If that is what people want, that is what people deserve.

That's more a consequence of our terrible electoral system combined with the most incompetent / most poisonous opposition leader ever.

From the outside it looks as if Brexit is at most slightly unpopular, so it's not unimaginable to believe that in fluctuation we might occasionally find it to be the marginally popular position.

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

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Post by iso947 »

rwmj wrote: post #89
dariosalvi78 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They confirmed they wanted Brexit in the last elections. They had no excuses when Boris was elected. If that is what people want, that is what people deserve.

That's more a consequence of our terrible electoral system combined with the most incompetent / most poisonous opposition leader ever.

Euro elections had Farage beating Lib Dems, 2017 had Tory win too.

Fear of Corbyn was a factor, but so was the “get on with it” sentiment

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

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Post by iso947 »

dijit wrote: post #62
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Moving parliament is a political compromise, not unlike the 1790 compromise in the US

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

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Post by yeet_away »

corty wrote: post #72
derriz wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you live in Switzerland? Only a fraction of what’s listed on amazon.de or amazon.fr will ship to Switzerland. Pretty much no electronics will ship to for example. The China loop hole was closed recently so that alibaba and the like are now unavailable. Often you just have to suck it up and pay “Swiss” prices from a local reseller.

And swiss prices are absolutely outrageous. In addition to lots of taxes and duties on certain goods, labour prices in switzerland are sky-high, so visiting a retailer there is usually more expensive than a short shopping trip to France/Germany/Italy...

Oh what a shame, the rich person needs to pay a little bit extra so the rest can live like a human. How horrible it is to think someone can earn a livable wage.

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Post by williamgrant »

hellofunk wrote: post #99
williamgrant wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The UK voted to keep Europeans from coming over here and taking our jobs and our women with their sophisticated accents. This comment expresses an appalling amount of xenophobia and classism. This warped, cartoonish portrayal of "Brexit" voters on HN is not unexpected, but it is disappointing it seems to escape moderation.

I’m curious, just how wrong is the comment? A parallel political scenario, the election of Trump, was also characterized by a fundamental political platform centered against other races and cultures, and this was acknowledged and successful.

The referendum certainly gave a voice to a demographic of nationalists, amongst them some quite insidious people, that's absolutely true.

However, it's simply incorrect to characterise the larger Brexit demographic as people who, majority living in the most deprived areas in the UK, voted for anything other than naive or misguided assumptions about the economic impact of EU membership.

It seems to be a fundamental political platform for all parties these days to dehumanise opponents over practicing the slightest bit of empathy.

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

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Post by jeffrallen »

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.

Or buying from your neighbor at his store in your village?

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

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Post by tannhaeuser »

viraptor wrote: post #44

Does anyone know what could be a specific reason leading to this change? I mean, deeper than "no single market", what would prevent Amazon from running the same operation, potentially with slightly higher fees to offset relevant transport/import taxes. They ran marketplaces at crazy prices before, like shipping to Australia before local distribution centres.

My guess is that, if not for something else, Amazon and others are left with no choice other than to prepare for the worst now (or yesterday, actually), since there seems to be no progress on the rules for not-so-future EU/UK trade.

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

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Post by toyg »

rsynnott wrote: post #96
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.

It is not what the “no downsides, only considerable upsides” crowd expected. Remember that a lot of people, and dodgy newspapers, still cry ‘project fear’ at any expert opinion, so concrete consequences like this are going to shock some people.

> not what the “no downsides, only considerable upsides” crowd expected.

Oh no, most of them expected this sort of thing. They just stated otherwise to persuade the rubes.

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

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Post by thatguy0900 »

nickserv wrote: post #97
williamgrant wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The UK voted to keep Europeans from coming over here and taking our jobs and our women with their sophisticated accents. This comment expresses an appalling amount of xenophobia and classism. This warped, cartoonish portrayal of "Brexit" voters on HN is not unexpected, but it is disappointing it seems to escape moderation.

Pretty sure OP is being sarcastic.

He knows it's sarcastic, he said it's a cartoonish portrayal of brexit voters
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