The latest cost of Brexit is about to hit – and voters are watching. Will Labour act?

[pellinore]

Far from being "Done", Brexit is just starting.

“It’s done! Get over it! It’s eight years ago! We’re independent and we’re free!” claimed Nigel Farage on Question Time last week. But the louder he asserted it, the less convinced he sounded. Watch the Brexit that made him becoming an albatross, as it is for the Tories.

This week’s new set of EU trade regulations hammering Britain’s smaller exporters is proof that it isn’t over, but forever adding to our economic woes. From Thursday, general product safety regulations (GPSR) will apply to a huge new range of products. The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) warns: “The GPSR will be a real barrier to trade.” Exporters will need an agent within the EU or Northern Ireland, costing at least €150 an item a year. “I only found out when eBay said they’d only take GPSR products from this week,” says Noel Humphrey. His company, Electron Electronics, manufactures, sells and trades in small electrical parts. “It will cost me an extra £25 for each soldering iron I sell. If we were still in the EU, this would be no problem,” he says. “And we’d be at the table that makes these rules.” Electron may give up exporting.

The latest cost of Brexit is about to hit – and voters are watching. Will Labour act? | Polly Toynbee | The Guardian

Edited December 11, 2024 by pellinore

[+and-then]

You should pace yourself.  If Farage wins the next election it might cause you a mental break  

[itsnotoutthere]

Poly Toynbee. Uh huh.

[itsnotoutthere]

He describes the Guardians shortcomings quite well.

Edited December 12, 2024 by itsnotoutthere

[L.A.T.1961]

I would say the biggest product manufacturers to be affected will be from china.

Getting sensible product information from them will be very difficult and its needed on the new forms to sell into the EU.

Its also worth remembering, although not mentioned by the G, that more goods are sold to the UK from the EU than the other way round. We have a trade deficit with goods from the EU.

So when EU companies start to protest how long will these rules stand ?