Food price fears as Brexit import charges revealed
Food price fears as Brexit import charges revealed
Fees of up £145 will be levied on imports of fish, salami, sausage, cheese and yoghurt, the government says.
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Brexit was the dumbest idea. An idiotic idea, peddled by idiots, and voted for by idiot racists
Peddled by disaster capitalists and Russian money/propaganda.
And now the Tories want to pull us from the ECHR, to tear away workers rights and further privatise everything to funnel money into their own bank accounts.
It's damn sad there will never be a "we fucking told you so" moment, because the useful idiots that were used as fodder in this whole mess are too fucking thick to ever understand the gravity of it all.
Brexit was such a monumental mistake. Worse than the US electing Trump once, but probably not worse than electing Trump twice.
It's like this was a bad idea from the start. If only someone had said something back then!
I was so excited about Corbyn until he dragged his feet during the remain Champaign, his only time on the wrong side of history.
God fucking damn it.
Rishi: we have a plan for tackling the cost of living crisis.
The plan:
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Small imports of products such as fish, salami, sausage, cheese and yoghurt will be subject to fees of up to £145 from 30 April, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
He added that the government had "announced the charges at the last minute, leaving affected businesses little time to revise their commercial arrangements".
The fee has been introduced to pay for border inspections and fund new facilities in Kent to protect biosecurity - preventing the import of plant and animal disease.
Labour said British shoppers and businesses were "rightly worried about prices being driven up again" and that it had warned about the "potential for chaos" from new border checks.
A spokesperson said: "The charges follow extensive consultation with industry and a cap has been set specifically to help smaller businesses.
We are committed to supporting businesses of all sizes and across all sectors as they adapt to new border checks and maintaining the smooth flow of imported goods."
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I'm a buyer for a wholesaler and import a lot of food. I'm having to discontinue most of my imported dairy products now as this additional charge makes it no longer worth it.
Tories, the anti-business party.
And here is an ABSOLUTELY PROPHETIC video about the current situation :-)