| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? 09:49 - Jan 31 with 2682 views | Mookamoo |
I've had two clients who have pulled back on projects. It's not a huge amount in the scheme of things but enough to get irritated about.
One was expecting a chunk of money from the European Agricultural Fund for a phase 2 of an existing development, but as its seen as a 'new' project it won't be covered by the Government guarantee. The other is a charity who gets funding from the European Regional Development Fund so everything new is on indefinite hold util they see where new funding will be available. |  | | |  |
| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 09:54 - Jan 31 with 2652 views | r2d2 |
Yes, less of Laura Kuenssberg on our tv, which is a blessing. Most miserable looking person on tv. So thats a big plus. |  | | |
| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 10:00 - Jan 31 with 2630 views | SomethingBlue |
Not personally (yet) but a good friend of mine has been made redundant as a direct result of his firm losing a couple of big European clients due to Brexit, well done everyone. |  |
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| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 10:01 - Jan 31 with 2625 views | Swansea_Blue |
Hell yeah. Much as you've said around ERDF and ESF projects, and senior and junior colleagues moving out, including taking grants with them. So financial and HR problems so far, but this is barely the start - end of the year and what happens between now and then are key. We've still got 11 months (at least) of uncertainty. [Post edited 31 Jan 2020 10:04]
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| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 10:03 - Jan 31 with 2607 views | itfcjoe |
We lost a buyer on a property due to uncertainty not long after the vote - the land is still sitting their costing us money as we'd only purchased it for them and changed a load of plans around.
Sure there were other reasons, but that was the one given - and the reality is it has caused us no end of problems as a business and continues to do so |  |
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| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 10:36 - Jan 31 with 2554 views | BloomBlue |
| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 09:54 - Jan 31 by r2d2 |
Yes, less of Laura Kuenssberg on our tv, which is a blessing. Most miserable looking person on tv. So thats a big plus. |
Hopefully not less of Katya Adler, always has a tangible effect on me when on TV, fantastic legs |  | | |
| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 11:32 - Jan 31 with 2509 views | BlueBadger |
Been feeling it for three years in the NHS thanks to large numbers of EU nurses leaving and no replacements coming in either domestically(thanks to government policy regarding student nurse funding) or from overseas(thanks to government policy that says 'booooo foreigners and experts'). |  |
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| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 11:44 - Jan 31 with 2482 views | Lord_Lucan |
I fear our graphic designer is going to put his prices up. |  |
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| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 11:50 - Jan 31 with 2451 views | BlueNomad |
| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 11:32 - Jan 31 by BlueBadger |
Been feeling it for three years in the NHS thanks to large numbers of EU nurses leaving and no replacements coming in either domestically(thanks to government policy regarding student nurse funding) or from overseas(thanks to government policy that says 'booooo foreigners and experts'). |
The irony for those who moaned about “foreigners” clogging up queues at hospitals and GP surgeries....... |  | | |
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| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 12:00 - Jan 31 with 2434 views | ElephantintheRoom |
Yes - owing to the devaluation in the £ since the referendum I and everyone else in the country has effectively lost a year's salary.
I've put the house on the market - in the hope that there is a six month window before Boris' red lines make doing trade deals with the EU and the USA impossible. 'Canada Plus Plus Plus' and other jargon should keep reality well hidden for a few months yet.
Plan A is to move the whole family to France - with no Plan B | |
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| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 12:53 - Jan 31 with 2406 views | BlueBadger |
| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 11:50 - Jan 31 by BlueNomad |
The irony for those who moaned about “foreigners” clogging up queues at hospitals and GP surgeries....... |
Still, come tomorrow, I'll have 52% of the workload as the expert-phobic element of the population honour democracy by having no more to do with us. | |
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| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 13:29 - Jan 31 with 2338 views | r2d2 |
| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 12:00 - Jan 31 by ElephantintheRoom |
Yes - owing to the devaluation in the £ since the referendum I and everyone else in the country has effectively lost a year's salary.
I've put the house on the market - in the hope that there is a six month window before Boris' red lines make doing trade deals with the EU and the USA impossible. 'Canada Plus Plus Plus' and other jargon should keep reality well hidden for a few months yet.
Plan A is to move the whole family to France - with no Plan B |
I find people so strange sometimes. Go join the cheese eating surrender monkeys. | | | |
| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 13:34 - Jan 31 with 2323 views | TJS |
| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 12:00 - Jan 31 by ElephantintheRoom |
Yes - owing to the devaluation in the £ since the referendum I and everyone else in the country has effectively lost a year's salary.
I've put the house on the market - in the hope that there is a six month window before Boris' red lines make doing trade deals with the EU and the USA impossible. 'Canada Plus Plus Plus' and other jargon should keep reality well hidden for a few months yet.
Plan A is to move the whole family to France - with no Plan B |
I voted remain but I have definitely not lost a year's salary since 2016 by any measure |  | | |
| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 13:54 - Jan 31 with 2276 views | ElephantintheRoom |
| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 13:34 - Jan 31 by TJS |
I voted remain but I have definitely not lost a year's salary since 2016 by any measure |
You definately have by the only measure that matters £1 = ?$ or indeed Euro?
All you have to do is look at where the £ was going to post referendum if sanity prevailed (back to where it was circa 1.4 euros per £) and where it went when idiocy prevailed.
Simple maths...if anything a year's salary is 'conservative' given that the shrinking economy post-referendum would have been less shrunk and the £ perhaps even more buoyant than it once was
Granted there have been ways for Brits to minimise their losses - eg get excited about 20% stock market gains when the £ is worth 20% less - but that doesnt help a great deal either | |
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| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 14:00 - Jan 31 with 2268 views | Guthrum |
| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 13:29 - Jan 31 by r2d2 |
I find people so strange sometimes. Go join the cheese eating surrender monkeys. |
Suggest you pay a visit to Verdun before calling them that. |  |
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| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 14:03 - Jan 31 with 2264 views | clive_baker |
I think the challenge is it's very difficult to quantify the impact, and always will be. No doubt there will be winners, but net we've got more to lose IMO. People might not think they're being impacted, but they perhaps might not notice the impact to them. For example, increases to RRP's in Grocery stores, and ongoing shrinkflation are often a consequence of the rising cost of raw materials if bought in from Europe, due to a weak £ since the vote.
What I would say in the interest of balance is that the £ has been a lot more robust than many suspected it to be. Today it stands at 1.19 vs EUR, which is broadly where it averaged between 2011 - 2014. The question is can it stay there. I'm minded to think, like a lot of these things, we'll never truly be able to quantify the impact, and the reality is in 5, 10, 15 years time there will probably be little meaningful impact economically that we can point to, as much as people will try.
The biggest regret to me is that we've cut ourselves off from our European neighbours, and I love Europe. We've compromised the luxury of free movements to our kids, and their kids, to travel and move, live & work in the EU without restriction. Whatever people say about 'not leaving Europe, we're leaving the EU', it's BS. The sentiment brought about by this is long lasting and we'll continue to be looked on unfavourably. I travel a lot for work, I've lost count of the number of times I've been asked 'why?' by European friends. |  |
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| Indeed on 14:04 - Jan 31 with 2257 views | Dyland |
| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 14:00 - Jan 31 by Guthrum |
Suggest you pay a visit to Verdun before calling them that. |
This poster is a bit of a keyboard warrior by the looks of things :) |  |
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| Indeed on 14:18 - Jan 31 with 2199 views | jeera |
| Indeed on 14:04 - Jan 31 by Dyland |
This poster is a bit of a keyboard warrior by the looks of things :) |
More of the whiff of a previous banned poster by the day. |  |
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| Indeed on 14:19 - Jan 31 with 2203 views | Dyland |
| Indeed on 14:18 - Jan 31 by jeera |
More of the whiff of a previous banned poster by the day. |
Really? I haven't noticed this bod before. | |
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| Indeed on 14:21 - Jan 31 with 2182 views | jeera |
| Indeed on 14:19 - Jan 31 by Dyland |
Really? I haven't noticed this bod before. |
This made me smile:
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| Indeed on 14:25 - Jan 31 with 2179 views | WeWereZombies |
| Indeed on 14:19 - Jan 31 by Dyland |
Really? I haven't noticed this bod before. |
I think you spelt bot wrong there... |  |
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| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 14:38 - Jan 31 with 2140 views | hampstead_blue |
We had a property on the market just before the referendum. It sat for 10 months after due to uncertainty.
We still go the full asking but it cost us 10 months of mortgage payments which was a pain as we'd just let the great tenants go!
We did manage to buy a great site in Wiltshire cheaper due to the uncertainty and are about to start building 6 houses on it. Prices have steadily risen here so I guess we are winners. |  |
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| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 14:42 - Jan 31 with 2133 views | monytowbray |
| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 13:29 - Jan 31 by r2d2 |
I find people so strange sometimes. Go join the cheese eating surrender monkeys. |
Yes, those surrender monkeys who rally in masses to fight government injustice in relation to working rights whilst we bend over and let the super rich f*ck us and convince us we’re doing well in life. |  |
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| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 15:48 - Jan 31 with 2013 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Anyone feeling any tangible effects of Brexit yet? on 13:54 - Jan 31 by ElephantintheRoom |
You definately have by the only measure that matters £1 = ?$ or indeed Euro?
All you have to do is look at where the £ was going to post referendum if sanity prevailed (back to where it was circa 1.4 euros per £) and where it went when idiocy prevailed.
Simple maths...if anything a year's salary is 'conservative' given that the shrinking economy post-referendum would have been less shrunk and the £ perhaps even more buoyant than it once was
Granted there have been ways for Brits to minimise their losses - eg get excited about 20% stock market gains when the £ is worth 20% less - but that doesnt help a great deal either |
It was never going near 1.4, from memory it topped out at just over 1.3 before the vote
It did go a bit mad in 2015 approaching 1.45 but that was a freak. Historically we are pretty much on the button now - maybe 1.25 being the optimum. | |
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| Indeed on 16:08 - Jan 31 with 1968 views | BlueBadger |
| Indeed on 14:19 - Jan 31 by Dyland |
Really? I haven't noticed this bod before. |
You probably couldn't see him properly through the windows of the taxi... | |
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