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Did you pay VAT when you bought it? If yes then that would be why there were no other charges levied. They have a UK presence, they’ll therefore be VAT registered here.

Happy birthday.

MPs are talking about it too. There is apparently going to be a debate in parliament this coming week, to try and force a u-turn. I guess if it wasn’t something the shower of ineptitude could reverse, then they wouldn’t be debating it. In other words, yes it was their decision.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/10/musicians-hit-out-after-report-uk-rejected-visa-free-eu-travel

Yes me, though as a solo performer and academically.

It’s not just musicians of course. There’s quite a few other arts related occupations affected too - DJs for example.

If you had an iPhone then I’d recommend GarageBand. It’s an interesting process coming up with a solution for something like this. The problem is really, we’re just so spoiled for choice nowadays with gear and techy stuff. I do a lot of field recording for my PhD. I spent hours last year working out how to transfer recorded sounds from a H2N - a marvellous little recorder, very easy to use, and unobtrusive - onto an iPad.

As I think many people are finding out, what they saw advertised and what actually arrived are two quite different things. It’s like buying a villa on the Côte d’Azur, and ending up with a rickety old caravan overlooking a sewage works. Though many are quite understandably in denial, insisting that this is exactly what they wanted. I’ve been incredibly lucky, and performed at some marvellous events in Europe. These are small events, and just don’t have the budget to cover the increased expenditure. It works the other way too, there are some incredibly talented artists now precluded from touring in the UK. I’ve also been fortunate to have been given the chance to do talks on and present my PhD work abroad. This too has now ended, unless your field of study falls into a very limited area, then you need a work permit. My university’s music department just can’t afford it. I find the whole thing utterly depressing and tbh, rather pointless.

It’s Bedworth, enough said really.

It might be worth asking your GP. Tinnitus can be a symptom of something. A guy I know had Covid in April last year, he’s still suffering from the long term effects.

You beat me to it.

God, it must have been bad 😆

It used to be anything over £100.

So the free shipping has stopped?

This is quite interesting, apologies if it’s already been shared. I guess these businesses will have researched and realised it’s not economically viable to trade with the UK - at least not at the current time. https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/westminster-news/eu-firms-stop-uk-deliveries-due-to-brexit-6881640?fbclid=IwAR2CWZuBBPUJCn9rbbw7wITjTL424aSFsgwgxKRBW7RL4r_Hh86p64ID9Ns Is it also affecting UK based businesses? If someone manufactures something that they want to sell to Italy, if the item’s value is less than a certain amount, do they have to register for VAT in Italy?

The problem with goods now entering and leaving the UK - particularly from Ireland and NI, is why DFDS have recently started operating a new shipping route from Ireland direct to France. Previously some 150,000 trucks and lorries a year used the UK as a land bridge, between the Irish Sea ports and Dover. Whilst good news environmentally, reducing the number of lorries on the roads, it’s not good news economically. They’d probably have refuelled at UK garages, the drivers would certainly have bought food and drink during their journeys. That’s a loss to the local economies, and ultimately a loss to the UK treasury.

An even longer list here: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Revolution666/bands_who_lost_all_their_original_members/

https://classicsdujour.com/10-classic-rock-bands-with-no-original-members/

All this about trading with the rest of the world, has anybody mentioned the environmental cost of this yet? Surely we need to be reducing our carbon footprint, not increasing it by buying or selling stuff to a country that’s about as far away from us as it’s possible to get? Especially if that’s just down to ideology, and nostalgia for a time when we roamed the world trading and pillaging.

It’s like where I live, people there would vote for a donkey as long as it was wearing a blue rosette - come to think of it, they did 😆.

Austalia does, that’s why the ‘Australia type deal’ that they kept talking about was disingenuous to say the least. Their trade with the EU is a tiny fraction of ours though, and doesn’t include finance or services - for the obvious reason of location. They are in the process of negotiating a trade deal with the EU though.

It’s apparently a more eco-friendly, and denser version of wenge, not sure if that helps at all.

Will they get sorted out? I guess these companies have looked at how much the UK market is worth to them, and decided it’s just not worth the hassle. They wouldn’t have decided not to sell to the UK if they were making a lot of money from us. The country is losing billions of pounds from the financial markets too. https://www.ft.com/content/a434b756-afe0-454d-9d70-ef2d42ea8d55