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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 rtempaccount1 »

rwmj wrote: post #131
rtempaccount1 wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Very interesting article, if a bit worrying for the UK's economy in the short/medium term.

I think it could well be right that they're hoping for the (likely impossible) blink from the EU, but between that, the heavy political toll a US trade deal would require (it would have a big impact on the UK farming community+possibly other areas) and the expanding spat with China, it's really not shaping up to be a good period, economically speaking.

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

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Post by Paradigma11 »

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)

The EU would strongly prefer to stop this silly moving practice but France vetos against it.

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

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.

Northern Ireland might prove to be useful.

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Post by _of »

acd wrote: post #86

This is an example why exiting global cooperation such as the European Union is bad for the economy. Another side effect may be that For example the real estate market in London goes lower due to less foreign professionals competing for housing. Plus the price of vegetable at the supermarket will be higher due to more expensive imports from Holland the gardeners of Europe and Spanish fruits being more expensive. Ther…

> the real estate market in London goes lower due to less foreign professionals competing for housing

Which is a bad thing?

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Post by donedealomg »

toyg wrote: post #142
acd wrote: post #86

This is an example why exiting global cooperation such as the European Union is bad for the economy. Another side effect may be that For example the real estate market in London goes lower due to less foreign professionals competing for housing. Plus the price of vegetable at the supermarket will be higher due to more expensive imports from Holland the gardeners of Europe and Spanish fruits being more expensive. Ther…

> As a European I hope UK will want to rejoin the EU. As a European living in the UK, no mate, you really don't want these folks to rejoin. Their class system is pathological and their mass-media are fundamentally corrupt. I say this against my best interests, but England in particular should never be allowed back in. They made their bed and they should lie in it.

Don't worry, they will never vote to be in scam Europe again. I suggest you start packing and move back.

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Post by pjc50 »

corty wrote: post #146
pjc50 wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The press were largely campaigning for Brexit. Including one of the highest paid journalists in the entire campaign, Boris Johnson.

The press pushing an agenda for either side and not remaining an impartial observer is a huge part of the problem, not only with Brexit. I'm not sure if in former times the press was just as opinionated and noone noticed. But now, people notice that the press isn't impartial and therefore just do not trust even the rare instances of impartial facts being presented.

British press has never really pretended to be impartial; the Daily Mail under Lord Rothermere ran pro-Hitler editorial until the war broke out.

(My point about Johnson was that he was genuinely paid more for a while as a Times "columnist" than as Prime Minister)

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Post by netcan »

Symbiote wrote: post #74
netcan wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don't know how it would work, but the legal border of the EU customs union would be the NI/RoI border, but with some extra paperwork meaning, in practise, the border is the Irish Sea. Maybe asking a friend in Belfast to forward a parcel to Dublin will continue without any checks, but a parcel forwarding service is unlikely to go unnoticed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit_and_the_Irish_border#20...

I'll bet a fiver it will.

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Post by mFixman »

Reason077 wrote: post #29

So stupid! The UK voted to keep Europeans from coming over here and taking our jobs and seducing our women with their sophisticated accents. There was nothing about blocking European goods and European fulfilment centres. Boris Johnson even assured us that it was going to be easy to get a "great deal" on free trade. This is not the Brexit we voted for!!

I come to HN for discussion. Can we leave smug posts on Reddit?

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Post by dragonwriter »

corty wrote: post #146
pjc50 wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The press were largely campaigning for Brexit. Including one of the highest paid journalists in the entire campaign, Boris Johnson.

The press pushing an agenda for either side and not remaining an impartial observer is a huge part of the problem, not only with Brexit. I'm not sure if in former times the press was just as opinionated and noone noticed. But now, people notice that the press isn't impartial and therefore just do not trust even the rare instances of impartial facts being presented.

> I'm not sure if in former times the press was just as opinionated and noone noticed.

Everyone noticed. It's one of the most frequently discussed things about the British (though not uniquely theirs) press for centuries, both in terms of explicit comment and implicit cultural reference (e.g., such as it being a recurring background element of fiction.)

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Post by Ijumfs »

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.

Hard Brexit was what people elected the current government to do after the previous one dragged feet on soft Brexit for years.
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